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Just trying out the whole sci-fi thing. And lens flares. So many. The concept here is goes like this: There is a "colony" of people living in an indoor city. The big housing structure itself could have multiple "hangars" like this holding large populations. Also, the whole contraption is hovering. Yeah, that's right. Hovering megacities are my jam. Buildings hang from the ceiling to conserve space and also because it's super-awesome. I assume that transportation would be by automated shuttles -- too many ships would be flying around to let someone pilot their own ship inside. Dangerous. There would be a "dock" outside for ships. How is the atmosphere controlled? I don't know. Probably, each building has its climate, and the outdoors is low-pressure.
I didn't paint any spaceships, so you can imagine them.

I WANT TO DO A TUTORIAL ON THIS. A couple years ago, I tried painting a futuristic city and it sucked. Now I understand how it's done. More or less. Anyway, I know that I could have really benefitted from a tutorial about this. Interested?

The city itself is hand-painted. The lights either come from nighttime city photos (Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles) or some satellite shots. Some of the lights are hand-painted or manually dodged into existence.

Time: I think around 15 hours. Maybe as many as 20. Longer fiddling than actually working.
PSCS4
Intuos 4
Strictly ©. If you want to use it for anything, note me first, please. Don't make me watermark this hardcore.

Description
Just trying out the whole sci-fi thing. And lens flares. So many. The concept here is goes like this: There is a "colony" of people living in an indoor city. The big housing structure itself could have multiple "hangars" like this holding large populations. Also, the whole contraption is hovering. Yeah, that's right. Hovering megacities are my jam. Buildings hang from the ceiling to conserve space and also because it's super-awesome. I assume that transportation would be by automated shuttles -- too many ships would be flying around to let someone pilot their own ship inside. Dangerous. There would be a "dock" outside for ships. How is the atmosphere controlled? I don't know. Probably, each building has its climate, and the outdoors is low-pressure.
I didn't paint any spaceships, so you can imagine them.

I WANT TO DO A TUTORIAL ON THIS. A couple years ago, I tried painting a futuristic city and it sucked. Now I understand how it's done. More or less. Anyway, I know that I could have really benefitted from a tutorial about this. Interested?

The city itself is hand-painted. The lights either come from nighttime city photos (Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles) or some satellite shots. Some of the lights are hand-painted or manually dodged into existence.

Time: I think around 15 hours. Maybe as many as 20. Longer fiddling than actually working.
PSCS4
Intuos 4
Strictly ©. If you want to use it for anything, note me first, please. Don't make me watermark this hardcore.