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Published: 2011-01-11 01:03:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 20202; Favourites: 850; Downloads: 1419
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Just read this short story, craaaazy good, so I had to paint it, plus its still good practice.Related content
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This is newly relevant! There's a fun book I'm reading called The City Of BrassΒ by S.A. Chakraborty inspired in part by the 1000 tales, and I was looking for inspiring images to feed my imagination.
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I though about reading 1001 Nights and The City of Brass really intrigued me.
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This has been featured here: [link]
congrats for the great work!
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This is amazing! The colors and everything are just to die for! c:
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You know how to work with saturated palettes. That's crazy. Reminds me a little of Diablo II when you're first shown Lut Gholein
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stay awhile and listen!
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Awesome painting! Great rock shapes! I must know more about this story.
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I like the colors, especially the look of the rock formations against the sky, but itβs all good stuff here. Great work.
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the colors just punched me in the face. this is awesome
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Fuckin awesome, dali does the trek to the oriental city!
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Interesting color use and depth, still the contrast between warmth and cold seems slightly strange D:
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I'm in love with you're use of atmospheric perspective. Like the rocky structures in the hazy background could be shrouded in a sandstorm for all we know. And the contrasting color use is amazing! Placing the orange and blue so directly next to each other makes them both intensify color-wise. Congrats! Such a beautiful work.
-Olivia
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Love the colors and the fairytale-like mood
*thumbsup* superb!!!
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Practice and you will get there! : )
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This is sooo beautiful! I do a lot of illustration for biblical stories, and so, well, I draw a lot of desert so it is always inspiring to see a beautifully drawn desert landscape!
And is the title of this image the title of the short story? I would love to read it!
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Thanks! Indeed desert scenes provide a great sense of colours and feel to them, pretty much like all great natrual open landscape environments.
You can find the short story from The Arabian Nights, it's just called The City of Brass : )
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mind-thunderingly, stupefyingly masterful as always haha
what was the short story??
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Thanks! They short story of The City of Brass is about 2 Travelers with their caravans who got lost in the desert looking for brass bottles that were used to trap jinns by King Solomon long ago, and on the way they meet up with fascinating ancient ruins and relics, and a city of brass which is a ghost city full of treasure and hidden secrets!
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Stunning use of colour Jimmy. You generated a convincing environment for this caravan to pass through. Send me the short story if you're able!
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I can try to bring it to you sometime during school
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I'm speechless!
Amazing artwork, its full of culture, the idea is great and love how you introduce the scene!
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Shit, this is nice. You got some Justin Sweet thing going on.
I like the value composition but I would probably work out the saturation contrast. It could be stronger if the centre area was more saturated than others maybe?(in the other words, desaturate the other area)
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Thanks Keita! I'll fix it right away! I'm thinking of adding just a bit more details to the buildings themselves!
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I love that tone of blue sky in contrast with all the orange and brown. Comp is great too man.
(all this pictures make me want to go to these places :T , can't wait for the next one, it's like a mini-vacation)
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Thanks Kanta! more stuff to come soon!
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oooo where can i read this? i love how you depict light in your paintings! nice sence of depth as well!
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Thanks!
The City of Brass is a chapter from the Tales of 1001 Nights/ The Arabian Nights, you can find volumes from the store or select scripts from the internet!
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Nice; that was my guess hehe. Did you get the whole collection? I'm waiting to get a good illustrated hardcopy.
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Great colors! I think this is one of my favorite pics I've seen from you in a while.
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really liking the simple color contrast you used here, it really adds to the depth!
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Geeze... As of now, I'm starting to doubt there's anything you can't draw, let alone with less success. XD You never cease to amaze me!!
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such a beautiful landscape. wonderful painting, too! <3
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