Starbound

After getting my reference shots, I went through them looking for something that stood out to me. I eventually settled on one that had an interesting look, lots of things in the image and tried to picture what it might be if I changed the setting completely. I could use it as literally as I wanted.

I'm not sure why, but it reminded me of one of the trenches on the Death Star from Star Wars, so I decided I would paint a space station of some kind, using the silhouette from my image. I ended up with an atmospheric colourful setting in space which I am really happy with. I added some spaceships to give the scene a sense of scale, regardless of how big someone might percieve a spaceship to be, the difference in size shows a clear indication of how big the space station is.

I also made a slight variation, changing the mood of the piece by switching some of the colours around. It is interesting how just by adjusting colours, it turns from a mysterious space station to somewhere dark and foreboding.