Ok its done! hoooraaay :D




The Story:

The greedy King "Dalan" has been banned from his throne and had to go into exile to save his life. Shortly after that war is breaking out and they fight over the kings gold and treasures all over the land.

Meanwhile the king, who is hiding in the mountains far up north, has saved the life of a little motherless Racoon ... he is feeding him and he is growing very fond the new little friend, his only company for many years to come. Dalan gives him the name "Keen".

He discovers that the little racoon is very attracted to shiny things ... and soon hes training him to spot and bring him "shiny things" .

After 20 long years the war over the kings gold is finally over, but the land is ravaged and many once beautiful cities are a mass of sad ruins ... destroyed during the long war.

Now is the time when the old and still very greedy King Dalan is coming out of the mountains to hunt for the remains of his treasure, with the help of his little servant Keen.

In the scene they have gathered a lot of gold and treasure in the vicinity of a derelict monastery. With a greedy shine in his eyes, Dalan is inspecting a necklace, when Keen drops a huge trout on the goldpile. It might be valuable for Racoons, but Dalan doesnt seem to appreciate that. Barking an angry "NO FISCH! MORE TREASURE!!" he sends his little friend of to hunt for more gold.

ok im done .... i just wanted to post these close ups to tease Arc80 some more :D



Im at a point where i say i am finished .... i could go on painting more detail here & there, but i dont want to overdo it :) Im astonished how far i got with this and i am very glad to have learned from everyone in this challenge. This is my very first cg-painting wich is more elaborate and detailed...i am very happy i did this :D :D :D


later tonight I will post the final Image and the backgroundstory again ....

almost done

have been away from the picture a while and as i looked at it today i think the treasure would be cooler if it wasnt in the center ...so here is a first test

what do you think ? is it better ? worse ?

here is tonights work :

just some more detail and color on the treasure ... its not finished yet.. i will work on it and hopefully finish the treasure tomorrow :)

im working on the treasure ... im putting some more color in it and sharpen it a little bit ... still much to do

ok here i did some changes as suggested :

-i got rid of the red-brown on the top

-i softened the highlights on the building( altough they could use some more softening) and on the King

-i worked a little bit on the racoon and gave the treasure some more dimension with a little addon at the left,because it made the king a bit flat as it was

ok almost there..hooraaaay :D

i put some more blueish-purple in the sky ...changed the trees a little and pulled up the whole floor, for more perspective on the middle left...

i still got to do some finetuning on the right tree ... finish the raccoons tail

and some more little details on treasure and floor

im pretty happy with the moon and sky now but if anyone has some more good ideas, speak up plz :D

ok thx for the feedback :)


how is this then ?

i tried some different backgrounds just to see what works and what does not ...

the dark ones nr1 & nr3 dont work imho ... they are too dark and dont fit somehow

nr2 i like because the contrast there gives more depth to the whole pic altough the colors arent so good

i still like the original best, because the colors play well together with the racoon and some other foreground elements ...altough i might take some contrasting elements from nr2 in there and make the moon smaller so it isnt that close to the edge



this was just very quick work ... but what do u think ?

any better suggestions ?




(im still working on some more .. maybe i get a good one by accident ... and yes Arc im even trying one with clear sky and stars :D )