The sinister frozen totem is towering up to the clouds to be worshiped in the great smokey mountain. To illustrate a secret temple on the mountain you have to try to paint over with the cold colors. The dark totem is painted on the shadow. the place you may imagine can be located over the mountains. in concept art you have to improve your imagination and practice to transfer that to your digital screen/canvas. choose the proper tools as brush and textures to get the best result to increase the value of your visual elements.To paint more realistic and believable space with imaginary scenery and objects, you need to feel you are walking in that scene, feel everything in your artwork. for example If you start to paint a cold space, so feel the cold climate, feel the iced ground and frozen stones, and see the people who barely walk in the cold. The snowy place need a different light, texture and color, specially when you want to show a threatening or portending evil environment. A chill wind is blowing, every components in this nature beginning to freeze or partially frozen. like the soul of the people in that area. You as concept artist or digital illustrator must pay attention to the contrast with such a wide tonal values and variety shades to shape and form many elements. A variety of tones is found in everything around us, our eyes as artist`s eyes must see, figure out and utilise the details and beauties that other eyes can not. Every color has what are called tints and shades. A tint of a basic color is a lighter version of that color and a shade is a darker version, but the is a general term of a color which include the lightness or darkness ( tied and shade ) of a base color.
