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Ivy Man

Daz Studio, Bryce, Ivy Generator 2012. Rendered with Bryce's true ambiance option, HDRI from the sky plus sun light.

Artistic comments or interpretations?

Other-than-art comments welcome too of course.

Sci Fi paperback book cover contender.

spacekdet wrote:Sci Fi paperback book cover contender.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking

It is well presented.

This also came to mind: myth of the Green Man

Another Green Man link.

Might give you some further inspiration.

Wikipedia seems slow tonight, browse at your own risk.

Ivy Man meets Poison Ivy...now THATs a bookcover...

Looks good! But the flat texture on the ground repeating into infinity does... subtract from the quality But I like the composition! Awesome stuff.

Thanks.

A thing can be art not because it means something but because it can mean something. The viewer can see what it is to him. The artist may add more than is seen but the viewer can too and so becomes an artist too.

The stone man and living ivy present a sort of cognitive dissonance. We see that there is life and see two forms associated with life. One is alive and one is not. The infinite plane and sky show distance, remoteness, and possibly singularity. The man and ivy may be the only things in this universe. If this universe of infinite land and sky is so vast will anyone ever see the man and ivy? Why are they here? The land is rock with fossils implying a time span as great as the scale of this world. The land also resembles a moonscape. The space beside the ivy and man can imply that something else should be, or was, there.

Spacekdet, James: Sci Fi book cover. Hadn't thought of that but it would be good for that. Green man might make a good challenge theme.

Steinie: That's how they did research to make ivy generator ... well they told the model it was research.

Draise: The infinite plane is deliberate but, right, the repeating texture subtracts from it. It needs a giant texture so no repetition is visible.