Lament by ChaosFissure

Too much Zelda music on my playlist recently results in this. What can I say, though...I'm a sucker for piano in game music ;_;

10/27/16: Updated with much needed change to framing, and some different Chaotica imaging settings.

Apo + Chaotica
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solarhythmia Featured By Owner Mar 10, 2018 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Badass.

gizemlianilar Featured By Owner Nov 21, 2016

A very nice work

Jurassic4LIFE Featured By Owner Nov 7, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist

You know.. I think i just saw a little clue... "I'm a sucker for piano in game music."

I mean this actually looks like a Giant Fiery Astral Octopus

ChaosFissure Featured By Owner Nov 7, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist

xD Certainly not to me!

ArcherBlack Featured By Owner Edited Nov 3, 2016 Hobbyist General Artist

I love the light-play in this one. I am making an art feature journal and I want to feature three of your pieces along with works of some other people on dA - the feature's theme is "everything abstract". You will receive full credit.
The journal will be posted in a moment but your art will only be featured after your permission (if you will permit it naturally), if you want to see how it works with me, you can visit my profile and check it.

Rawglor Featured By Owner Aug 9, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Wow. It is very stunning.

cosmicbound Featured By Owner Aug 8, 2016

I think you're right to consider this your favourite. There's great dynamism, sense of atmosphere, figurative shape and furthermore it seems nicely framed in composition without too much chaotic structure. Unity is further enhanced by the mirroring of foreground forms (the key 'dancing figures') with backdrop (looks like two smaller/darker copies dancing to the back left).

ChaosFissure Featured By Owner Aug 9, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I appreciate the constructive feedback

When I normally represent fire, it's about heat and a burning glow with outward and explosive energy. In this case, it has much more soul, more turmoil, and is self-contained rather than expansive. The emotion I take from the scene resonates in my mind; this was far more strongly shaped by music and nostalgia than most of my artwork. It also has a very strong "scenic" quality to the content (ground, depth, objects further away and radiant light). Although I consider Phaethic Escapade technically superior in framing and balance (and at a time was tied with this for my favorite image), I find the emotion I extract from this more meaningful to me now.

I'm ever so slowly working on a related piece to this (same inspiration source, different scene from the game), and hope to have it finished by like 2025 lmao: Lament 2; maybe replaying the game again will give me the motivation I need to finish it.

cosmicbound Featured By Owner Aug 16, 2016

Phaethic Escapade is impressive too, but I think you've summed up an important distinction between (fine) art and technical craft. A sense of emotion is an essential component of artistic composition. Emotion is like the blood in the veins of the work, build on the bones of technique...

Lament 2 is coming along nicely! La la la la

Looks like duelling mages.

Tatoonthesky Featured By Owner Feb 5, 2015

I'm trying to understand how you did this, but it's impossible. .-.

MOONGODDESSEVE Featured By Owner Oct 4, 2014

Wow, this is so beautiful! I personally don't know Zelda, but I didn't know anything could inspire such awesomeness. Looking at all your work, I want to know how your brain functions. I mean like seriously breaking it down and observing every single cell, because your work is just too cool.

ChaosFissure Featured By Owner Oct 4, 2014 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I think knowing how my brain functions wouldn't help anything. Then again, I really don't know how it works entirely either -- and despite my analytical nature, I would prefer to just enjoy doing some things rather than needing to understand how exactly I do them.

I've tried to understand how I do things, and there's a combination of continuously firing pattern-recognition, combined simultaneously with gut feelings of what I like or don't like (and the whole "gut feelings" thing isn't something I have yet been able to explain logically).

I will note that I intend to stream (trying to) make artwork tomorrow -- both headset stuff and screen sharing (should be found in my journal if you want information on it), so that would be as good a place as any to see and ask things as I'm working on stuff. XD

HCRonin Featured By Owner Jul 2, 2014 Hobbyist Digital Artist

My god. This is amazing. The colours just pull me in.

I disappear, come back and find this.

OH GOD WHERE DID I GO.

ChaosFissure Featured By Owner Jul 3, 2014 Hobbyist Digital Artist

This is tied with Phaethic Escapade for my favorite thing that I've ever made. I really love how it looks...music is an amazing source of inspiration, and as much of what I make is affected by my own state of mind, I think the emotion in the image itself is much stronger than it is in most of my other work.

I don't know where you went, but it's very good to hear from you, that's for sure

I hope you're doing well these days! If you want to chat or something, feel free to note me and I'll give you my skype or something.

