#fantasycave

Hidden deep within a forest cliffside, only those who know where to look will ever find the entrance to Scherbengrund. A secret cavern known as The Shard Hollow.

Inside, the walls shimmer with embedded crystals. When moonlight slips through cracks in the stone, the cave walls glow with a fractured, enchanted light.

Only foxes live here. Foxes who see in the dark, who sleep through sunlight and emerge only at night. The stones in their chests are glittering fragments of amethyst, turquoise, smoky quartz, and lapis lazuli. They are silent, thoughtful, and have a natural talent for listening to echoes and truths buried deep beneath the surface.

Fantasy Cave (Digital & Traditional version)

A challenge I set to myself, I'd like to learn to draw landscapes and to make decent backgrounds for my future drawings.  This landscape is a Fantasy cave, this drawing came me to mind when I played Digimon World: Re-Digitize (on PsP), when I crossed a place in the game called the Fluorescent cave.

For the Digital version, I wanted to learn and test more drawing techniques with my GIMP software to improve the quality of my drawings, and especially my backgrounds who are my weak point.

This is the digital drawing in which I spent the most hours (I did not even count them, but I can tell you it took me patience to achieve this.) and who requires the greatest number of layers! o_O (Wow, I had never use so many, but I must say that I wanted to make lots of different effects, that's why. xD).

* 1st drawing is the digital version (22/06/2016)

* 2nd drawing is the traditional version in color pencils (02/06/2016)