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Published: 2014-05-21 14:01:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 7473; Favourites: 267; Downloads: 772
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HIGH RESOLUTION TEXTURE | RULES OF USAGEMade from my own material, plus two raw bokeh photos by ooc-sdz . Hope you enjoy ♥
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Don't claim my textures as your own with none or minor alterations.
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3. Feel free to use my work for whatever you like, wherever you like.
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Comments: 48
Excellent work! I also do a kind of abstract industrail photography art using mud, concrete, rust, ect. I very much like your creative process.
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Thank you for the use.....boogalood.deviantart.com/art/C…
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Looks creepy but in a good way! Thanks for stopping by
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I'm really happy you like it!
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Thanks for notifying me, have a nice day
xx
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This would look gorgeous as a print on its own!
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Thank you, this would actually be something that I'd consider putting on a wall in my own flat
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You should call this one 'The Hot Gates'. Just reminds me of 300 and the Persian army marching.
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Ohhh I love 300! Just recently rewatched it and loved it even more
Thanks, I will officially call this 'the hot gates' whenever I speak of it
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You know, it would be very cool to see some of your more narrative work. If 'the hot gates' is any proof, it would probably look pretty cool.
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What do you mean by narrative work? Literature?
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Oh i meant story wise. Because at the moment you are just doing backgrounds but this one seemed to be a scene from 300 in my mind. What I meant was it would be great to see you do work where you are actually drawing -say horsemen. That would be narrative work because you are telling us something. i.e. "hey, i drew some horses!" 
oh, wait. where you being sarcastic? it's too early for deviant comments!
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The way I look at it - it's not "just backgrounds", it's expressing myself through abstract art. I am already telling a story by creating an atmosphere or a feeling that goes with a texture. If that inspires others to add figures and turn the abstract artwork into something surreal, they are welcome to do it
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hey, that's gotta be one of the most thoughtful replies i have ever gotten not just in deviant but thinking back to my years in art school as well.
you know you are right in saying that your work is more than 'just backgrounds' it was a bit short sighted of me to say that.
i think it makes sense that a narrative piece might limit you, but i never imagined you would do photo manipulation to accomplish that. for example when i saw the hot gates, i thought it felt very close to a painting. so maybe you could think of using paint on your surfaces.
a great artist can always know his or her limitations, so its good you don't want to try something you feel might limit you... but... don't let that limit you to only doing one thing either.
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Really? Well, I'll thake that as a compliment
Using paint is not a bad thought, therefore I'd have to buy it, create structures which will work within a texture and find a scanner which will get me high quality scans. I might consider that at a point when I have the resources (which I currently don't). It might add to my textures, so I'll keep it in mind!
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yeah, scanners, specially the nice ones are quite pricy... and bulky. I did photography in University and this is back in the day when digital still sucked, so it was all film. hundreds of negs. specially after my first year here in Taiwan. and i finally bought a nice neg scanner and even though i got a good price for it, it's so big! i think if i were to take my the macs and iPads in my home and stack them on top of each other, the scanner would still be taller.
hey you know what? i think the problem is me here! I had a look at some of your recent textures and right away i could visualize something in them. so i think the problem is my mind. haha
i thought i would post a comment on each to mention what they looked like to me, but then i thought that would be annoying. so i didn't. oh and also, they look great!
I finally had a look at your profile as well-- you are a girl!! a haha, i, ah, knew that.
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Hey, I don't think there is any problem at all 
Funny thing is that everyone who hasn't seen my ID yet thinks I'm a guy. Actually, the comment I answered right before yours was calling me "good Sir". Which is kinda funny. At least my ID didn't leave any doubts about my gender, so that's a relief
Oh, that scanner sounds huge. Maybe you could through a blanket on top and use it as your dinner table.
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well, the scanner is taking up a whole small table next to my desk. but i gotta say, there's a reason they are so bulky. it's been one of my all time favorite purchases. the rich quality scan you get from that compared to a $60 US common scanner is literally night and day. when it scans an old picture, you see on your screen and yeah, you can see the grain from the original neg but you also get these HD colors.
Now you just reminded me of the pilot from The Office US. Not sure if you get/got this show in Germany but anyway, there's a part where Michael Scott is on the phone with someone about some job interview and he is pretending to be great friends with the person on the phone in front of some other employee that is sitting in his office... and he ends the conversation with the person on the phone with: "Thank you, yes, yes.... you sir, are a gentleman and a scholar!.... yes, uh-huh.. ah, ok--great!, bye bye" CLICK
He looks down at the phone without looking at his employee and he is like: "..that.... was a woman."
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How much did you spend on that thing?
Oh, that's funny because just a few days ago I tried watching the pilot of The Office. Yes, tried... I gotta say, the first ten minutes or so didn't even trigger a smile on me.
We have a German equivalent to the Series called Stromberg, and it's basically the only good German TV Series there is. And the main actor just is naturally so hilarious that I was expecting a lot more from the US version, being the inspiration and all.
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I think I spent $200 Canadian which is almost the same as UD at the time. It's an Epson Perfection. Great Purchase. Specially as i mentioned before, all my old negs. Nowadays I still use it to scan my comic book pages. I bought it from this awesome site in Toronto (that sadly closed) where it worked like ordering Pizza. You would order your Scanner or printer or computer and some dude would show up at your door a couple hours later with your purchase (obviously from the warehouse). But what was really funny is that the site itself discouraged you from tipping the delivery guys. But I couldn't help myself so i still gave the guy a couple bucks.
Now I live in Taiwan and here there is absolutely no tipping at all. Having worked in the restaurant industry in Toronto where you provide the best costumer service possible (fancy restaurant) so you can get the best tip possible, it's bizarre to be here where people work so hard to make you happy and where not only do they not expect a tip but more often than not, they will refuse it if you offer it..... except the pizza hut guy.
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Really? That's very interesting, how else are things different in Taiwan?
What are the most surprising things?
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I won't even know where to begin!
But if you ever have an opportunity to come visit, you totally should! Oh I know, napping at work is OK here! So after you have lunch, you get nap time so all lights in the offices are dim down, people have small pillows in their desk. Even small blankets. And pretty much from 12:45 to 1:15, most people nap. Then lights go back on and back to work til very late. 6-7 pm. Some of the high school teachers here, since they will be with their kids until 8pm, take a second nap.
But the thing is, you don't wait til nap time sometimes. If you have a spare and you are tired, you take a nap. So often i come into the office and some of the coworkers are working but the odd one is napping. Anyway, getting sleepy now, haha.
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This is so exciting
What about the food? What are the really good traditional dishes out there?
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I'm not a big fan of authentic Chinese food. Some people are but I am not one of them. It's not what you find back home in westernized Chinese restaurants. I usually go for Indian, Thai or Vietnamese but i steer away from Chinese.
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Oh, why is that? Just not your taste palette?
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Beautiful, looks like a fiery molten crust of the Earth
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Love all of your textures and abstracts .. each single one is truly unique and sophisticated
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Geiles Teil! Anders kann ich es nicht sagen
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Danke, endlich mal was gelbes! Naja wenigstens zum Teil
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ich schreibe auch immer das gleiche..sorry, aber sind echt tolle farben.. mir gefällt das rostbraun/rot sehr gut am ende..
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Macht nix, mich freut es jedes Mal neu, wenn du schreibst
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und das freut mich
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Vielen Dank, gleich geht's an die heutige Textur... hab noch keine Ahnung, was ich mache
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da bin ich ja mal gespannt..vielleicht was mit grau, lila, orange.. O.o
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