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Cloud sea development

Posted on September 19, 2011 by NetRaptor

Been tinkering with this, trying to get the atmospheric perspective, and the sense of vast depths and overwhelming light. Also a zeppelin that doesn’t look lumpy. It’s harder than it sounds.

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Cloud sea with color

Posted on September 18, 2011 by NetRaptor

There, now you can kind of see how my sketch back there is supposed to look. “Look at you. Sailing through the air majestically. Like an eagle. Piloting a blimp.” – Portal 2

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Cloud sea

Posted on September 16, 2011 by NetRaptor

A zeppelin sails through a vast sea of clouds all full of color from the setting sun. Because there’s totally a lot of color in this sketch. Yeah!

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Anchored with rocks

Posted on July 18, 2011 by NetRaptor

I’ve thought and thought about this seascape, and how to make it really memorable. Make it tell a story, you know? Anyway, I scrubbed in some rocks with my digital palette knife, and bingo, the picture worked. Before there was … Continue reading →

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Two gradients

Posted on March 10, 2011 by NetRaptor

James Gurney, on his blog, had a post a while back about the sky’s dual gradations. Everybody knows that the sky is dark blue at the top and gets lighter and lighter down toward the horizon. But it had never … Continue reading →

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Step by step: Clouds progression

Posted on January 15, 2011 by NetRaptor

This is a continuation of this post. I promised a demonstration of how I layered together my colors, so here it is, rather sloppy and scribbly, but it should give you an idea of what it looks like. This is … Continue reading →

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Wanderer, step by step

Posted on January 14, 2011 by NetRaptor

I’ve been staring at really great paintings of clouds lately, and decided I was going to learn to do that. But I’ve had no idea how to grasp cloud structure. They must form shapes, but I’ve never been able to … Continue reading →

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