January Art Challenge - Klaus

[Klaus]

Well I've got no shot in this one, but I still need to get an entry in lol... here's what I have so far, taken from the signature scene of Peter David's New Frontier series.

"May the Great Bird of the Galaxy roost on your planet."

 

[Albertese]

Neat. How'd you do this? Did you actually paint any of this or is it clever use of filters?

--Alex

 

[Klaus]

It's mostly rendered with some PS work to accentuate the explosions and a touch of motion blur... The BG is a real space pic.

 

[Klaus]

Here's the final version, found some better crew pics to use...

...and in more-specific answer to above, I rendered the original big pic, then used some brushing and some filters to make it more comic-y.