Following a basic idea of doing plein air landscape painting on an alien planet, I made a 3D base since my vision of the lighting was complex and this piece was intended to be a challenge for me to draw more environments. 

A blank mannequin was posed in Gravity Sketch since it felt more intuituve for me, and it was imported to Blender for lighting and some quick textures. The plan was that I will flesh out the design of everything as I paint it, by instinct and intuition. In a way, I was also chasing a "flow" of creative artmaking by making this artwork about "flow".