Stairway To Heaven

[Eggy]

Actually gedstar nicked my subject using it in the previous challenge, but hey.
You should see this as a tribute to all artists we lost this year.

I started with



some pixelsquid stuff and brushes to get

Version 1



Version 2 (with a twist)

 

[gedstar]

Very nicely done Eggy, I promise not to steal again

 

[Argos]

Nice! but in this case i see a little dicrepance with the shadows maybe? u used the original shadows of the landscape but the shadows in the lamb and the man are the opposite way.

The light on the man it's maybe too hard for me compared with the ground.

cheers!

 

[Eggy]

Yeah, I know, but this was in the pipeline some time before the previous challenge.

Imagine my face when I saw your submission...:banghead:

 

[gedstar]

Yeah, I know, but this was in the pipeline some time before the previous challenge.

Imagine my face when I saw your submission...:banghead:

Well you have only yourself to blame, you did create the challenge after all :biglaff:

 

[Eggy]

Nice! but in this case i see a little dicrepance with the shadows maybe? u used the original shadows of the landscape but the shadows in the lamb and the man are the opposite way.

The light on the man it's maybe too hard for me compared with the ground.

cheers!

Thanks for the comment.
Actually the scene is lit by two lightsources, the moon (top left) and a 15 watt lightbulb (top right).
Guess who's always winning? That is also the reason why the shadows casted by the moonlight are stronger.
That is also the reason why the shadow casted by the bellboy is fading out towards the light from the lightbulb.
I agree the shadow casted by the bench isn't exactly correct, but I could correct that.

 

[Eggy]

Well you have only yourself to blame, you did create the challenge after all :biglaff:

Yes, so I waited a bit to finish this one...

 

[Argos]

You can do more than one shadow with diferent fades and direction for realism in this case i think.

 

[Jerry D]

I like 'em! I especially like the clouds, they look very realistic. It's kind of a gloomy and foreboding theme, though.
Are you sure this is going to heaven and not...... ?

 

[Pipsmom]

Love it, well done

 

[Eggy]

You can do more than one shadow with diferent fades and direction for realism in this case i think.

I agree, it is not exactly how it should be but here's how I see it:



In red is how the shadows should be, but they are casting more to the right
In pink, that shadow has nothing to do with the bench but is coming from a tree left, not in the picture
In blue, the shadow of the branches in the top left corner.

 

[Eggy]

I like 'em! I especially like the clouds, they look very realistic. It's kind of a gloomy and foreboding theme, though.
Are you sure this is going to heaven and not...... ?

:biglaffeath is always dark so...

 

[Eggy]

Pipsmom

Thank you, you should try something like this just to find out how everything interacts.

 

[Argos]

I agree with your analisis, i think the sun is on top left of that picture, so maybe changing the moon reflection and shadowing to almost straight right is better and playing with the multiples shadows that the streetlight create, hope is understandable with my lame english XD.