Eagle Dawn
by Daniel Eskridge
Title
Eagle Dawn
Artist
Daniel Eskridge
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Painting
Description
"Eagle Dawn"
A bald eagle sits perched on a bare gnarled tree branch and watches the dawn. The rising sun is nearly lost in the morning haze, but its light, shattered into thousands of rays by the leafy top of a tree that stands between the sun and the bird, blazes across the scene. The magnificent raptor sits with its back to the viewer, yet it turns its head in profile as if to look back over its shoulder at you.
I've made a few images featuring predory birds (hawks and owls), but this image was my first to have an American bald eagle. Originally, I had not really planned what kind of character I would use in this artwork. It was mostly about creating a sunrise scene and what I could do with the light. Once I saw it though, I thought it was the perfect setting for an Eagle.
I made this using digital CGI and painting techniques. The bird was posed in Poser then exported to Vue for rendering. The rest of the scene was made in Vue. I used GIMP and Photomatix to do the post production work.
Thanks for looking!
Daniel Eskridge
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February 24th, 2015
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Comments (29)
Gary F Richards
Outstanding composition, lighting, shading, color and artwork! F/L voted for this piece in the contest A ADULT EAGLE
Cheryl Rose
Absolutely gorgeous artwork, Daniel. Stunning composition and light shining on this eagle. Love. Congrats on the ABC contest placing. Wonderful. l/f/p
Luther Fine Art
Congratulations on your 2nd place win in the ABC Group's weekly contest, E IS FOR EAGLE. Wow.. what an amazing image! It will be proudly featured on the ABC home page this week! LF