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Background Exercise for Cover

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I am currently working on a book cover and thought I'd share the background I painted for the main characters.

In this case I used three brushes I got from friends of mine who both work as matte and conceptual painters. Just to shot down all those people shouting "photos used": Examples of the brushes used are at the bottom. I also cut and pasted a lot which means you will see strange edges if you zoom in.
This was much more an experiment then something I planned out from the start.

The overall scene and light was determined before of course but from there it was pretty much just going and seeing where the brushes take me.

I also used some different layer modes (mostly color dodge) for the first time on this. Normally I pretty much just paint but this was a lot of fun to play around with :)

Eitherway, you'll notice some rougher unfinished parts in the middle lower bottom of the painting. That is where one of the main characters will be thus I didn't really bother with adding too much details there.

Other then that I used the blur tool and painted over the actual brushes a lot to create the depth. It will still be worked on a lot during the process of adding the character(s).
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Wahh, such beautiful colors! The bright lighting adds nicely to the atmosphere. I love all of your other works too, but this just made me go D8 from amusement.