Sin

[Crotale]

Hmm, not really but I hope it got your attention. Then again, the lone little fishy might be committing the ultimate fish sin by swimming to close to Mr. Jellyfish. Don't ask how much time this took, because I started and restarted for days until I got the results I sought.

Feel free to use this wallpaper as your desktop background...or not. It comes in 1920x1080 but I have a larger 2560x1440 available upon request.

Enjoy!

Update 1: Made some slight color alterations.

 

[Paul]

Loving this very nice colours and lighting.

 

[egosbar]

nice work did you paint that from scratch

 

[chrisdesign]

Great looking image! Super!

 

[Tom Mann]

You're in good company. ;-) This is a major piece on display at the Museum of American Art (formerly, the NCFA) in Washington, DC.

T

 

[Crotale]

That's a great shot, Tom.

 

[Trevor Dennis]

I like the jellyfish a lot. Did you build it completely from scratch? If I was being picky, I'd like to have seen the highlight on the top right of the jellyfish softer. It always seems to me that no matter how soft your brush, or feathered your layer, shading always looks better if you finish with some Gaussian blur. You can always duplicate the layer if the shading becomes to transparent, or Free Transform if it spreads too far. How about placing one of the little fishes between some of the tenticals, so it was behind some and in front of others? Overlapping elements in a composite adds depth and helps make it look real. Very nice work though.

 

[egosbar]

the one fish furtherest right is more blurry then the smaller one in the middle and the one on the left , and i agree add a fish between the tentacles and you will definitely get more depth

 

[Crotale]

I like the jellyfish a lot. Did you build it completely from scratch? If I was being picky, I'd like to have seen the highlight on the top right of the jellyfish softer. It always seems to me that no matter how soft your brush, or feathered your layer, shading always looks better if you finish with some Gaussian blur. You can always duplicate the layer if the shading becomes to transparent, or Free Transform if it spreads too far. How about placing one of the little fishes between some of the tenticals, so it was behind some and in front of others? Overlapping elements in a composite adds depth and helps make it look real. Very nice work though.

Thanks for the critique and suggestions. I will give those a shot. I noticed the harshness of the highlight after it was all said and done but felt it looked cool that way. And yes, I made everything myself. I generally try to stick to my own content when possible.

the one fish furtherest right is more blurry then the smaller one in the middle and the one on the left , and i agree add a fish between the tentacles and you will definitely get more depth

Thanks. I will try a re-arrangement of foreground and background elements with the fish. I also think I made them a bit two-dimensional, so there is room for improvement in that regard as well.

All-in-all, this would be a WIP.