I imagined the light of both the sun and the moon having been captured in a magical orb.
As I look at it now, it also brings to mind the Silmarils from Tolkien's The Silmarillion. And palantirs! ... Oh my word, yes! I think I'll make a few palantirs in the near future ^^
Luz Solun
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Gallery: Motifs
Max. Print Size: 20" x 20"
“Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.”
-- Nikola Tesla
The creation process:
This was the original orb. I didn't use any layers... only two transformation formulae, and one Final. Here are the two:
Separately they are each too simple to use, but combine them and things get interesting:
I'm not sure when exactly, but at some point the thought of moon-light and sun-light came to me, and so I searched for a gradient to try achieve this effect:
And thus, I started tweaking the few paramters of each formula, until things started taking shape... I loved the "feel" of the first image, but there wasn't enough substance, if you know what I mean:
I tweaked parameters and couldn't seem to escape the symmetry (found everywhere with fractals). I try avoid symmetry whenever possible because it is easy to make something look attractive with it, but it's a kind of cheaty technique, especially with digital art, unless you're specifically going for that sort of thing, as is the case when I'm making my mandalas.
If you look carefully, Luz Solun still has a bit of the symmetry, but I think it's nicely disguised.
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A few recent posts of mine:
"Dragonstone" - Gallery: Motifs | "shy smile - Poems, 014" | "Boiled Logic" - Gallery: Fine Art
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