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Orbit - Redux
Published: 2008-07-04 13:44:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 301665; Favourites: 9935; Downloads: 19266
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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.
Book now out
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Comments: 581
These clouds are very impressive. It's a beautiful work.
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very nice.... not earth i bet..
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This is a future worth working and fighting for. I believe we can get there one day. Glorious! Thank you!
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WOW! This absolutely amazing piece and I think the best I've ever seen. It's perfect.
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The quality of the city is great, love it!
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Wanna say AWESOME and BRAVO! This is incredible! faved
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That's fricken bloody awesome!
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The Planet is just plain awasome, but the space is quite avarage. Strange sine some of your older space scenes are better. Nice job enyhow.
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*Sigh*
A pity that I likely won't live to see spaceports of such a scale...
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Hey dude! I found an image of yours a long time ago, and I was fascinated by your sense of depth and how awesome your concepts for these huge structures were. I think your clouds are gorgeous, too. I looked for a long time, but couldn't ever find the artist. I stumbled across your deviant page by accident, and I'm so glad I did! even your color schemes are right on. I saw you've put out a book - I added it to my amazon wishlist and intend on buying at some point. : )
Peace, and keep up the awesome work!
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the detail in the clouds is amazing
great work!+fav
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VERY nice piece. InstanFav. I always wanted to realize this idea, but i allways missed time. Anyway, you did it amazingly! congratz and cheers from belgium
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Extremely beautiful piece!!! Love the attention to detail!!! ^^
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Seems like that tower shouldn't have any haze on it since it's above the atmosphere
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I have to 
My tower was very similar, only it was square and didn't have an extra layer pushing through the atmosphere.
Love it.
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100 km high building? We can only dream about those now, but who knows how soon humans are able to build one.
I like the picture, by the way.
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Whoa! Cool and really detailed futuristic city + insane clouds = awesome!
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wow...such a big scene! Reminds me of cloud city 
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sweet jehova! Leeds really has changed since I've been away! Seriously though, I've not seen this before mate, nice to see you still have that old magic!!! AWESOME. So good it HAS to be illegal!
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Very original! just think the windows, even lit, wouldn´t appear from so far away on the buildings on the right. but it´s a great art! It´s a
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I don't know how you do it but you always seem to come up with something that amazes me beyond belief 80
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submited 4 juli and already 1000+ faves. OMG!
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this is just cool on so many levels.....cant get enough of this one
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That building is just... so awesome. Can we all go make one now? LOL.
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Looks like a dream in the future. When the earth will be a big robot without "real" people.
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I love your work, it is amazing and meticulous. Good Job ^^!!!!
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