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Submitted: September 30, 2012
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Creepy Neighbourhoodby ^pica-ae

Digital Art / Vector / Scenes

You can also buy this as a laptop skin via Society6

(And also some other print sizes) Loves and shares would be very appreciated

This of course also goes for the rest of my still tiny store over there

I wanted to make a simple Halloween themed CSS. I ended up doing a crazy ass detailed scenery illustration

I don't know how, but that kinda just hapened

At first there were the hills, then I started doing a castle, this is actually the second castle. The first one sucked. Took me some time to get a style for this, tried several raster effects before ending up with gradients over everything.
GRADIENT ALL THE THINGS

After that, I moved on to creating the graveyard and the trees on the right. Added some more tiny thills and fog in front of the castle… actually added in the moat

Crazy lighting inside the castle… trees on the left. Sometime in between things I created the moon, moved it to a different spot later one… last main thing was the pumpkins and the fences around them. SO MANY THINGS!

I added a lot of detail

Again, that just happened, wasn't planned at all

For inspiration I was mainly browsing dA constantly and looked at a whole lot of artworks

Can't put my finger on one or a few in special, too much awesome stuff

Basically everything you see I created from scratch in Illustrator. The only thing I drew on paper beforehand was a rough layout of the castle, how many towers and where etc.. But I didn't trace that sketch, just had it in front of me

Of course, since I wanted the whole thing to look kinda quirky and not perfect, working without sketches was okay anyway

Um, think that's it?

Hope you like it

asdajshdkerksnckansflamf a DD?!

Thank you ^KasumiCR and ^ChewedKandi for suggesting and featuring this

Love and hate you both

I had no intention to log in today at all, since I'm 1) on vacation and 2) stuck in New Jersey with a generator

So chances were really slim I would notice anything

Only logged into skype to let my mom know I'm okay and was then hinted at the DD

So, I may not reply soon to any comments left on this deviation, but I will try

Daily Deviation

Given 2012-10-31

Stunning use of gradients to create a wonderfully rendered spooky scene. I like how the gradients almost add a texture to this piece. Happy Scalable Halloween all! Creepy Neighbourhood by ^pica-ae ( Suggested by ^KasumiCR and Featured by `ChewedKandi )