Bad Landing
...on Mars. Good thing the nearby colony had a tank to give the ship a tow.
Steampunk universe, e.g. Space 1889.
The image is actually a photo that I worked in Photoshop. The spaceship is a vintage pressed-steel toy with wooden wheels. The tank is a toy from the 1930s. They're set on a crumpled shirt that had its folds merged into red rock outcroppings in sand dunes. My bedroom window was in the background - you can actually make out one of the curtains on the left side (converted into a part of the terrain). I applied a gradient map, which gives the image the general appearance you see. The bright yellow is how the sun's highlights on the scene turned out.
Btw, it's just a quirk of the shirt's folds and the gradient map that produced the seeming half-buried statue head under the rear of the tank's treads. I copied that section to fill some of the terrain on the right without noticing the face. Only later did I recognize it - and that in copying it, an even better one was produced!
Take a look at the image in the large or the gigantic original size view.
Bad Landing
...on Mars. Good thing the nearby colony had a tank to give the ship a tow.
Steampunk universe, e.g. Space 1889.
The image is actually a photo that I worked in Photoshop. The spaceship is a vintage pressed-steel toy with wooden wheels. The tank is a toy from the 1930s. They're set on a crumpled shirt that had its folds merged into red rock outcroppings in sand dunes. My bedroom window was in the background - you can actually make out one of the curtains on the left side (converted into a part of the terrain). I applied a gradient map, which gives the image the general appearance you see. The bright yellow is how the sun's highlights on the scene turned out.
Btw, it's just a quirk of the shirt's folds and the gradient map that produced the seeming half-buried statue head under the rear of the tank's treads. I copied that section to fill some of the terrain on the right without noticing the face. Only later did I recognize it - and that in copying it, an even better one was produced!
Take a look at the image in the large or the gigantic original size view.