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Published: 2004-09-21 11:24:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 81744; Favourites: 2223; Downloads: 8543
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An arriving transport slows down as it reaches it's destination; an enormous space city orbiting a distant planet.Another fairly old piece, one of the last I painted with a mouse. This was an experiment in bringing multiple mediums together.
Drawn in PS 7 - Simple block created for station, planetscape drawn from photo ref, arriving craft scanned in pencil sketch that was then painted up. Original res 6250x1800
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This is probably my favourite of your works. The ship design is fantastic and all aspects of the image work together.
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i have had this pic faved for ages now, and just yesterday i bought a book and saw this pic and thought "where have i seen this before", im so very jeouse of you! my dream is (as of today lol) get a picture published.
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Excellent! Your work is Amazing! You are one of the Masters! 
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Simply breathtaking. Colours are great and the detail on the transport and space city is great 
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deeply imaginative. i love your work. truly inspiring
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You used a mouse for this?! Whoa...just, WOAH. *worships* I shall now add to mah faves. I ADORE this beyond words :3
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I choked on my Lindt Lindor chocolate I was eating when I read the part about you painting this with mouse. Its fantastic.
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Awesome! I love the little details; the other ships at the docking bays and in the distance, the "milky way" band of stars... just incredible. And you did it with a mouse? Nice!
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unreal, unbelieveble, fantastic, trrific, beautiful, owsome, increrible and wounderful. I love it.
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the dimensions on this add to the reality, because it is viewed as a movie screen. almost like a scene introduction. good job on that
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The point where most creative artist's imaginations ends, yours are to start.
Best Wishes
Ahmed Nayyer
w w w . t e a mn a y y e r . c o m [link]
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and another great image from you... I adore it, unlike many other space pieces from other artist this one has a warm and friendly athmosphere. that comes from these colours, the reds and blues, and all the tones inbetween. your space crafts are futuristical, yet they look as if they could be real. the starfield is fairly simple, but since focus lies on the space station this isn't bad.
I've tried painting planets too, but never succeeded...no one recognized a planet 
the more I love looking at your piece, painted planets do have their own feeling, a dynamic, mysterious one.
once again, excellent!
dan *waves*
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you are extremely good at making these space scenes. the space station reminds of cloud city in return of the jedi. very nice and professional website, too.
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One of your best works. The curves on the planets atmosphere are amazing. Did you do them freehand?
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cool i like the scene nicely done details with station. docking port is kinda intresting desing too i think i fav this
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It's very well done indeed.
Colour:
There is a very beautiful use of colour here. The use of the superb gradient in the atmosphere is soft and detailed. It finally sifts down towards the main planet very gently. Great look there. There are many other colour details that are just stunning. You always go into great detail with your colour choice and placement, always great to see.
Each area boasts it's own unique colour style, but not too dramatically and in a non-distractive manner. For example: Starting from the transport ship, the background colour of the planet happening to be a subtle orange brings out the outline shape of the craft, and revealing its movement intentions. Moving onwards to the right, the space station is brought out well with the darker dull grey blue, which really brings out it's little lights. It's really amazing how it all fits so well together.
Concept:
A nice concept, with a good sense about it, and it relates well with it's title.
"An arriving transport slows down as it reaches it's destination; an enormous space city orbiting a distant planet."
Reading that before I actually took a good look at the image; this is exactly how I imagined the scene to be in the final piece. Well done.
Texture/Style:
The texture used on the main planet is really quite nice. I can't really decide if it's an atmosphere cloud top, or terrain, but that adds to its illusive mystery. The star field is simple and not complex, but one thing that I see a lot of artists do is have a space scene in which there is a sun light source, but for some reason there are still stars showing. Think of it as being like daytime on Earth, you don't see any stars. I know it's Sci-Fi, but there are some boundaries that I think can't be broken when creating a space piece. Or maybe it would look incomplete without a star field, I don't know. Something to keep an eye on in future pieces perhaps, even a bit of trial and error.
Really though the texture used on everything is terrific, especially on the objects. They are always so intricate and delicate in texture, and colour as I said before.
Objects:
Each object, whether it is a spacecraft, space station or planet; you've placed them all well. Adding depth with the distant planet, then bringing it closer and closer in with another planet, and finally with another to complete it all. The other objects in the foreground (space craft, space station) are well placed and presented, synchronising themselves with the colour and background as I stated before.
Composition/overall:
This is such an amazing effort by you. Indeed you seem to be learning and growing on your great style, it certainly shows in this. It shows alot of realism, and makes me feel like i'm inside the image, as with most of your pieces. It's a great piece, showing excellent style and bringing out your true talent.
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--~taylormemer1 --
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Great comment style and content
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Wow, this is awesome! Really bringing down the resolution makes this picture look more clean and detailed! Great work!
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This is an awesome picture and especially 'cause you used a mouse
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HOLY CRAP!!!!! <---- explicitive aren't I lol - I was turned on to your work by a :fav: added by and after looking at your gallery I've never been more impressed. - It doesn't matter weither it's space above or space within your work is truly inspirational and amazing
Thanks so much for the wonderful talent
Corey
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ooooh, this is so inspiring. I want ot make this into 3D one day if you don't mind
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Daaaaamn, with a mouse? amazing man, simply amazing.
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Ooooh! The colours and shadow in that are really good. It's beautiful.
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To say you have talent is one of the grossest understatements I've ever conceived of. Excellent job!
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Incredible, that spacestation looks so precise and neat.
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geez...i wish i could do that with a mouse lol haha, thats really sweet dude, love the colors, and the textures...the upclose red planet is my new hero haha, sweet job dude +fav
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HOLY @#*^!
You painted that with a MOUSE?! 
*twitches in shock*
Can we call you the god of digital painting yet?
In a calmer vein--really nice work. I particularly love the planet and how the structures stand out as sihlouettes against it rather than gleaming in the sunlight like your typical NASA pic.
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Mouse?! HOW?! You are such incridble!!!
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this is really incredible, definitely showcases your spacescape abilities well. I need to try a few superhuge planets from that style view myself someday, something I've yet to attempt. Beautiful sense of perspective although grasping the POV of the larger ship and the station is a little difficult imo. The large planet detail is A* work, and right down to the backdrop space it's super stuff. Great work
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The crispness of your lines is unreal. Everything looks perfectly sharp and perfectly in place.
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