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Published: 2013-03-17 02:47:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 7219; Favourites: 123; Downloads: 101
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This swimming pool is based on two local swimming pools I remember from my childhood. One was in a local college. The other was Dundee Council's 'Olympia' Leisure Centre, which was built in the early 1970s. I remember going there weekly in the late 90s when my brother used to get swimming lessons there and me and my dad would take to the leisure pool and water slides to amuse ourselves. Sadly it is set to close and be demolished this year and be replaced with a new venue. This scene merges inspiration from Olympia's diving pool, training pool, and also has hints of that pool in that college building I can remember from way back when.I wanted to make a scene that was a bit more interesting than I usually do, and I went back to what I learnt in graphic design classes during when I studied for my Highers at school (I passed with flying colours!) - namely isometrics, planometrics and vanishing points.
The splash from the raccoon diving is also inspired by the work of pop artist David Hockney, who I also learnt about in art class during my last two years at school ^^.
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A pool with a diving platform and two diving boards. This reminds me of something...
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Wow, you did a great job on drawing all of this and on drawing the high diver, she's beautiful!
Sorry to hear about that swimming pool.
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We've got a new one now, but it's not really the same
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Tell me about it.
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The city council wanted to redevelop the waterfront. Which meant the pool had to make way for it.
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how i didnยดt saw this one?? faved right now!
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Nice shot! We don't see many of those around, the diving boards...
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It's either do or dive moment.Nice job.
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I've been in Olympia once!
Nice work on the background!
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Cheers 
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Nicely thought out and detailed pic! Fun to see such a perspective drawn, too! I like how you've merged the blues to create the pool water.
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I found that part the most challenging ^^. Thanks!
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Lets see and wait of what she is going to perform?
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Hopefully not an anticlimactic belly flop like in those 'fail' compilations!
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If she did I'll give her 7.5.
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If her swimsuit were to rip off because of the force of the impact I'd give her a perfect 10!
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Wow your so naughty, and that would be hilarious but the women diver will be embarrassed.
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Wow! I like it. Coincidentally, I remember going swimming (when I was twelve back in 1987) at the Chandler Sports Complex Aquatic Centre, Brisbane (which was built for the 1982 Commonwealth Games; it is now called the Sleeman Sports Complex). This present day - I still go to the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre (which was built for the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics) where the staff at the entrance gate put a blue wristband on my wrist (like the one the seagull is wearing) before I go swimming in the training pool and go swimming in the competition pool at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre. There is a water slide there too and a water park.
All of the animals in their swimming clothes! I like the one on the high diving platform the best!
When I was 11 - I read a comic book - the comic book of the original cartoon movie - "Tintin and the Lake of Sharks". One panel of the comic book had a perspective exactly like this artwork which gave me the feeling of acrophobia (fear of heights) - a person falling from the steel bars on the ceiling about three storeys high from the floor of a huge room. It was exciting and I liked it.
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That one on the high platform is Evie (again!), only she'd be mad enough to dive from that height given what figure she has that can barely fit in her swimsuit! XD
I like what you said about the Tintin comic. I just kind of thought of this perspective at random ^^.
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Really nice use of perspective going on here!
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Looks like a real pro ready to make a dive there!
Impressive perspective there, too!
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She is like the athlete that I'll never be XD.
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Kind of like me with Frederick, or Hydrex & Pearl...
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Neat perspectives, actually. I could never find the courage of doing these. First off, my fear of heights, and the fact I can't really swim. Yeah, not a good combo.
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I couldn't even dive off the middle diving board never mind the high one. It is sore enough when I did it off the bottom one!
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I remember stopping in Dundee during my Scotland trip in 2010. We basically stopped to use the restroom, but there was also a historic ship moored in the harbour that our guide wanted us to look at. I'd like to go back to visit the parts I missed, including Dundee.
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That ship will be the RRS Discovery ^^. You should check it out when you're next up here!
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And if by chance you've already seen it theres plenty more things to do ^^.
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Very dynamic angle, I'm surprised you pulled it off so well
And it's sad to see buildings like this torn down, especially if they have been such a big part of our lives growing up
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Yeah, it is a shame. The pool was showing signs of aging anyway. The underwater lights and kids' slides have been gone for over a decade, and although I'd have preferred to see some reinvestment, I guess I won't get everything in life. Which is a shame, our existing leisure centre has a LOT of character.
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The three-dimensional effects are amazing!
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Thanks ^^. I didn't make it through technical class for nowt
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Oh BTW, the outdoor pool was replaced by a larger water park which I've never been to.
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That sounds like a nice pool. I know two pools in my suburb that have closed, the first was the only outdoor pool in town and most recently my high school's pool is being taken out as part of redevelopment. Now the only pool in my suburb is the worst one just because the rec center isn't going anywhere.
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There is a swimming pool in the high school I used to attend. All the time I've known it the walls were painted bright yellow, which I didn't like
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I like the asymmetric perspective going on here. It's different. Nice going!
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It was quite a challenge to remind myself how to do isometrics again XD.
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