Dead tree concept

This piece is to show some of the story line that I imagine for the game.

As the town was growing the people started cutting down the woodland areas surrounded it. Workers would go out start chopping trees for the towns expansion but one night they did not return. In the early hours of the morning a horseman discovered their bodies speared to a tree with tracks leading towards the forest.

This would be set at the start of the game and would lead on to hunters taking on creatures of the forest in an attempt to discover what could have done this. Only to find out that all the creatures are turning hostile die to some unknown  being. 

As I was using the split canvas method when creating this concept I was working on two but only chose to go for one in the end. The idea was something I had to figure out how to paint and was struggling with so it took a couple of tries to get right. Using this method to figure out how to go about creating this idea allowed me to come up with something I would not have painted without having learnt from mistakes from the pieces that didn't work and being able to use the parts I was happy with. I was able to cut bits out from the image I had spent time on such as the character and the horse so I wouldn't have to completely start from scratch with every bit. I feel that using the split canvas technique helped me learn from my mistakes faster than I would have if I'd worked on them one at a time. This was I was able to have my mistakes fresher in my mind and be able to pick apart more easily why previous pieces didn't work in order to make my next one better. After attempt three I felt like I had the result I wanted and considering I was teaching myself and learning from mistakes it didn't take long to do.