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Published: 2007-04-23 08:42:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 23934; Favourites: 812; Downloads: 43
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I've been planning to do something like this for a while now but kept putting it off until I got better at Photoshop. But I guess its good because I saved this idea for the Terraspace Competition.Although the main goal of the contest is realism, I decided to put some more meaning into it rather than it just being a pretty picture. In order to capture the beauty of nature from the deepest ocean to the stars above, I made it so both the top and bottom areas share similar features such as colour and detail.
For example, stars can be found in the shallows aswell as the sky.
Both the top and bottom were given cool calming blue colours to give a relaxing effect while the centre is made bright orange which draws the eye away from one area and leads it to the next. While the island serves as a terminal between two different, yet similar worlds.
This has taken far longer to create anything else in my gallery. Some credit for stock photos go to Mayang and Image*After. Created using Terragen and Photoshop.
Copyrighted material. It may look nice but don't even think abour ripping
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I think I might have seen a poster that contained something similar to this. I think I remember seeing it in a doctors office when I was very little. I don't know what kind of doctor it was. On the bottom it had dolphins swimming in the ocean. One of those dolphins was jumping into the top of the poster which was mostly spacey things like stars and galaxies. I don't know what it was called but I remember seeing it very briefly as I was walking by.
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I think I know what you're talking about. Years ago there was an artist who did sorta similar work to this (one of my early inspirations actually, though I forget the name) that featured beach and space scenery together (often with underwater segments too) dolphins were a popular addition to them, though I preferred the ones without (dolphins just seemed to make it look a little girly for my tastes, as if the pink skies didn't already 
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Always short on words describing these masterpieces ye're doin'. 
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Lol, I noticed all the recent faves
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Heh, myeah, sorry for that sudden spammage. ^.^; XB
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Interesting point of view and design... and great, realistic drawings, of course!
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Nice job on the fish, they look alien. I love the planet in the sky. There are so many details I could stare at it for a while; it's wonderful. Book me a trip to this world! Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks! Though the fish were stock-photo's in this one 
Glad you liked it
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I've seen a lot of fish but I didn't recognize these ones.
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Wow! This is awsome 
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Glad you liked it 
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Your Welcome c: Okeyy
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I'd be okay with being stranded there. ^-^ If only for that view.
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Same here...but I'd miss having food and internet after a while
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Food can be found... As for the net, bring a dish and solar panels.
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I really like the celestial bodies in the sky, it adds a feel of infinity.
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Beautiful it raises the question, stranded or free?
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Guess we won't know until it happens to any of us 
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You're sunsets are as beautiful as the real thing. I'm entranced. <3
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Everything you do has so much insane detail, I just love it!
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Thanks! I learne dhow to detail before I could even draw the bigger picture properly
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Im still learning myself
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You were going for realism here?
Well, that's about as real as it gets!
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I was surprised how real this came out, especially considering it's a pretty old work, but it was assisted with some photo-manipulation too, mor ethan I usually include actually, but it really brought it out in this case
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i can see why this took you so long - the tops of the waves, the underwater life and the details of the planet and the sky...
i'm in awe
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Thankyou, even now I only have maybe a dozen deviations that took longer to do than this. But I'll also admit a lot of it was very experimental too. But yes, very time-consuming
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most of my work i do in the middle of the night with my sketchpad... and its usually quick stuff - except for that graphite self-portrait i did cause no-one was online... do you ever run out of inspiration?
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Lol, so many I know draw late at night, I can't after it's passed 11 at night lol 
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most ppl ask me how i can draw after midnight... i may not be able to draw for long but i can stay up for monotonous hours 
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I would love to be able to look outside and see this! I absolutely adore these planets you make!
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haha, there are so many works in your gallery, I haven't even seen all of them yet. 
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Sometimes I feel as if I make too much...Each rarely has longer than a week in the spotlight before a new one pushes it aside. It's because I have too little to do lol, maybe I should trick people into thinking I'm cooler and more talented than I really am by doing what most of the good artists do - go ages withour producing anything
Anyway, thanks for commenting. It may not live up to my best these days, but I definetily went way over my standard at the time I made it
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First when I saw it I was like "oh cool",
When I opened it I was like" O_____O OH SHIT"
Great work!
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Lol, thanks! Ahh yes, the wonders of full-view
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It's Really Cool! Like some really Beautiful Planet by a Planet that look's like Saturn
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Thanks! I sometimes wonder if life-supporting planets can exists around Saturn-like "gas giant" planets...Though life would be very different than the Earth-like depictions here
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They say there could (or could've been) life on one of Saturn's Moons!
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