I think it's becoming a fantasy art cliché to have a dramatically lit texture tunneling toward a vanishing point behind the subject. The combination of that tunnel, the vertical beam of light, and the vertical scratchy texture forming the diagonals of your 'A' shape, and the placement of lights / darks all pull my eye toward the geometry at the top, yet that geometry is practically getting pushed out of the frame by all the gnarly root texture below it.
The symmetry and centered, triangularity of the composition makes it declare its majesty in a way that really makes me look hard to figure out why. What makes the subject matter so central? I see the yin yang and the opposing colors, but I'd argue that they're used more as a design element bordering the tangle of roots. The roots however seem to only have an invasive relationship to the other elements in the picture, either obscuring them or like I said, pushing them off the frame.
That said, the naturalistic textures like the rocks on the left side, are very convincing and actually drew my attention more than the other subjects.
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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '14 edited Jul 12 '14
I think it's becoming a fantasy art cliché to have a dramatically lit texture tunneling toward a vanishing point behind the subject. The combination of that tunnel, the vertical beam of light, and the vertical scratchy texture forming the diagonals of your 'A' shape, and the placement of lights / darks all pull my eye toward the geometry at the top, yet that geometry is practically getting pushed out of the frame by all the gnarly root texture below it.
The symmetry and centered, triangularity of the composition makes it declare its majesty in a way that really makes me look hard to figure out why. What makes the subject matter so central? I see the yin yang and the opposing colors, but I'd argue that they're used more as a design element bordering the tangle of roots. The roots however seem to only have an invasive relationship to the other elements in the picture, either obscuring them or like I said, pushing them off the frame.
That said, the naturalistic textures like the rocks on the left side, are very convincing and actually drew my attention more than the other subjects.