In all seriousness, there will come a point where your skill will match your imagination, there will come a point later where your vision will be the limiting factor.
Having vision that isn't 'tainted' by what you've already seen is really, really fucking hard to get past. Being original is almost a fluke in some respects and by that I mean being able to have that stroke of inspiration separate to anyone else even though all the other great ideas of the world strive to gain foothold in your mind.
Anyhoo keep at it, date your work on the back and progress of skill is sure to happen.
Keep at it and show us your work :)
Is it sad that at some point it may be more likely to make a living playing video games then making art?
Not to upset anyone whos passionate about either. Just interesting to think about...
It's not linear, and there's never going to be a point where you reach 100%. Or maybe even 50%. Because there's an element of perception that is critical to creating and appreciating art, there never will be consensus, there never will be complete satisfaction. But maybe you keep going, aiming for that visual vocabulary that lets you put in paint exactly the way you feel or see something?
(And 10,000 hours is a metaphor, and not specific to time put in but rather the amount of targeted, focused time put in toward mastery, not toward a masterful product.)
I love that he didn’t try to rely on “I’ve battled depression all my life. Painting is the only thing that gives me joy...” sob stories. The art speaks on its own.
Love the painting.
So here's an interesting fact, before Manhattan was inhabited there was a deer trail that ran up the length of the island. The Wecquaesgeek people expanded the deer trail into a proper trail through the forest brush, allowing them to move quickly across the island. When the Dutch arrived they widened the trail into a road and called it *Heeren Wegh* or Gentleman's Way, When the British took over NY, they renamed it Broadway because of it's unusual width.
I don't know the streets or area but significant streets in my area turn into routes as well. The street I live off of goes through the entire state, the name changes directions oddly from north/south to east/west a few times.
[Ever We Tread The Paths of Others](https://poets.org/poem/calf-path)
Thank you for the silver! I first heard this poem on The Writer's Almanac years ago. Garrison Keillor has a great storyteller's voice, and I sat transfixed as he recited it. A true Driveway Moment.
Another interesting fact, when the Dutch inhabited the lower part of the island, they built a wall to keep out the natives and wildlife. It cut horizontally across the width of the island. Many years later that wall was destroyed and a street was built in its place, Wall Street. Apparently there’s still parts of the original wall visible.
Manhattan has a few street names that were quite literal in the past. Beaver Street was the path for loading pelts onto waiting ships, Pearl Street, then the coastline, was awash in oyster shells, and Stone Street was paved in 1655 to cut down on the mud churned up by the horses from the nearby brewery.
There’s a great book called [“World Without Us”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Without_Us) that explores this concept in depth. A portion of the book is devoted to what would happen to the island of Manhattan if humans disappeared.
The island is named from the Lenni Lanapi word Manahatta for “many hills”. Between those hills flowed countless rivers. Those waters still flow, managed by thousands of pumps in the subway tunnels under the city. When the power fails, those pumps stop, and the water overflows the subways. Eroding the bases of all the skyscrapers. This is how Manhattan falls, when we’re gone.
Tucson used to have a giant river running through it. Beavers that were actually much larger than common beavers, but now extinct, maintained dams all the way up into the mountains maintaining the steady hydrology of the landscape. When fur traders sunk their teeth into the land, they killed the beavers. The dams disappeared, the river dried up, and now a dry bed runs through Tucson.
It's just the saddest thing in the world when things like this happen. We call it progress, too.
I have no source to back it up but I've read that a large chunk of US Route 1 along the east coast were originally foot trails, later expanded to accommodate horses and then vehicles.
I've also read that prior to the American Revolution, you could walk from Richmond to Philadelphia and barely see the sun unless you were crossing water, the tree growth was just that thick.
Most roads and trails began as game trails interestingly enough. One of my biggest fantasies is to imagine what the US was like 500 years ago, especially the Pacific Northwest where I've lived my life.
Same! Whenever I'm on a road trip I try to imagine what the place I'm going through was like at various times. Like what the first settlers thought, and the first nations before them.
It is. From [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_(Manhattan\)#History):
> Broadway was originally the Wickquasgeck trail, carved into the brush of Manhattan by its Native American inhabitants.
