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Built4ever — View of Fantasy Castle and Landscape From Airship
Published: 2012-12-29 14:49:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 17547; Favourites: 413; Downloads: 414
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Rough sketch of a fantasy castle and bizarre landscape, with some other architectural feats on the distant peaks. I'm "letting it all loose," divorced from anything practical here, and combining different influences including retro-futurism (Sant Elia,) art deco, contemporary fantasy visions, medieval, and more. Bird's eye view, from the gondola of a steampunk airship? Sometimes quick, unfinished, loose sketches like this are still full of interesting ideas. This is definitely NOT typical of what I usually do, but let's your creative juices flow. One mountain looks like a twisted chocolate ice cream scoop melting away! Tasty! Is that an amphitheater at the bottom left, or the entrance to an amazing system of tunnels within the mountain? Work in progress, plenty of opportunity to place figures within the gondola looking down.Technique: Small pencil sketch, scanned, darkened, toned, and lightly enhanced with minimal digital "washes".
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Thanks! The background is now re-drawn, more finished, but not posted here. It will be in my book.
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Not long. This is still sketchy. I would say 3-4 hours.
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Oh yes, I just mentioned this piece in my last comment to you!!! Glad you found it...
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This is really great. Could you do commission work in this kind of style?
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Yes, and I have already. Send me a note with what you are looking for. Be very specific about the subject, and I'll try to give you a very fair price.
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Sweet. I'm not quite ready to get started yet, but I'll cook up a good description and send it your way soon. Thanks!
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ah you've gotta love fantasy~ have you designed an airship before? also i like the faint washes you've done- sort of loosens the picture up a bit to i think?
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I used to draw airplanes and Star wars space ships back in the dark ages (1970s). Maybe I've drawn an airship once?
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*DARK AGES BEFORE I WAS BORN*
ahem..sorry ^^' ah cyber type ships huh? hm..i had a lot of fun trying to draw different airships out- like steampunk sort of... i guess the basic design of an airship is pretty flexible......
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Definitely from a steampunk airship!! It's nice to see you put a "vantage point" from which we are viewing the landscape you've created!
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Otherwise, it would be assumed that the viewer was a bird or a pteradactyl.
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Thanks Sandra, just updated the file...
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Thanks, BTW I just updated the file, peek again if u want...
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I'll do more later, it's obviously turning into a unique and interesting piece...
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As always, impressive. It's difficult to find proper words, but your drawings give me some good inspiration on our minecraft project. Of course it's uncomparable but since I can't draw as good, I build it on there. Hope you don't mind?^^
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Nope, it's been done. It's difficult to model complex sculptural forms in minecraft, which produces a tiered effect similar to legos maybe. Actually, I look forward to seeing my stuff modeled in any medium!
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