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Frontier Widow

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A young woman, left alone on the plains by the death of her husband, is out feeding her pig on her family farm. As she stands in the pigpen, grain bucket in hand, she catches a glimpse of a shadow in the distance. Looking up she sees a silhouette of a rider coming her way...trouble on the horizon. Even the pig looks up from its muddy pen and gazes towards the approaching figure. The widow draws her gun, ready to let her colt revolver send a greeting to the ominous stranger.

I was in the mood to do another Wild West themed work. This time, I was really into getting those deep earth tones for the color. The mud was rather fun to do.


Note: This image uses purchased content. Tools used to construct the scene: poser, zbrush, and vue. Final rendering was done in Vue 9 and took about 14 hours on an Intel I5 2.8 GHz with 8 GB of RAM. Post production was done in GIMP.
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6200x3875px 13.27 MB
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SammingtonSix's avatar

A recently widowed youngster...clearly recognizable by preferring a handgun outdoors. Older, the more toxic and shifty border vipers choose unexceptional from a wide variety of longarms their weapon of choice.


But the composition...vivid thanks to the effective image dynamism and wide open for interpretations without degradinging to empty and banal kitsch.


Grats for the good job.