The Castle

Dull and dark the low misty clouds brooded over the castle and the lake, and shut out all the neighbourhood. Even if they had climbed to the loftiest known turret, they would have found it swathed in a garment of clinging vapour, affording no refreshment to the eye, and no hope to the heart. There was one lofty tower that rose sheer a hundred feet above the rest, and from which the fog could have been seen lying in a grey mass beneath; but that tower they had not yet discovered, nor another close beside it, the top of which was never seen, nor could be, for the highest clouds of heaven clustered continually around it.

The Castle

This was another project done for class. We had to take an excerpt from one of George Mcdonald's books and make a book illustration for it (If you don't know who George Mcdonald is, his works inspired Tolkien and Lewis). So I chose his short story "The Castle." Not for the plot though, the plot didn't make a whole lot of sense and wasn't that interesting to be frank. His descriptions of the castle the characters lived in, on the other hand, were pretty legit.

Done in Photoshop.

See the preliminary work here: rexfire91.deviantart.com/art/T…