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Tonights sketch using all the tricks in the book. 3D, painting, photobash, the works to see what I could pull off in a really short amount of time. Overall about 2 hrs, without a prior concept. I just figured I was tired of doing sinister looking cubes, so I was going to change it up and do a sinister looking sphere.

![jpve0v4u69.png](https://img.esteem.ws/jpve0v4u69.png)

The 3D part is pretty simple, just a sphere and some displacement for all the details and the mountains. I then rendered out a few passes to help with the painting part.

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This is called an ID pass, and it just allows me to isolate different parts of each model.

![fz03570ltr.png](https://img.esteem.ws/fz03570ltr.png)

This one is called a normals pass, and it assigns a different color to each directional normal(direction each surface is facing) So that I can select and isolate different areas on each model based on direction. Basically makes it to where I can re-light the models.

![2bdlf827zh.png](https://img.esteem.ws/2bdlf827zh.png)

Then there's the z-depth pass that allows me to isolate and select different depth ranges in the image. It's good for adding atmosphere.

Here's how the painting went.

![g2wb2vvnbj.gif](https://img.esteem.ws/g2wb2vvnbj.gif)

That's about all for this guy. Was pretty fun to do. I just looked at the Steem price, holy crap it's .52, wow..52 cent Steem. I'd been around some Steemians that said this could happen, but I honestly didn't think it would ever get this low, pretty crazy. Anyway, as always, thanks for looking peeps!