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steve-burg — Custom Shapes City
Published: 2011-11-19 19:02:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 11176; Favourites: 281; Downloads: 450
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Just playing with custom shapes...Related content
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Just playing .... and you stil produce great art. Hardly seems fair does it?
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Well, I guess it's probably really work, but it feels more like playing when I'm doing stuff for myself
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Is this only concept? Looks good but if you will add more details this pic will look amazing. The composition is great and I like these flying ships (?)
It have really sci-fi appearance and I like it too!
When I look at this I have some ideas to make similar picture...but I don't want to steal a concept..hah
I invite you to my Gallery.
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Yes, this image is just a fast sketch 
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I love this so much; it's like taking a flyer ride through the kind of monolithic city that'd be exhilarating to fly through!
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I can't even see the ground
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I've been "alerted" it resembles something in Halo - but what can you do? There's too much stuff to keep track of - and I just needed to come up with a quick shape for some scale
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There are so few REALLY new ideas under the Sun, hm?
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Very few - and I suppose the "shock of the new" (as I remember it being referred to in art school) isn't always the intended target
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I miss those days of experiencing real "new". Maybe that's why I wax so nostalgic for the seventies as it was my "age of exploration".
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With the internet, it's become extremely uncommon to see something really new - on the level of encountering Giger's work, for instance, or Chris Foss or John Berkey, or Syd Mead, or...
Maybe less really is more - it certainly seems so to me!
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Those guys were kinda like the pebbles dropping in the water.
Now all we see are the ripples they left
In all fairness there certainly is some great original talent out there today - and on DA, too. But folks like Frazetta, Mead, Whelan, Berkey, McCall, Nagel, et al were just so ground breaking and really had no or few peers. That and there were fewer avenues for viewing such works. The internet definitely changed the game - I guess for both better and worse. One thing's for sure is that it's easier to get our daily diet of creative visual fuel!
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Nice work! Recently started experimenting around with custom shapes myself.
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menacing scene, that diving-beetle shape is inherently sinister.
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Hello Mr Burg. How did you make those great shapes?
Was it custom brushes, textures or something else?
Really great piece.
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The buildings are custom shapes. Just a bunch of lines and rectangles, really. I made a number of layers, then distorted the whole thing into the perspective you see in the painting. It is very fast to work with these shapes, I've discovered.
The little hovercraft (whatever they are) are just silhouettes with some painted detail to give them form.
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Its really great. I might have to give that method a workout myself sometime.
Thanks for the tip.
You have developed a great range of methods over the years and worked on so many great projects!
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great composition
exotic ships framed by those surfaces really give it atmosphere
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Would be nice to see the background ships travelling in different directions and speeds to give them different shapes - as it is they look copied and pasted (I'm not accusing you of anything!) and don't add any interest
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It's good advice. (they are copied and pasted, BTW)
This is really just a sketch, I would definitely want to do what you suggest in a more finished painting
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Now that you mention it, they do look like that a bit!
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Your playings looks better than some serious drawings.
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Thanks - I'm experimenting with various things that really speed things up for making sketches like this
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