a state of sublime ecstasy

my newest offering! ...
it took 21 days to complete, using photoshop cs3.

.. lots of 'warping' was used for the stylized mist/wave thingy in order to get the flow.
.. film grain and my good ol glitter brush

... as for the concept .. ; i wanted a psychedelic feel in terms of color, flow and emotion ... which explains the metal she's wearing and the blindfold .. ( i could've easily shown her eyes closed but that would've been too conventional )
it's like .. she blindfolded herself, wants to be taken by surprise and really feel the ecstasy ..

the colored stylized mist is like a 'visual' representation of what she's feeling .. in a dreamscape of color, movement and sensuality .. being free ...


hope i made some sense ... but it was fun when i asked couple of my friends at the studio about the title and what their description was on a sublime ecstatic state ... part of it matched my work ... ( sign of relief )


now for a taste of reality : Technical issues

the file size ... was a nightmare .. i had to split the file into four parts .. ( kinda getting used to this .. same treatment was for the showstopper and sweet as candy )
each of the .psb files were around 1.4 gb ...

in fact, the resolution is 10330 x 5847 .. biggest one till date.
because of this, i faced a lot of scratch disk problems with photoshop .. system memory was sinking ... i had to delete a couple of movies to free up space ....

guess it was all worth it! ...


here's the sketch :
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closeup :
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thank you all viewing! ... hope you all like it

cheers everyone n take care!