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Published: 2007-11-18 21:19:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 23604; Favourites: 84; Downloads: 0
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This is the seventh in my Skyline series. New York City by night.Stock by
I am in the process of submitting this as a print. It may be up soon.
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Hey man, this is brilliant. I'm going to make a city skyline for a friend as well and it's the first time I've tried it. Do u have any advice, particularly for someone who's bad with colors?
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Would it be O.K. If I used this as a cover for a book I'm writing?! This is exactly What I'm looking for!
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Yes you may as long as I get credit for the cover art on the inside cover. Thank you so much for asking!!
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As long as I am given credit, I have no problem.
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It's absolutely stunning. I think if at all possible you just single handedly made me fall in love with NYC all over again 
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I am back on here and just saw this. Four years later it made me smile.
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You're very welcome! No matter how long it has been, great art is still just that. 
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Wow, I love what you've done with this! Thanks for using my stock!
As to your question, you're welcome to use it in a print. I'm sorry for my late reply.
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No problem!
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this is not how i imagine NYC but again this ROCKS
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I could probably do to make another one.
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Methinks you just used ultra high contrast and a couple filters to get this.
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For the sake of argument, let's say you didn't do what I implied and I was curious as to how you did it.
How would you achieve that piece?
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I use threshold to cancel out the sky and colors. 2 minutes of tweaking before I have the right mix of threshold. I have to manually go to each building in detail and black out the areas I wish to be darkened. Up to 20 minutes of manual brushup. Then, I select the rear area (sky) and promote it a layer. Half minute. I wipe it clean of any media, including white background. Half minute.
I create a third layer and make it the background layer and create a custom variated color gradient (since the one I wanted was too short) and fill the background with that. Up to five minutes. I go back to the skyline layer and run a darkening brush over the edge fuzz where the building's edge used to meet sky. 3 minutes since I have to repaint white over some details. Run a depixelization tool such as edge preserving smooth over the building layer. (1 minute for processing.) If I wish, a soft focus on the buildings for a light effect. (Half minute.) Merge layers and add a background border. One minute again. Resize to print size. Half a minute.
In all, roughly 34 minutes. I've done more than that often. Five minutes? May I add, yours looks less than optimal. I'd tweak it some more and resubmit it, even though it looks decent. By all means, if you've a simpler method, I'd love to know. It's a hassle to get these right.
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Nope. Took a lot more work than that. If you've something nice to say about the art, say it. If you've negative opinions that do not have to do with actual critique, I'd venture to say you need a new hobby.
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Look familiar? Took me 5 minutes.
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Exactly. Read the following, and by the way, this is your last warning. Stop flaming my art.
minΒ·iΒ·malΒ·ism (mΔn'Ι-mΙ-lΔz'Ιm)
n.
1. A school of abstract painting and sculpture that emphasizes extreme simplification of form, as by the use of basic shapes and monochromatic palettes of primary colors, objectivity, and anonymity of style. Also called ABC art, minimal art; Also called reductivism, rejective art.
2. Use of the fewest and barest essentials or elements, as in the arts, literature, or design.
If you had researched your ...criticism, to put a better light on what you've been doing, you would have realized that spending two weeks or a week or a day on one piece is not the aim of minimalistic art. This is meant to be done in an hour or so. That you do it in five minutes perhaps should make you think of trying the style yourself. If you do not like the style, then move on. Leave those who do practice the style alone.
Repeated: This, your last warning. Stop flaming my art.
Cpl Rodgers
USMC
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Thanks! I'm still working on maybe editing it and adding to it. Though...isn't minimalism by it's very nature supposed to be simplistic? Meh. I might leave it alone.
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I think it looks absolutely amazing the way that it is...
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Yeah, I thought it was nice too, I was just wondering if I could make the sky any more ...interesting? if you will. I've done clouds on some, I've done both heavenly bodies 
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well either way, I am more than sure that it will look amazing
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