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December 21, 2011
Cover art Caterpillar by *Gerbren
Featured by kuschelirmel
Suggested by NadavYacobiPhotos
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Cover art Caterpillar

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My commission for Zharmae Publishing Press 2011. This will be the wrap-around cover for the sci-fi novel 'CATERPILLAR' by William Tedford. Available at all major book retailers some time next year. I have permission to post this at my profiles.

Story:



The girl is young, perhaps 16. Her simple summer dress is torn and muddy, her bare feet covered in earth, knees skinned, voluminous blond hair tangled, and other signs of having run and being in distress. With curiousity she is holding cradled in her upraised hands an irregular oblong object, a ‘meteorite’ if you will, as she stands in the smoking crater it created. A crack along the edge of the object (perhaps somewhat oyster-like in configuration) gleams a brilliant acid green, while above her in the dark night over the prairie and into the distance dozens of green streaks of light lance across the sky, more of the same objects bound for earth.

Genre: Sci-Fi (Very Dark, borders on Horror)


Close-up:

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**Created with Photoshop Elements, Photoshop CS 5 extended and tablet.


Used resources; made from scratch:


Background: www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?ViewProduct=70904
Girl above part: Purchased Dreamtime; [link]
Girl lower part: purchased; [link]
Sky 1: nocreditstock.deviantart.com/gallery/11670933#/d2ii6yq
Sky2: nocreditstock.deviantart.com/gallery/11670933#/d2ii759
Sky3: nocreditstock.deviantart.com/gallery/?set=11670933&of...
Sky4: nocreditstock.deviantart.com/gallery/?set=11670933&of...
Sky 5: nocreditstock.deviantart.com/gallery/?set=11670933&of...
Part sky painted
Crater: Purchased at Dreamstime + painted;[link]
Part crater: morguefile.com/archive/display/630271
Smoke/fog: Own resources
Farmland 1: browse.deviantart.com/resources/?q=farmland&order=9&a...
Farmland 2: browse.deviantart.com/resources/?q=farmland&order=9&a...
Farmland 3: browse.deviantart.com/resources/?q=farmland&order=9&a...
Farm1: browse.deviantart.com/resources/?qh=§ion=&q=l...
Farm 2: browse.deviantart.com/resources/?qh=§ion=&q=l...
Barn1: browse.deviantart.com/resources/?q=farmland&order=9&a...
Barn2: browse.deviantart.com/resources/?qh=§ion=&q=+...
Barn3: browse.deviantart.com/resources/?qh=§ion=&q=o...
Barn4: browse.deviantart.com/resources/?qh=§ion=&q=+...
Windmill 1: Purchased at Dreamstime;[link]
Windmill2: browse.deviantart.com/resources/?qh=§ion=&q=w...
Watertower: fairiegoodmother.deviantart.com/gallery/?q=colorado#/d1j063r
Mountains: painted
Stone girl: own resource
Lighting sky + stone: browse.deviantart.com/resources/?qh=§ion=&q=g...
Tractor: morguefile.com/archive/display/717555

Some other elements painted; all in all was this a lot of work. Loved creating this though!

Wow, a Daily deviation! Thank you so much Nadav-y for suggesting and Kuschelirmel for featuring.
This is very unexpected, but so very much appreciated!
:heart:

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suchacarnivore's avatar
I can relate with this piece a little too well. Lovely job.