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"The Journey Begins"

Photoshop CS3

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First version of my Sci-fi painting, "The Journey Begins"
i just changed the title of the piece, feel it fits better this way. I found one of my old black and white concept i painted a while back, and decided to create a piece out of it, and that's how this one started. i'm quite pleased with how this turned out, as my focus is on lighting and creating something vast with sense of scale in it.

oh and.. compositionally the ship is closer to the camera and it's not docked or aligned with the dock. sorry i couldn't make it as clear as i hoped. wasn't paying attention when i was designing the shot.

I'm working on a documented tutorial/process for this piece, it's going to be publish in my up coming artbook. i have to reserve the pictures right now, and hopefully put it up on my blog after the book is out. sorry i can share it sooner.

i have to get more prints in for Anime North this year, hope to see some of you there.



comments and critiques are welcome

*Edit Note: i went back trying to fix the perspective error on the nose of the ship. and realized some how my psd file has been totally damaged by my absolutely unprofessional use of the not so reliable storage device. a large portion of the pixels are unreadable.. good thing i saved highres Jpegs, so i worked from that. i've also readjusted the color balance a bit, so the bloom like effect isn't too over the top. some texture refinements made and thankfully to the almighty power of overlay, this process isn't at all too tedious.. so... Voila~
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~mutiny-in-the-air May 25, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
So you updated this one recently?
How long have you been painting digitally?
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~adni18 Apr 30, 2010
Excellent work! :thumbsup:
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~SilentArtists Feb 13, 2010
May I use this in a nonprofit video? I will give credit and anything else u want me to :)
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~TotalJoint Mar 22, 2009
Gorgeous piece!:o
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~daecu7 Mar 6, 2009
This is awesome :) You're quite good ^_^

Is that how large it is while you work or do you work on a larger canvas and bring it down afterward?
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~KlizMo Nov 21, 2008
What a buty =]

not a star war fan but holy moly =]


great job!
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~objectiveprofile May 31, 2008
realy good..:)
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~SarahDaktyl May 28, 2008  Hobbyist General Artist
:jawdrop: amazing, love the contrast.
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~jeffbedash325 May 28, 2008  Professional
very nice work. i browsed yor gallery and im amazed to ur works. i like sci-fi scebes specially the ground zero made. i also like human meets aliens.

will u create human and alien 1st contact?ehehe:)
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~jeffbedash325 May 28, 2008  Professional
very nice work. i browsed yor gallery and im amazed to ur works. i like sci-fi scebes specially the ground zero made. i also like human meets aliens.

will u create human and alien1st meeting?ehehe:)
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