CGAN April 23 - Moon - Final entries

Moon

Brief: Interpret the title into art

Deadline: Midnight on Sunday the 30th of April. 

This thread is where you post your final entries, WIPs (works in progress) should be posted over here:  cgartnexus.com/index.php/forums/challeng...n-april-23-moon-wips

Challenge rules and guidelines:
cgartnexus.com/index.php/forums/challenge-rules

Rules in brief:
- All challenge entries must be your own work.
- You should post at least two WIP images that are clearly different from your final entry and each other.
- Your final entry should contain your image (inserted so it shows up full size) and at least two links to your WIP posts on the forum.
- No chatter in the finals thread – if you have questions, post them in the WIP thread or PM an admin.
- Feedback is allowed & encouraged together with the voting and in the WIP thread.
- Deadline is given in UK time (midnight UTC) with a grace period of 5 minutes for getting the post sorted.
- Each member may cast one vote.
- No cheating! Admins may decide to disqualify an entry that does not adhere to the above rules.

WINNER - BANJ

WIP 1: cgartnexus.com/index.php/forums/challeng...-wips?start=10#45287
WIP 2: cgartnexus.com/index.php/forums/challeng...-wips?start=10#45306
WIP 3: cgartnexus.com/index.php/forums/challeng...-wips?start=20#45329
WIP 4: cgartnexus.com/index.php/forums/challeng...-wips?start=30#45338

Final:

Would have liked to have done a bit more but an annoying headache got in the way.

1: Big Planet  
2: Moony Space Gas  

And now some Shiny Starlight...

 

It's that time again Time to vote for your favourite Moon themed entry.

Get your votes in by may 8th or we'll probably forget about the tallying. Or we'll forget anyway. But here goes - voting is open!

Valence 

Banj's moon is the one I vote for. 🌙

I wish my base looked as believable as that. Every structure looks like it belongs there and has a purpose and all the little greebles (but not cat greebles ) add interesting details to catch the eye.
I do think the blue tone is a little strong but seeing as my own picture was plagued with over saturated blues you may now be thinking of the artist equivalent of "Physician, heal thyself!"
The spacemen offer a nice sense of scale and depth, and I like the three little guys interacting down there. They look like they're busy and actually doing something, unlike the barely visible, static dots in my pic.
Also you captured a much better sense of all that dusty regolith with your textures and you even added footprints!

But Val, your space dude has a CAR

That said, I agree with much of Valence's points and my vote goes to Banj too.
Though I really like Val's too, I think maybe there's too much going on in a way. Maybe the moon base and the pretty sky backdrop would have been enough without the orangey planet demanding attention?

Charlotte wrote:

Get your votes in by may 8th or we'll probably forget about the tallying. Or we'll forget anyway. But here goes - voting is open!

Well, you weren't wrong. 

I'm never wrong.

But I am somewhat forgetful

Actually I'm doubly forgetful. I see now that I did vote. I thought I'd forgotten

Well, then, CONGRATS BANJ

Thanks for the votes 

Regarding the blue, I ended up with two different versions of the picture after running it through some photographic filters to see what would come out. The other version was more "realistic" looking but somewhat dull looking in comparison, so I decided I preferred the more illustrative quality of this one with the blue. It kind of reminded me of old 60s sci-fi comics which wasn't remotely what I had been going for initially