Some progress. I tried to make my character standing instead of sitting but I'm still not sure, so I started rendering the background due to the fact that she will be mostly trasparent Still WIP, thank god that we have more days added to the challenge hahah

There will be more atm perspective (maybe... water perspective? ) and I wanted to make the little guys smaller and maybe more like sea creatures, what do you think? If you have any advice let me know

Oh Chiara (tchee-harrah, for those in the know) !! That's shaping up to be wonderful.

I do hope you go absolutely ham with the water caustic light effects, sea creatures, and underwater light rays coming from the dome structure. Dis gon be gud. Big thumbs up!

Everyone is making such good progress!!

I ended up suddenly moving internationally so I don't know if I'll make it by the deadline, but I'll definitely be keeping up with this thread to see the end results!

Here's my progress so far. I've been rendering and rendering. XD I'll try to add some color tomorrow.
I added some friends of my sea creature chilling in the background. Wanna hang out, too? XD

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Wow guys! Your submissions are so damn awesome! I love your dude and his dragon @WeirdOwl! The colors are well chosen and these crystals look awesome! Like they glow from the inside and the markings on the dragon and the guy's face really connect them. Well done!!!

I love your throne room for your queen, @chiara.arcidiaco. It'll look great when you place your characters in the scene. Maybe you wanna introduce some gold into the picture. Adding golden design elements to her outfit and/or a treasure she is protecting?

@WeirdOwl your final work is stunning, I understand that you can't polish it more, it's amazing hahah

And @IndrawnArt I love how you're rendering it, it's so polished and the feeling of depth is incredible

I work on it too but still have to render my queen and polish all of course. I like your idea Indra that she could protect something, and yes I wanted to make the sceptre and the crown golden and maybe add something to her dress, tomorrow I have to figure out how to make her look like made of glass (screaming inside )

Thank you, @WeirdOwl. And yeah! Gimme all your critique!!! Tentacles on the back. Got it! But I'm not so sure how to solve it, yet.
Gonna check my first sketch as you suggested and I'll try to fix it.

Thanks a lot @chiara.arcidiaco. I'm glad you like it. And your updated version looks pretty nice! I know how you feel with that "screaming inside" feeling. XD
Right now your queen would be more translucent in her upper body, since the light comes from above/behind her. Maybe her cape glows from the inside! That way her whole body would be luminated from behind and you get the TRANSLUCENT OVERKILL!!!! Wohoooo! Just an idea.

Do you think that I should change something before sending it to Vika?

I don't know I like it but I don't like it hahah I don't know if you ever feel like this The fact that she is translucent makes her kinda mimetic and it's strange for the actual focal point I don't know let me know what you think maybe

This is the final I think, I can't work on it anymore

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Us. She's adverting her eyes from us.

Hey guys, here is my entry to the challenge. I slapped a gradient map on the image, but shared the greyscale version, too.
It has been the first time working with gradient maps for me. What do you think?

Can you add my late submission? Otherwise I'd just upload it to the stream today on my own.

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Good work @WeirdOwl! Your piece looks pretty cool!

Also nice progress on your pieces @IndrawnArt and @chiara.arcidiaco