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Swimmer
Published: 2003-11-06 23:46:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 6135; Favourites: 96; Downloads: 2670
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A lone swimmer breaks the surface of the pool with a couple of strokes.I drew this in Xara X as usual, but I spent much longer than I usually spend on a picture. I split the drawing between several layers seperating the bottom of the pool and the surface reflections etc.
I had photographic reference for drawing the figure but the pool and the room are entirely constructed from imagination... possibly not a good idea...
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Really, really good! Reminds of early 19th century French art, and I like that. It is really nice how you inserted her into the picture, it gives me a lot to think about...
Great design!
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theres a reason its a daily dev.
awesome detail! nice job
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Congratulations on a fantastic image. I can only imagine the workload this must have been...
One little thing though - the "pool rules" signs - the one that is fruther away is bigger than the closest one (it's smaller in the image, but if you check for proportion, the one that is closest is smaller than two tiles, and the one that is to the end is larger).
but that's just a detail. In the middle of this fantastic vector, it's barely noticeable!
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fantastic work, i love the extreme perspective curve. I think it's a bit distracting how you cropped off the bottom of the pool though (where she is swimming from). Still, it looks amazing
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Incredible detail in the water! Excellent work with that. I love the sun yallow clashing with the pool that looks amazing. You did a great job on this a well deserved DD. Excellent work!
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looks like the new york levil on twisted metal 2
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OH nooooooo noooooo it was not a bad idea, this is awesome and by far one of the coolest vector images i have seen, i usually do not like such things, but this is awesome i love all the lines and reflections and the colors are great the figure is very well done as well.
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i don't do this comment thing much, but i really like your work you deserve all the congratulations you get on your art, it's great eye catching stuff, keep it up.
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This vector is AMAZING... So much detail and little touches that make it what is it: Perfect.
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Gorgeus perspective! This shows so much room in only so little picture. I can see you found a great way to show water.
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wow, excellent simulation of the water through vector 
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amazing...I love the water...pretty realistic for vector
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xara x?! i envy you sooo badly... i can't do much on that program ... x____o i think i still have that program somewhere in the computer. anyways, i love this picture, it's so clear and pretty. a nice solitary moment. nice work! ;D
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hmmm...wow
just speechless...awesome...can't imagine how to "create" something like this... just...WOW
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so many comments... whats left to say? i love how much details you managed to grasp here with simple lines and shapes. one of the best pics i have seen since looooong. great work!
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oooooh... water... ooh
i love water, yeay!!!
daemonic silence
by the way, it rocks...
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First thing that hits me...David Hockney. it has the same fundamental parts that a Hockney pool painting has, great stuff!
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Beautiful rendering, and especially from imagination! I love the ripples in the water most, I think.
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thatΒ΄s definetly cool! I do love the mirror effects
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Good god, the reflections.
That's as constructive as I can get here *_*
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Wow, I love the way you made the water in this one... everythings very clean and professional feeling. I love this.
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Impressive stuff - I don't think many people would even attempt something so hard, let alone pull it off.
I'd have gone with and all-blue composition to give it more visual oomph, but that's just personal taste.
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AGH! I'd love to see it, but it's, unfortunately, a red x. Maybe DA is having server problems at the moment.
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Yeah I got that as well yesterday - but it seems to be working ok today.
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You have a really clean, unusual style. I like it a lot. BAM, you go on my watch list. Keep up the good work
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wow.... i love vector art
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wicked vector i bet those ripples were hard... nice job anyway.. and original idea tooo instead of the old portrait vector that most people do..
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whoa! killer.... great job on the reflections and the refractions in the water..... amazing, really. nice work.
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Woah, I am amazed by your creativity. That's a great piece.
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cool! ive never seen someone vector water! looks great!
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Interesting vector. This must have been dificult to do.
Dave
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omg i am in love. I like showed this to all my friends becasue it's so amazing.
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This is great! This makes me want to start experimenting with vector art.
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this is amazing! what provoked the thought?
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I love the feeling you get when you are the first to swim in an absolutely smooth pool. I guess I wanted to capture this in an image. It was pretty daunting when I started but I took the drawing slowly and worked methodically and it came out ok.
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Well you managed to do that. This is really a gorgeous image. Congratulations on the piece and the DD.
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This is realllllly awesome. I've never seen a style like it before 
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