Some moths ago, moving my bookcase, I found a small book with the Gustav Doré’s Illustrations of “Paradise Lost”.
I lost this book more than ten years ago, and watching again the beautiful Doré’s engravings gave me great feelings and inspiration.

After a few days I decided to use my spare time on a new digital painting and I decided to let this illustration influence me:
http://www.artpassions.net/cgi-bin/dore_image.pl?../galleries/dore/paradise_lost_15.jpg


I wanted to go on without a preliminary sketch, just following my instinct, trying to visualize a “Wizard’s Battle” in a magic-humid-ancient-sacred forest.

My idea was to tell a simple story showing only some details of the action and leaving the characters out of the framing, because sometimes what you can just imagine is more stimulating than what you can see clearly.

As you can check by the " <a href="http://thirdeye.cgcommunity.com/wizards-battle.mov" target="_blank">“painting progress video”</a> " I didn’t use any photo manipulation or tracing.




http://thirdeye.cgcommunity.com/wizards-battle.mov
Thanks to Alberto Blasi for hosting the video.

I want to thank my friend Luca Antonini for the beautiful soundtrack.
Check his website: www.lucaantonini.com

Hope you like it