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ANTIFAN-REAL — 45 min SP - 'Unknown'
Published: 2009-05-20 12:16:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 47668; Favourites: 2012; Downloads: 3675
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Hey there eveybody,The work I am currently creating under NDA is very neat, clean and a little sterile, so when I get the odd hour to paint it tends to be pretty rough and ready "Speedpaint" style images. This one is so impulsive that I've named it "Unknown" as it is quite an odd image for me.
Anyway, the image took about 45 minutes of random brush strokes, colour tinting and mucking about, I hope you like it!
Original res 3500 pixels (high)
Painted in PS CS3
Intous 3 Tablet
Best,
G x
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Comments: 143
This is actually inspiring! I could write a scene in a sci-fi novel that would describe this setting.
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wow, I love how nice it looks---I love how concept art is so detailed and wonderful, yet as long as you use your strokes well, can be so simple and fast---it must take practice to know how to use your brushes effectively 
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Can't imagine that you read much of your comments, but love the work and keep it up. Awesome book too by the way
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Jesus christ you really have some great ideas. This looks exactly what i imagine the powerful enemy emporer or general to have their throne inside of.
It looks really omninous and threatening. In the middle of what could be an old or freshly created battlefield its just a really amazing and even scary in some ways. added it to favorites!
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45 minutes?
I'm impressed!
Thies is really amazing! The whole atmosphere is simply fantastic! I like the foggy mood^^
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Great piece, really stands out from a lot of other Speed paints on deviantart.
Did this start out as a drawing, or was it spontaneous,also was it a black canvas or did you have a picture for painting on top of using textures and colour?
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it looks completely epic! great colors.. great everything
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Actually that rough edge along with the great lighting is what i love in your images. A painting is not a photograph, and should not try to become one. I think this hyperrealism trend in movies and games is the wrong direction. With leaving things a little blurred or not completely worked out in a painting you leave that for the viewer to imagine, and in that make a far stronger impression. Realism, with all its neat and clean details is for the eyes, painting is for the heart
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I could not agree more
G x
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I Love The colors
Fantastic
can you please see my gallery?
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45 minutes?! That is just CRUEL!
Amazing job, really, one of those I-want-to-munch-on-your-brain kind of works...
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I reckon the river at the bottom just balances the whole piece with a smiggen of yellow and blue
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that's a sinister looking tower. nice work.
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Thats amazing like all your other paintings... please spend mor time on it
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Seems to have a lot of depth for a speed painting.. good stuff.
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such an amazing setting, you actually feel like you could go there
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Your skill with light and color is dazzling. As is your ability to make objects so well so quickly. I'm still able to imagine just what they would look like if real.
If I'm correct, large building with lights, high roadway with supports on the building, ruins of an older city below, with powerlines or something similar in foreground.
The only thing that confuses me is the debris on the left side in the background - is it in the air? An explosion? Or simply in the distance? Another piece of the ruins?
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I can't believe this took 45 minutes. 
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sick piece. i love the radiance in the small stream.
hey is there a way to rotate the brush angle quickly in PS CS3? I wanna start speed paintin but if i have to push F5 to rotate than its not much speed involved lol.
lemme kno, if u will.
thx
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Amazing, i have no words to say, just amazing.
Miguel Couto
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It's not your technical execution as much as it is your creation of a world, that has story and character and background potential in every element, that floors me.
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45 minutes woooooow
I'd say that would personally take me about a year to do, haha. Great colors and the foggy atmosphere.
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Do you miss doing your own stuff or is your work fulfilling enough. I was just curious because this is so amazing and it seems like you had a lot of fun while painting it. I guess one of the good qualities a concept artist must have is the ability to get excited about everything he paints. (I'm writing this near a cup of coffee and a hep of drawings I must finish today) Thanks for this kick of inspiration.
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love the tones. how many layers would you use in a pic like this if you dont mind me askin?
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i love the speedpainting style... and this in particular has such a "why dind't i think of that?!?!?" vibe! of course done with great skill!
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It still frightens me that you can lay shit like this down in 45 minutes. Is there any chance of you doing a screen cap video on your next speed paint? I'd love to watch your workflow....it's either that or I break into your house and hide in your closet and watch you do your next one in person. I know I have you worried now Gary, so y'know do the screen cap and this whole break and enter situation can be avoided.
Don't worry, I'm just kidding....but seriously, make the video.
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If only I could do what you can do in 45 minutes...
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I want to live in the worlds you create! ;_; I love all them! 
Great!
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I like the sense of depth of it, and how the atmosphere looks foggy...
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