Tag Archives: sky

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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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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Blue sky

Posted on May 30, 2011 by NetRaptor

Skies are relaxing to paint. I just sat down and started pushing colors around to get a nice, summer-looking sky. But it’s awfully empty. It needs some clouds and birds, or dragons, or pterodactyls, or something. Not sure what yet.

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Cheaty horses finished

Posted on May 5, 2011 by NetRaptor

I finished it! Woohoo! I’ve been working on it in tiny intervals for days and days.

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Beach dusk, shading

Posted on April 15, 2011 by NetRaptor

I got a few minutes over the last couple of days to tinker with this pic. I messed with the basic shading in the background, and blocked in the foreground shapes in black. Over on James Gurney’s blog, he had … 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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