Welcome to The Empire Monthly Challenge!
You are all welcome to stretch your artist legs. Get out of your comfort zone or artist block, and unleash your full potential!
There are no winners or prizes, it's all about challenging yourself. The deadline is purely to indicate the start of the next challenge, if you need more time to finish up that's okay.
Modifiers are optional rules for the challenge that allow you to push your skills even further!
Environment Challenge - Composition & Balance Focus
Qigong Temple Chamber
A place of serenity and healing filled with tradition. This challenge focuses on this interior chamber of a Qigong temple covered in vibrant colors and intricate mosaic patterns with a circle of pillows orbit a centerpiece of incense and a "singing bowl".
Much like meditation can aim at finding balance, you must find a way to balance all the strong and vibrant parts of this scene.
Everything in this room will require close attention to detail, from the patterns on the floor in how they vary in both roughness and color, the patterning on furniture and props, and how the room has been adjusted to a modern structure with air vents, wall sockets and lights.
Prop Challenge - Sculpting & Material Focus
The Mighty Dragon
There is a place where the lines between environment art and character art gets a bit cloudy, and that place is statues! For this challenge you are to create this dragon sculpture on top of boulders. Focus on nailing the size, shape and patterns of the dragon while at the same time keeping the material detail in mind. The statue is standing outdoors and oxidization is starting to take effect, giving it a varied range of roughness across the statue.
Substance Challenge - Material Focus
Oriental Cloth
A pillow made out of an expensive cloth woven into intricate patterns. For this challenge you are tasked with recreating this cloth pattern. Take careful note of how different threads have been used giving certain patches different colors and roughness.
Substance Challenge - Material Focus
Bamboo
Along a pathway next to a small river a green and lush bamboo forest grows. For this task you are to recreate the trunk of this bamboo. Take note of how its variation in both color, value and roughness across the trunk. Scratches and damages it has encountered over its lifetime is clearly seen along its body.
