Occupy Tokyo

This is both a photo manipulation and digital painting.

I was asked to paint a sci-fi city showing plant growth and decay of the city, for a novel this guy was writing (for the cover.) I came up with this as a sample. I'm not sure if he'll use it.

A crop of this painting (showing the detail) is here: [link]

I started by licensing this stock image of Tokyo: [link]

Then I painted the trees, helicopter, growth and decayed the buildings.