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If It Meant Living-15: Savior

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"Savior"

Title: If It Meant Living – Chapter 15: "Savior"
Author: Graceyn
Game: Mass Effect/Mass Effect 2
Characters/pairing: femShep/Kaidan
Disclaimer: Bioware owns all rights to Mass Effect and its characters
Content Warning: Violence, Language

Author's Note: This is an expansion of the one-shot If It Meant Living. The title comes from one of Graceyn Shepard's core characteristics: "she was never afraid to risk dying if it meant living in the process." This story is canonical with respect to the major events, but new scenes are added and dialogue is often modified. The focus is on perspectiv

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If It Meant Living - Chapter 14
"Lessons"

Title: If It Meant Living – Chapter 14: "Lessons"
Author: Graceyn
Game: Mass Effect/Mass Effect 2
Characters/pairing: femShep/Kaidan
Disclaimer: Bioware owns all rights to Mass Effect and its characters
Content Warning: Violence, Language

Author's Note: This is an expansion of the one-shot If It Meant Living. The title comes from one of Graceyn Shepard's core characteristics: "she was never afraid to risk dying if it meant living in the process." This story is canonical with respect to the major events, but new scenes are added and dialogue is often modified. The focus is on perspect

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Heart of a Civilizationby *Graceyn

Customization / Wallpaper / Landscapes & Scenery / Spacescapes

Companion art piece to "If It Meant Living: Beyond - Chapter 7: "All That Glitters": [link]

Created in PhotoShop CS6; sun and lunar orbital ring stations created in Vue.

Planetary textures include stock from: HawkDonz: ([link]), Euderion: ([link]), and Hameed: ([link]).
Nebula stock from Euderion: ([link]).
Moons stock from AshenSorrow: ([link]) and ([link]).

Brushes used for stellar effects include:
"Stars and Galaxy Stars Brushes Photoshop" from FrostBo: ([link]), "Brushesesesessss" from muju: ([link]), and "Space" from the amazing Obsidian Dawn: ([link]).

Brushes used for planetary lights include:
"Crop Circles" and "Tech" from Obsidian Dawn: ([link]), "Stars and Galaxy Stars Brushes Photoshop" from FrostBo: ([link]) and my own brushes created from NASA stock "Earth at Night": ([link]).

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~PhoenixDove1 Feb 17, 2013

I love this! It's so beautiful.

*Graceyn Feb 18, 2013

Thank you

. I'm kind of proud of this, it's definitely the most complex piece I've ever done.

~SoCalKitty Feb 7, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

you made this? O.O How? I'd an acrylic painter. I do mostly space art and I'm thinking about branching into spray paint for the effects it has. Do you know any tutorials for leaning this kind of thing on PS? Your work is amazing!

*Graceyn Feb 7, 2013

Thank you! I'm afraid I'm digital all the way; this one all done in Photoshop, on a PC. For the planet and moons I started with stock planet images (for the planet, probably 5 or 6 different ones), resized them to match, and applied different effects to the layers, at times erasing parts of them to just get certain effects. The lights on the planet I made using several different "tech" brushes, and some of the other lights and star effects are from brushes. The sun and the lunar orbital rings I made in Vue, a 3D environment program I'm just learning to use. There were probably 60 layers in this pic at its height

I don't know of any specific tutorial, but I've been amazed at the number of tutorials available here on DA; some artists here do nothing but provide stock images, PSD files and tutorials. Just search for something like "PS airbrush tutorial" and if you don't find an artist right away, you'll probably find a group focused on it. There are also a lot of video tutorials on YouTube, but they are more hit-or-miss.

*AshenSorrow Jan 27, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

AMAZING!!

*Graceyn Jan 28, 2013

Wow, this totally made me :: squee ::

. I'm so glad you like it!

*AmongTheFirst Jan 26, 2013 Hobbyist Photographer

Looks like an ecumenopolis. Looks really cool from space

*Graceyn Jan 27, 2013

Thank you! Especially since that's actually exactly the idea - in the chapter of the fic it's loosely related to, the main characters encounter an alien species and visit their capital city, which essentially covers the entirety of the planet. The surface isn't covered end to end with structures, but it is all developed and metropolitan.

=Rama-Kay Jan 25, 2013 Student Writer

WOW!! just.. WOW!!

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