CGAN March25 - Gnomes - Final entries

Gnomes

Brief: Gnomes, doing Gnome things. Whether they are Garden Gnomes or something more mysterious and sinister is up to you.

Deadline: Midnight on Monday 31st of March. There will now be no voting and no eventual winner, this is just a creative exercise with a time limit.

This thread is where you post your final entries, WIPs (work in progress) should be posted over here:  cgartnexus.com/index.php/forum/challenge...-march25-gnomes-wips


Challenge rules and guidelines:
cgartnexus.com/index.php/forums/challenge-rules

Rules in brief:
- All challenge entries must be your own work.
- You should post at least two WIP images that are clearly different from your final entry and each other.
- Your final entry should contain your image (inserted so it shows up full size) and at least two links to your WIP posts on the forum.
- No chatter in the finals thread – if you have questions, post them in the WIP thread or PM an admin.
- Feedback is allowed & encouraged together with the voting and in the WIP thread.
- Deadline is given in UK time (midnight UTC) with a grace period of 5 minutes for getting the post sorted.
- Each member may cast one vote.
- No cheating! Admins may decide to disqualify an entry that does not adhere to the above rules.
 

Did you know that the garden gnomes that you can buy are not little sculptures? They're actually eggs! And when they hatch a creepy little red-eyed gnome pops out!
Little known fact but true.
Just look at the evidence.

 

Sculpty Gnomes.
Grounded Gnome.
Grassy Gnome.
Painted Gnome.  

EDIT: Spotted a mistake!
Corrected it.

WIP 1: cgartnexus.com/index.php/forum/challenge...-wips?start=20#54040
WIP 2: cgartnexus.com/index.php/forum/challenge...-wips?start=20#54042
WIP 3: cgartnexus.com/index.php/forum/challenge...-wips?start=20#54045
WIP 4: cgartnexus.com/index.php/forum/challenge...-wips?start=30#54073
WIP 5: cgartnexus.com/index.php/forum/challenge...-wips?start=30#54077
WIP 6: cgartnexus.com/index.php/forum/challenge...-wips?start=40#54091
WIP 7: cgartnexus.com/index.php/forum/challenge...-wips?start=40#54100

Gnome.

 

Video 

Top job on the Gnome Eggs... Egg Gnomes  I have nothing else to say really, nice work 

I agree with Banj. And have to add I never saw the creepy little guy coming. Which is probably the point: I suspect their parasitic, infecting people working at garden centers (and occasionally little old grannies) to make them spread the eggs by selling them. Or in the case of grannies, gifting them to children, grand children and all their neighbours.

Can't really complain any about Banj's gnome either. I love the more "natural creature" look as well as the dappled light. And look at the poor fish, it has no idea what just happened. And yes, the feathers - together with the slight difference in colour, does help to separate the arm and leg nicely

And I "vote" Banj.

I loved the design from the start and enjoyed seeing the washes of colour build with each wip but that dappled light was still an impressive surprise at the end and really enhances the forms of the figure and surroundings.
I shall watch the video later.