Vanaheim

Posted on August 17, 2022

Continuing my planetscape series here that started with Niflheim and Muspelheim way back when. My traveler also returns to take in the scene.

I hope you enjoy it!

The Towering Sky (Twilight)

Posted on August 14, 2022

By request I’ve added a “twilight” version of “The Towering Sky”. This will be my last render in the series and I hope you have enjoyed them all. Feel free to let me know which is your favorite in the comments 🙂

The Towering Sky (Night)

Posted on August 12, 2022

Happy Friday!

In case you felt “The Towering Sky” was too bright for your desktop, here’s a nighttime version. I experimented with changing the cloud configuration but in the end preferred my original setup.

I hope you enjoy it and have a great weekend!!

The Towering Sky

Posted on August 9, 2022

Growing up in a very flat part of the world (central Illinois) clouds were often the most interesting part of the landscape.   It was easy to imagine that distant storm clouds were mountains, giants, or some other fantasy.  With this piece I’ve tried to impart a bit of that wonder by making the sky the main focus and by making the clouds a bit stranger than what might be natural or expected. 

The foreground trees in the multiscreen version were a late addition.   I hope no one minds that they are  absent from the single-screen frame but I really wanted the sky to be the focus here.

Shady Creek (Night)

Posted on July 31, 2022

I decided to attempt a night version of “Shady Creek” knowing full well that it would be difficult to add a lot of light to the scene. I’m sure it looks incredibly dark on social media and on phones but it looked nice on my work monitor (located in my windowless basement office). It’s always a balancing act with these night renders.

Let me know what you think but only after actually setting it on your desktop 😄