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5kypainter β Breathing the Void
Published: 2012-06-06 17:19:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 21524; Favourites: 490; Downloads: 479
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...aaand that happens when you forget to put down the visor of your helmet while your capsule is decompressing after being hit by a small meteorite. Bad luck, I'd say.Actually this work is inspired by a small text passage from the drama "The Physicists" by Friedrich DΓΌrrenmatt I've read already years ago, but it evolved into a bit different direction. Also I wanted to pick up the topic about the "unidentified cosmonauts", as I think the Soviets launched some people into space and failed to bring them down on Earth safely... without telling this to anyone.
Imagine if there's still someone out there, flying dead and lonely in a tiny capsule through the void around our blue planet for already FIFTY years, only to incinerate in the atmosphere after another five decades. Creepy.
Well, this picture as it is took me quite a while to complete, and in the end I got really lazy with those panels on the left (as you may see
). After all it were about 25-30 hours of work in PS. By the way, the blue light coming from the left is the light of our Earth, as it shines through the second (and obviously invisible) impact hole
Also, I'm going to upload a wallpaper pack of the image later
Hope you enjoy it, comments and favs and critiques are as always welcome
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Comments: 79
I love so much abut this work. I love your subject matter, I love the way you positioned the deastronaught, and I love the background and the way you handled it in general. You put a lot of thought into the piece, and I can assume you'd been thinking and planning for this long before you actually went about making it.
The concept is fairly original, if nothing else. It's something of a trope but it's also something that I haven't seen done time after time again.
I do have a little bt of nitpicking to do about the piece though. His index finger looks very small, and almost something like a tentacle that comes out of the top of the palm. Its size difference and position in relation to the other fingers just doesn't seem to make sense. If this was fairly rudimentary and not near the main focus point at all then it'd be a mistake that would go missed entirely, but since it's part of the largest object in the piece it draws a lot of attention.
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Very imaganitive, and well done! Overall the idea is pretty sad but neat at the same time. Realistically its hard to imagine ,while being repesctfull about astronaughts, what would happen to you if your got decompressed in space, I personally after seeing some fantasy/sci-fi movies and with a basic scientific knowledge believe your body would decompress and so you wouldn't be a skeleton, but again the idea is really unique and well done. The dust particulets in the cabin is a nice touch showing debris and age. The background is also very well chosen having light shine in throught he dark void. Small glasses pieces would be seen from the crack in the window but...comon this is great who really cares about small glass shards, personally could not do anything this good so keep it up and look forward to seeing future work by you!
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Thanks man for the kind words!
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ok good i honestly thought i was being harsh, i hate commenting on stuff soo far above my level of skill but i think i was fair enough and it was a really good painting!
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It wasn't harsh at all
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I only have one thing to complain about this piece, and it's the depressurization. If the capsule depressurized then the bacteria that cause decomposition would be killed just like the unfortunate cosmonaut. But, what I find to be more interesting, if the capsule hadn't depressurized and had instead had a failure (likely in the carbon scrubbers) that caused a carbon dioxide atmosphere instead of an oxygen one this type of skeletalization would definitely occur. Other than that, it's an amazing piece!Β Β
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Likely what did the cosmonaut in was the micrometeorite. Even if the faceplate had been sealed, the injuries, blood loss, decompression, and the space suiy integrity loss...no chance at all. Great piece!
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This is beautifully done piece. Although, even if he/she managed to lower their visor in time, how would they safely reenter? Reentry is not the safest as it is, but with a decompressed capsule with one, maybe two(micrometeoroid ripping through the other side of the capsule) holes it, the rush of air back into the capsule could warp said capsule, which in turn could damage vital systems like parachutes. Also, alongside this, the holes would let in the tremendous amount of heat a capsule has to withstand during reentry, which, if the pilot was still alive, could incinerate and thus kill them.
Im not at all expecting you to answer these, I'm just thinking aloud.
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In fact, unfortunately that's pretty much what happened with the space shuttle Columbia and its passengers back in 2003. If I recall correctly, during or even prior launch a certain area of the ceramic heatshield on the shuttle's wing got damaged by debris falling from the huge fuel tank the shuttle was attached to. The damages were observed during an EVA mission, and they figured it's gonna be alright. Well, when the space shuttle re-entered the crazy hot plasma burnt itself through the wing and eventually caused rapid decompression of the cockpit. You figured out the rest by yourself... Pretty tragic if you ask me.
