First Light

Things have been very busy for the past several months so I have had little time for new artwork, but I'm happy to introduce my recently finished piece called "First Light".  In this scene I'm illustrating an exo-moon which circles a beautiful blue gas giant similar to our own planet Neptune.  The moon on which the scene is placed is rather mountainous and as we watch, the first morning light from a distant sun is rising over the rugged terrain casting long streaks of golden light across clouds which lie between the mountain ranges.

I rendered the terrain using Vue 2015 while the planet, moon, and stars were all added using Photoshop.  The gas giant began life as my previously uploaded Saturn which can be found here fav.me/d8f7djy