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Published: 2006-11-20 07:35:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 6175; Favourites: 113; Downloads: 92
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A surreal vision of the end of the world.(FULL VIEW PLEASEl, THERE ARE LOTS OF DETAILS)
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A man sitting on the edge of the world sees a swallow flying in the sky. The whole scene is a metaphore of the will to cross a border to reach other places, communicate with other people and live other experiences.
Enjoy and give me feedback please, it was a one week work.
photoshop (with tablet), no photo reference.
-Soon I'll post some particulars, the image in this size cannot render some details-
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yes..about Neo
It's a work I did in like 7 days for a cometition, I really hope to pass through the commission!
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thanks I need it!
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thank you I'm glad you like it, this was for a digital competition, I hope I'll pass through it. Cross the fingers for me!
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Oh, good luck then!
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Perspective does look a bit odd here and there. But it's lovely, dreamy landscape anyway.
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thanks! Now I'll comment your work..I was sleeping 
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This is pretty darn cool although the guy is kind of weird.
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thanks! Now I'll comment your work..I was sleeping
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OMG!!! thats soo soo cool i luv the sky
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hehehe, I was on it for one full day and night!
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hehehe, I was on it for one full day and night!
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Really nice oneβ¦who doesn't wonder what's there on the edge of the worldβ¦
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It was always in my mind to create such a vision and finally I did it for this cometition with the theme of "borders". Much sacrifice, but I've learnt a lot. And I'm pretty satisfied with the final work
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Yeah, you can be satisfiedβ¦
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but..I've seen no works in your page, don't you produce anything?
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Nopeβ¦I just like to look at artβ¦and I like to support my friend
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Wow, so nice! I like the detail and I can imagine it took you a week!
About the waterfall, too bad you let it end so sudden! I saw more people said this, so I'm not gonna repeat what they said. x'D At the other side, it looks so dynamic!
I like the expression of the man, he looks really alive as well. ^^
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this cascade seems to be a big issue...lol, maybe it's better that way then
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Lol yeah, I agree.
I'd not change it though.
It's awesome the way it is!
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yeah I prefer having people issueing about a something in my surreal pieces. I like people who thinks there is something missing or to change, that means the piece is more weird and not common
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Yupyup! It's better to be one of a kind.
Art school.. I want to go there. ;-;
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well not big deal..uhmmm it helps only for practice and discipline in doing things right
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Well, those are very important things! D:
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Great work, this is so full of detail, on first glance I thought it was a traditional piece as well. My only quip with this piece though is with the water fall running off the lip, it just kind of stops. I think that it may have looked better if you just would have trailed that down to the bottom of the piece. Just a suggestion.
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thank you for the thoughtful comment
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You're very welcome, and like I said it's just a suggestion but that was about the only thing I could find in the whole piece that bothered me a bit. So. Lol. I don't know.
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Well thank you very much, it's difficult at first but once you get the hang of it you can do some really neat stuff with it.
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your other stuff scares me but this one is pretty good.
Though, i think the perspective is a little small. but that might just be me.
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gosh! What an enormous heap of work 
The second thing is about the waterfall. You got it drawn well detailed, but just let it end. Just like that. Why don't pick up your theme of edges and let it flow into the shapes of the clouds. Like a metaphor for the change things undertake when going over the edge. Just an idea.
Number three is about the vast green spaces. In opposition of the vast detail in certain areas you suddenly make it look like you found out you still got lots of space and have no idea what to do about it. I guess it's the curse of the bent perspective. You need both details in the front and in the back this way. Just blurring doesn't help there.
ermh.... and aren't swallows black and white ? ^^
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Thanks a lot for your exhaustive comment!
I'm usually not a patience artist, so this work is one of my first tryout on long term works and also digital work (the fourth I did with tablet), I did this for a digital competition with the theme of "borders".
My main idea was to have a surreal landscape at the end of a dream-like world and a man sitting on the edge of it watching a gigantic bird flying away from this place. The concept is pretty easy to read, as the bird is the true essence of the man's will and hope to pass through that border and to fly to another place.
Said that, yes I used 2 or 3 focal points for the landscape probably inspired by Piero della Francesca landscapes (example: [link] [link] ), Piero is well known for this issue on landscapes, as the final effect seems quite weird to the viewer, cery inspiring was also De Chirico who shows us a complete distorted prospective of reality (and he was a well known surrealist painter) ([link] ). I wanted to have a distorted view of the scene almost collapsing on the true character of the scene (man and bird), and as I could see, this effect was precepted by not only one viewer, as you 're not the only one who made me notice this
When I first thought about the cascade I wanted to do as you suggested, but then I decided to make it almost straight (it's a bit angled on the left to tell the truth), as I wanted the water to disappear in the clouds more than merging with them, dunnΓ² why I did that, probably I liked this because it was more surrealistic than vaporizing.
