RahXephon Wallpaper: Windy Sunrise

Artist Comment

Phew! Finished it!

This is for 's "Let there be light" contest. I didn't think I'd enter so soon, but I was very
much inspired ^__^

After reading the criteria, I got many many ideas, but chose this one to work with. I was thinking along the lines of
someone watching a sunrise, and of course this famous pose from Rahxephon came to mind. The whole thing is painted from
scratch, including the scan. The file size is 30mb, the biggest I've ever worked with (I usually work with vectors, so
the files sizes are usually under 5mb)

Anyway technical details:

Layers: 25 (about 5 or so for the actual painting, the rest are adjustments/touch-ups etc)

like my previous Honey and Clover wallpaper ,
I vectored the base colours, then used the Darken/Lighten brush for shading/highlighting.

For the background, I rendered a sunrise scene in Terragen, for colour reference.
Then painted the water based on the colours with a normal default brush. Same with the sky and clouds. I played around
with the blend modes for the clouds a bit to make it less..visible 'cause my clouds suck >.<

This was actually a lot easier than I thought it would be, esp painting the water and sky. It just takes some patience
and time. And I love how the water and sky turned out :)

[Edit]: Repainted the rock according to 's advice, also added more colour and light
onto the water, a bit touch-up on the sky. Totally repainted the scan. Instead of using Lighten/Darken, I used the
paintbrush this time, the same technique as the background so that the style is more similar. Also changed the outlines
totally, instead of being lazy by using fill-path, I did a more dynamic outline, and coloured it accordingly. Hopefully
it looks better, 'cause I'm sick of working on it ^_^'

Comments

nice, if you do the tutorial, I will like to see the sky, is the most attracting point here.
the painting is cool...but you know what....I have this problem with the outline of the scan, is not good at all in this
image...but the atmosphere is amazingly calm and relaxing, a well performed entry for the contest.

the scenery looks lovely and i like the nice colours you chose :) the painting looks nice and i like the way everything
turned out :D the title suits well and i like the theme of your wall XD nice wall ^^

Darn! I wish I could've seen the wallpaper earlier. >_< Anyways this is very lovely. The idea and the concept here
is really great. You got the shading correct and how you painted the waves rally captures the moment in here. I agree
that the rock does look better with being less birght. :D

Good luck in the contest! ;) Definiately this deserves to be in the elite gallery. I'm happy you're now an elite member
now. :) I'm not sure how you become an elite, but I think it's when your wallpaper or indyart have been an elite 3
times. :o