HCRonin Featured By Owner Jul 5, 2014 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I..uhm.. lost my Skype details AND my MSN details. The one I used for everything related to AE.
I'll leave you a note in a few days once I figure it out? I'm a bit low on time right now.
And yes, we REALLY need to talk. It's been long.

ChaosFissure Featured By Owner Jul 5, 2014 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Take as much time as you need! I look forward to it!

Xenofish Featured By Owner Jul 1, 2014 Hobbyist Digital Artist

awesome, I like the shapes of this whole piece

Katakikun Featured By Owner Jun 5, 2014 Student General Artist

Am I allowed to use this as wallpaper?
Because it's just jaw-breaking.

ChaosFissure Featured By Owner Jun 5, 2014 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Certainly. Provided you don't upload the image to wallpaper sites, claim it as your own, or things to that extent, I have absolutely no issues with you doing so

Katakikun Featured By Owner Jun 5, 2014 Student General Artist

Thankyou, I have now done so

Sasplayer Featured By Owner May 29, 2014 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Wow nice render or drawing.Well i don't really know if it's a render or a drawin' but it looks very nice.
I can't understand the picture either except i do understand its like fire or something

ChaosFissure Featured By Owner Jun 3, 2014 Hobbyist Digital Artist

It indeed is a render

I'm glad you like how it looks, even if it's a bit abstract to understand. If you've ever played Twilight Princess, then I can offer perhaps a better analogy that might help

Kokamiii Featured By Owner Apr 15, 2014 Student General Artist

Nice work! XD If you want and we get to meet each other. I can teach you how to play One Summers Day in spirited away! Piano guy here so yeah

ChaosFissure Featured By Owner Apr 15, 2014 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Part of the reason I love piano so much is because I used to play it myself

I haven't really had the time (or space) to do so recently, however...

Kaiapi Featured By Owner Apr 10, 2014

This is completely amazing! Out of all the amazing pieces in your gallery, this is probably my favourite.

ChaosFissure Featured By Owner Apr 10, 2014 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Haha I'm glad you like it! This is probably my favorite piece of artwork that I have created so far as well

Thanks for stopping by my gallery and checking stuff out!

hashmodai Featured By Owner Mar 21, 2014 Hobbyist Digital Artist

That is really exquisite!

WojtasArt Featured By Owner Mar 8, 2014 Hobbyist Artist

Soo awesome :3

adivaki Featured By Owner Mar 8, 2014 Professional Digital Artist

Very good one.

ChaosFissure Featured By Owner Mar 8, 2014 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thank you

bloodpryce Featured By Owner Mar 6, 2014 Professional General Artist

I see your trials and I see your purpose. You have one - one - more chance.

ChaosFissure Featured By Owner Mar 6, 2014 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I don't know why I need extra chances when stuff is going well

bloodpryce Featured By Owner Mar 7, 2014 Professional General Artist

I'm sorry, I wasn't talking to the artist, I was expressing how I related to the piece of work. I put myself in the art and commented on how it made me feel. No offense intended, I apologize.

ChaosFissure Featured By Owner Mar 7, 2014 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Generally, I assumes that comments are directed at the artist / person you are replying to / etc unless stated otherwise - while I understand that your comment was meant to relate to the work itself, I wasn't able to pick that from your comment at the time and thus was confused with what it was supposed to mean XD

bloodpryce Featured By Owner Mar 11, 2014 Professional General Artist

It reminded of all the tormented souls forced to die because of me. Which laws condone that - I have no idea. Compounded trauma, the only way to relieve the pain is suicide. If not by your own hand then by someone who understands you. Question is, was the compounded trauma premeditated? And when I arrived they recognized me. They swiped and clawed at me and I listened. To separate their blame and accusations from my soul I became something like this work.
These days they sit in a barber's shop with a haircutting cloak. Red faced, hawk nosed and withering, they take a scalding hot instrument and say, "This is because of her." A blood curdling scream cannot help but be released. And then the pain settles into satisfaction, "Because of her."
Pain isn't enough. "We must induce: UGLINESS. Yes. Ugliness. Unworthy, all the snotty types will decree 'UNWORTHY.' And they'll come with us, to where do bad people go when they die?" There. More for us, less for her.
I must allow free will. "Hail Mary, full of grace, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen." How will these tormented souls judge the blind? Were they somehow implicated in the compounded trauma of other souls? Because if they are, and they can only be blind, deaf and ignorant, they are unworthy of the Kingdom and perhaps deserve pain and punishment. And they will never see me.