Rune Master - Dzibilchaltun
The next piece for Rune Master was this structure, which during equinoxes, has sunlight pass exactly through the door.
I knew I absolutely wanted to include that feature but found cheesy depictions in early thumbs.
Early versions of the illustration included messing with tree details and the rock base of the structure. But the lack of a foreground lingered on in my head, so when I had the inspiration of a foreground frame, it really helped.
Rune Master is an upcoming mobile & desktop puzzle game made by White Box Gaming.
Dzibilchaltun
comp thumbs
initial sketch with original thumb behind
color 1 - working up edges and light
color 2 - working on trees and clouds
color 3 - working up structure & ruins
color 4 - finished up ruins' texture, and added lighting
color 5 - detailed trees, added more lighting on structure
color 6 - fixed sunrise lighting on structure & clouds
color 7 - decided to add a foreground element
color 8 - more photobashing, this time on the structure and fixing the right side trees
color 9 - cleaning up the textures used for the structure
color 10 - minor touch ups on shadow, with more paint overs ; color balanced as well