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RadoJavor β The Channel Fleet
Published: 2009-02-13 23:44:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 130679; Favourites: 3160; Downloads: 9831
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One quick personal painting, think its time to leave the sailships for some time.I really like ironclad ships, wonders of the victorian engineering. Most of them never fough in any war, but their look is impresive. This battleships were the most advanced machines build in 19th century.
My other goal is to make a stormy sea, so you can tell me how it looks. And I really like the location on the picture, it is the Solent straigt near Needles in South England.
The whole picture was done in some 4 evenings about 15 hours together. Just photoshop and wacom intouos+some photos of the ships for reference.
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Beautiful work, the ships look pretty accurate to the period, did you model them for specific ships or just in general ships of the era?
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Victorian engineering was impressive. The transition from sail power to steam produced some interesting designs .
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Excellent painting, and your whole gallery is impressive!
As to the stormy sea; I affirm what TigerStryke noted - its a good rendering of the surface, but not a storm. Β
Even though it was many years ago, but I still remember doing search and rescue missions in the Aleutian Chain in a U.S. Navy tug (USS Choanoc ATF 100). Β A Fleet Tug is an ocean-going vessel, about the size of a WW II Destroyer Escort. I remember storms where the bow would completely disappear under the water. Β Even in Adak, Alaska harbor the seas were so rough one time that several of our three-inch mooring lines broke.
If you get a hold of the old Victory at Sea films (they're available on CD), there is a lot of excellent storm footage in there.
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your stormy sea, while EXCELLENT for what I might call "Post-storm" or a "Squall-Sea", ((as these two scenarios would present a more calm sea-scape)) is not choppy or high enough for a true sea-storm.
On the other hand, it is VERY VERY VERY WELL-EXECUTED!!!
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Amazing Image.
Quick question, whats the best way to achieve the detail in the clouds, I am currently designing a piece and I am having trouble with my sky.
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I always liked these "early modern" ships and such, where the technology was still pretty new. For example the early 1900s and late 1800s
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freaking awesome! its rare to see stuff like this for pre-dreadnoughts (or dreadnoughts for that matter). really nice job!
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thank you. those are my favourite.Β
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You're welcome, I really like the Dreadnought and pre-dreadnought era.Β
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The Royal Fleet in the days of Sir George Tryon.
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I don't know, they look more like armorclads that ironclads. Nevertheless, this is made of awesome.
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Very inspiring work. I really like your art work.
I have been doing mostly Aircraft but have started somr ships for a change.
Cheers, Mike
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I love the atmosphere and the depth of it. Very nice!
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just as a side note, no large ships can pass between the IOW needles and the mainland because it isn't dredged deep enough.
hence why all of the forts out in and around the solent are positioned to deffend portsmouth (where i live) from attacks by sea from the east entrance to the solent.
just wanted to say that, in case you dint know it
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good to know. I didn't knew this important detail.
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As Mr. Burns would say, "Excellent painting!" It is. Have you ever done one of a naval disaster. This one makes me recall one only four years later off Tripoli, with the loss of 358 Bluejackets and the Admiral Commander in Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet: the Victoria - Camperdown Collision. I notice only one picture on Deviant dealing with it, and it shows the Victoria as she is now, at 90 degree angle into the Mediterranean seabed. In actuality, Victoria is in better condition followng her collision than Titanic is after her's.
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I know about this disaster and its possible that I will paint it this year.
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15 Hours- Well, I have to give you a credit. Even If I am a pencil artist, I really don't think my sanity would withstand 15 hours of work on one piece of art.
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Nice! Ironclads are totally awesome!
Your storm and choppy waves are very well-done, technically. They also really give the picture a sense of foreboding and danger - the two intrepid ships, leaving the "clear skies" behind and entering a dark period of danger. Totally badass!
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Have you ever drawn a picture of the Ironclad Ram's that Victorian's used to design? They were developed because it was believed that armored ships would outdistance gunnery so that ramming would become the major way of naval battles again. They were wrong, but they still built some.
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Great picture - so full of atmosphere. I didn't know there were any ironclad battleships in the 19th century, but I suppose there must have been. One tends to have a mental image of them in the First World War, but in Victorian times you tend to picture only traditional wooden ships - that's cultural stereotyping for you, an image of the world (not always correct) that gets reinforced in your head!
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fight for an ambush assault
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Looks great. The sea looks a little calm if what you want is really a stormy look, perhaps just a tad bit more height on the waves, but I could easily be wrong on their roughness. Very awesome work, man.
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Impressive. Could this be the warship HMS Thunderchild (based on HMS Thunderer) from 'War of the Worlds'?
White superstructure, black hull, thanks for including that!
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Its an real royal navy Admiral class Battleship. However I want to pain the Thunderchild in the future, it should be something similar.
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for a second i thought that was the Mikasa
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Just came across this, nice subject matter, interesting period of naval architecture.
By the way, really nice rendering of water and light as well!
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Very Kool! Very very kool!
I love those old styled war ships!!!
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Beautiful painting. Very evocative and takes me back to more nights at sea than I want to remember. There are a small number of technical inaccuracies about the ship but only a mariner would pick up on it they don't affect the mood of the pic. Nicely done.
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