CGAN Sept25 - Fossil Faeries - Final entries

 
Fossil Faeries

Brief: Interpret the title as you wish into some kind of creative visual brilliance.

Deadline: Midnight on Tuesday 30th of September. 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...-fossil-faeries-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.

 

Sculpty 1.  
Sculpty 2  

Hmm, did I only post two WIPs? Thought I'd done three.

EDIT:  A late 3rd WIP.

Anyway...

 

cgartnexus.com/index.php/forum/challenge...l-faeries-wips#55773
cgartnexus.com/index.php/forum/challenge...l-faeries-wips#55781
cgartnexus.com/index.php/forum/challenge...l-faeries-wips#55829
cgartnexus.com/index.php/forum/challenge...-wips?start=10#55880
cgartnexus.com/index.php/forum/challenge...-wips?start=10#55890

and I'm calling it done!
 


 

Well my unnecessary vote goes to Charlotte.
There are so many things from this pic that I wish I'd put in mine and the biggest of those is the wings. They look suitably fragile and intricate with those delicate little veins and the design suggests the colour and transparency that they would have in life before becoming a fossil. I also like the way that you have loose, detached bones in the hands and feet that stops everything becoming too neat and contrived. Add to that the great colour tones and the believable pose and you have an excellent image that successfully captured my envy.

Thank you. I did look at a lot of images of fossils from Solnhofen and of insect fossils in general and it was a real butterfly fossil that gave me the idea for the different colours of the wings.

And while yours might not look like a disintegrating skeleton, I still think it looks like a fossil I'd love to have at home in my (unfortunately still non-existent) collection. I like the darkness of the rock surrounding the fossil and the details of the wings - and I rather like the choice of wings too, since it's not the usual butterfly/fairy wings. I also really love the rock being on a small stand with the little museum notes/tags. And I even did a search for J W Saunders but couldn't conclusively identify anyone

Charlotte wrote:

 And I even did a search for J W Saunders but couldn't conclusively identify anyone

It's not me.
It was just a random name I pulled from nowhere that sounded right.

I also had a different scientific name which I thought sounded better but then discovered that part of it was a real name used for other insects.

Well Homo is used for real humans... and optera is used for several winged things...

Yeah, I initially wanted to use Homoptera Phantasia but Homoptera was previously used for a specific group of insects that is now classified as Hemiptera.

Or something like that.
Anyway, I changed it and did that last minute re-render for just a single line of text.

You need to re-render...
Fata luminoptera
(Apparently Fata means fairy in latin so... that really should be the species name...)

Or Fata homoptera...