Staring Upwards into the Obsidian Sky

Somewhere out there in the vast nothingness of space...
Somewhere far away in space and time..
Staring upwards at the gleaming stars in the obsidian sky

We're marooned on a small island,
In an endless sea,
Confined to a tiny spit of sand,
Unable to escape

But tonight, on this small planet
On earth, we're going to rock civilisation (repeat)

Is this bass really strong enough ?

We're marooned on a small island,
In an endless sea,
Confined to a tiny spit of sand,
Unable to escape

But tonight.... its heavy stuff!


Slam by Pendulum is amazing, and I think this picture came out incredibly too. I've been yelling at myself for not doing anything all day, and here's something.

And I feel obligated to explain how I did it, because of how happy I am with how it all came out. I wish I had shot a video of me doing it. One which probably would have annoyed me as I did the entire video with it's slight lag, and which would have to be chopped up a lot because of how often I tab off to firefox and other shit.

First I started by drawing a line to represent the horizon and an outline of the little island with the palm tree. I made a large square of navy blue for the sky, and used the brush to make a ton of small white dots all over it, about 3 pixels large at 0% hardness. Then I went over the dots with various large sizes, and much lower opacity dots to make them glow. I then made another layer and generally did the same shit. Then I edited a brush with this spray pattern, sort of like the spray in MS paint, so that it would scatter a lot, and would change opacity based upon pen pressure. I used this is various shades of blue, purple, red, green, and orange to make the nebulas. I then went to the star layer and added some fancy brush effects with various brushes I have to give it texture and variance. I then made an adjustment layer above the entire thing that darkened the thing, and used a gradient to make it fade away at the edges. I duplicated the layer, flipped it, fucked with contrast and brightness, then color balance, and then used another adjustment layer or two to get the reflection of the sky. I used the wave filter, to make it wavey, as you'd probably expect. From there I took the sketch of the island, copied it into flash, traced it, and brought it back into photoshop, and fixed the palm leaves, by erasing and redrawing it until I got a good texture, and erasing off the edges of the leaves so they appeared thin and trim. For the guy standing on the island, I grabbed a recently posted pose on posemaniacs.com (awesome site, definitely recommend it), rotated it to the right position, too a screencap, made it into a sillohette, and drew a new one next to it, with the hand moved a bit further down on the head. I think I managed to get it looking almost as good as the original. Stuck that in the middle of the island, saved, submitted, and bullshitted about the sequence I did all these events in, continually changing the picture as I wrote this when I realized I made a mistake.

LIKE FUCK ANYONE CARES ABOUT THAT SHIT.