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Published: 2017-03-25 19:41:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 2670; Favourites: 175; Downloads: 23
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So I figured a long time ago I should do more landscape paintings. Sometimes I even actually do it XDThis time I decided to use a photo reference which doesn't belong to me. There's this guy who is a photographer from Norway, I love his work and find it very inspiring. So it felt like a nice thing to practice and the inspiration I need. Especially since his work features some of my most favourite elements of scenery: winter, mountains, fjords, nights, and of course, Northern Lights. I adore them. Delight them. Now that their significance to me is also spiritual, these words are pale.
Nothing much to the painting itself. TWas fun to draw and I'm happy with how it turned out. I hope you enjoy.
Reference by Trichardsen
Ps CS6 with a Wacom Intuos4 tablet.
Original size: 2400 x 1600 px. About 5 hours.
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Hey, this is really cool! Nice work, it captures aurora very wellΒ Β
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Gosh I love the intense light to shadows in this one arg, also how you do shines on the water hiiiiiiiiing!Β Β Love the details of the sparkling in the snow really feels so real I think I can feel the cold... *ah such longing...* Absolutely beautiful I love this!Β
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Thank you so much (once again) 
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Awesome work! I think I like it better than the original XD it just feels more alive and makes me wanna explore it
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Thanks. Well, I did use more vibrant colors (because I always do). But the point is not to compete with the original really. It's just to learn from it.
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Yeah ^^ it still looks cool though, more flowy
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Aww, thanks again :3
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oh my gosh, that's an amazing painting! Β
I like the sparkles on the snow (:
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Thank you so much
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I mean it (: I think you're a talented artist
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Thanks!
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do you earn any money from it or is just a hobby, if you don't mind me asking..
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It's a hobby. I've done some commissions, but it's a rare. Far too rare to be significant income
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I see (: well I think you could be a professional artist if you wanted to
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Actually I think I can't. Not because I don't have skills (although could be better), but because I don't think I can make art as intensively as I need to to make a living. Art can be emotionally exhausting, I cannot keep drawing intensively for long without it becoming painful, and there are sometimes periods when I don't feel like drawing at all. Then there's the problem with actually selling art. On the internet it's perhaps possible, but here in my country people are used to thinking art is for free and they aren't willing to pay for it. And I'm not good at advertising and finding customers. Finally.... even if I somehow cope with all that, I fear it would take the pleasure away from it if it becomes just work. And without the pleasure of it, art is.... nothing to me.
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I see, well.. I hope you're happy doing whatever else you're doing (: what is your profession by the way, if you don't mind me asking?
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I'm content. Happy is pretty much reserved for the things I do as my own projects 
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that sound pretty fun (: I think that unfortunately things are like that not just in your country. I think that it's a bit hard for government subsidized education to be able to prepare people for a free market, since these two things are so disconnected from each other.
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Hmmm.... perhaps you're right. However, in this particular situation, I see the problem elsewhere. My interests were not towards any market at all. I was in for science. However, science is brutally crippled here, it's nearly impossible to make a normal living in science and it's practically impossible to advance and develop too because the academy of sciences has fossilized itself.... So yeah, few of my friends remained there, but they have a hard time more often than not. And that is not a problem of education. Education here is ridiculous in that there is almost no practical side of it at all, but it is at least some good for one thing and that's science.
But yeah, there is a lot of fun :3
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I was thinking about this just now and asked myself.. what school system would be incentivized to provide a competitive education to people, and what I came up with was like..
If say.. private schools or universities were free at first, but then they would take a very small percentage of income from the people they taught, for the rest of their lives. Maybe like 2-3% or something. That way it would be in their interest to produce high earning business geniuses.. unlike now, where they totally don't care as long as enough people get "good" grades so that they look good.
I'm sorry to hear that the field you were interested in isn't very developed in your country, but hey, level designer sounds kinda fun, as long as you're happy and not stressed
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Errr.... I'm not very fond of such a system.... quite for the same reasons I'm not fond of taxes. I kinda hate the way the human world functions, society acting like you owe them something.... your life perhaps. Nah, I'm not gonna go down that rant-path. But anyway, even so I can see how this can have benefits.... though it's hard for me to predict what complications it might generate. But now you sound a bit more like a mathematician
Oh no, it's a relaxed job at a relaxed place. Perhaps a bit too relaxed as we seem to fail all our deadlines
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yeah I dunnu if it's a good idea or not.. but I think the main problem with taxes is that people don't agree to it, it's just forced. I guesss I sound a bit like a mathematician sometimes, I did read my host's mind more than a few times (: But um.. I haven't really thought any of his theories through properly, I'm more like a parrot just repeating stuff when it comes to topics like these.
