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Abiogenisis — Creating 'Contact'
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Published: 2015-04-06 14:57:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 50631; Favourites: 773; Downloads: 716
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Some of the key phases of creating the 'Contact' image. As you can see, the process required a lot of on the fly experimentation!The final can be seen here:
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I find the first few transitions fascinating. Initially, the being is propped up in an almost cockeyed manner, and his head is skewed to one side. He looks more curious than he does immense or noble. The transition that occurred around the third slide corrected that, making him look far more pensive, reserved, and knowing - as though he's omnipotent, and nothing the curious little Birrin do could possibly intrigue him/her (or it) in the slightest.
Personally, I'm a big fan of minimalism and stark contrasts. As such, I preferred the few you did near the middle, with the metahuman being white and the sky being a crisp, stark blue. Something about the minimalism, the immaculate purity of the being, and the ominous, immense spire floating off in the background all mingle together to create the perfect experience of awe, wonder, mystery, and dread. It truly looks as though the metahuman is some hyper-advanced organism, come to deliver a nearly incomprehensible message.
Not to say that the final version wasn't impeccable! It certainly was! The darker tones gave it a bit of a more ominous feel, and the clouds definitely helped to define the sheer immensity and scale of the being.
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This was an inspiration: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voya…
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Woosh. This has got to be one the more interesting step by step images i have seen. I gotta say i like some of the older versions more. I especially like the 3 ones near the end that has a bit of a wider field of view. They are more immersive and i can feel the scale of the being more so then in the other ones... i think. Yeah anyway, i like em all really.
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Yeah each one has its own advantages its true, some of those ideas will probably come back in later paintings
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Wow, you really can't make up your mind!
I can understand the first few redesigns, but all the last ones?
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Sometimes creating art is a hellacious nightmare.
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...... Yeah, I actually know what you're talking about...
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Hmm I see you changing color compositions from phase to phase. What made you stick with bright orange and dark blue in the end?
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A pure visceral reaction: it was simply more striking.
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Yeah there is something interesting about that face...
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I like The 8th one from Right... İt looks like an Archangel in an Alien military-war base...
And love The explosion at backside...
Chuck Norris Great great and very great GrandChild !
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oh, its here just.. the how to approach this kind of art just..
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Great pain, lots of time and suffering.
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if only there is an animated version tho.. it will be like transformsers, a bit of right stories and plots, it will be marvelous arts..
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Yeah I would love an animated version!
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I like every stage on the picture. This Contact is inspire my to think about God. And I even don't believe in God! What a good drawing!
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I think that every phase has a wonderful visual and conceptual idea (specially the titan's spear). I would like to see finished all of them hahahaha
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I want to definitely bring those spears back...
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I love how many variations you went through before settling on the final version... Now I don't feel like such a lunatic for weighing the difference between 100% and 99% saturation on any given layer. lol
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Good art just takes time, no way around it!
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too bad I really liked the car in tere, now they just look like horses on the field.
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The cars will return, one day!
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speaking of returns - your last artwork was uploaded half a year ago. Now revealing you're not deactivated I come to wonder why.
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These damn things take so long XD But Patreon should be able to help that when I launch it.
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what damn things take long?
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Any art. Art takes too long!
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Watching your idea evolve into the current illustration was very inspiring. Any time you could have stopped and the picture would have still been visually pleasing. What I learned from this was to not focus only on correct proportions of form and properly using color theory, but also frequently improving changing the illustration display the idea. Understanding that some times the completed art pieces are not going to illustrate your desired idea on the first or second try looks present here. You really remind me of this old quote that goes something like "Art is never finished but abandoned."
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The trick is to abandon it JUST when it looks kick ass enough
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Glad to know that I'm not the only one who does that, lol. By the time I'm done, the concept is almost completely different from what I initially intended
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All that usually survives is the core idea
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