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Orbit - Redux
Published: 2008-07-04 13:44:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 301679; Favourites: 9935; Downloads: 19267
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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 can't wait until we reach that level of technology ^^ Hopefully our designs will be as elegant.
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This is so cool. Love the detail. Really like all your stuff, it's so fun!
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Completely gorgeous. I would love to see some high res details.
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I guess they have a terrible weather, they had to invent that tower.
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Beautiful......it's totally amazing. You've SO much talent!!!
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WOWWWWWWWWWWWWW STUNNING, SICK SICK SICK SICK, LOVELY SICK!!!
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absolutely fantastic as always man! 
ps i got 3rd place in the polls in the GRID poster competition, so now im waiting until july 20th for the judges to tell me the final results
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Lovely as usual, I'm liking your cloud work quite a bit.
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Wow, this is just astounding. Absolutely love this piece!
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Awesome! Really get you mind to flow.
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Hey, this is really amazing. I'm a big fan of all your work! Can I ask, when you start a piece, do you do a lot of sketching before-hand? what kind of process do you go through? I've really been wanting to learn how to do these types of paintings.
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Buy my book - there are tutorials in there.
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wow, I did that even without knowing that there'd be tutorials in it
I seem to have hit the jackpot!
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Your mastery of perspective never ceases to amaze me! I love it! I'm so glad its wide screen, because now I have a new background!
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brilliant mate, one of your best for me personally
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bottom half = amazing
but imho the stars are abit flat, could be more dynamic to add more depth to the space part
ace work all in all but the stars do irk me a tad
my 2 cents ^^
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I second that
Change that pic from horizontal to vertical that you see the whole planet + paint some cool nebulae + add some spacesstations = best pic ever
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Difficult call there - the close proximity to the world and the reflective strength of the light from the (off camera) sun make nebula painting very difficult to resolve, you simply would not see a nebula or cloud network in that lighting condition (which, ironically was in the 2000 original!) so I kept the stars to a minimum - like the sort of field you see when you get an earth shot from the ISS etc with a long exposure.
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ok no problem 
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Great sci-fi art as usual. I think I have most of your work at my favorites
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What a gorgeous color palette. *__*;; The composition of this is breathtakingly lovely.
-achiru-
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