I'm glad you get along with your colleagues 
Suu, today is my birthday and my host bought me this:
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/15263122815β¦
My sis bought me overwatch and my fiance got me a copy of minecraft (I asked for that cause there were times when I wanted to play with my friends)
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Oh, don't worry, it makes a lot of sense to me that you'd sound like that sometimes and his mathematician thinking rubs on you more or less. After all, you spend a whole lot of time together and you even read his mind. Just don't let too much maththinking get to you XD (crazy mathematicians jokes from my student years XD )
Yeah.... which is kinda exhausting sometimes.... Yet another thing I detest about the human world.
Awwwww, congratulations! And happy new yeaaaaaaaar!
So you gonna do some more drawing now, eh? :3
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yeah working full time is kind bad.. which is why I wanna try being a freelance artist!
Mmhm, I'll start practicing with my tablet soon. It'll take some time to become as good as you at it c:
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I wanted to try myself.... before. But like I said, there's problems to that. Yet another one is, I'm not just an artist. I'm an artist, a writer, a photographer, a musician.... and I need that variety in my creativity, I love all these arts, but I cannot keep doing any of them intensively for too long. And because of that I'm not exceptionally good at any of them. But I'm very happy with them as it is, I just wish I had more time and energy to spend on them....
So level design is a good compromise - it's a creative work, but usually not too demanding emotionally and mentally.
Maybe in time I find even a better compromise. I've thought of combining part time work with freelance somehow. I'm still pondering in that direction.
Awww, nice!
I actually feel like doing some more digital art too. I think you're gonna like what I have in mind
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I just feel like that kinda freelancing is totally for me (: Plus, I looove all the attention and meeting new people Β I don't have artistic skills yet, but I think I have some other talents, like I'm good at becoming popular (:
I look forward to seeing what you have in mind Β
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Oh, I also think you're good at that
Soon soon :3
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One hell of a great work
I love the way how you've drawn the water.
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Gosh this is so beautiful. 
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Well, objectivity exacts of me to mention a lot of that is really thanks to the awesome reference
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this is so beautiful! I love how you captured the lights and snow
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Wow this is very, very impressive! Also the whole feeling of it. You have just depicted my true home here O.O.... I also love how you made the snow glitter stronger than in the reference. I can indeed tell, that they way you have drawn it, can be very real. That is beyond words, so beautiful...
I don't have much more words either...as you say - they are pale compared our spiritual experience of these magnificent Northern Lands.
And then the technique - that is mind-blowing as well O.O
I still wanna get more into landscape drawing again too, but with the current projects- there is not much time for it...I'm happy you manage at least!
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Awww, thank you! Well, you know me, I'm like corvid enough to be obsessed with SHINYYYY!!! 8D
But yeah.... the far north.... the most spiritual place I've been to. And your true spiritual home, you always roam the back of my mind when I draw such scenery.
Ah, the technique is as simplified as I can get it.... though it does develop in time. Very slowly.
Thank you, Jayme. Really means a lot.
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In just 4 hours this is extremely close , think you have done a really good job on this.
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Thank you, I'm very glad you like it! It was pleasant to draw so I might be doing some more soon :3
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My pleasure.
Just wondering if that is the result after only 4 hours, what you can do in 10, 20, 30 hours
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lol, I can't do anything in 20 or 30 hours. I can just never spend that long on a single piece XD Usually it takes about 8-9 hours maximum for a photo-referenced drawing to get it to the highest level of detail and realism that I would want to achieve. But lately, I've only worked on higher detail in fantasy-based pieces. 11 hours was the latest top.
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I struggled a lot with that in the beginning when I started drawing, but some of my most detailed drawings I spent over 150 hours on, even to the point drawing with a 0.2mm mechanical pencil and a magnifying glass.
I guess it really depends on what you are drawing and the motivation.
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Ugh.... *gasp* O.O 150 hours?!
Well ummm..... no way I can do even half of that. Pencil generally doesn't allow for such fine detail (unless you use mechanical, which I dropped years ago, and a large paper, which I use only rarely, for commissions). In digital you can go down to the single pixel.... and if you draw printable size like me lately, that's quite a few pixels. But quite frankly, I wouldn't have the patience, at least not anymore. Years ago it didn't bother me as much to spend a lot of time on a drawing and do loads of detail, but then I could draw in school classes and lectures and thus make better use of time 
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Yes of course being effective is a good way to go about it.
My personal approach has always been that I am so into the process that I hardly feel the hours passing.
Enjoying every second being there and not being there at the same time while drawing and suddenly 100+ hours has passed and the drawing is done.
I think it just comes down to personal preference, like for instanceΒ
DonΒ΄t know how many hours, but I drew this one over 26 days every day and then it was finished, like time didnt matter.
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