Background Blitz - Big or Small (Winners Announced)

Dropped Monocle Games · Tue 15/09/2015 08:31:17

Create a background that has the theme 'BIG or SMALL' maybe your character has been shrunken to the size of an ant or maybe been made huge, towering over buildings.
maybe your character is stuck inside a big whale! have fun and get creative with this one!
Voting will start on the 5th October

...what are you waiting for, get arting!!

VOTING TIME!

Grok - The Giants Hut
Mouth for war - Monster Shark
selmiak - Big World Tree

Voting will end on the Sunday 11th

sketchess · Sat 19/09/2015 14:22:14

Lovely.
One wrong move. Wasn't Simon eaten by the frog?

I do remember a long tongue.

Grok · Sun 20/09/2015 17:12:57

The giant's hut

Dropped Monocle Games · Tue 22/09/2015 06:54:25

wow I love it. nice work

selmiak · Tue 29/09/2015 03:21:06

started sketching around...

selmiak · Tue 29/09/2015 04:06:37

I like how that moon came out.

Snarky · Tue 29/09/2015 15:53:00

Yes, it looks nice. When you continue on the planet, you do remember that the Earth and the moon are always lit from the same angle, right?

selmiak · Tue 29/09/2015 15:59:19

I'll try to align it to sun as a lightsource.

btw, is there an easy way to embed your big imgur uploaded images as thumbnails after the imgur userinterface revamp?

Snarky · Tue 29/09/2015 16:36:14

I think imgur is currently broken. The layout is all fucked up, and I don't see any comments at all.

sketchess · Tue 29/09/2015 19:44:53

My first-ever attempt using GIMP. Boy, felt like I started over and over a hundred times. At least I got a template so far.

selmiak · Tue 29/09/2015 23:42:24

screw imgur, fiddeing around with bbcode tags and stuff... click images for full size.

a view into space

blocking in some brown color with basic lighting

getting somewhere?!

sketchess · Wed 30/09/2015 20:14:47

Does it come easy to you, @selmiak? I feel like it will take me forever.

selmiak · Thu 01/10/2015 01:56:20

been playing around with leaves. No idea how to shade them!

what does take you forever sketchess? Drawing?
Well, yes the ratio of time spent on the painting to the time the average person spents looking at it is in no relation, but it's great fun creating stuff...

Snarky · Thu 01/10/2015 08:09:30

Quote from: selmiak on Tue 29/09/2015 15:59:19
I'll try to align it to sun as a lightsource.

The moon is aligned, but the shading of the earth really isn't (it implies a sun in the top-right corner-ish, and since the sun is way off in the distance, far more of the planet should be in shadow, which should also be darker, just like with the moon). Also, if we're at all concerned with astronomical accuracy, the axis of the earth looks tilted way off (though that might have something to do with the huge tree growing out of it), particularly when you remember that the earth, sun and moon are all more or less in the same plane (the ecliptic, which is why you regularly get eclipses like on Monday morning). Basically, if you just rotate the earth so that the shading lines up with the position of the sun, it would be more or less accurate.

sketchess · Thu 01/10/2015 17:40:25

Drawing? I'm not even near to that. I figured out how to handle these sassy brushes a bit. There must be a trick to it, I just can't see it yet. The manuell is not very helpful. Well learning by doing, I'm on some first rough outlines.

Don't wait for me guys, I'm just not ready yet.

selmiak · Thu 01/10/2015 21:19:24

I didn't like the scribbled leaves, so I made a leaf brush. If you ever make a leaf brush DON'T add a stem. It's just annoying, trust me!

some shading with the leaf brush and layers

pulled my best bob ross in space!

Some more lighting in this weird perspective with interesting lightsources...

turning that planet earth placed the treetrunk somewhere in the mediterranean...
I'm wondering in what whacky directions gravity would flow up there...

Mouth for war · Fri 02/10/2015 00:19:21

Here we go then. A monster shark

Mouth for war · Fri 02/10/2015 13:00:10

Btw i really like your idea there selmiak. It looks really cool :-)

selmiak · Sun 04/10/2015 06:01:12

turned on some more lights

More highlights and some more darkness

and some more details

@Mouthforwar:
thanks, I likeyour shark attack too. Especially now that you added some more ... taste (for the shark) to it.

Dropped Monocle Games · Sun 04/10/2015 19:39:31

one day to go, if anyone needs an extension let me know!