E.O.W Round 9: Hell

[Red_Rook]

E.O.W. - #009: Hell

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/images/EOW.jpg



Round #009

Topic:
Hell

You MUST include a description or backstory this round, or your image wont be taken to poll. Good luck!

Congratulations to the winner of Round 7 (Winter Battlefield) - Helium Macaroni (sorry ill get you guys in the winners thread asap, dun wry)


Enjoy :)

Deadline:
Sunday, 18th December 2005 6PM GMT

[Sept13]

Well, this one certainly is a challenge. Easy to ruin with stereotypical ideas

[Hideyoshi]

whoa, this is gonna be a kicka$$ round...

[Zeitwolf]

that's what I though, too, Hide! And this time I wont miss the deadline! yay! (did it with the last two topics T_T')

sept13, you're right about klischees... but I look forward for all your entries!

[BlueMech]

Maybe change the font colour on some parts of the EOW image, so you could do things like... read it.

[Rascar Capac]

nice...will work great with the dark angel CHOW...if I have time to do it that is....

[Chuck,mate.]

hell?
for me hell is being surrounded for the rest of my life by
stupid-annoying-boring-stuckinthe70s people. meaning - living in israel.
so, do i draw badly clothed ugly idiots with word baloons,
reading : "you paint with a COMPUTER? that`s cheating. it`s not REAL art. the computer do the work for ya..."
mmm?...

[Hideyoshi]

haha, chuck, i bare with you! Don't listen to them!

[Zeitwolf]

yah, chuck, mate - if this was a challenge about a scene I also would know what to say about hell. But it's about environment.

So pay no attention to those who say earth is a disk and just draw! Draw! XP

[Chuck,mate.]

well....
i apologize for the cliché.
i do.
it`s just that after some amount of thinking and sketching ,
i just somehow always ended up with "HELL the cliché"
no matter how i started it.
so i decided - screw it, no point fighting.

and here`s my humble entry:

http://www.myimagehub.com/files/2826/hell_small.jpg

a det.
http://www.myimagehub.com/files/2826/hell_det.jpg

Hell
The evidence indicates rather that hell is a place essentially of shame, one in which people will have no fellowship or discourse with God. Biblical pictures of flame are clearly metaphors, first because if taken literally they result in contradiction (how can there be flames, yet also darkness, as the Bible says?); second, because as metaphors they fit in with other metaphors (flames and thirst as the opposite of water, which is in Scripture a metaphor for God's Spirit) and also fit a literal experience of shame (think of being ashamed and your face burning.) Furthermore, other descriptions of hell, such as people weeping and grinding their teeth, match with expressions of shame in the ancient world, but not physical pain.

("The Doctrine of Hell in a Nutshell" -James Patrick Holding)

[Chuck,mate.]

well, guess i win. only post here is mine.
:)

where`d everybody gone to?

[auden100]

THis one's taking me longer than I thought. Finding something original in something so steeped in specific context is forcing my hand a little. But I bet there'll at least be some last minute participation by a secretive few. You'll have some competition no doubt.

Chuck,mate - I'm missing the correlation between your description and the illo. Your quote says no flame, but instead immense shame. I see lava, but that devil doesn't look ashamed to me. So I like both individually, but they aren't syncing up in my opinion.

[romance]

chuck,

I'll be entering... if i can manage to pull something decent off.

[auden100]

Due to the advice of helpful critiques I was motivated to push this one more to a finish. Thanks again.


After ten thousand years of resentment and planning, the dark lord guides his young wife across a frozen lake of ash and through the gateway to his domain. There are demons petrified as gargoyles in the places they were standing at the end of the last Great War, and the glowing script is record of the couple's prophetic consumation and infernal conception of the Anti-christ: the event that will reignite the burning pits of hell.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v504/auden100/Eow9c.jpg

[frostsnake]

chuck mate: I dont know what hell will look like...but that could be it!! The guy/demon looks more like hes trying to find out how to get to the next rock without getting lavatised!:dur:

auden100- cool concept! The door is freakee!

il post an entry tomorrow!

