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Griatch-art — Cutting up a corpse
Published: 2009-02-01 14:14:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 2493; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 0
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A derelict space ship left adrift in space is a lucrative source of raw material. Assuming its orbit can be reached with reasonable expenses, scavengers soon appear to cut up the steel corpse into its components, components that may be used for new space ships. A sort of "circle of life" in space.A quick painting for a contest on gimptalk.com with the theme "derelict". Took some 3 hours or so from scratch in mypaint ([link] ) with touch-up in GIMP.
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Griatch
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This work would be published!
Thank you so much again
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You do very well at capturing a particular theme and maintaining a level of creativity with it as well. And the contrast between the meaning of the theme and the setting that it's in makes it that much more interesting to me.
Awesome work!
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Cool thanks! I almost always need to have a little story in mind when making a picture, so it comes down to showing a scene from that story and its theme. Glad you like it!
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Griatch
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Looks a bit different than your usual work, but that's probably due to the different program. No less excellent than your usual work, though. I really like the way it's lit, too. Very nice.
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Thanks! 
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Griatch
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Griatch, very nice. Nice limited palette to keep the composition tight and linked from cutter machine to Space ship. NB Space ship looks a bit like a stripped out Arecibo in Space.
Perhaps, some hint of a stellar background such as a distant sun and some stars would "place" the derelict and give some idea of the desolation surrounding the remains.
Whilst, most probably, Space is mostly black (I really do not know) ,the romantic version would have some hint of colour. Every Space picture I see from NASA seems to have a visible background (not pure black)! When I look up to the heavens at night, the sky is anything but black.
Just my opinion though!
Great Job
Wbool63
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Thanks!
Didn't think about the Aricebo similarity, that's kind of a neat association!
I was aiming for a slightly claustrophobic feel, remniscent of a submarine action. I'm not sure if adding stars would make that feeling more or less intense, but I'll experiment a bit, thanks for the feedback!
As a general note (I am an astronomer by trade, after all), space around us is full of colour, but only if you take a picture with a long exposure time. To the naked eye, the light is simply too dim (too few photons per second) for us to register the light from large patches of glowing gas clouds (which is usually the source of pretty colour in images). The beautiful Orion nebula is for example big as the moon on the sky, so we could easily resolve it with the naked eye, but it's just too faint to see. Astronomical images are integrated for several minutes in order to give enough time for enough photons to arrive so as to enhance the intensity to be visible in the photo.
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Griatch
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WOW, great painting, and in such a short time too 
and thanks for pointing me to mypaint (in one of your earlier comments). If tired it out a few days ago and didn't stop using it.
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Mypaint is a nice complement to GIMP for me, more focused on the painting bit of things.
Thanks for the fave!
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Griatch
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Thanks, glad to hear it!
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Griatch
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It's not so much as a move as a way to play with new things while retaining the old. I find mypaint is a good complement to GIMP. Mypaint is a lot more limited in its scope, but for what is was built for -- freehand painting -- it offers a different feel and workflow from GIMP. Changing the workflow means being forced to try different things, and this is always good in my book. GIMP is still needed for many parts of creating the image (and I don't intend to stop using it for painting either anytime soon). Sometimes I find I actually shuffle the image between the two programs a few times during its creation. This particular image was however almost completely done in mypaint.
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Griatch
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Fair enough
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The brushes and how they respond to tablet pressure are far superior, offering a vast array of options and the ability to adjust the pressure curve in detail. They are in fact so flexible that mypaint has no real "tools" per se (except eraser), instead tools like smudge and blur are just a different type of brush. This flexibility allows for the creation of quite spectacular painting brushes that feels like they should be based on advanced images when they are in fact all procedural and created on the fly.
Drawback is that there are no other types of brushes, so you cannot for example stamp down an image or texture. MyPaint is really purely a painter application -- it aims to allow you to paint and doodle away freely with very little distractions. If one does not like painting -- or don't have a tablet -- mypaint is not really the program to use.
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Griatch
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sounds very good, I might try it
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I'd assume it's because it encourages more "paint" like tendencies.
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Your drawing skills are madly and exponentially improving, Griatch!
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Thanks reynante! That's high praise, glad you like it!
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Griatch
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I tried to explain it a bit in the Biweekly art contest thread on Gimptalk.com.
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Griatch
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