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Published: 2004-11-28 10:28:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 118563; Favourites: 3121; Downloads: 14690
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Surrounded by mountains, the waters of an evening sea, a delicate sunset and the activity of a large city; An ancient temple stands high, dwarfed by life and framed in nature.This piece was created in Photoshop CS and a Wacom Intous 2 tablet.
Original res: 4600x3500
~18-19 hours.
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Comments: 327
How do you do that realistic specular on your buildings? I mean the reflections...
And you make me want to hang myself, you know that, right?
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make a print of this please! 
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WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AA
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Sorry if I can't say anything insightful... I'm busy admiring it...
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It's really amazing that you can create so much depth in a painting. It feels like I'm looking through a window.
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This is great artwork, keep up the great work.
If you want to, check out my gallery too.
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Amazing. I love the colors and the depth. It looks like a photo.
I just got photoshop, and I'm looking to learn how to use it. Where would you suggest to start to learn how to do everything from photo manip, to creating something like this?
Suggestions anyone?
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this is just mental... totally mind-shattering work. contrasting mans achievement's with nature is your specialty, keke.
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hoooleee coooraapu. 
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...why is it that when i wanna have some fun...all goes wrong?...
My new family!!!
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Oh, WHAT? Jesus. >
I wouldn't know where to begin doing anything like that. Obviously the bits that stand out as good are the buildings, but also I like the way you've handled the various tones across the sky, and the points where the landscape fades into the sea and the almost-not horizon. Even if I was able to put together paintings or intricate city perspective shots, I imagine those are areas I'd get stuck on. Good show.
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Gary my man, you've done it again, another excellent piece. Beautiful scenery. Shows a lot of imagination.
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Wow, that's beautiful...I love the juxtaposition of the buildings and the mountains!
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It's amazing the way, through brushstrokes, you can create such a world that seems like something directly out of a sci-fi or fantasy film...like a photo from a faraway land [or even StarWars planets]. Excellent use of color lighting for that beautiful sunset atmosphere. The depth is perfect, and the composition lets your eye travel around the many details in the piece. All the lights of the smallest buildings, the reflections, the craggy peaks...so much tedious detail that makes it all the more realistic.
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Simply Stunning... Some of the best work on Deviantart. Marvelous.
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as usual great work on the city structures and the surrounding nature ... I love how nature and a high-technological civilization are coexisting peacefully in your images
the rocks seem to be painted with some roughter strokes than usual this time, but I like that too 
I found this quite hard to paint myself, my last painting went into the scifi direction and contained a background city... now that I again look at your works I again see how much I yet have to practise
dan *waves*
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beautiful and breathtaking.
i especially love the upper right corner..
the panel or whatever it may be
looks so delicate, as if made of rice paper.
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The colors, the tiny little details, THE COLORS! This is absolutely positively amazing. I'm speechless. Just... wow. I love the way you've detailed the clouds, made them look real, the colors of the sunset, and the design of the city in the lower right hand corner, with all the little green-ish neon lights coming from the windows. The whole thing is just amazing. I love it. 
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havent u posted that pic b4? like it loooks like that one i favourited...
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That is gonna be my next fave!!! I love the color, I love this peice. 
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the reflections and lighting are both awesome, and the green hues go well with the picture as well-it makes the scene seem more alien and distant. Right out of a Clarke or wells Book.
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It still amazes me how someone can create that much awe-inpiring detail in such a short time, but all it boils down to is another masterpiece to hold my attention with. Superb.
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I don't remember this one, is it new? No matter, it's incredible.
Excellent job.
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this looks like a sequel to Eventide....perhaps the city on the other side of the mountains. this is amazing, by far my favorite out of the VA work...and believe me i thought it would be quite difficult to top Nimbus
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Another masterpiece, fantastic work.
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WOAH,
tell me the truth, are you/have you been in college to learn this kind of talent or did you pick this up another way?? Because I no doubt admire this kind of work, 20 hours?!! I would never be able to spend that much time sitting down X__x
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Beautiful. I've enjoyed everything I've seen from you.
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awsome...just wow...i love the clouds..there just so fluffy
like the lights on the city as well, and the detail on the mountines...really like the lighting as well, amazing job m8 +fav
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Holy.
Crap.
Hard to express this in type, but this has to be one of THE best pictures I have ever seen on DevArt. Incredible!
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AMAZING!!
but christ what a depth u managed to capture here!
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I wish that i would create such a masterpiece on Photoshop. I bet that you really know how to use photoshop. Seriously I would even like you to teach me. You really have a beautifull artwork in here. I admire such a talent.
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Absolutely stunning~ Wow, I want your patience and skill. The effort you put into your pieces is always so well-woth it. *_*!!
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