Planet

[Mr. Wilde]

Originally Posted by IRML

well with my PC messed up and me not able to use any of my 3D tools, I thought I'd venture into 2D for a bit

this was done entirely in photoshop over the last 2 or 3 days, I don't have a tablet but the mouse worked well enough for this - there wasn't many complex brush strokes to deal with

the full image is 8x as big (which should be A3 at 600ppi if I worked it out correct), it was a bit of a pain working at that resolution, I guess I need more ram

crits welcom (but I'm not changing anything )

Wow, very nice image. That should be roughly 7000 x 10000 pixels. Awesome.

[Martocticvs]

Print it out nice and big, and unfurl it from the roof of parliament in a protest over the lack of the 6pm sci-fi slot, or something

[Tovette]

I so want to put one of my Project Cosmos ships in that scene...

[IRML]

Originally Posted by biotech

One thing does occur to me, the rings that are between the planet and the sun should be illuminated, as they are at the top, at the bottom too.

But leaving them dark is an artistic choice, and it is art after all.

well the planet is meant to be 'waist deep' in the space dust, I can see now it's not very clear but then again I'm not a good painter (you wouldn't see the lower part of the rings much anyway because the bottom of the planet would only be about 50 pixels above the bottom of the image)

Originally Posted by chrono

by "sterile" I mean that it's emotionless & motionless. There isn't any drama nor high's or low's at all! It feels like it's a background painting that is intended to be very emotionally flat so that the viewer is focused on what's happening in the foreground.

well actually it started out as the background of a larger painting, but I couldn't be bothered to do the foreground

maybe when I get my PC fixed I'll return to it and finish it with some 3D work

[IRML]

Originally Posted by Samurai

Dave, dust/stars thing makes sense now you've explained it, but it wasn't immediately apparent. It could probably be sorted out by making the "black" bits a tad darker, and accentuating the "shadow" caused by the moon on the particles- the effects are there, but very subtle, and I've viewed it on two monitors now. It's certainly better on my (better calibrated Adobe RGB 1998) home monitor than on my crappy work item, but still very subtle.

Chrono: I can see your point there, but the filename (Planet_Matte.jpg) suggests to me that this is intentional. I don't know though, I'm just speculating.

Originally Posted by Tovette

yeah now that i look at it in that manner i can see how it could be dust and not stars. I think the manner in which the dust looks is too close to the starfields and it get a bit confusing...

yeah guys, interestingly if you tilt your head to the left and look at the image it becomes a bit clearer, I thought about making it landscape because of this, but the composition really fails that way

*edit* just noticed this

Originally Posted by Tovette

I so want to put one of my Project Cosmos ships in that scene...

feel free, I have the 10k PSD but it's uncropped and doesn't have the dust, maybe you'll like it more that way lol

[chrono]

Originally Posted by IRML

yeah guys, interestingly if you tilt your head to the left and look at the image it becomes a bit clearer,

*CRACK*

... ow ....


Yeah I got the impression that you were just kinda "killing time".

[Tovette]

Originally Posted by IRML

feel free, I have the 10k PSD but it's uncropped and doesn't have the dust, maybe you'll like it more that way lol

I'd love to get my hands on the PSD! Would be sweet to make a nice big painting using that as the background.

[Samurai]

Nah, I'd agree on the landscape thing- it really works in portrait format.

[Tovette]

You know, another angle that could work is if you vertically flipped the image. They would provide some great compisitional options.

[Tovette]

I've deliberated quite a bit on this piece, and after some good amount of thought and looking at the actual PSD, I was boggled by the detail that was lost in the thread post. In my professional opinion, I think this piece is just great. Sure, it has some iffy areas but it's mood is vast. A lack of primary focus in the foreground, while a risky move, was executed successfully. It just really pulls one's imagination in and invites you to play. I know that my creativity was spiked when I saw this piece and I know other's were too.

So welcome to the header, IRML