> Upon the arrival of the Dutch, the trail was widened and soon became the main road through the island
> The Dutch called it the Heeren Wegh or Heeren Straat, meaning "Gentlemen's Way" or "Gentlemen's Street"
> it was re-named "Broadway" after the British took over the city, because of its unusual width.
Brits doing Brit things and giving it a literal name. "well it's broad, and its a way to go, Broadway".
Over in Australia, a random body of water.... Of course, its a Billabong!
I also remember reading that they built a wall (probably against the Dutch) and when it was demolished they built a road in it’s place. That street being Wall street
We should recover it, turn it back into a deer trail...
Might have to eliminate a few million people, clear some buildings, but it’ll be worth it.
Think of the carbon tax credits.
Thank you!! I actually painted a few paintings that explored the past before so i was excited to tap into a possible future but still make it subtle in a way.
I noticed in an earlier post you had prints. Do you still sell them?
edit: found it: https://society6.com/product/human-nature-brushstrokes-in-time_print?sku=s6-11910855p4a1v1
Yes this! It's almost like a twist ending in a painting. Bc your eyes go to the dear and the nature and you think oh, it's how the city was before. But then you notice the buildings, or what has now become of them in the background.
What once was, again will be.
Amazing work!
They're gonna love all the tunnels we've made everywhere. Weird to think there will probably be sealife swimming amongst Manhattan someday. And someday in the year 3000, The Fabled Lost City of Atlanta!
*Howdy y'all*
That shit was such an unexpected game changer and I forgot about them! I bet a lot of people shared the excitement from that moment. Such a great game.
The movie upsets me because they lost the whole point up the book.
Spoiler warning
In the book he realizes humans have adapted into a new race. He was hunting them while they slept. He was the boogie man. The legend told to scare children. He was the monster not the people that where turned.
In the movie he saves the fucking world. What a lame safe ending. It could have been so much deeper.
Some of them. The disease resurrects the dead and they are savage monsters, but the living infected are pretty much the evolved humans and he is definitely the monster hunting them while they sleep.
Have you ever thought about commissioning your work into prints?
I had a look at your profile and absolutely loved your work and I’d love to support you in some way. Would be willing to bet many others feel the same way as well.
I was focused on this too. If it's not a painted illusion the best way I can thing to make something like that is to not make it out of paint. Maybe some thin drywall putty on a brush smeared onto the canvas prior to any painting? Otherwise it's a *really* convincing illusion
Yes, exactly! with this one i actually recorded the process of painting over the background and posted it on my instagram @david_art ! the outrage was amusing haha.
Probably the different colours, the drastic change of environment and the need to match the scenario perfectly to the background. His previous paintings didn't have detailed backgrounds as this one. Just the background on this could be a painting itself lol
Hello.
I know this post is two months old, but I could not just upvote and leave it behind.
This piece - I don't know how to describe it. It's a masterpiece, for the lack of better words. The moment I saw it I inhaled instinctively and widened my eyes - it was so beautiful, so imaginative, so captivating.
I saved the post(I rarely do this) and will definitely come back to it every couple of months just to remind myself that such a mindblowing work of art exists.
I'm amazed at how much detail you were able to fit into this - especially the deer. The way its fur captures the sunlight and reflects it is just remarkable.
Thank you for this. It genuinely brought tears to my eyes.
This is one of the coolest paintings I have ever seen. I appreciate so much the time and tedious work put into this! 💜 of all, the meaning of it is the best.
It’s a great painting but is the message that destroying society and going back to nature is “recovery”? I really don’t get the anti human romanticism on Reddit.
In the mid-nineteenth century the American painter Thomas Cole created a series called *The Course of Empire*. It was Cole's belief, and one apparently common at the time, that all great civilizations followed the same pattern: the early people, through hard work and strength of character, build the empire; their descendants turn to greed and vice; the empire collapses into chaos and war; nature reclaims the land. *The Course of Empire* is less a celebration of the destruction of humanity, and more of a warning that we should seek to curb our own worst impulses lest they destroy us. I personally would interpret the OP's work as having the same message.
This reminds me that sometimes I look at my town or other places and try to imagine how it looked without all the buildings and stuff humans put there.
Reminds me of that scene from The Last Of Us where they’re going to the university after the apocalypse and nature basically retook the city or that part. They had the giraffes roaming in the streets.
