Interdimensional Rift

I've been getting bad about posting, but hopefully the images have been worth the wait. Work and the home life have been taking up a lot of energy, so I haven't been able to make as much art at the same pace as before, but glad I've been getting things out there here and there this year. This one is titled Interdimensional Rift.

This image is interesting since I typically start with some color on the canvas, but I instead started with some red gradients. I found that it made a pretty cool design when I applied the Radial Blur effect, so I continued with that with the blue color. I then applied Gaussian Blur on a new layer and dents to add some texture, then on a duplicated layer, I applied more Radial Blur and used the lighten blend mode.

I did this more or less for both colors, then I flattened it and copied the flattened image, undid the flattening, and added the full image to a new layer. I then applied Polar Inversion on a duplicated layer of the full image, and then applied Multiply and Color Dodge on two of those. I also just applied the Reflect layer blend mode on one of the layers that was the full image without any other effects applied.

I then decided I wanted more texture, so I duplicated the full image layer, applied the Radial Extruder effect, and blended it in with Darken layer blend mode so that it would show up as texture in the back, but not overtake with color. I then thought something was missing, so I added purple in the middle, did the classic Gaussian Blur and Dents, and then duplicated that and applied Kaleidoscope effect on it, which got the design in the middle. I then blended all the purples with Additive, Difference, and Reflect.

This one was a bit more complicated than the last few since I wanted something specific with the red and blue, and so the layers and blend modes were necessary to get the outcome I wanted. I hope that you continue to enjoy and I’ll hopefully be back with more soon.