Pirates!

Some people ask me what the heck I was thinking with this picture. Its really simple; This pic was for a contest on Digitalwebbing.com. Basically the goal was to show pirates finding the "X". I decided to do this pic for 2 reasons;

1. I wanted to do a color piece with a background.
2. I wanted to use an angle I don't usually get to utilize.

In the end I won the contest, and this remains a personal favorite of mine. :)

A lot of people also say that I didn't use shadows in this picture. I'm always surprised by this. There's a reason why the ground gets darker once you get passed the female pirate standing with the sword....