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Rose Nebula
Published: 2009-04-26 11:45:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 37756; Favourites: 1280; Downloads: 43
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Created with Adobe PS, original image 6000x9000 - With ~120 Layers.Related content
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Distant yet distinct, with tones that are beautiful and tarnished by consummate use of differing light states which benefits the dark and dissonant nature of this piece.
Masterfully spread dark clouds unfold their choreographies in splindly and contorting shapes while maintaining impossibly graceful and repeating motifs and patterns in slowly evolving puddles of gas, then changing mood rapidly near the edges to a different colour and different flow, but same liquidity.
Without an eye for detail, the viewer will be lost for this work, yet he must possess an eye for the grander, and thus less detailed to enjoy the simple elements of a large composition. It is fair to say this work should be taken as an whole and not piece by piece, as each piece tends to flow into the next through ambient space and dark silence with such fluidity as to be entirely seamless. The illustration here is inexactly cut because it is distinguished by obscurity and vagueness in the work rather than by definitive statement (as a representation of phenomena like nebulae tend to be, as opposed to that of planets, for example); intensely romantic and wistful, the gaseousness ever-flowing outward from bright centre depicted in this work pauses on each consideration like a chewer of an emotional mouthful of brief patterns.
Like ocean swells at storm, the enclaves of light sources rise as layers fall away and descending, plunging but never depleting their energy as from scattered eddies a pulse rises again, recrystallising the different currents into a new shape. They meld together into a voice through the interplay between layers that reinterprets the overall direction so that it can rise again out of itself.
Easily some of the best work from you, this work maintains the intense mood of your earlier works but adds to it the fascination with emergent complexity in simple pieces that marked your later works, but here a more facile sense of artistry centred on constructing a tunnel of symbols into which the viewer relaxes disbelief and then finds the path turning as it evolves, eschewing the progressive linear for the dynamic dimensionality of an eternal churning of creation and destruction like a cycle of breathing.
While some downsides in this work are present -- like the painting-like quality -- both they and it are bent in service to a vision of beauty forming from chaos that destroys the archaic before it, in order to rebirth a force as old as the universe in a new incarnation, reawakening all creation to its potential through a majestic seriousness feared by the facile evasion of closed minds.
Ever against the backdrop of space the empyreal, this work inspires with a regal, wistful beauty.
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This is probably one of the most beautiful critiques I have ever seen.
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I don't quite know where to start...
This is a sensational piece with a very attractive elegant colour palette. I love the sort of sensation of disperstion from one point and I love the very carefully sized and placed stars which fit in perfectly. As per usual with your work I find it hard at first to differ it from reality and often find myself thinking that it must be a space Hubble image. I notice that you have mentioned that it is just a crop and I am dying to have the full image as it means it is only the beginning, I can not argue with the client not wanting other people getting their hands on this exceptional piece.
As always this image displays that you are a master in an art that is often under appreciated and thought to be easy. I realize from experience that this is not so.
Great Work!
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Ok, now this one is absolutely rip-roaring jaw-hangs-open "Holy F---!" gorgeous. The kind of image that makes me sit here for ten minutes just looking at the pretty.
That said, the critique:
The color balance here is very good. You said this was a crop of the origional. Good crop. You've got good flow and good composision here...a kind of inadvertant spiral with the cropped area. There's also good movement. Something is happening in this picture and is continuing to happen once we leave. We won't get much a clue what that is, but we know it's there. Good job on that.
There's a patch of light blue color in the upper left corner that's just kinda "there". It might be something in the larger picture, but all I have to judge by is this patch. It draws the eye away from the orangy center of the nebula, and is so amorpheous that it has no shape to draw the eye back. My guess is that it's one of the other nebulas, but it's still a distraction in the crop, reguardless.
Amazing work. Excellent job.
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hooo boy, now heres some candy for the kid. God damn bro, still got the juice i see. Absolutely wicked.
Cheers old chap
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Thanks man, i am submitting a new nebula tomorrow, if your about right now perhaps you could take a sneak peak and think of a name(s) for me?
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sure thing man. Hook me up and i can take a look
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Wow, 120?! That's dedication! This is really awesome. I love the color and design. Great job, and keep it up!
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sooo very beautiful.. do you have tutorial in making this?
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One of the most inspiring scenes I've seen. As a sci-fi author those kind of images are a treasure for inspiration. Thank you very much for such a beautiful artwork!
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Why did I never fave this? I still wish I could see the full image...
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Anyway I can get like a 12 foot tall poster of this?
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this is really breathtaking! how long did you need to paint it?
and will you ever make a tutorial?
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Wow, this is another great space nebula! 
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That is extreme dedication to go the big with that many layers.
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Hehe thanks, i like my images to have some deal of depth for realism.
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This is really beautiful. Very realistic and detailed. The textures are just amazing.
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Your amazing work has been feature on my journal --> [link]
i hope you doesn't mind
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This is excellent work. George Lucas should get some advise from you on creating a star field properly.
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hmm for once something doesn't look quite right mid picture to the right the red debris looks a little flat apart from that nice work man *bows before the master*
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I feel so deprived at not getting to see the original version. ^^ Thanks for getting permission to show us this bit though. Color is a big deal for me, and I'd go so far as to say that this is color at its best. Congrats.
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i must fav this cuz it's amazing and got DD'd on mah birthday XD
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This is great work one day i want to paint a picture of a nebula hey thats my username
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120 Layers, eh? Ouch. Extremely beautiful though.
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I wish I was able to make a proper critique, but I'm afraid I lack knowledge.
This work of yours is simply gorgeous, one of the most beautiful pieces I saw on dA.
Congratulations for the DD - totally deserved.
I just wonder, where is this going to be used?
Best wishes
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This is amazing!
And 120 layers?! That must be a pain to sort.
Just curious, is there a particular texture you used to brush the gas clouds? Or is just the regular clouds one that comes with the program.
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Absolutely stunning work. It really conveys the vastness of space. Bravo!
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Nice piece but im sure it would look good on back backround and this ugly white frame would completly ruin it then. It does not even fit in the da's light bg
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Congrats on the DD man, you really deserve it especially with this piece. Its been my favorite from your gallery since you posted it on DA and Im so glad it was awarded a DD!
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