Tonight is the night of New Spirit’s Moon, and you, having been raised on stories of the guardian spirits, decided to camp out in the woods beyond the village. Perhaps you hoped to catch a glimpse of one of these spirits, or maybe you came here on a dare. The night was quite uneventful, until all of a sudden, you heard a large commotion coming from the north! You scramble to your feet and rush towards the source of the noise, but it stops as suddenly as it starts. Pressing forward, a break in the trees reveals a large clearing inbetween two hills. You gaze at the strange and chaotic scene in front of you. A magnificent fountain, with what appears to be a recently extinguished flame in the center, above the flowing water. Two pillars: one with a giant stone snake wrapped around it; the other left with markings suggesting something similar had once been there. A tree seemingly having sprouted right out of the stone tiles. Two red crystals on either end of a circle of ash. A spell book; likely belonging to one of the monks. And finally, an old wooden mask. Oddly enough, you find the mask to be the most concerning thing here. If the legends were true, then this was the mask of the guardian spirit. The mask is here, yet there is no spirit. The monks, if they were here, most certainly came to destroy this sacred place, but it is unfathomable that they’d leave such a powerful tome here. The circle of ash is broken; a ritual interupted. What in the world happened here?
I really like how you had several layers of depth in this scene as well as how everything (the hillsides, pillars, tree, etc.) draws your eye back towards the fountain in the center. I like your art style and hope that can come through in your future pieces!
This piece of concept art by itself is very strong! I really like your ideas for your scene and the way you have depicted them through both your 2-dimensional concept and 3-dimensional work.