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Orbit - Redux
Published: 2008-07-04 13:44:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 301609; Favourites: 9935; Downloads: 19265
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This is a little bit of a revisit to an old idea – “Orbit” was originally just me mucking about but became very popular for prints and publishing – however I never really thought that much about it at the time (I was literally just sketching space art as a bit of fun between projects). I loved the idea of the piece so now, 8 years on I've had another stab at it.
“A highly advanced race builds an enormous spaceport off the coast of a continent, dwafing the 20km high skyscrapers on the land, the main structure brushing the cloud layers with near 100km diameter docking spurs surrounding it. Built above the main structure, another level that is beyond the atmosphere – allowing craft to dock without braving the weather on the planet”
Painted in Adobe PS CS3
Wacom Intous 3 Tablet
Original res 5k wide
About 20-22 hour work.
I used some great photos of Earth from space as reference for the world.
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Comments: 581
I've always though this was gorgeous
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how can i credit you if i wanna use it in my videos on youtube?
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Mind Blowing Experience!
If you MOD HW2, let me know.
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WOW. This is like something out of my wildest dreams. Great job!
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Freaking Awesome ANTIFAN.
I wish I had money for Adobe Photoshop.
I'm really missing out.
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Love this. and I am a Sci Fi Fan and Space Opera Junkie!
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Marvelous...as far as the eye could see. I enjoy art such as this to make the mind and imagination free and expansive. Great use of sun and night to give the viewer a sense of the world system this city is in.
You have great talent for design and dreaming of the future. Many kudos.
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Damn, this looks like a scene out of a movie! My favorite part is actually the clouds though, what the heck?
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Wow. that is so insanely beautiful. thats why i want to get into digital painting. for a hobby. and if i got good enough , it could be a side business. I was just browsing through my fav's and was impressed again. i use this in my screensaver.
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I'm starting to think you've been in space before.
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This is a really cool SF painting- you are one of the few good modern science fiction artists. Your idea of a bit of "fun" is far more productive than most other people's idea of fun...
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Whoow, this is awesome! I really like it. Have you thought about making it into wallpaper form?
I'm Fusion Linux project leader and we are looking for some images that we could include in by default in our Linux distribution.
We have tens of thousands of installs, and we would also list all artists that have their art in our distribution and spread the word of your great work that way.
If you would consider this proposal this would a lot to us, because we would like to share and promote great artwork that you have made.
Please check out our home page - [link]
We need all art to be in few different wallpaper resolutions, and licenced under some Creative Commons licence that permits us to distribute artwork freely, just to be clear you still keep all the copyright just give us permission to distribute it for non-commercial purposes. If you aren't familiar with Creative Commons licences I suggest you use "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs" and also check full list of differenc CC licences at [link]
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I wish the world will look like it in the 21st century so We can live even cooler life!
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Wow. What a beautiful atmosphere. Earth in 500 years? lol
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Come on dude where's the new stuffs? Very quite out here in your gallery ;o)
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dear heavens!!! this is marvelous!!!
are you make it from scratch? or add some piece over here and there??
definitely splendid
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WTF ?!?!?!? O_o it is possible to draw something like that ?!?!? AMAZING!
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I like how you can see spires stabbing through the rolling cloud cover. It's almost as if they're sharks warning the people in the space craft of the dangers lurking below.
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That really does put "Good" stuff in perspective. Fantastic work - have you got a link to any digital painting tutorials that you'd recommend to a beginner?
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I love it. I want to see the movie that takes place here.
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still one of my top 10 favorite drawings on DA
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awesome picture, I like hou you made the details and the color is fantastic.
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Indeed, wow. This would have been a cooler looking cloud city.
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wow
you should contribute this to a space-simulation game like infinity .__.
i want to see that in 3D
though i think this might eat one or two balderdashillion bytes, lol
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thats a super sick dp
really sick
so sick it made me think it was a stock
....and used it in a piece....
dont worry i took it down after a friend told me that it was a dp
amazing skills there though
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