Holy Ambition, Batman!

This is a painting I'm currently working. A collab between me and a friend, whose name for now is Corporal Nobbs. You can see his stuff here http://luktarig.deviantart.com/.

The whole thing started off so simple and easy. We decided to do a collab (we've done one before and it was a HUGE success. More on that later.), and chose a scene from a book called Dust of Dreams, which is the ninth book in Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen-series (google it, as I'll be mentioning him A LOT!). Oh, how quickly things spiralled out of control. Well, let me just show you what I mean.

This is the intitial sketch. Doesn't seem so bad, right?

Oh, things just a got a little more complex, didn't they?

Expanded the canvas and added more people. The painting needed more people in it.
Some seem to have disappeared, though.

What's this? More things?! The flying things are wyvals,
and the big lizards are K'Chain Nahruk. Vicious and highly intelligent beasts.
White squiggly lines and brown blotches are humans. You'll see :P

Yes, definitely more things. And we now have an exploding
head. SWEET!

Holy Crap, this is really starting to look like something! The Corporal
has really worked his derriere off lately. Hats off to him! Also, 98 characters
so far, in the painting. 98!!

So far we've spent countless months painting stuff, sending the painting back and forth, removing things, adding things, discussing, procrastinating and furiously jotting down lines and blocking in colours whenever Inspirtaion or Time has been our friend. I daresay there's still many more months left before it is finished. I shall keep you posted.


  -Tattersail, signing off.