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Published: 2007-11-19 07:23:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 56042; Favourites: 1709; Downloads: 811
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I really should not have done this; got homework to do! It started out as something I was supposed to finish in an hour, but ended up spending about from 2.5 hours on instead. Would have been longer if I didnt have the fish-dude drawn alreadyThe flying eel came from a game design student who asked me for some concept art ideas earlier on this year; the story is really interesting, about people who live in flying oldish-ships (like Treasure Planet meets Oregon Trail, which I looked at for inspiration today-- TP, I mean) and these travelers would have to find food and places to rest and fight off colossal oceanic creatures that live in the sky. As for the rest of the earth, someone had pissed off some higher being and so everyone lives in floating Noah's Arks now (no, it's not really like that in his story.) I found my eel yesterday again and decided to do something with it today!
Now, time to do my painting homework and sleep even less!
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wow you get to paint for homework? :[ I'd crit, but, it looks like a speed painting
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Thanks for your wonderful art!
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Wow thanks, I'm honored! It's nice of you to do so
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WOW
this is awesome !!!!
love love the details you put in this pic !!!!
love the colouring 
it's so well done !!!!!!
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I agree, this piece is really excellent. Conceptually captivating
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CS3? Uhh, i'm not going to it xD
I meant the tools.
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I love this concept~!! guhasjfaksd
can I eat the frying fish!?!? O___O
It's so cute!! hahah. After you drawing things like this they're starting to look cute to me. In... a vicious scary sort of way. But still cute. Like zombies. They're really cute to me now. LOL. Okay, I'm wierd. But yeah! I want a frying fish with the spike collar in tow! The detail on the fish = wowness. It kinda reminds me of a dinosaur... hahaha~
Hahah, the little person is so cute! green skirt!!! GO GREEN LEAF SKIRT!!!!
I like the ship a lot too!! It's awesome!!! And the gull. It just makes me happy and reminds me of windwaker which also makes me happy. The clouds are really fluffly and... I LIKE THEM A LOT!! They really feel like clouds though- they have that wispy feel that makes you want to reach out and touch them and the colors are so beautiful. Btw, the clouds also makes me happy. I'm getting an overdose of happiness~! = D
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Oh wow, dear, you're awesome. Keep doing these and you'll be beyond in no time at all.
You know, the flying monster slightly reminds me of a monster in Final Fantasy VIII... And the numerous variations of it later on, Fastitocalon in the 8th installment if my memory hasn't gone all bad.
Hey, I am always especially fond of the paintingness of these pieces. The colors and composition are neat in this one too, points for the brightness. And what a great idea to put a gigantic telescope on ship, especially there
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This is lovely, but... "Frying"? D:
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Ah, so that's it. D: Thought you didn't know better.
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the more i look at it the more the phase comes to mind "
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OMG! you never cease to amaze me Chris *yea..cliche line*
But dang, this is more brighter than your recent work so it pretty uplifting :3 And the overall feeling is just wonderful with the blue and purple colored clouds. Wee more flying fishies~~ (why do people like drawing that..?.)
2.5 hours? Seriously I want your skillz!! Oh TP = 
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a very brilliant concept, something in the lines of "airship" and "flying fish" xDD awesome
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rofl this made my day <33
The one a day thing is a really good idea
I love seeing the brushstrokes *doesnt know why*
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Ahh //D I love your paintery style~ especially the Eel~
I really like how you mixed/blended the soft pinkish/purple colours with the blue for the clouds too~
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i really like that your doing the one a day thing, it means there is always something interesting to look at.
i really enjoy the looses style, always reminds me of a loose acrylic painting, or maybe just something with a bit of van gohs over-love for impasto.
what size is this normally? just wondered because of the details on the kid's face.
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"i really like that your doing the one a day thing, it means there is always something interesting to look at. "
Hahaha let's not jinx it!
Original size? Pretty small actually. 1665 pixels wide; I didn't have the original eel file, I just found a jpeg of it in my old stuffs, and worked on that. Because this is a speedpaint and not a full out illustration to be printed or what not, and also because the kid isn't exactly the focal point, I didn't find it necessary (nor possible) to work out all his facial feature. At some point I ended up using 1 pixel brushes on him
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ah, gotcha, gotcha. would have been kinda funny if it was 1337 wide imo. What program have you been using for these? Photoshop? Corel painter? something else i'm forgetting or just didn't mention? I've been working on a bit of tablet stuff lately, and am having a hard time figuring out how to do the stuff like your 1 a days (and no, i don't have any tablet work in my gallery cause it hasn't been passing grade yet). anyway thanks, have a great day.
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LMAO ENGRISH
I like the design of the eelxfish!
I wish I could see hints of other colours, but I'm overly fond of seeing a lot of colours in one piece.
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Yeah, the cloud used to be more rainbow, and whatever trace of yellow in there is now gone
I'm not exactly sure why it is, but Mac finds it necessary to have its own separate color mode, which looks nice; but what I export from Photoshop is noticeably desaturated compared to it in the working space. I'm usually okay with it though, and sometimes the desaturation works to my advantage, but like for this instance it backfired and I forgot about the change. I'll go back and over-saturate it so that when I save it as JPG it will hopefully be at the correct saturation... but that is kind of risky, as I don't even know what the true color is anymore, so ...
...huh?
Lol
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I think the lack of saturation in this piece is okay
:`D I'm just biased for really really vibrant colours!
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my god, how do you make such amazing things, not to mention so quickly and seemingly effortlessly! its beautiful
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Ohhomygoodnessssss the giant eel is wonderful. The rider doesn't look all too pleased though xD
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wow, i really love how the fish/eel came out, and the lighting and coloring on it esp grabbed my attention. plus the little kid on it is awesome *_* i wish you didnt have hw so you can spend more time on this xDD i'd like to see more detail on the ship but this overall composition is really good.
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