I'll maybe need to redo the man. Not sure that his attitude looks natural.
As you can see I'm working on light. Light is very important in this picture.

set light and enlarging canvas...

What I am noticing is the sand dunes obviously have shape but the character and the footprints defy those shapes immediately and it ruins the whole look of all the dunes making it appear flat. Also the need to come up and touch the sky a bit. The city looks epic btw I really like the themes you are doing with this series.

Wow, this is really nice. Great to see so many progress images and see how you tackle a project like this.

I guess I'm done with shading on upper space and towers... :)

That expanding has a nice visual effect!

I like the size, it had now. Maybe it is just me.

Hey, thank you peoples :)
I believe it will not be necessary to expand it again.
16:9 is wide but not nice as golden number scale ;)
If you look at the picture you will notire a first golden rectangle, a square and a second golden rectangle as the canvas.

Here some progress of the right clouds... :)

It's fun how the symbolism in the picture match my current life since some weeks...

Excuse me if I am mistaken but the meaning of this is that the character is leaving behind work and dreaming? IE papers flying away represents him leaving behind everything for some kind of dream that is out of his reach but he strives for it anyways? That makes this waaaaay cooler. Awesome work btw, his jacket could use some reworking eventually. He even wears the outfit of a business man so it makes sense that his stress and work would have to do with papers.

I was thinking about this but instead of the walking man it had a guy with a wide stance gazing up at the city. Interested in how that would work, It might ruin some symbolism.

Is this the finale to your lucid dreams work? I adore how you can see plain obvious improvements as an artist in the series.

Edited by Limes - 14 September 2014 at 5:12pm

Another progression on clouds...




Edited by d9nis - 17 September 2014 at 1:49pm

Thank you very much!

As suggested in the thread title, this is the fifth piece of an ongoing series of twelve pictures. The first fourth are available in my galery :)

Also you may be interested in artist like François Schuiten who greatly inspired me during my childhood, and even these day actually.

And yeah, indeed, keep it up man! ;)

I've alsmost done the right side of the clouds!! :D
I'm exited on how comes the pictures :)
Let me know if you've noticed a glitch or a something to redo.

Hi, new progresses on this:








Edited by d9nis - 07 February 2015 at 9:38am

Hi, Thank you :)
New progresses: clouds and city are done!

Monstrous work on the sand.
But why did you remove paper?
It looked well and now picture is a bit empty without it.

Edited by Finlal - 14 February 2015 at 10:34am

Hmmm the dunes still don't have as much an impact as I feel they should have… They still look rather flat. All you need to do is bring them up in the BG and they should look nicer.