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A dual-sun morning view over the Empress' summer palace from the mountain road, with the Silent Sea in the background. From The Usurper Saga.

A little study made from my tablet with Sketchup Pro, with fixups and cleanups on the laptop in GIMP and MyPaint.
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Impressive as usual, even if I think the palace is missing a lot of shadows.

Very beautiful and serene Griatch.

Lovely work Griatch. I love the peachy colours.

She seems to have a better view than the empress

I really like the atmosphere generated by the dual suns.

Oo nice! I like the softness of this, plus the semi hard-sh lines. It all comes together very well.

The sky looks very nice! I don't understand though, if the sun is setting what's the red ball?? I perceive that the yellowish white one is the setting sun so I don't understand the other one, unless this isn't supposed to be earth than anything is possible! lol

I think it's an alien planet with two suns Moko.

That would answer it then.

Thanks for the comments!


Yep, you are perfectly correct in this; many of the distant trees are completely shadow-less. I should probably go back and add more detail but I liked the somewhat "sketchy" feel of this image so I wanted to just round off before I over-worked it too much (a hard lesson to learn for me).



Thanks molly and Erisian!


It's interesting to try to judge just how a dual-sun sky would look. Since the red sun is (necessarily) a much smaller and cooler star than the yellow one (although closer since they appear the same size), it will probably be all but outshone whenever the yellow one is in the sky - except when the former is close to the horizon like this. I picture there could be some spectacular light effects on cloudy days too - with the world shifting between yellow and red light as clouds pass in front of one sun and not the other.
As Erisian correctly points out, this is a dual-sun world, with one sun-like yellow G star and a small red M dwarf star (the latter is closer to us at this season, which is why it looks the same size as the yellow star).
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Thanks!
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This is an awesome sketch! I love the distant fjords.

Love it. I especially love the fools cap. Am I wrong to think that's totally sexy?
Not as sexy as the linework though. Great job! Do you sell prints?

Your stuff continue to amaze me Griatch; the hazy atmospheric lighting is just mind blowing how you did that. Cool stuff indeed.

Thanks, I was quite happy with those too!

Most tend to refer to my Jester character as cute rather than sexy, but there is nothing wrong with that of course! I do sell prints of my works, this particular one was made more as a sketch so it cannot be a particularly large print. But if you are interested you can buy the print [here].


This is mostly a sketch, but the light did come out decently; there would probably be more details on the jester in a fully realistic take on this image but this way focuses the image towards her a little more. Thanks for hte comment!

Bought one! That will look nice in my office. Wow, international shipping is really expensive! lol.
Thanks for the link! I bought the large version because I figured you'd get more of a kick-back from it. Small ver was 59 cents! Really? lol

Awesome! Thanks a lot! Hope you'll enjoy it on your office wall!

(Now I have to figure out why DeviantArt has not notified me of any sales happening yet. Oh, maybe they don't handle sales during the weekend?)
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