sarracenian

Samus gazing at the world (done)

Added 2024-08-26 10:10:11 +0000 UTC

There's this great painting by Dai Jin (the Ming dynasty painter) which I still think about where there's this visible glare of sunlight coming from the upper corner, probably one of the first times I've seen light depicted in such a way in shanshui painting from this long ago. Its great. I sometimes think a lot about how much there exist art from a literal millenia ago that already knew about complex art theories and keen observation. Even though its not unusual and I already know this in the back of my mind, it still catches me by surprise, like those murals in Pompeii for example.

Funnily enough, I can't recall seeing any artwork that depicts Samus accompanied by an actual bird. Seems kind of an obvious thing to do, you usually see bird motifs being common, but no actual bird animals of any kind.
I suppose it kinda does have the same effect as if you drew a normal human guy accompanied by a chimpanzee or something hahaha. Though I suppose its kinda goofy in general how in genre-fictions, when there's a non-human race, their art motif is pretty much exclusively based on their own faces 24/7. I bet if Morrowind came out today with Elder Scrolls' modern art design sensibilities, all the buildings would just be grey and pointy and pseudo-gothic (y'know, for the 1000th time in a row).

EDIT: Also a colourized headshot quickie: