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Abiogenisis β Creating 'Contact'
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Published: 2015-04-06 14:57:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 50635; 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!ΒThe final can be seen here:
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what a bunch of works !Β all those backgrounds lost
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Though sometimes I use them again for another painting
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Now they're lost no more! 
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I really like the shifts through style. Some of these pieces feel very apocalyptic and evangelion-esque, but the final version was somehow hopeful? Signifying something like great change, but not in a necessarily violent way?
I'm Also really liking the designs of those little Birrin trucks.
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So interesting. I really like the head design on Stage 17.
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Very cool. We get to see the process and composition changes, I love it when these are uploaded π
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I don't know what my reaction would be if that looked at me like in the third to last version
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Das 12te von Links ist das beste imo.
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Thanks for sharing the process of making this awesome painting.Β Beginners rarely have a conception of what the actual process of creating a painting is like, and this stuff helps a lot!
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Its a god damn slog, I tell you!
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i wish the dump trucks still made it, epic piece Abiogenisis <3
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I am sure they will be back in another painting
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I'm curious as to of what the meta human is and how it got there? Does it actually have the genetics of a human?
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It has the genetic information stored, but really it has nothing much in common with a normal human. Mostly synthetically grown.
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Only three words:
YOU ARE LOVELY.
(Long time no see illustrations that move me something inside. Thank you for sharing your art and your great world with the rest of the cosmos. Thank you again. Many.)Β
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That's one hell of an artwork! Well done. Your patience and devotion is phenomenal, I wouldn't be able to spent so much time on a single painting, doing so many revisions. It's really great to see the process, though.
I assume you already know what "Angelarium" is?
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I do now, a few people pointed it out. Totally up my alley
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so many of them are great...
and as i was scrolling, it felt like i was watching the angel visit that planet every few millenia or so, evolving in the mean time but always silently observing
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A few others saw that too! A little accidental comic.
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actually, in the end, I like every version of it.. It's all so beautiful, mysterious and magnificent
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Thanks! They all had a little something worthing keeping...
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yess! every detail is somehow beautiful here
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Wow comparing the changes highlights how an enormous effect on the piece the setting is. It has more of a menacing overtone with the structural background, but with the natural he has a more peaceful heraldic nature.
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Yeah I figured it would be better to go with something a bit more... unearthly, so to speak.
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Far future humanity travelling through the stars has ironically become more alien and removed from us than the baseline Birrin.Β
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Nothing more alien than ones own future.
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So, is that the actual body of future humans, or is it more like a vessel?
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A bit of both! And only some future humans, there are many other forms.
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Love the process. Β Thank you for sharing.
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I can spot what looks like the Metahuman's vessel in the background (which you scrapped).Β
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They are support devices, able to harvest materials from the planet and produce what the metahumans need.
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I would've thought a creature like a Metahuman would get what it needed from asteroid belts and gas giants, tramping about on inhabited worlds out of curiosity.Β
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They do, though when on-planet it is simply more convenient to have these things close by. They don't have FTL tech to move resources fast.
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This is really interesting to see how much was flipped, experimented with, trashed, changed and added as you went through making the picture. I guess it's important to stay flexible and keep working something until it finally looks satisfactory. Thank you for sharing with us!
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Its the best part of digital art! The painting evolves as you go
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Did you cut the ruins to invoke the idea of "first contact?"
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I cut the ruins to increase the surreality, and because they cluttered the composition far too much.
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Is that a bit of photobashing in there?
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Lots of photo bashing at first. They are random photos, but I manually paint or use approved photos for the final image. I never really take my own.
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Awesome, I keep digging your work. I admire the detail with which you create a coherent world with its own rules and biology, it's almost like this is actual alien life, waiting for us to be discovered. Keep rocking the free world!
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