Finally...

I didn't know that it is actually possible to create pictures in poster-size with a usual ballpoint-pen. Well, now I know...

The monster project is finished. Unfortunately I wasn't able to post the whole picture in one step, because deviantART doesn't support pictures above 10 megapixels. Therefore I had to divide the picture into several subpictures. This is like a "map" for the whole thing to understand the connections between the single parts. Just check out the links below to see the whole details.

LINKS TO THE DETAIL PAGES:
[link] (Aerodetail)
[link] (Treedetail)
[link] (Skullbasedetail)
[link] (Subdetail)
[link] (Digdetail)

I know that there are some weaker and some stronger parts in this picture. The problem with such enormous large deviations is to keep the quality level during the whole process. This isn't really difficult if you only work with digital media or did already perfectionize your style to a level, where it can only be improved on minor details any more. I had a lot of problems to make the parts fit together, because I am still working on my style. I've learned uncountable things about my shading technique, especially the different surfaces and interaction shadows. Therefore the earlier parts of the picture (have fun finding out which they are ) look much brighter and somehow worse than the recent parts.

I had a lot of fun creating those little pictures in the frames hidden all over the deviation. They are actually some kind of composition experiment, but in my humble opinion they make the picture look much more coherent. I've also tried to draw as many new characters as possible to give each part of the picture a touch of diversity.

The digital background is a combination between 6.1mp-photos shot with my digicam and several hours of handmade digital work.

Just to give you a light impression of the creation process:
This piece took about 350 hours of work, whereof not even 5 percent were digital. Ballpoint-pen pictures always take much more time than digital pictures, but in this case it was just a huge challenge not to give up and keep on sketching and shading.
The whole pictures were created on 38 DinA4-pages of usual printer paper (100g), not counting the uncountable sketch sheets I used to figure out how the whole thing will look like. 3 poor and (quite probably) innocent ballpoint-pens were killed while shading.

To find out more about the shading itself, please check out my ballpoint-pen tutorial, which also contains a (small) part of this deviation.

[link]

Thanks to everyone, who kept motivating me in the last 3 months. This picture wouldn't look the way it does now without you! (I think you probably know who you are and listing everyone of you would just take too much space )

Comments are highly appreciated, full-view is a MUST!
To find out more about my thoughts concerning this picture, check out the descriptions of the detail pages.

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO FAVED AND COMMENTED THIS PIECE! AND OF COURSE TO PUNKROMANCE AND DHOLMS FOR THE SUGGESTION AND FEATURE AS A DAILY DEVIATION! IT'LL TAKE A WHILE TO REPLY TO ALL THE COMMENTS, BUT I'LL GIVE MY BEST YOU ARE AWESOME!!!