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Description
Inspired from:

Atalaya by City of the Fallen ( [link] )

and

Judgement Day by Immediate Music ( [link] )

Enjoy the music!

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Oh, my gosh! I finally got this done!

At first, this picture was just a little sketch of the solar system that I have dreamt about. I was thinking it would be a simple layout of all six planets and the blue dwarf star. Well, I was quite wrong. It turns out that my creative side got the best of me... and it FORCED me to make it look as if it were a real space scape. But yeah.... Here is the final product.

Let me start off to say that (except for the nebula and the ice planet textures), I HAND PAINTED every single star in the star field, asteroid, and star effects. Yes... I did say the star field... I absolutely dislike seeing an 'easy way out' by using noise to fill in for stars and lens flares. In my opinion, they are ugly looking and it causes the picture to look very bland and repetitive. So, I took my sweet time to lay out every dot in not only size, but of brightness. It took me a very long time until I was quite satisfied.

The rings. Oh, my gosh, you have no idea how frustrating those freaking rocks were. Now, I could have been a lazy-ass and use "Filter -> clouds-> Twirl" and go on from there. No, no! I decide that I should hand paint every one. (at least for this one the others I may not). Why did I hand paint every one? The reason being is that the rings surrounding the ice planet is not as fine as Saturn-type rings. They are much larger and in less quantity. As some of you may notice, the rocks are layed out in such a way that they form their little own ring segment. That is purely intentional and not clustered. I think it looks much more nicer that way. I also added the ring shadow on the ice planet. (I wanted to make it realistic).

Also, the nebula in the background is a reflection nebula. It's not supposed to be uber bright (only reason it's visible is because of the light hitting the debris particles).

Last thing. If you're wondering what that green dot is, it's actually a gas giant. So, Don't think it's a star, now

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Now, aside from my huge frustration of getting the effects and the drawing down, I want to give a better description of why I wanted to draw this.

This scene came from the many dreams I've had. There is a solar system with a blue dwarf that has 5 terrestrial planets (three dwarfs closely orbiting the star) and one gas giant. The farther away terrestrial planet (brown) is hot and contains canyons and deserts. The beings that life there are some type of bug-like humanoids. The ice planet (the one closest to the viewer) is very cold. It's covered in snow and Ice. There are deep chasms that lead to large cave networks that are absolutely huge in size. Within the caves, there are plant life that are in similar shapes to vines, fungi, and some kinds of shrubbery. The plants within the caves glow (some brighter than others. The caves are home to a race of lizard-like, technologically advanced, bipedal creatures.

The reason why I wanted to draw the picture is that I can give people a better understanding of what I see in my dreams and that they're very important to me. I'm hoping that the dreams that I've had could be incorporated into a graphic novel (I'm actually working on it! It's a slow, tedious process D: )

Anyway, I think I over killed with the description, but oh, well. Reading is fun, ya know .

Enjoy! ^^

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Credits:

Planet Texture came from CGTextures

Nebula texture came from [link] (both textures)

Artwork belongs to ~Mist-Howler

Description
Inspired from:

Atalaya by City of the Fallen ( [link] )

and

Judgement Day by Immediate Music ( [link] )

Enjoy the music!

------------------

Oh, my gosh! I finally got this done!

At first, this picture was just a little sketch of the solar system that I have dreamt about. I was thinking it would be a simple layout of all six planets and the blue dwarf star. Well, I was quite wrong. It turns out that my creative side got the best of me... and it FORCED me to make it look as if it were a real space scape. But yeah.... Here is the final product.

Let me start off to say that (except for the nebula and the ice planet textures), I HAND PAINTED every single star in the star field, asteroid, and star effects. Yes... I did say the star field... I absolutely dislike seeing an 'easy way out' by using noise to fill in for stars and lens flares. In my opinion, they are ugly looking and it causes the picture to look very bland and repetitive. So, I took my sweet time to lay out every dot in not only size, but of brightness. It took me a very long time until I was quite satisfied.

The rings. Oh, my gosh, you have no idea how frustrating those freaking rocks were. Now, I could have been a lazy-ass and use "Filter -> clouds-> Twirl" and go on from there. No, no! I decide that I should hand paint every one. (at least for this one the others I may not). Why did I hand paint every one? The reason being is that the rings surrounding the ice planet is not as fine as Saturn-type rings. They are much larger and in less quantity. As some of you may notice, the rocks are layed out in such a way that they form their little own ring segment. That is purely intentional and not clustered. I think it looks much more nicer that way. I also added the ring shadow on the ice planet. (I wanted to make it realistic).

Also, the nebula in the background is a reflection nebula. It's not supposed to be uber bright (only reason it's visible is because of the light hitting the debris particles).

Last thing. If you're wondering what that green dot is, it's actually a gas giant. So, Don't think it's a star, now

**

Now, aside from my huge frustration of getting the effects and the drawing down, I want to give a better description of why I wanted to draw this.

This scene came from the many dreams I've had. There is a solar system with a blue dwarf that has 5 terrestrial planets (three dwarfs closely orbiting the star) and one gas giant. The farther away terrestrial planet (brown) is hot and contains canyons and deserts. The beings that life there are some type of bug-like humanoids. The ice planet (the one closest to the viewer) is very cold. It's covered in snow and Ice. There are deep chasms that lead to large cave networks that are absolutely huge in size. Within the caves, there are plant life that are in similar shapes to vines, fungi, and some kinds of shrubbery. The plants within the caves glow (some brighter than others. The caves are home to a race of lizard-like, technologically advanced, bipedal creatures.

The reason why I wanted to draw the picture is that I can give people a better understanding of what I see in my dreams and that they're very important to me. I'm hoping that the dreams that I've had could be incorporated into a graphic novel (I'm actually working on it! It's a slow, tedious process D: )

Anyway, I think I over killed with the description, but oh, well. Reading is fun, ya know .

Enjoy! ^^

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Credits:

Planet Texture came from CGTextures

Nebula texture came from [link] (both textures)

Artwork belongs to ~Mist-Howler