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I recomend you scan this image on your screen in photoshop at high maginification.... its quite a trip!An evocation of the gothic dangers of industrial chemical storage. I L-O-V-E post industrial environments... always have. Decay... what a subject! The power of human invention returning to nature. I feel... engaged by this place. I am facinated by the danger but most of all by the possiblities. Decay is one of the many mothers of invention. But like all forces of nature it must be respected. I am not sure where the word 'beauty' comes into this. But I am profoundly aware that beauty is a relative value judgement.
This particular image was about illusion of depth and complex internal space, ballanced if possible with the claustrophobia of gothic imagery. When I started it, all i wanted to do was have a relatively large complex 3D object dominating a detailed internal space with deep perspective. The idea was insired by my childhood experiences in printing factories and industrial darkrooms.
The effect in the viewer was suposed to be:
'Wow! Look at that thing.... Hey! but wait a minute.... just look at this whole place!
The tanks were actually a compromise on this complex 3D object. I will have another go at this 'technocave' composition some time.
Getting back to my inky roots after three years of Multimedia.
Media: 0.5 permanent black technical pen + cold pressed 110 gram acid free cartridge 270mm X 350mm
Duration of image realisation: aprox 200 hrs over 6 weeks
Execution environment: Back of Bus to Uni - hanging with friends - while resting in the Central Victorian Goldfields in Australia
Final artefact progression reached: 10 January 2000
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Comments: 164
I for sure thought this was a print when i first saw it. This is truly spectacular!! Have you ever consider Printmaking? I believe this image could potentially turn into a copper etching if you so desired.
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amazing. i love how you also take time to respond. definite fav.
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Wow! Not only are you a good photographer, but also a great artist!
This is breathtaking! So many details, and that perspective! MY!!! O___O
Gorgeous work!
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Just a lot of hard work, and a burning desire to draw like this since I was 3 years old. You can do anything if you believe in yourself.
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I see
Yeah, I guess you can. Except flying
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Well yes, you need money for that.
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Ever been overseas? What city do you live in?
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No... unfortunatly I never got out of my country for 19 years (almost 20) of my life...
I live in Figueira da Foz (a turistic city) in Portugal, near the sea. (coast city)
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I have some friends who went there about six months ago and had a wonderful time.
Do you have to pay to go to the beaches?
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No, our beaches are totally free. We only ask that people keep them clean, since in here we call our beach as Clarity Beach, because our sand is really bright and clean. ^^
Thay came exactly to Figueira da Foz?
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They are free here too.
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This is phenomenal. The detail here is breathtaking... I love the center of this drawing the most.
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So do I. That was a happy accident. Even my mother likes this one, and she finds my work spooky.
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Hah! I know the feeling.
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lol. My father did quite a lot of Anti-nuclear work in the late 70s and early 80s.
One image he did is (in my sketches) shows a screaming woman with her skin burnt off and holding her dead child. The image is so full on, it scared my father and he stopped the series.
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Sometimes those things can be unsettling, but they retain the most potency of anything in my opinion.
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Yes they do. They also remind you that your imagination must remain free in order to work at its highest level, but that freedom can be an unpleasant experience.
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man, this is awesome! you are brilliant at drawing
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Thank you. But its not magic (much). Its mostly hard work and lots of practice.
Anything you can imagine you can do!
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Lol so there is a little bit of magic involved?
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If I can help you with your work in any way, just note me.
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Thanks for the offer
I'm pretty set for the moment, unless you have any advice on buying a graphics tablet... i'm really keen to get one, but there's quite a few out there, and it's hard to choose.
Thanks for watching
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No problems. I don't use one, but there is a da forum that deals with hardware issues. I'd try there.
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cheers, i'l hunt it down!
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Holy cow, this is intense. It reminds me of the mechanics and horror of everyday life in a petty existence for survival. I don't know why, but thats what it draws out of me. And 200 hours!!! I think by the end of that one I would want a cocktail beverage for a job well done.
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disorientation in the face of unknown complexity... that's my subject.
200 hours is easy to clock up over a month
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Mmm.. Decay. Yes, I know exactly what you mean with the interest in decay - the truth of decay made me mad a few years ago and I've never really been able to loose the obsession. I find that one of the greatest things to look at with regards to decay is old paintings made during the Black Death - there is something about those paintings that dosn't leave your mind once you've seen them. You've done this in a way that makes my heart sing. The effect you wanted with regards to the viewer has certainly been realised with me.
This is wonderful. Thank you for sharing it with us.
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Wow.... am honored to receive such high prase.
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Trippy? Totally! Claustrophobic and industrial? That too. Excellent drawing? Simply - yes!
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Thank you so much. I like what you have to say so I will be watching your journal for now on.
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Thanks!
*goes to your gallery to say whatever she can say... be afraid...*
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Anything YOU can imagine... you can DO
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Gorgeous work. The details are amazing. I love the gothic/industrial look of the composition. Nice perspective as well. Exquisite.
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Thank you... for some reason this is one of my most popular works.... I recomend reading my discription of this image because in it I have condensed a lot of material from my answers to comments.
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You're welcome and thanks for the information.
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THis is totally crazy man...
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It is wonderful to be able to impress someone who's work is so impressive.
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"Welcome, my son, to the machine!"
You've got an excellent sense of distances and perspective. A mind blowing piece for sure!
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Art all the time it took and am very relieved that it is an effective piece.
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nice imagination. looks like a scene from a 'dark-pessimist-post nuclear war' science fiction.
The raw scan with increased size kinda lessens the effect though. My suggestions would be to reduce the resolution to a level closer to viewable level, or at least to your original image size, and to enhance the contrast, either by playing with the levels and curves in PS or just using burn->shadows tool at %5-10 manually. I was really disappointed with my drawings before I discovered that tool
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I would be expecting far more devestation in a post nuclear environment, but I guess you are right.
There is a lot here in your comment I donβt understand. The original was a little smaller than A3 and I scanned it in two sections on an 4A scanner at 300 dpi and reassembled the image in PS. I then saved it as a TIFF file for archival purposes. This was then converted to a high quality jpeg adjusted to 40 x 60 cm at 72 dpi. The levels were checked and the image adjusted manually with burn or dodge tools on PS. The image was then saved for web at low quality.
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hmm, ok so you already did that, but still it's too big for my 1280*1024 resolution. My drawings are very small, usually not even the size of an A4, so I tend to think biased.
about the burn tool though: take the furnace(?) at the left front of the pic. the left hand edge of the furnace is intended to be pitch black I guess, but it ended up dark gray due to scanning. That always happens to me and I burn those parts locally to enhance the contrast there, until the shadows are black, and not dark gray with possibly even lighter lines in between. And if you want to save the small white areas between the dark areas you just dodge the highlights. pencil is not like ink and screws with the white areas, dodge can correct that.
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Sorry about the delay on this reply but your comment got buried in my message centre.Acutally, my blacks tend to get lighter when I compress the images.I recently edited this image and the blacks seem OK from my end now.I really can't make the images smaller, or the detail that is so important to my images would be lost in the JPEG noise.
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