Covert Desert Operation - Alien Hunters

A day/night painting for my original story, 'Alien Hunters', a story about two boys in the grip of 2019's "Storming Area 51" craze. They get more than what they bargained for when they come across an actual UFO in the desert! I included some steps of my process, but I tend to go in without a value painting and generally use color and layer filters to express light.