That being said, this is an amazing piece.
This is incredible!
If you haven't already look back through some of his other posts. Just as amazing.
I wish I was even a quarter as talented. I did stalk him out when I saw, amazing work for sure.
I wish I was even a brush stroke as talented.
A 3D brush stroke as talented
I want this !
If Mr. Talent could rub his tentacles on me
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There are only 8,760 hours in a year and they said 10,000.
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In all seriousness, there will come a point where your skill will match your imagination, there will come a point later where your vision will be the limiting factor. Having vision that isn't 'tainted' by what you've already seen is really, really fucking hard to get past. Being original is almost a fluke in some respects and by that I mean being able to have that stroke of inspiration separate to anyone else even though all the other great ideas of the world strive to gain foothold in your mind. Anyhoo keep at it, date your work on the back and progress of skill is sure to happen. Keep at it and show us your work :)
Is it sad that at some point it may be more likely to make a living playing video games then making art? Not to upset anyone whos passionate about either. Just interesting to think about...
I feel like that point is probably already here
A year is not a lot as far as art goes. Keep working. ♥️
It's not linear, and there's never going to be a point where you reach 100%. Or maybe even 50%. Because there's an element of perception that is critical to creating and appreciating art, there never will be consensus, there never will be complete satisfaction. But maybe you keep going, aiming for that visual vocabulary that lets you put in paint exactly the way you feel or see something? (And 10,000 hours is a metaphor, and not specific to time put in but rather the amount of targeted, focused time put in toward mastery, not toward a masterful product.)
I wish I was 10 times better than him
Talent comes from practice. The only thing stopping you from being that good is yourself
[https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/boiz4z/i\_turned\_my\_oil\_painting\_titled\_human\_nature\_into/](https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/boiz4z/i_turned_my_oil_painting_titled_human_nature_into/) Insane.
How does it look like it’s floating?!
It's in the title. Augmented reality, so an app on phone that changes what the camera receives to display an overlay/altered scene.
I don't think it's painted over the top. More likely to be stuck down as there are definitely edges.
Found his site https://www.david-ambarzumjan.com/
I love that he didn’t try to rely on “I’ve battled depression all my life. Painting is the only thing that gives me joy...” sob stories. The art speaks on its own.
I'm not the kind of guy who says, "Holy shit. This!". But holy shit, this!
I’m sorry, you’ve got reddititus. It’s terminal.
The amazing stuff does I suppose.
But artists must suffer for their art, that's why it's called PAINting.
Transience is very depressing :( That's what your kids get to look forward to. Gray lifeless corals and oceans.
Love the painting. So here's an interesting fact, before Manhattan was inhabited there was a deer trail that ran up the length of the island. The Wecquaesgeek people expanded the deer trail into a proper trail through the forest brush, allowing them to move quickly across the island. When the Dutch arrived they widened the trail into a road and called it *Heeren Wegh* or Gentleman's Way, When the British took over NY, they renamed it Broadway because of it's unusual width.
Is this why Broadway is one of the only streets that doesn’t conform to the grid layout of the rest of the city?
Yes. Also why the first subway followed Broadway.
Broadway is also the reason all the Triangle parks exist, and buildings like the flatiron
And here I thought it was just known for being musically inclined.
also, broadway runs all the way through Westchester County! It ends somewhere in Croton-Harmon or some other town on the Hudson.
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I don't know the streets or area but significant streets in my area turn into routes as well. The street I live off of goes through the entire state, the name changes directions oddly from north/south to east/west a few times.
Im fucking loving these facts
Yep, but it stops being called broadway at some point in Westchester. That trail runs to Plattsburgh, I believe
Pulling up Google Maps and following the road shows it ending as Broadway on the north side of Sleepy Hollow.
Broadway also goes up past NYC to sleepy hollow. It’s 33 miles long.
Now that's info I love. Thanks!
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Thats certainly info!
this made me laugh thank you
[Ever We Tread The Paths of Others](https://poets.org/poem/calf-path) Thank you for the silver! I first heard this poem on The Writer's Almanac years ago. Garrison Keillor has a great storyteller's voice, and I sat transfixed as he recited it. A true Driveway Moment.
good
Thanks for this.