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Space is damn dangerous. One of the few ways we could fix problems like that is if we actually gave NASA or another agency some significant funding and let them build an orbital elevator and a spaceport attached to it, so we could build spacecraft in space.
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well there was one faild mission to the moon that a went strait passed it and is stil out there somewere i might be wrong
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Yes, very atmospheric, but there is one thing. If I'm not mistaken, the organics in a vacuum does not decompose.
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Now I'm terrified . Thanks a lot. Great Job!!Β
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This is a very atmospheric picture pardon the pun, but this is kind of inaccurate. Vacuum is a perfect preserver. It will actually keep a corpse looking rather fresh looking because of no decay, barring a bit of radiation. With a hole that small, it would actually give the astronaut a bit of time to find something to cover it. Air does not vacate a capsule instantly but rather in accordance to the size of the breach, which means our cosmonaut friend actually had a shot at patching the seal. If there was a second hole, that makes thing a bit more difficult. And I do have to question why he wasn't wearing a sealed helmet in the first place. I thought all of those things were airtight from the getgo. Β
Overall though, a very neat and well made picture.Β
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I see you weren't going for realism reading some of the comments. It's an excellent picture nonetheless.Β
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It is very good, almost perfect. the only thing that bother me is.. i think there is no way that a corpse would turn to bones in space... you know, void and stuff.
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Was the person a he, she, an it... sort'a like the tootsie roll pop, "The world may never know." Nice work on the shadows by the way.
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I remember reading on what happened to one soviet crew, who had experienced pretty much this same situation... apparently, they all fit into their helmets. Dried and compressed....
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This kinda reminds me of a certain episode of Doctor Who too.Β Although the episode's title escapes me.
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the episode you are thinking of is "Silence in the Library." Β I was just about to say that!!!
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Thanks I knew the title was something like that and had to do with a library.
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Hey! Who turned out the lights?
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When caught in the vacuum of space you have around 3 minutes to find air...
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Nah, depending on what your first absolute reaction is, more like 10-15 seconds. You'd think taking in a deep breath would be a good idea, and sure, a bit of air in your lungs is a good idea, but breathing in too deep, in the void, can result in you exploding. If you had very little or no air in your lungs you'd experience something along the lines of imploding. Really, that cosmonaut probably could have survived if they'd lowered their visor as soon as the window was broken.
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wow amazing job, really lie your paintings! this makes me remeber a story i read about some cosmonauts in the late 60's that were planning to go to the moon, but they lost control of the craft and they got escape velocity from the sun and now they're on their way out of the solar system obviusly its fake but just thinking about it makes me shiver
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wollt grad das selbe sagenen was der andere schon ein tag frΓΌher gesagt hatt
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Great image.
Though realistically it would not be a skeleton, but a mummy. No bacteria and animals to decompose the human flesh, but the vaccuum causes the bodily fluids to slowly evaporate/turn to ice.
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I wasnt going for realism on that picture, the impact was more important to me. Also, you can imagine he died and decomposed in the capsule before it got struck by a meteorite, if that comforts you.
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I've featured this in my journal. If you want me to remove it just let me know
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Hey... The Crack in the glass looks like a Bunny xD
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Oh, now that yeh mentioned it, it really does!
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actually he wouldn't be a skellington because bacteria cant live in the void thus he would just have his face cold and dead but the skellington looks a lot cooler
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He could have died when the air was still in the ship and then an asteroid hit it causing it to let the air release... 
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Richtig gut gezeichnet, die Reflektionen sind Hammer -> Geniales Bild
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"Hey who turned out the lights?" XD
First thoughts came to mind when i saw this.
It's really cool concept you got there. Nice.
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I was scrolling down this whole comment thread making sure someone did the doctor who reference thank you
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I really love this such amazing work! The Physicists by Friedrich DΓΌrrenmatt was quite a read, I wonder if the us did the same thing with unidentified astronauts and failed to bring them back and told no one.
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Joa, kann ja jedem mal passieren
Und danke dir
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I like the detail of the blue lighting on the lower left, btw. I don't think many people would have even noticed that
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Thank you 
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Perfect painting, really I like the concept and lights
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