Okay so i have decided on doing a proper version of the image from the below blog post for my final piece and ive started working on the portal that I am going to have behind my scientist, the one I used for the image below was just a cut out from a game screen shot (top left)  just so I could see what it would look like before I started to make it. These few tries were made originally with the pen tool to get the original shape, I then just coloured with different orange and yellow shades. I tried out a couple of different filters as I couldn’t really get the effect and blending I wanted and I ended up using underpaing. Then I just neatened up n earased parts to get my shape, plus blurring it a little to make the colour run together better.

I am quite pleased with how they all turned out ( besides top left that's a cut out from the game not my own) i think i want to bring together top right and bottom left as i  think the colourings just right on the top right but i like that slight glowing edges on the bottom left image.