He sits in the stars, a being comprised of the very flames of the sun, beholding all his light has reach.

This was a very interesting endeavor from the get go. When I started it I belived all I would have to do is layer three different images. Boy was I wrong.

Indeed this is actually three different layers...The first being a picture of a male figure, the second was a close up of the sun's surface, and the third was a nebula.

The odd thing was that no matter how hard I tried I could not get the layers to blend together the way I intended. Back when I did this I didn't know the various techniques that I know now. So it became that this was the first of my digital collage painting techniques.

After a day of atempting to figure out a way to just layer the three images I finally gave up and merged the three as they were (which wasn't good lol). Then I whipped out what was to become my trusty cloning tool.

The original male figure dissapeared beneath the fire. The originl stance of the figure was actually a man with his back turned but by the time I painted the flames at certain angles the figure became a front pose with added locks of solar fire hair.

I then used repetive patterns of the nebula over and over again throughout the background to give it that true fantasy appearance.