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Very, very pleased to be able to share this with everyone now: The artwork I created for We Paint the Sky’s upcoming full-length LIGHTBRINGER. I absolutely love working with these guys… They give me a ton of freedom and trust, and it is always an awesome experience. Couldn’t be happier than to be involved with such a hard-working group of guys. Very proud, gentlemen.

Check out facebook.com/wepaintthesky to listen to the first single off LIGHTBRINGER.

I’ve had this song lyric stuck in my head for 2 or 3 days now. I had some free time last night, so I decided to try something I haven’t had much experience with in the past: Displacement Maps. The reflection in the water was done by using a Displacement Map that I created, and everything else is hand-painted in Photoshop using brushes, the pen tool, and the lasso tool.

The lyric, for those interested, is from a song called Pour by the band My Epic.