Time to leave

Stage backround

This picture was made for the hungraian rock band ElfSong. The graphic will be printed in 7×2m size for stage background.

Time to leave

I draw first a pencil sketch, then I used a Wacom Cintiq 24HD with Wacom Airbrush Pen to render the full image. The original size is 14 000 × 4 000 pixels.

Details & Step by Step

detail · middle

detail · left side

detail · right side

Step by step

After the pencil sketch I painted a color sketch to feel the overall mood of the image.

After creating the color sketch I calculated the size for the full image to to fit to the planned stage backround. On the final size I started to render the details of the image.

I prefer to use only the necessary layers, here I used the layers above:

• overpaint - a correction layer to polish the image
• fairy and elven girl
• goblins
• deer and stag
• foreground - trees and grass
• boar
• airship and crew
• background - the clearing and the far trees
• sky

Sometimes I added some other layers temporary for reference (deer, stag, boar)

the sky and the background

creating the background trees

I created some brushes and textures to create authentic tree bark and foliage.

To paint the creatures I started to sketch them directly in the image. On the dark background I used a bluish medium grey color to define the figures, after then I added the lights and colors. The Wacom Airbrush Pen proved to be a very useful item.