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Published: 2008-03-26 12:14:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 536; Favourites: 9; Downloads: 12
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Description I GOT MY SCANNER BACK WORKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For further details read the journal I've submitted, but basically I am back in action.

This is one of the better sketches I did over the Christmas holidays. My dad gave me a book while I was in China, about the most beautiful locations in China. Among them was a massive waterfall - I forget its name but it's absolutely spectacular - and I remembered this picture I once saw, of a floating Chinese castle. So I thought, "Goddammit that's cool." And basically I drew it out and here it is.

Architecture of Shrine is based on Chinese shrines, although there seem to be a few Japanese elements involved as well. I decided that since I've got Photoshop now, I might as well start learning to use it, so there's a few splashes of colour. I turned the opaqueness of the colours down to very low though, to give it an effect similar to watercolour drawings (I think. It looks watery.)

The title, Piaoyuan (Simplified Chinese: 漂园 ), literally means 'floating garden/court' in Chinese.


Lineart drawn traditionally with HB 0.7mm pacer, colour added in PS CS2
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Comments: 18

zodiac1805 [2008-03-30 02:35:01 +0000 UTC]

Amazing work, I just kind of gaped at it for a few seconds.

How was China? Or do you cover that in the journal?

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evilrandomguyblah In reply to zodiac1805 [2008-03-31 00:24:27 +0000 UTC]

China was good. Good food, met lots of people, shopped heaps, and managed to improve artwork a bit.

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zodiac1805 In reply to evilrandomguyblah [2008-04-01 02:28:19 +0000 UTC]

Sweetness. Glad you had a good time.

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emerald-iris [2008-03-28 22:43:47 +0000 UTC]

Wow, this is absolutely beautiful. Nice steam effects and I love hoe the floating castle looks like it was uprooted from the earth

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evilrandomguyblah In reply to emerald-iris [2008-03-28 22:55:14 +0000 UTC]

Technically the shrine IS uprooted from the earth. The way you're meant to reach the shrine is also very interesting; the monks who reside in the shrine magically raise chunks of earth from down below, creating a path as the visitor crosses. This also serves as a handy defence mechanism. There are also several dozen chunks of earth floating around the shrine, each with a tree or a smaller shrine on it, hence the name Floating Gardens, but I just couldn't be stuffed drawing them in.

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emerald-iris In reply to evilrandomguyblah [2008-03-28 23:11:19 +0000 UTC]

oh cool

haha fair enough

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BeautifulNasty1492 [2008-03-27 16:42:42 +0000 UTC]

love the house/temple thing

the water is so water-fallying ^_0

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evilrandomguyblah In reply to BeautifulNasty1492 [2008-03-28 06:32:22 +0000 UTC]

Yes. Yes it is.

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Madbird-Valiant [2008-03-26 23:22:54 +0000 UTC]

's called um.. Pagoda, that architectural style. But yeah, nice work, great picture.

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evilrandomguyblah In reply to Madbird-Valiant [2008-03-27 03:51:12 +0000 UTC]

Is it now? I'll keep that in mind.

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Madbird-Valiant In reply to evilrandomguyblah [2008-03-27 05:35:17 +0000 UTC]

yup.

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DingoPatagonico [2008-03-26 15:49:23 +0000 UTC]

battlecruiser...operational *scanner flies* ^^
very good job! ^^

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evilrandomguyblah In reply to DingoPatagonico [2008-03-27 03:50:21 +0000 UTC]

SC2 coming out soon mate.

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DingoPatagonico In reply to evilrandomguyblah [2008-03-27 15:54:39 +0000 UTC]

i hope my new pc too! :3

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evilrandomguyblah In reply to DingoPatagonico [2008-03-28 07:06:14 +0000 UTC]

Hmm.

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Mikaress [2008-03-26 13:57:34 +0000 UTC]

Great concept!

Just rocks and no trees? Fear this place XD

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evilrandomguyblah In reply to Mikaress [2008-03-27 03:49:33 +0000 UTC]

In my defence, I did add splotches of green. However, they looked extremely out of place, so I turned the colour opacity down to just 5%.

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Mikaress In reply to evilrandomguyblah [2008-03-27 12:17:00 +0000 UTC]

ohhh understood ^^

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