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Description
Rushing through a freeway in a hovering bike, heading to the spaceport.

The technical details:
This is probably my biggest digital painting ever, in every sense of the word. It started more than a year ago, and I have been working on it in small blocks of my spare time. So I don't know how much time I have invested on it, but it should have been a lot.
Completely drawn in Adobe Photoshop CS, using a Wacom tablet (except the planet base texture). Its size is 6000x4000 pixels. As I usually work at a zoom amount of 100% or 200% (even with pixel level details!), this image was extremely time consuming. If the composition is good, an if it looks good at such a close distance, the image would look fine also at smaller sizes.
I kept the number of layers low (around 20) and split the image in two different parts (the sky and the rest of the image) to prevent Photoshop from becoming too unresponsive when handling such a big image.

The motivation:
I wanted to paint a sci-fi scene, a cityscape, a starfield, a planet, an interesting character, some mountains and some futuristic vehicles. Then I decided to combine everything in the same image. Maybe it could be a little bit overdetailed, but I like looking at every section of the image and finding new tiny details. It started as a personal project, and I'm going to make a big poster out of this one.

The creation process details:
I thought of some kind of shark when designing the bike. That way I created such wings, fins and vents.
The character is just a daring and bold pilot, with a futuristic uniform which fits the bike well.
The other vehicle is my concept of sci-fi heavy transport or truck, with heavy machinery and bulky structure.
Both planets use, in fact, the same base texture, rendered in Bryce, and heavily tweaked, painted and post-processed in Photoshop.
The cityscape is based on skyscrapers, with lots (lots!!) of shining windows.
The mountains were 100% hand painted, and are mainly based on a single layer in which I painted the shadows of each peak. So the rocky texture was achieved 100% by hand. They are probably the most time consuming part of the image.

Hope you like it. Comments are much appreciated.

If you want to see some closeups, click here .

Description
Rushing through a freeway in a hovering bike, heading to the spaceport.

The technical details:
This is probably my biggest digital painting ever, in every sense of the word. It started more than a year ago, and I have been working on it in small blocks of my spare time. So I don't know how much time I have invested on it, but it should have been a lot.
Completely drawn in Adobe Photoshop CS, using a Wacom tablet (except the planet base texture). Its size is 6000x4000 pixels. As I usually work at a zoom amount of 100% or 200% (even with pixel level details!), this image was extremely time consuming. If the composition is good, an if it looks good at such a close distance, the image would look fine also at smaller sizes.
I kept the number of layers low (around 20) and split the image in two different parts (the sky and the rest of the image) to prevent Photoshop from becoming too unresponsive when handling such a big image.

The motivation:
I wanted to paint a sci-fi scene, a cityscape, a starfield, a planet, an interesting character, some mountains and some futuristic vehicles. Then I decided to combine everything in the same image. Maybe it could be a little bit overdetailed, but I like looking at every section of the image and finding new tiny details. It started as a personal project, and I'm going to make a big poster out of this one.

The creation process details:
I thought of some kind of shark when designing the bike. That way I created such wings, fins and vents.
The character is just a daring and bold pilot, with a futuristic uniform which fits the bike well.
The other vehicle is my concept of sci-fi heavy transport or truck, with heavy machinery and bulky structure.
Both planets use, in fact, the same base texture, rendered in Bryce, and heavily tweaked, painted and post-processed in Photoshop.
The cityscape is based on skyscrapers, with lots (lots!!) of shining windows.
The mountains were 100% hand painted, and are mainly based on a single layer in which I painted the shadows of each peak. So the rocky texture was achieved 100% by hand. They are probably the most time consuming part of the image.

Hope you like it. Comments are much appreciated.

If you want to see some closeups, click here .