It needs stars and maybe some minor tweaks. I think for a 5-10 minutes job, this came out relatively nice if I may say so myself.

You did that in 5 minutes? You vector a faster than do Nice.

Nice work. I wish I could force myself to do simple stuff. I always take on complicated work and never finish them

I agree that some stars would really finish it off.

Thanks for the kind words.

Well I didn't look at the clock But it didn't take me long. Really easy:

- Background is a rectangle with a gradient on it which fades from orange/red to a dark blue to an almost black blue at the top
- lower half is solid black; I simply drew a line across and around, then duplicated the background and used Path -> Intersection to get a bit that fits the drawing
- The pine trees: I drew the left half, cloned it and flipped the clone horizontally, combined the two parts and removed nodes that didn't fit, then cloned it a bunch of times resizing and changing the shape
- The leafy trees were the most work, I created one, cloned it twice and changed the clones around a little to make it not too similar (I still think you can see that it's the same basic tree).
- The moons are simple again; create two circles, make an intersection for the dark part and a difference for the lighter part; clone and change colors lightly so I get three moons

-> Done.

I am using four layers, in this order, low to top:
- Background
- Stars (so far empty)
- Moons
- Trees


I'll add some stars later today, and see how that comes out.

- Nils

Cloning as in duplicating.

Awesome piece of work, Nils!

I always take on complicated work and never finish them

LOL! I have this problem too!

And with a slight blur on the moons and the trees:



Let me know which is better, and if there's anything else I could improve I'll appreciate the feedback.

I like the blur on the trees because it's so subtle you barely notice it. But I think the blur on the planets is too much. I would expect that the planets is the focus of the illustration so they should remain in-focus. You could probably try blurring the trees a little more to emphasise this.

Hmm, good point, thanks. I'll try it and see how it looks.

How about this? I used a "compromise" of sorts - I kept the blurred moons, but duplicated them and removed the blur from the duplicate. This gives them more contrast, but keeps a slight blur for effect. (I probably could even increase the blur a little.)

I kept the blurred moons, but duplicated them and removed the blur from the duplicate. This gives them more contrast, but keeps a slight blur for effect.

That's brilliant! I wish I could think of stuff like that.

Uhm, thanks, I am not sure it qualifies at "brilliant" but hey, if it works, it works.... And a last update, I wanted to remove the dark blue "inner" part of the moons.



Which version is better?

You most recent version is the best. Removing the dark from the moon was a good idea. And I like the blur around the moons now--they're no longer out of focus, instead their just glowing.

Cool. So it's really and truly "done" now.

Thank you all for your feedback, it helped a lot!

i think it so cool , and i have an idea
why don't u make some overall effects like
some white splash circles in the corner
or an alien staring from the corner to the viewer .. and make it radio active
or maybe u can put the start to make some kind of a horoscope

...I don't think so.

as u wish, it's your design

Well, it's just a landscape. Mutant aliens, weird effects, or astrology would seem very out of place.