newjackcole

Gohma Alcove

Added 2022-08-08 22:22:53 +0000 UTC

A lion gohma inhabiting architectural ornamentation. Originally the lion was going to be red in this image, and I had the image mostly colored when photoshop crashed on me (There's a glitch on cs5 where if I have the file open for too long without saving and then I accidentally hit the edge of the image with the eyedropper tool it freaks out and crashes) so I had to recolor it from the start.

I decided to explore some different color variations gohma might take and came up with this one, contrasting it to the mossy background.

I love ornamentation on buildings (this one was inspired by a bank building downtown Portland). I think that ornamentation provides places for the imagination to interact with architecture, and it's those spaces between the real and the imaginary that I think the goma/gohma exist best in.