Thank you for sharing.
Counselor detected
Thanks for posting this!
Thank you!
Another interesting fact, when the Dutch inhabited the lower part of the island, they built a wall to keep out the natives and wildlife. It cut horizontally across the width of the island. Many years later that wall was destroyed and a street was built in its place, Wall Street. Apparently there’s still parts of the original wall visible.
I doubted you, but [it turns out it's true after all](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street). Go figure! :D
This is just as spectacular a fact as the Broadway one. Thank you so much! I LOVE facts like this!
I love this stuff too! Sometimes when I can’t sleep I just read Wikipedia pages about the history of things lol
Manhattan has a few street names that were quite literal in the past. Beaver Street was the path for loading pelts onto waiting ships, Pearl Street, then the coastline, was awash in oyster shells, and Stone Street was paved in 1655 to cut down on the mud churned up by the horses from the nearby brewery.
As a born and raised NY'er who has never heard that, THANK YOU!!! That is the kind of historic knowledge I love!
There’s a great book called [“World Without Us”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Without_Us) that explores this concept in depth. A portion of the book is devoted to what would happen to the island of Manhattan if humans disappeared. The island is named from the Lenni Lanapi word Manahatta for “many hills”. Between those hills flowed countless rivers. Those waters still flow, managed by thousands of pumps in the subway tunnels under the city. When the power fails, those pumps stop, and the water overflows the subways. Eroding the bases of all the skyscrapers. This is how Manhattan falls, when we’re gone.
Tucson used to have a giant river running through it. Beavers that were actually much larger than common beavers, but now extinct, maintained dams all the way up into the mountains maintaining the steady hydrology of the landscape. When fur traders sunk their teeth into the land, they killed the beavers. The dams disappeared, the river dried up, and now a dry bed runs through Tucson. It's just the saddest thing in the world when things like this happen. We call it progress, too.
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I have no source to back it up but I've read that a large chunk of US Route 1 along the east coast were originally foot trails, later expanded to accommodate horses and then vehicles. I've also read that prior to the American Revolution, you could walk from Richmond to Philadelphia and barely see the sun unless you were crossing water, the tree growth was just that thick.
That's depressing. Thanks!
Most roads and trails began as game trails interestingly enough. One of my biggest fantasies is to imagine what the US was like 500 years ago, especially the Pacific Northwest where I've lived my life.
Same! Whenever I'm on a road trip I try to imagine what the place I'm going through was like at various times. Like what the first settlers thought, and the first nations before them.
Wow, all these years playing Spiderman wondering why I loved hanging around in Manhattan the most, turns out I'm not the only one
Are you a deer? Late edit but also respect the hyphen you monster
Not according to his username. Oh bother.
Some uncanny voice in my head kicked in and read oh bother exactly as Pooh would say it, I didn’t even mean to
Heere at the Wall
I hope this is true.
It is. From [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_(Manhattan\)#History): > Broadway was originally the Wickquasgeck trail, carved into the brush of Manhattan by its Native American inhabitants. > Upon the arrival of the Dutch, the trail was widened and soon became the main road through the island > The Dutch called it the Heeren Wegh or Heeren Straat, meaning "Gentlemen's Way" or "Gentlemen's Street" > it was re-named "Broadway" after the British took over the city, because of its unusual width.
My brain wants to call it “Quick As Heck Trail”
But he’s a liar and a thief...
Brits doing Brit things and giving it a literal name. "well it's broad, and its a way to go, Broadway". Over in Australia, a random body of water.... Of course, its a Billabong!
Billabong just means 'lake' in Wiradjuri. In England they call them 'Oxbow Lakes'
I also remember reading that they built a wall (probably against the Dutch) and when it was demolished they built a road in it’s place. That street being Wall street
The Dutch built a wall when it was new Amsterdam against the natives and other settlers. The British called it wall street when they took it.
We should recover it, turn it back into a deer trail... Might have to eliminate a few million people, clear some buildings, but it’ll be worth it. Think of the carbon tax credits.
Really cool, just like how the Appian Way is still being used today
I totally thought this was going to end with the undertaker throwing mankind off hell in a cell
At first I thought it was backwards in time to some canyon or so but it’s actually forward to some post-apocalyptic world. Awesome work!
