A little something I put together a couple of days ago. Recently finished the new Iian M Banks novel 'Hydrogen Sonata', which I really enjoyed. I love the way he deals with the subjects of enlightenment, absolution and transcendence. I've been reading his books for a good few years and have always liked his concept of subliming, when a civilization or society becomes so advanced they decide that the matter based universe has nothing left to offer them and exit reality to go exist in a parallel dimension that kind of equates to a state of nirvana or heaven.
So the word sublime had been rattling around in my head for a few days and out of the regular jumble of thoughts that is my mind this idea for and image pops up. To be honest it bears only a slight relevance to the above but I'm pretty sure that's what started the thought process that produced it.
The piece was done in watercolors then scanned into Photoshop and edited. Watercolors are definitely not my favorite medium, I was originally going to do it as a black and white ink drawing but changed my mind at the last minute to a colour image.
I still have the sketch scanned so I may well do an ink version just to see what it would look like, maybe add some block colour in Photoshop afterwards...could look quite nice... *starts rummaging around for his fine liners*
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