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Risachantag — Original: Time to Fly
Published: 2009-09-28 11:10:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 112599; Favourites: 8497; Downloads: 2525
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With this piece, I wanted a real sense of scale. The theme is all about flight and trusting yourself. I wanted it to feel like a dream; the only way to find out if you can fly or not is to jump.Time: Approx 5-6 hours
Tools: Photoshop CS3 & Wacom Intuos tablet
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I'm feeling an amazing amount of vertigo just looking at this!
I just want to say one thing, if I may: the largest bird on the right doesn't quite look big enough when you I compare it to the size of the other birds (they look very fuzzy like they're far away, so it makes them look like they should be quite big). But I understand that it's really hard to judge size when they're flying over an open chasm of undetermined size.
That's my opinion anyway.
Beautiful picture!
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and i fav just only becouse i'm afraid about him. I can not explain this, but if the art make emotions in viewers hearts it means it's a good work.
I do not know what will happen, but i hope it won't be anything bad. He must be so hopeful and really want to fly. I wish him success!
really nice art, i like the view and colours. c:
keep it up!
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Holy cow, your perspective is amazing: it almost seems like the veiwer is going to tumble off the edge of the cliff! I've tried to do something simalar to this perspective-wise before, but I have alway ended up with something that appeared flat, or too-square (right angles and such) How did you get this to work so well and keep the natural look of the peice?
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It may be because I used a slight fish-eye-lens effect (notice how the horizon and the edge of the gorge appear curved rather than straight?). It's something I learned through photography. Using a wide angle shot can give you a great sense of scale in your pictures.
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Oh, I see. I didn't think of applying phtographic effects into a picture (which seems fairly self-evident that such would be a good idea, now that I think about it...)
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Absolutely wicked! The perspective is brilliant, and it really is dreamlike. <33
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This is amazing. I simply love the colours and the depth of it
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Oh man wow! Amazing energy. This is so epic, I love it!
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Beautiful! I saw something like this in a movie once...
Though they were on those flying dinosaurs. Really old movie, like from the 90s. I don't remember much of it at all.
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First words: Woah... Every time I am on top of a cliff, I just want to jump off of it and fly.
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Beautiful scenery, almost like a dream too.
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I've been periodically checking in on your artwork for years, and you've improved so much. The level of detail here is incredible, especially in the landscape - you've evolved as an artist and that continued evolution is more evident with every piece you upload. 
I'm curious - how big was the original canvas, in pixels? And I know it's a lot to ask, but I've been trying to teach myself digital landscape painting and it's-- not going so well, even with tutorials. D: Do you perchance have the the .psd file of this still hanging around? It would help me a lot to be able to look at what goes where and the layering process you used.
However, art theft is a huge issue around the internet and this is a really big and somewhat ridiculous thing to ask, I know, so if you'd rather not, then I understand completely and it's perfectly fine. XD;
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This one was about 3000x4000 pixels. Sorry, but I don't give out copies of the original files. I have a few detail shots of other digital paintings in my scraps though, if you're curious about the brushstrokes/textures. ...and if you'd like, I could do the same for this picture. [link] [link]
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Seeing detail shots of this piece would be fantastic, thank you so much.
And it's totally okay - I can understand why you wouldn't want to. I probably wouldn't either. Thank you for the information. I really appreciate it.
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Here you go, detail shots are up here: [link]
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THAT is truly epic. I love the angle, and the sense of just how high up he is!
Awesome job!
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Absolutely beautiful. I like the perspective and the composition of the nature.
The sensation of "im gonna do it, im gonna do it!" its overwhelmin
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The sense of depth in this piece is astounding, the whole piece is great. I like the boy and how he got his clothes to match the birds 
The colours...
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The detail to the canyon is amazing O_O
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I really like this piece! I'm really reminded of the song "It's My Turn to Fly" by The Urge (from Titan A.E.)
I love the perspective in this piece too...it really enforces the 'do or die' feeling.
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Wow, I absolutely love the composition. The picture looks stunning.
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You've done a really great job w/ this one, I feel that stomach-urchness from falling just looking at it C: love the details too!
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How cool! The clothes he's wearing, the environment, the birds; awesome art.
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That's so beautiful! <3
And the theme is a thing everyone of us knows I think.
When you want to fly and are afraid to jump, well, sometimes you just have to jump
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Wow. I really like it. Especially way the colour changes into that light blue and into green. Also the perspective and the look of this is really gorgeous.
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how could you do all this in SIX HOURS?! it would take me a lifetime. Could you put up a tutorial? At least on the scenery. It's gorgeous!
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wow, this is fantastic. i love the colours and point of view.
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pretty good sense of perspective. 
love pictures like this where you can see the whole picture but the picture its self is so grand and big. an awesome sensation.
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Stunning! I love how you feel like there is a great story behind this picture.
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you may succeed or fail
it's a leap of faith
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Awesome outfit on that character, and I really do feel that they could turn into one of the birds just as they throw themselves into the sky. Their gender, to me, looks uncertain enough for it to be anyone. The landscape is awesome too, but mostly what struck me about this at first was the beautiful sense of space and the bright oranges. Fantastic.
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it's not because you are dressed the same color as a type of bird that you'll fly
just joking
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Just what my dreams look like
Love this, brilliant job!
Colours, scale, awesomeness,
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This is AMAZING! 8D I love it! Keep up the damned good work!
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wow, it feels magical~
Also, I like the viewpoint, very precise on the proportions
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I had a dream very much like this once. Except the overall colour theme was orange, not blue
Congrats on the DD
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Whoa...that's awesome!!! I love the color palette you chose for this, the oranges and the blacks of the birds and boy really pop against the blues and greens of the backdrop. It really drew my eye you know? And the sense of depth you gave to the canyon was simply phenomenal. I don't know exactly what technique you used to do the trees along the cliff side, but they look as if I could just reach down and touch them. It's amazing, really. This is a defniate add to the favorites list, hands down.
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