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Published: 2014-08-18 22:40:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 4469; Favourites: 124; Downloads: 98
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Description Part 2 of the swedish countryside studies I am doing. Having a lot of fun with these. Same location as the last one but a different house and a different view.
Was thinking that this could be a later event, something bad happened here.
Thanks for looking.
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radio-jacket [2016-09-02 11:45:21 +0000 UTC]

Awesome stuff.

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votkar [2015-09-07 10:50:30 +0000 UTC]

Nice one!
Is this a speedpaint or did it take really long?

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safaquel [2014-09-29 10:11:51 +0000 UTC]

Ehhh, if you added a bit of dust and spiders on the inside, or a hint of those, you'd get an awesome concept for a horror game. As it is, it looks merely sinister.

Which is to say, it is a light-mooded pick which successfully sends 'wrongness' as one of its messages, mostly due to odd-shaped windows and a bit skewed perspective of the house in general.... But there is more, I think, at least potentially, here. If this is intended as a mood piece, at least...

More people for lighter, less 'horrory' mood, more engines or machinery or even canisters for more 'balanced' feel. Add some blood stains for classic DayZ/Resident Evil theme.
So, I think this looks more like a half-a-scene, a, a dummy more than a final product. By which I mean that the mood is not defined and could go either way. This is, I think, because the image has many mixed messages embedded. For example, the classic black-and-yellow ribbons that mostly are associated with the police force in US -- Russians mostly use red and white as far as I know, though if you have researched this and there is an international standard, I beg your pardon. So, we have an officially sealed off house, but somehow the sealing tape doesn't really seal much. Then there are window reflections -- we cannot see what's inside the house, but what we can see doesn't quite look as a reflection (that took a bit of thinking). Or is it a ghost-light?

Then again, the decontamination guys rarely come with just a hose and a hazmat suit, because, well, either they are going to pump the place full of poison/vaccine/binding agent/what have you, or burn it, in which case they'd need a flamethrower.
So, why a hazmat suit? Why only one guy? Why does he have a single, simple HOSE? Who sealed the house off and why did they not enter the picture? I think those questions merit some answers, and from those answers more details might stem that would look nice in the picture.

So, while a very nice work with great coloring and shading, it's still a piece that could go in several ways and at present doesn't really go in any of them.

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SG--ZILLIS [2014-08-21 23:40:56 +0000 UTC]

wonderful how you've infused a sense of creepiness into these "pleasantville" studies.

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Colorbind In reply to SG--ZILLIS [2014-09-20 18:04:46 +0000 UTC]

It is fun to play around with for sure. I love a sense of wierd.

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OkitaMaiku [2014-08-19 09:51:09 +0000 UTC]

Really great painting! I've been keeping this one open on a tab all day, looking at the strokes and studying it. Superb!

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Colorbind In reply to OkitaMaiku [2014-09-20 18:05:01 +0000 UTC]

Thanks man, very much appreciated!

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Camron-Brown [2014-08-19 02:08:35 +0000 UTC]

its those swedish meatballs brah give anyone the gas

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Colorbind In reply to Camron-Brown [2014-09-20 18:05:16 +0000 UTC]

Hahahaha XD

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TheRealLucieth [2014-08-19 01:43:06 +0000 UTC]

I like your approach to studies. It's really creepy, but charming at the same time.

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Colorbind In reply to TheRealLucieth [2014-09-20 18:05:34 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much, greatly appreciated!

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miguelzuppo [2014-08-19 00:30:57 +0000 UTC]

outstanding !

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Colorbind In reply to miguelzuppo [2014-09-20 18:05:39 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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