[Thoras]

Tis me, im new in here, well, in this forum; giving my critique to the posted backgrounds:

Chuck,mate. - Awesome man, the lava looks so cool; besides, the columns that bears the ceiling's weight are kooler than anything, if only because one would think hell is ACTUALLY below our homes. Nice lava geisers in the back.

Auden100 - This is so freakin awesome!! The colors look a little lazy; the runes are perfect. Technical question: Is the big beast over the gate a Demon Guard? or is it just another statue? The ceiling is cool, seems like another plane of existence.

[auden100]

Thoras - Lazy, hmm? I can see that. I clarified the description a bit more to hopefully answer your question. Usually takes me a couple drafts to sort out the right wording. Thanks for the crit.

[Thoras]

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c375/Grathakar/Hell.jpg

Hope this counts as Hell; its just the psicological hell we all have in our little heads... BWAHAHAHAHA.

Cheers. Critique if u want to.

[romance]

My finished entry

http://www.artofromance.ca/ca/projects/EOW/hell.jpg

This entry is an homage to the film High Plains Drifter. It's a Clint Eastwood film. The town begs for Eastwood's protection from bandits and the only way they'll get it is if they paint their ENTIRE town red and name it HELL.

It's a great film, I highly recommend it.

I hope this meets the requirements.

-Rob

[conundrum]

great work everyone,

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/277/hell29aw.jpg

As the damned souls filed into their new home for the next eternity they were amazed to find that the stereotype about horns and the devil was in fact true. To the point where he had even used them as a major part of Hell's external decoration.

[Lady Medusa]

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c375/Grathakar/Hell.jpg

Hope this counts as Hell; its just the psicological hell we all have in our little heads... BWAHAHAHAHA.

Cheers. Critique if u want to.
You are either stealing it or posting a fairly old image, either way you are breaking a rule.

Mods: if thiss post isn't suitable, I'm sorry and please delete.

(I was going to try enter, but It turned so bad I'd rather not :O )

[Hideyoshi]

like I expected, romance! Great job already! Coming alnog nicely!

[frostsnake]

Wow! nice posts!
conundrum- thats so stylished!!
Thoras- Spookie! Has a kinda hellsing feel.
Romance- guess what movie im downloading :yayca:

ok hers mine(got alittle to much compressed:^^;: ):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v125/frostsnake/conceptartcom/CityofPhobosnew.jpg
100 years after the incident on Phobos(one of the moons on mars) the government decided to fill it up with criminals,and make it a huge jail.History was forgotten and the leaders of earth didnt know what was ahead of them... HELL!

[Red_Rook]

nice entries guys, keep them coming :)



and erm, what the hell is going on?
You are either stealing it or posting a fairly old image, either way you are breaking a rule.

Mods: if thiss post isn't suitable, I'm sorry and please delete.

(I was going to try enter, but It turned so bad I'd rather not :O )

[bizarre]

i remember seeing that image of 'psychological hell' on Deviantart.com years ago.

so yes. it's old. that's at least one rule broken.

[silentkitty]

i remember seeing that image of 'psychological hell' on Deviantart.com years ago.

so yes. it's old. that's at least one rule broken.

Likewise, or one extremely similar.

Anyway, glad to see this thread picking up. :^^: Great entries so far, I'm especially liking chuck,mate's and romance's this time around.

[Thoras]

Sooo... I cant use my old work for this thingys??
O well... missed that in the rules.
And YES it IS mine.

[silentkitty]

It says right in the rules, "new work only", dude. : p

[Thoras]

Alright, alright; just that i didnt read em.

[Red_Rook]

lol


yeah generally reading the rules is a good idea

[Red_Rook]

as far as art theft goes, im looking into it.

[Steph Laberis]

Thoras: This was on Deviant art ages ago, as was said. (This pic was in mythchan's gallery and was quite popular... you are not mythchan... hmm ) I also caught sight of your battle angel and the difference in quality and anatomy is pretty noticable. I smell a thief...

