Return of the Vikings - weekly challenge

This week’s theme was "Vikings with a hint of upcycling" picked by VKnO. I’ve wanted to try making nature collages for quiet a while now and thought that this would be a perfect opportunity to do so. I decided to "upcycle" two of my Nature shots and combine them with some digital drawing which resulted in - "Return of the Vikings". I still have tons to learn about collaging but I think it came up rather believable for a newbie :) or what do you think?

This photo was used for the sky. I took this picture last summer, up in the Northern Sweden, very close to the Norwegian border.

This photo were used for the sea. It was taken on one of our vacations in Egypt :) I only had pictures of the northern sea when it is stormy and I wanted on this collage for a weather to be relatively calm. So I chose this shot...

The rest of the details such as sun, mountains and boat were digitally drawn in Photoshop. It took me several days to do that (probably because I'm a newbie) but I'm rather pleased with the results... for now :)

Space - The Final Frontier

Since I was the host for the last week’s challenge, I didn’t want to still the ”glory” from my team-mates so I decided to post this after the challenge is over :) So here is my entry in the EST weekly challenge - Science Fiction (see the post bellow, October 8th).

This digital painting is drown completely from the scratch in Photoshop! I did not use any downloaded templates or copy/paste parts. This is my first attempt in digital drawing using "Space" as a theme. Hope you like it :)

Science Fiction - EST weekly challenge!

So here are the entries from our talented EST members for the theme "Science Fiction", picked by yours truly :)




and the winner is ......

Daniel, also known as SwedishJewels! His girlfriend Jealousydesign, has graciously agreed to "loan" her blog for the next challenge :)