I didn't blur the background as I hate blurring things up, but the image you see here is 1000X1000, the original is 3500X3500, so probably the details went down a lot in the resize progress, but you're right I had a lot of grass field out there and didn't know what to add...so I preferred to leave it changing a bit colours and adding some shades simulating hills, because I didn't want the left side of the painting to be bad balanced. But, you're right there's something wrong with the poor grass field.
About the swallow, yes, it's not a swallow, because the swallow has not that shape, it's more an eagle-swallow, but I loved to mix eagle wings to te swallow tail
Thanks again for your patience on that comment and I'm happy that you noticed so many things, it was very helpful to read your opinion and point of view on this work as it was really long for me to finish.
Ciao!
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You are welcome
About the perspective bending ... think about it being a style not a dogma
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oh nice, thanks for the suggestions! I'll try to focus on that on my next work...never thought in that way
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Ciao again! this is my last work...uff finally finished
As you asked, here's the link...hope you enjoy!
[link]
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Very beautiful! Such a wonderful concept, too.
I think, at best, the only problems I can see deal with perspective issues. The trees in the background, for instance - it doesn't seem like they're far away, just that they're very short. Also, the river just seems to come straight down.
The tree behind the boy seems more bumpy, I suppose, than covered with bark. The details may be too rounded, I think. It doesn't seem to bend quite right, either, going to the left like it is. It ought to be a little more vertical, I think.
There are so many wonderful details here, though. The mountains are beautiful, and the detail in the grass is quite amazing. I like that it varies in color, too - as real grass does. The clouds are very well done, though there's too much monotony there. It's almost like they're all the same sort of cloud, and all lying on just one plane. Clouds are unbelievably dynamic, and they have lives and energies of their own, when done properly. They come in so many different shapes and densities, and colours as well. I think this is an area that you can definitely continue to work and improve on (whereas the other issues would require almost fully repainting the image).
Something else to keep in mind on future projects is that shadows are also quite dynamic. The best painters use many different colours in shading alone. They can help form your mood, and add much more life to your paintings. Shadows aren't just darker, unsaturated versions of the object.
Anyway, lovely work. So many details! Keep it up ;3
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Thanks a lot for your exhaustive comment!
I'm usually not a patience artist, so this work is one of my first tryout on long term works and also digital work (the fourth I did with tablet), I did this for a digital competition with the theme of "borders".
My main idea was to have a surreal landscape at the end of a dream-like world and a man sitting on the edge of it watching a gigantic bird flying away from this place. The concept is pretty easy to read, as the bird is the true essence of the man's will and hope to pass through that border and to fly to another place.
Said that, yes I used 2 or 3 focal points for the landscape probably inspired by Piero della Francesca landscapes (example: [link] [link] ), Piero is well known for this issue on landscapes, as the final effect seems quite weird to the viewer, cery inspiring was also De Chirico who shows us a complete distorted prospective of reality (and he was a well known surrealist painter) ([link] ). I wanted to have a distorted view of the scene almost collapsing on the true character of the scene (man and bird), and as I could see, this effect was precepted by not only one viewer, as you 're not the only one who made me notice this
When I first thought about the cascade I wanted to make it merge with the clouds, but then I decided to make it almost straight (it's a bit angled on the left to tell the truth), as I wanted the water to disappear in the clouds more than merging with them, dunnΓ² why I did that, probably I liked this because it was more surrealistic than vaporizing.
You are really right on the shadows, I didn't use any complementar colours this time, probably because it's morning light and I wanted a very bright and dream-like effect, but yes, usually you have complementar colours on the shades.
About the clouds, you're right, I spent about one day making them....all day long...arghh...(no more clouds for me thanks!) and it's my first temptative to reproduce them on photoshop, so mainly I'm happy about the result. I put the clouds under the earth level 'cos I liked the view the most, probably I should have add some more layers...but I couldn't do it anymore!
Thanks again for your patience on that comment and I'm happy that you noticed so many things, it was very helpful to read your opinion and point of view on this work as it was really long for me to finish.
Ciao!
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thankyou so much! I spent a whole day on them, first time I try to do them in digital
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