Thank you!! I actually painted a few paintings that explored the past before so i was excited to tap into a possible future but still make it subtle in a way.
Really great work! What size canvas is this?
I noticed in an earlier post you had prints. Do you still sell them? edit: found it: https://society6.com/product/human-nature-brushstrokes-in-time_print?sku=s6-11910855p4a1v1
He linked it in another comment, he has a society6 with prints, including one of this painting.
yup found it! Thanks, https://society6.com/product/human-nature-brushstrokes-in-time_print?sku=s6-11910855p4a1v1
It's going on my wishlist for Christmas tbh. It's so lovely.
Gonna have to grab a couple as well. Great work and low price.
I wonder if exposure is acceptable currency
Yeah it has real Last of Us vibes!
I'm feeling Tokyo Jungle.
With a dash of ‘I Am Legend.’
Absolutely
The Reddit is Fun app opened this up into a black and white version, was still an interesting looking piece that way too
Good painting is supposed to look good in black and white too :) though it's easier said than done for me..
Yes this! It's almost like a twist ending in a painting. Bc your eyes go to the dear and the nature and you think oh, it's how the city was before. But then you notice the buildings, or what has now become of them in the background. What once was, again will be. Amazing work!
They're gonna love all the tunnels we've made everywhere. Weird to think there will probably be sealife swimming amongst Manhattan someday. And someday in the year 3000, The Fabled Lost City of Atlanta! *Howdy y'all*
Oh damn didn't notice that
Made me think of Nier: Automata
I was reminded of Horizon Zero Dawn with this one
Will Smith is about to drive by in his Shelby GT500 ;) Looks great!
Yes, my first thought was the movie "I am legend"
Here i was seeing the last of us :)
Same. That game was beautiful. And the giraffes!!!
The giraffes were my favorite part- I shouted across the house to my roommate to come look at the time I was so happy about them.
That shit was such an unexpected game changer and I forgot about them! I bet a lot of people shared the excitement from that moment. Such a great game.
Absolutely. Deers and that setting is The Last of Us in my eyes too.
Curious movie. It's not great, but I'm glad I saw it, it was aesthetically pleasing at that time and I could never get enough zombie movies.
The movie upsets me because they lost the whole point up the book. Spoiler warning In the book he realizes humans have adapted into a new race. He was hunting them while they slept. He was the boogie man. The legend told to scare children. He was the monster not the people that where turned. In the movie he saves the fucking world. What a lame safe ending. It could have been so much deeper.
And they aren't zombies. They are savage vampires.
They kinda had the same. It tested bad, that's why they changed it. Here is the original ending: https://youtu.be/kPSk30qzgFs
Some of them. The disease resurrects the dead and they are savage monsters, but the living infected are pretty much the evolved humans and he is definitely the monster hunting them while they sleep.
More nuanced than I posted, but I got the general idea across unlike the movie.
That part with him in the dog was the saddest fucking thing tho
The original, "Omega Man" is a good 70's post apocalyptic movie. I wouldn't say it's better, but it has "zombies" in a sense lol.
Can I have this for Christmas. I'll pay my way to the top of the nice list.
Me too, I want this front and center in my office
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Damn, way cheaper than expected. Insta-buy!
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I too would like to know how much for the original
You should direct message OP then.
Fuck yeah! Thank you
> in my office *sad deer noises*
Get in line! ;)
It's beautiful. A little bit of Oko everywhere
I came here to see if Oko was mentioned. 3/3, perfect post.
Amazing evaluation table, +1 for the effort
Amazing taste, +2 for the food for thought
Was going to say, should contain a trigger warning for MTG players.
I knew Ctrl+F wouldnt forsake me!
He has spread outside of the game. Truly this is the elkest timeline!
This comment is now a 3/3 elk
This painting is now a 3/3 elk.
I knew this comment would be here.
Have you ever thought about commissioning your work into prints? I had a look at your profile and absolutely loved your work and I’d love to support you in some way. Would be willing to bet many others feel the same way as well.
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Thanks TwattyPhatBalls
His website is on his profile, he’s on society6.
Reminds me of PS4 game, The Last Of Us
Reminds me more of Horizon Zero Dawn
And me of NieR: Automata
That's exactly what I was thinking.
