Illustration: Nova

Nova from Starcraft 2!
Big thanks to DCWJ ( https://www.artstation.com/dcwj ) for helping this piece along to this point!
This commission was for a 60 inch tall poster, so it was really slowing down my pc near the end!

For the lighting reference, I mocked up a figma with a tiiiny wooden Ghost Canister Rifle to figure out where the colored lights would land.

The cyberpunk theme includes the mandatory chromatic aberration lol

The Starcraft franchise is close to my heart despite it all. It was my first published comics job, and I play the ladder nearly every day :)