This is heaven at it's best. ^//////////^

Heh thanks a lot. That building tip there, was one of  VDO's ideas right there.

How do you make and color all those details you put into it? I mean there is just so much detail in the picture from the big detail like Okamitsune and the statues and buildings, to the very small details like the small macros in the croud of smaller people, to the trees in the far away background.

I love the coloring in this picture and Okamitsune she looks lovely also.


I enjoy all your art, makes me want to get a picture done by you but am not sure how much something like this would cost and i don't think you give me one for free.

Thanks a lot. I felt really inspired when making this, and it's an idea I'd been toying around with in my head for a couple of months while working on other pictures - so I already knew the type of things I wanted in the picture. As for all the details, it was just time and patience. I'm not sure exactly how long the picture took as I wasn't keeping track, but just to colour it was about 2 weeks, at around 5 hours a day.

With commissions, I don't like to go this detailed, unless its something I'm really inspired by. It just takes too long and I'd have to charge more money than I'd be comfortable to charge people.

Thanks a lot though.

Haha, that means a lot to me. Thanks a lot!

Oh goodness. Stunningly beautiful work here. I liked everything about the sketch -- the concept, the pose, and especially those globes showing the planet at various scales -- but the finished version is just exponentially better in every way.

I think my favorite part now may be the city itself; the way the light is reflecting off all those tiny windows makes it look almost crystalline, as beautiful and otherworldly as a goddess deserves! Unusual structures like the split dome, kris, and floating rings are, again, beautiful and alien, and add enough variety that the eye doesn't just dismiss the cityscape as background. In any other pic I'd call the mirroring lazy, but as either side of her "throne" I think it would look stranger if they were different. ;>

And I have to say, I'm a fan of this "growing between sketch and finished product" idea. It really should happen in more macro artwork. From what I know of Okamitsune, I can absolutely see her flexing her powers to make drawings/statues/etc. of herself grow over time, hehe.

Oh wow thanks for the lovely comment. The picture's something I've been wanting to draw for quite some time, so I'm really glad that people like how it came out. The plan all the way through was to integrate a throne made of cities into the design of a city itself. I thought the box shaped buildings from the sketch were a bit too plain, so I decided to spice it up. The mirroring was a conscious design decision, and while it did save a bit of time, they still had to be reshaded anyway.

Hah, yeah the growing between sketch and finished product thing was completely unplanned. She actually grew a few times through the drawing of the picture. I wanted the proportion to be on model for Okamitsune, which for a character who is never "too big" is quite hard for an artist who isn't particularly fond of "hyper", but I did end up making her bigger in that sense. Then I extended the bounds of the picture, as I felt too much of the city was being cropped off with square proportions. Then finally, I had an issue with the paw being blocked by some of the buildings. I tried a few things to see if I could get it to work, but in the end, just scaling Okamitsune up even more seemed to be the logical solution!

And yeah, to be honest its a miracle in itself that she's still managed to stay on the seat made for her there. I figure it won't be long at all before this planet's treated to some "Sunny skies".

I'm really glad you like the picture though! Thanks for the comment!

NOrmally i don't usually like macro gods, don't know why but the idea of it usually strikes me a bit odd.

THIS picture, however, i like the idea and the arrangement of it all. Very Pretty very big :D like the snowglobes . lovely idols too. *applauds*

Thanks a lot, it was a really fun picture to do! It also means a lot to me when someone says "I don't usually like..." as it means I've obviously done something right. Thanks!

I don't know what more I can say than this is freaking awesome looking, Stampy!

Also, I really like that wavy skyscraper!

Thanks a lot! The wavy building was  VDO's idea. Originally it looked really out of place, but the more crazy buildings I added, the better it looked.

That's...incredible!

Thanks a lot!

You're welcome.

Are those bio-domes there just for decoration or...
Can you really go there just by jumping through the dome?

P.S. - What are the domes made of? Glass?

I figure it would be a glass like substance, yeah. Whether or not they're giant snowglobes, bio domes, or portals to another dimension, I'm going to leave up to the viewer! With Okamitsune involved though, it could be any or all the above.

There are higher resolution versions of the statues and their contents available on my website: http://stampydragon.com/

Nicely done

Thanks!

Your work is just so amazing ^^

Thanks a lot Luna!

I'm STILL in awe over this one. HUGE thanks, Stampy! This is an absolute masterwork!

You're completely welcome. Thanks for letting me draw her.

but okamisune is a kind goddess?

She is! She's very kind and caring. She's just a little... Silly!
Okay, not true. Nothing about her is little. She's INCREDIBLY silly.

oooh mesa loves the level of detail.. for example the scratches that the nails of the statues leave on the ground.. with water in it

Thanks!

They are all beautiful ^ ^

Thanks.

welcome *hugs* ^ ^