[Red_Rook]

acctually props goes to masque for making that connection with the battle angel first, I seriousely hope this isnt a case of art thievery, but ive sent a note to the original owner on deviantart. If they are one and the same person then thoras im very sorry, if your posting your own work. However it really looks like your not. Ill be getting confirmation soon.

for interests sake the original deviant art user: http://mythchan.deviantart.com/

and the battle angel post: http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c375/Grathakar/VereesaSkycrusher.jpg


thank you masqu for connecting all these

[CaptainInsano]

Quoted in case of editing

Sooo... I cant use my old work for this thingys??
O well... missed that in the rules.
And YES it IS mine.


may I suggest...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v678/ParkerD/untitled.jpg

[Red_Rook]

well anyway thast officially sorted out hes a liar and cheat, fun stuff. Anyway On with the topic,l come on guys we need more REAL entries.

[Red_Rook]

oh and please people make sure your links are working and that you have the newest version easily accessible for me, and a description below it, thansk alot guys.

[depleteD]

i think this is going to be a really cool thread

[Hideyoshi]

sorry, my brain's too tired to think of anything else than clishé...
here's my speedpainting

http://www.hideyoshi-ruwwe.com/images/hell_small.jpg

:: Steaming lava, sounds of madness & evil, the smell being unbareable -we find ourselves in hell. It's up to you where you wanna go once you're dead... ::

[Hazamataz]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v386/wormaldkelly/hell.jpg

Hell got old... people started to adapt to all the pain and torture, ...even... like it. And with humans digging deeper, it wouldnt be long before the firey depths of hell were uncovered. This was the answer, a new realm of the clouds, of the mind. The only torture was that of oneself. The souls were abandoned, filed away, left for an infinite life of regret and self pity.

:dur:

Based on part of a dictionary definition of hell.
"Among ancient Jews, Sheol or Tophet was conceived as a gloomy place of departed souls where they are not tormented but wander about unhappily"

I hope this counts as finished..., I'll begin earlier next week.

[Zeitwolf]

romance - that really really cool!
Hide - nice lava--- bit sketchy, e?

[shadoman]

Good works so far. I wish there were more entries though.

http://www.shawnadomanis.com/images/illustrations/eow09.jpg
Hell. The final resting place of all damned souls.

At first arrival they are tortured by clawed demons—ripping and tearing at the skin until it is shredded from the muscle. Then they move down the Stairwell of Zwellalla into the eternal lake of fire, where they will burn and writhe until time’s end.

[Chingwa]

First post in the EOW thread:

http://www.popgirl.net/public/eow_09.jpg

The gate of Mugengoku
Entering the eighth hell, the blast furnace of Mugengoku, souls labor through a great wasteland of barren ice. Escape is impossible. Those who attempt are mercilessly hunted by the circling Vajra... winged demons wreathed in flame.

[romance]

Thanks Zeitwolf!

[bumskee]

great entries all, we still have few hours for this right?? this time difference really really confuses the hell out of me..:S

[Chuck,mate.]

THis one's taking me longer than I thought. Finding something original in something so steeped in specific context is forcing my hand a little. But I bet there'll at least be some last minute participation by a secretive few. You'll have some competition no doubt.

Chuck,mate - I'm missing the correlation between your description and the illo. Your quote says no flame, but instead immense shame. I see lava, but that devil doesn't look ashamed to me. So I like both individually, but they aren't syncing up in my opinion.

they`re not supposed to.
the description is there this time just to emphasis
the cliche. what description could i possibly put there?
"humm...hell in my piece is...auh...hot. yeah. and..that`s it..ah..yeah."

[Hazamataz]

Heh, have any of you ever thought of writting!, these descriptions are gold!

Frostsnake, cool alternative hell concept, hmm sci-fi hell ...very interetsting

Shadowman, i'm loving the shapes in this enviroment, barbourous and curved.

Firey colours are perfect for the cold winter...:p

[bumskee]

Sweet stuff everyone. :)

http://home.exetel.com.au/bumskee/con/eow_5.jpg
The doomed souls will walk the misty barren land alone. Their guilt and sins from the past will mock them through their journey, tormenting and tricking their minds. They will arrive through the gate of the dead and they will earn their redemption to another chance at life or forever be lost in hell.