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Azure Skiesby ~olpainless

Digital Art / Drawings / Sci-Fi

A view from a giant, frozen world, travelling through the void;
being flanked by two shepard moons, one, a dead, rocky orb, the other, bright, active and volcanic, being torn by gravity and brought to life; and these two moons, keeping a majestic ring of ice circling the icy sphere.

This was fun, to say the least; Absolutely fantastic doing a celestial piece from this kind of FOV, and it's definetely unusual in celestial art; and I (think I) may have the first ring system drawn from the ringed planet itself on DeviantArt. Or something.

As it stands, I've learnt a lot from this piece; I've refined my moon/planet techniques a deal, As clearly seen; and the techniques used to produce the icy ring system are definetely useful, and I imagine may come in exceptionally handy in future pieces.
Of course, you know what my nebula are like by now; I like to think I've evolved a certain 'style' for nebulae. I also know, that by all accounts, the nebula shouldn't be visible in that light; artistic license.

On the other hand... this picture was a nightmare in some respects. The bottom planet had several evolutions before becoming the frigid wasteland in the final piece, including a green, lush world; however, these really, really didn't work out, so the iceball was the result. I'm still not 100% pleased with it, but it's definitely still pleasing; although I'd have loved the original terrestrial planet planned, it simply didn't work with the piece.

As mentioned in some scraps, I also planned a cloud system for the world; however, this simply failed miserably, and was quickly put on the back burner. I'm not doing that for a while, until I improve a lot in that area.

Anyway; I'm truly proud of this piece, and as the first art piece I've submitted in what's been creeping close to a year, I hope you enjoy this, and appreciate the work involved.

Anyway, now for those lovely technical stats you all ignore:

Time taken: 40-50+ hours.
Tools: Adobe Photoshop 7.
Textures; some random rocks used. Granite is the most fantastically versatile texture ever, you know?
Layers: Too many to count. Really.
Source File Size: 228.8MB.
Full Resolution: 5000x2000 pixels.

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~miu327 May 11, 2013

fabulous!!!

I have presented this to my friends.

Thank you so much!!

~Nitrous-0xide Aug 28, 2007 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Wow, nice job!

~Mobius001 Jan 7, 2007

I love it! This is so awesome! The colors are great!

~Aquanius Aug 24, 2004

Beautiful work, I love how surreal it is.

~revers3volution Aug 14, 2004

great job!

~moffett Aug 4, 2004

dude, i love this peice..

its something out of the square, you know??? while still being visualy stunning...

great job man... love your work.

*artofJLP Jul 31, 2004 Hobbyist General Artist

very beautiful

`j4m3sb0nd Jul 30, 2004

What can i say, one of your most impressive pictures yet, The rings, nebulae, planets.. everything sort of melds together well, i personally would have applied some contrast, but its not a big deal really, i guess you where going for a sort of misty picture, so it worked out well!

!negative-infinity Jul 30, 2004

well worth the time. excellent work. i like the light theme. great stuff!

~steve-o-mac Jul 30, 2004

Very nice!

its been a while.

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