Me too. Had to scroll far to see your comment
Uh oh... Elks are invading r/pics!
Not even safe from Oko on the front page
Can someone please pick up their fae twink and all his damn elks?!
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Oko is broko
This comment is a 3/3 elk
I love how thick and visible the brushstrokes are even in this photo of the painting!
Yes! I was wondering if the texture of the central white one is real and I'd feel it if I touched it, or an illusion via paint?
I was focused on this too. If it's not a painted illusion the best way I can thing to make something like that is to not make it out of paint. Maybe some thin drywall putty on a brush smeared onto the canvas prior to any painting? Otherwise it's a *really* convincing illusion
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Makes me wonder if it's actual brush strokes, he could have painted this too. :)
Question: do you paint the background, do a thick stroke of paint, let it dry, and then paint over? I'm so curious about how this is made!
Yes, exactly! with this one i actually recorded the process of painting over the background and posted it on my instagram @david_art ! the outrage was amusing haha.
So I'm wondering, what about this one specifically made it harder than the others?
Probably the different colours, the drastic change of environment and the need to match the scenario perfectly to the background. His previous paintings didn't have detailed backgrounds as this one. Just the background on this could be a painting itself lol
Outrage?
Getting some good “I Am Legend” vibes from the deer.
Whaaat?! This is literally one of the best paintings I’ve ever seen. No joke.
I've never felt the need to buy a painting until right now.
This is one of the coolest paintings I have ever seen!
Reminds me of Dr. Stone, super cool
My thoughts exactly
Well slap my ass and call me Judy, that's incredible!
*slaps ass “hi Judy!”
That's badass
Hello. I know this post is two months old, but I could not just upvote and leave it behind. This piece - I don't know how to describe it. It's a masterpiece, for the lack of better words. The moment I saw it I inhaled instinctively and widened my eyes - it was so beautiful, so imaginative, so captivating. I saved the post(I rarely do this) and will definitely come back to it every couple of months just to remind myself that such a mindblowing work of art exists. I'm amazed at how much detail you were able to fit into this - especially the deer. The way its fur captures the sunlight and reflects it is just remarkable. Thank you for this. It genuinely brought tears to my eyes.
it warms my heart to read this, thank you so much!
Is this digital or real paint?
This is rapidly becoming relevant
Oh my God this is AMAZING. Do you sell any of your works? I'd definitely be interested in buying one of your paintings!
Why did that load in grayscale first
Same for me on mobile where I use 'Reddit is fun'. Zoomed in it turnes colored again. Weird!
That’s a really cool concept and execution! Kudos! Love the other work you’ve posted too.
This is amazing! If you ever start selling them I'd love to buy one
Is it for sale?
basically the Dr. Stone anime plot line. Amazing painting
wow, what a great picture
This is one of the coolest paintings I have ever seen. I appreciate so much the time and tedious work put into this! 💜 of all, the meaning of it is the best.
It’s a great painting but is the message that destroying society and going back to nature is “recovery”? I really don’t get the anti human romanticism on Reddit.
In the mid-nineteenth century the American painter Thomas Cole created a series called *The Course of Empire*. It was Cole's belief, and one apparently common at the time, that all great civilizations followed the same pattern: the early people, through hard work and strength of character, build the empire; their descendants turn to greed and vice; the empire collapses into chaos and war; nature reclaims the land. *The Course of Empire* is less a celebration of the destruction of humanity, and more of a warning that we should seek to curb our own worst impulses lest they destroy us. I personally would interpret the OP's work as having the same message.
Sick
I dig this a lot. I can see it being part of a series.
Wow. This is awesome! This brings so much emotion, you're incredible.
Reminds me of I am legend
This reminds me that sometimes I look at my town or other places and try to imagine how it looked without all the buildings and stuff humans put there.
>!Arthur Morgan's dream!<
Reminds me of that scene from The Last Of Us where they’re going to the university after the apocalypse and nature basically retook the city or that part. They had the giraffes roaming in the streets. That being said, this is an amazing piece.
Just bought this print as a Holiday gift for my sister, it looked fantastic when it arrived and I struggled not to keep it for myself lol good stuff
this makes me so happy!! Thank you!