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Description
Program used: GIMP 2.8
Estimated time: 2~ hours
Tutorial(s) used: +Starry Sky Tutorial+ by Enijoi
Music used whilst drawing this: Pristine Beat – Touhou 14, Double Dealing Character OST

I've been wanting to try this out after having studied this tutorial I'd found in the Daily Deviations section of my Inbox. I mean, really, who wouldn't love to look up into a brilliant(ish) night sky that is filled with stars of the galaxies and beyond? And thus my reason for doing this piece as a form of practice lest I were to do pictures in the future with scenic(?) backgrounds like this one.

This was a rather huge challenge for me, I'll say~ Initially, rather than to follow the "three base colour" rule in the tutorial, I went with FOUR base colours instead. I then smudged the parts where the base colours met to make it appear as if they are one rather than four separate zones.

The next step involved a new layer set on Screen to do the nebula that makes up a majority of this picture. I kept jumping from a variety of shades of pastel blue and pastel pink, because apparently, I find these two colours to work best with multiple layers of the same deal. So I've used around... approximately 3-6 layers for the nebula, with plenty of smudging and switching of colours and using the Airbrush tool to add some brightness to certain parts of this nebula.

The stars, however, was the most relaxing part of this picture. Using only two size of the Brush tool, I began with the top left corner there and made several "stars". Once that's done, I began to abuse the "Duplicate Layer" Function and "Moved", "Stretched", "Rotated", and "Scaled" the original layer continuously until I'm satisfied with the amount of stars in the background. Those huge, obvious "stars" that you can see in certain parts of this picture are added at last minute, to ensure that they resemble the huge stars that one might see in the night, light pollution-free sky.

I had a bit of trouble with the Comet there, considering how I had to figure out how to work with the "Fade" Brush function. Once that is sorted out, I used the Airbrush tool of the same colour and held the button and mouse on the spot to create that beautiful, little "Comet". I will have to figure out a different way to do this, but for the mean time, this shall do.

The little landscape at the bottom was originally going to be a rocky-ish mountain range, with a bit of lighting from the nebula above here and there to show the mountain's texture and stuff like that. I discovered how to "Group" layers while I was messing around with the Layer Options, and then I got around using the Airbrush tool again and began to "sculpt" the landscape. But as I sought to find a way to rid of this annoying blackness by "Airbrushing" over the colour black, I accidentally set that layer to Multiple, and BAM!! I get this really neat icy colour that fits the environment as well. I liked it quite a lot, so I stuck with it and touched up on the mountains on the far right side, for they were missing a bit of it as a consequence of "Moving" the layer itself.

..... If anyone actually read the process of which I'd done this picture, you, my good sir/madam, deserve a , a muffin, and a Jaffa cake.
And thus, I end with this picture as my result, and I am very proud of it. Not only was I able to paint a picture like this, I'd also learnt a couple of things about GIMP that will help me greatly in my pictures to come! So... what do you guys think?~ Any tips, suggestions, or critiques that can help me do better in the future?

Picture above is done by Axe-Cell .
Stealing is ill-advised if you wish to avoid trouble.

Description
Program used: GIMP 2.8
Estimated time: 2~ hours
Tutorial(s) used: +Starry Sky Tutorial+ by Enijoi
Music used whilst drawing this: Pristine Beat – Touhou 14, Double Dealing Character OST

I've been wanting to try this out after having studied this tutorial I'd found in the Daily Deviations section of my Inbox. I mean, really, who wouldn't love to look up into a brilliant(ish) night sky that is filled with stars of the galaxies and beyond? And thus my reason for doing this piece as a form of practice lest I were to do pictures in the future with scenic(?) backgrounds like this one.

This was a rather huge challenge for me, I'll say~ Initially, rather than to follow the "three base colour" rule in the tutorial, I went with FOUR base colours instead. I then smudged the parts where the base colours met to make it appear as if they are one rather than four separate zones.

The next step involved a new layer set on Screen to do the nebula that makes up a majority of this picture. I kept jumping from a variety of shades of pastel blue and pastel pink, because apparently, I find these two colours to work best with multiple layers of the same deal. So I've used around... approximately 3-6 layers for the nebula, with plenty of smudging and switching of colours and using the Airbrush tool to add some brightness to certain parts of this nebula.

The stars, however, was the most relaxing part of this picture. Using only two size of the Brush tool, I began with the top left corner there and made several "stars". Once that's done, I began to abuse the "Duplicate Layer" Function and "Moved", "Stretched", "Rotated", and "Scaled" the original layer continuously until I'm satisfied with the amount of stars in the background. Those huge, obvious "stars" that you can see in certain parts of this picture are added at last minute, to ensure that they resemble the huge stars that one might see in the night, light pollution-free sky.

I had a bit of trouble with the Comet there, considering how I had to figure out how to work with the "Fade" Brush function. Once that is sorted out, I used the Airbrush tool of the same colour and held the button and mouse on the spot to create that beautiful, little "Comet". I will have to figure out a different way to do this, but for the mean time, this shall do.

The little landscape at the bottom was originally going to be a rocky-ish mountain range, with a bit of lighting from the nebula above here and there to show the mountain's texture and stuff like that. I discovered how to "Group" layers while I was messing around with the Layer Options, and then I got around using the Airbrush tool again and began to "sculpt" the landscape. But as I sought to find a way to rid of this annoying blackness by "Airbrushing" over the colour black, I accidentally set that layer to Multiple, and BAM!! I get this really neat icy colour that fits the environment as well. I liked it quite a lot, so I stuck with it and touched up on the mountains on the far right side, for they were missing a bit of it as a consequence of "Moving" the layer itself.

..... If anyone actually read the process of which I'd done this picture, you, my good sir/madam, deserve a , a muffin, and a Jaffa cake.
And thus, I end with this picture as my result, and I am very proud of it. Not only was I able to paint a picture like this, I'd also learnt a couple of things about GIMP that will help me greatly in my pictures to come! So... what do you guys think?~ Any tips, suggestions, or critiques that can help me do better in the future?

Picture above is done by Axe-Cell .
Stealing is ill-advised if you wish to avoid trouble.