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NIGHTSHADE VALEby `tigaer

Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / Landscapes & Scenery

tigaer-design.com proudly presents: NIGHTSHADE VALE

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This one was actually intended to be a fantasy novel book cover. So i was going for a portrait setup... instead of a cinemascope one. Though i prefer the cinemascope crop. Whatever. There's actually no big story behind that pic. I started to work with some of my new mountain stocks which i got from a trip into the alps recently. Stitched together some photo elements and extended them with paintings. With lots of scifi stuff from me in the past... this pic should be a nice addition to my gallery. Since it's more fantasy based.

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I guess you could call this thing a digital matte painting. I wouldn't do so. It's a strange mixture of pure painting and pure matte painting. Well i, at least, can tell that i worked a lot with matte painting techniques. The top of the mountain is a complete extension. The path in front is 80% painted. I did not work too much into detail on that path in front since too much detail would have stolen the show the background actually gives you. Again i tried lot of new things and i think i got a acceptable result.

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30hrs - intuos3 - photoshop - 5500px high - 300dpi - project folder: 1.8gb - psd: 460mb

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~Trisaw1 Aug 11, 2012

Gorgeous! Great image of heaven and earth. I really like the details of the city...nice eyecandy here. The level of detail's amazing! The use of tones, colors, shades, and perspectives is really eyecatching.

~S0derlund Feb 16, 2012

Soo beautiful! I wonder if I can use some of your pictures on a site called Mydreamstable.com? (You create a dream stable with animals and so on) So do i have your permission to use some of your pictures to design my stable? It would be really nice of you! Ofcourse I write your name on the picture!