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Living with Leviathanby `priteeboy

Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / Space Art

Leviathan, a colossal gas giant planet named after a massive mythical sea-beast due to it's Jupiter-esque size and mostly blue colouring with turbulent storms reminiscent of of waves and whirlpools in a troubled sea; Is seen here with four of its moons which are oh-so conveniently visible within the frame

Of course, such a large planet is bound to have a dozen more moons elsewhere, but they would be out of view, or on the other side of the planet, which is a distance too far to be able to see the little moons, the ones here would all be in front of the main planet. It is well-lit by unusually bright surroundings, a main blue star that they orbit around is the main light source, but a close range nebula and it's many stars still fill in the background with an eerie blue light.

OK, I did this almost as an apology for not making any space-scenery in ages

I've been wrapped in contest entries over the past couple of months and all my art-time was spent on those, none of which have anything to do with space. But now I can go free-range again and just draw what I want

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The Gas-gaint planet (for those who don't know, is the massive one with the striped cloud formations) was a must-have, seeing how so few include them in space-art, it's texture alone took me around 4 hours or so, before finally being applied to a 3D sphere and rendered. It took ages since I didn't want to simply manipulate a picture of Jupiter

and I prefer making Gas giants in 3D rather than Photoshop because you have the option of "tilting" it to get a more natural result and make one of the polar regions visible. Nebula was fractal-based but also had a lot of manual brushing too, that was probably the most time-consuming part. Enjoy!

Artwork made and copyrighted by me, please do not use, edit or redistribute any part of it without permission

love 8 8

joy 3 3

wow 7 7

~~mad 0 0~~

~~sad 0 0~~

~~fear 0 0~~

~~neutral 0 0~~

~Trinitas127 Sep 16, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

whoa that's awesome!!!

*LordCorvell Jun 22, 2012

Gorgeous use of color.

~XSereneiX Jun 8, 2012 Student General Artist

Love your gas giants. I really need to try it cause I heard 3d max is better for gas giants. But does it put more strain on the computer then photoshop? My computer can barely handle Photoshop with 5000 x 5000 resol.

`priteeboy Jun 8, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Any 3D program is good for when you want to have them shown at an angle like this (much more dynamic than just straight-on I think) It shouldn't be too draining on your system unless you're using something 5+ years old

All you need is to make your Gas Giant map (twice as wide as it is high, example = 5000px x 2500px, high resolutions like that are recommended as a lot of sharpness is lost in low-res maps once rendered on a 3D sphere) And just apply it to a sphere and rotate it or the camera/lighting around until the angle and lighting on it is something you're content with. If you're clever in Photoshop there are ways of making your maps "seamless" so you can tile/repeat it if necessary for sharper details (this is often done in games

)

~XSereneiX Jun 9, 2012 Student General Artist

Damn my computer is 7 years old and I haven't bought a single upgrade for it.
Thanks for the response.
Best of Luck

`priteeboy Jun 10, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I only upgraded to a new computer recently (last month in fact) since my previous one was old too (not 7 years but still old enough to become incapable of my present-day standard of work without crashing and freezing up all the time

) So I upgraded that along with my most-used programs...It was a painful expense at best (I swear these companies shouldn't be charging as much as they do

) But now that I'm settled into my new stuff I've realized it was an expense worth it since the crap I had to deal with my old computer and programs was making me pull my hair out

Still, this has been my first update in four years, and after all that money spent and time getting used to new versions of everything, I'm not looking forward to repeating the process again for at least another four years

~esk6a Sep 4, 2011 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Bah...your gas giants are amazing. Im really jealous.

`priteeboy Sep 4, 2011 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I've dedicated a lot of time into getting good gas giants...Understanding the movements of their weather patterns does help

=Zortje Jun 22, 2011 Student Interface Designer

Very interesting and detailed painting, I really like the background

~bryan1231 Apr 21, 2011

holy crap, what a drawing! i've never seen something so amazing, no bull! i feel like making some creatures for the moons (if one of the moons can support life)

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