FLOATING CITY
PROJECT DETAILS
TITLE: FLOATING CITY
DATE: 11 APRIL, 2016
CATEGORY: DIGITAL ART
ONLINE: ANOVIUS.DEVIANTART.COM
CREDITS:
Stone Castle:
MANGO-stock: Boldt Castle Power House
Floating city, castle towers, and castle windows:
EveLivesey: Brighton Pavilion & Brighton Pavilion Mirror
Fountain Base:
Hrivalasse-stock: Brighton 3
Fountain drain:
XerStock: Crazy Waterfall Stock
Water fountain:
Jinz-stock: Fountain
Water spouts below fountain:
Celem: Desert Waterfall
Bridge railing:
TinaLouiseUK: Balcony
Stone ground and bridge surface:
WebTreatsETC: Stone Pavement Marble Textures
Flowers in front of castle:
HermitCrabStock: Flowered garden png 02 & Flowered garden png 03
Grass lawn:
Rai-Stock: Grass Stock
Arches with portal:
EveLivesey: Roman Arches
Portal entrance swirl:
Fune-Stock: Apophysis Nebula5
Portal sparkles:
Moosplauze: Snow Texture V
Trees:
gd08: Tree 16 png , Tree 54 png , and Tree 56 png
Large tree:
margarita-morrigan: Tree
Flowers around large tree:
margarita-morrigan: Lilac flowers in a pot and White flowers in a pot
Tree sparkles:
emilyemilybeth: Snow Texture
Floating islands:
SalsolaStock: Mountain Goat Cliff
prints-of-stock: Ocean Stock 7 and Rocks 1
Lake and mountains:
Burtn: Mountainscape with Lake
Cloudy sky around sun:
bean-stock: Blue Sky 2
Starry sky:
resurgere: Package Cosmos 5
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
As many digital art designs I have done, almost none of them are the correct dimesions for a computer wallpaper. That surprised me when I decided I wanted to change the wallpaper on my computer. I never really choose the dimesions of the design beforehand; I just start with an image and build around it no matter what odd size it comes out.
That is when I decided I wanted to create a wallpaper. I have the capabilities. I should be able to come up with something pretty awesome, right? Well... I don't know about that. Normally I have a pretty solid idea in mind before I begin a design. For this one, all I knew was that it needed to fit in the dimesions of my monitor. Not a lot to go on.
I wanted something magical and without any people. I recall seeing some really cool traditional artwork of floating cities, so I decided to attempt that with a photo manipulation. The image above is the result. In all honesty, I didn't know what it was going to look like until it was nearly complete.
I used the roof of a pavilion as the base of the city, and built up from there. My idea was that it is a city of fairies or elves floating above a hidden valley (Hidden Valley was originally going to be the name for this project until I remembered the salad dressing). I created a portal that they could travel through to the human world. The Tree of Life and Fountain of Youth hover next to the city. I enhanced the sunset and added sunbeams and encroaching stars to add to the fantasy element. The fountain was actually the most difficult thing to create. I had to add a lot of elements for it to appear realistic.
Anyway, this is what I created. I hope you like it! There are behind the scenes images below documenting the process I took to arrive at the finished design, if you are interested. Cheers!
BEHIND THE SCENES
