HD Wallpaper: Medusa’s Escape

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“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. ”

“Medusa Escape is a fantasy landscape photo-manipulation which was created mainly with Photoshop CS4, an Intuos4 tablet, and many stock images. I wanted to create a scenario with a nice atmosphere and a surreal touch. Since people can find nice sci-fi landscapes everywhere I didn’t want to go down that road which has been taken by many other artists.
Because of that I chose to include the flying medusa, and not a trendy airship, which is overused in all the science fiction works. I started the piece by making a sketch of the background, later I applied a few decent stock images to create mountains and sky. I also used a texture and painted the near rock structure, it needed a lot of work. Later, I had to add additional textures to make it look more realistic. The most problematic part was to cut out medusa. I had to work on the alpha channels for a long time before I found a good way to cut them out.
I was really inspired by surreal artists such as Salvador Dalì, even if this style doesn’t have many elements in common with him. But the most inspiring thing was music, when I listen to music ideas come to me by themselves. Try working while “Immigrant song” by Led Zeppelin is playing, I’m sure you’ll get what I’m talking about!”

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