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Published: 2013-01-27 10:14:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 2586; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 0
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An image originally made for an exhibition that fell through. Space suit is not based on any real suit but is purely fictional.MyPaint + GIMP, a few hours.
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Lovely detail on the suit.
This image instantly made me think of commander Hadfield's demonstration of what happens when you cry in space...it looked so uncomfortable!!
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Ooh, yes I saw Hadfield's demonstration too, it does look uncomfortable! Face smeared with tears. I guess this dude must have moved his head to have the tears break away from this face ...
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Griatch
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I like the emotional quality of the image and the colors. Great work there and a story to be imagined.
I don't know, but I think that the lack of atmosphere would lead to more intense contrasts, brighter highligts and darker shadows with few, if any middle ranges. That's a minor point, I like the story this picture tells me.
Keep up with the good work.
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Thanks for the comment, the story and the mood is the main point here. You are absolutely right that there would be no full middle ranges in the shadows - there is of course no atmosphere in space to diffuse the light. I tried that first and simply couldn't get to a point where I was happy with the result. I settled for this less-realistic shading instead. I'll try to practice fully realistic space lighting some time, it's quite difficult to make interesting!
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Griatch
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I don't have any critique to offer you, but I do have a question about making corrections in gimp.
When you go back and make the corrections, have you kept the original "layered" file format that gimp uses for the purposes of making corrections? If so, I'd imagine that would make it a bit easier to go back and make corrections or changes to the finished image. x)
If you didn't, how do you proceed to correct an aspect? For example, lets say the shape of the helmet was completely wrong and you wanted to go back and change it to a square shaped helmet. Would you simply rub it all off and start again from scratch? I've never done digital painting, but I'd like to at some point. Just curious about the techniques involved!
It's strange you put this on here now, because in the last few days I'd had the urge to learn more about the Apollo missions, Apollo 11 in particular. When I saw this, I immediately thought of it, and just how terrifying it would be to go out there into space. The size of the Earth viewed in this image looks about the same size as it would have been had you been looking at it from the surface of the moon.
Thank you for sharing, sir.
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Hi there,
When modifying an image, it really depends on what changes need to be done. I usually merge all layers of the image several times during the creation of an image (even though I work with GIMPs XCF format), so in the end it usually has very few separate layers to modify. It's actually usually much faster to just paint over.
If the change is some minor anatomical fix, such as rotating an arm or such, then I might indeed try to select it in gimp, cut it out and rotate/scale/tweak it in place. But even if one could "re-use" the old image this way one still needs to paint around it to fill in gaps and make it fit back in with the rest of the image.
In your example of completely redesigning the helmet, I would probably reload the image into MyPaint and completely re-paint that part from scratch. I might do the change on a new layer so I can easily compare the old and new version ... but once I finalize the new version I try to merge layers again. If necessary I then take it back into GIMP for eventual post processing to make it match the rest of the image.
Quite a coincidence that you just thought about Apollo 11! That mission worked out though, Apollo 13 must have been a lot scarier. 
Glad you liked the image, hope my answer shed some light on the (well, my) work process.
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I understand that your space suit is fictional, but I would assume for things to be extremly bright up there so a sunglass-looking helmet would seem more effective. I like the texture of the suit, but I think it could use some more hot spots. Also, going back to the brightness a camera would not be able to get the lighting on the astronaut correctly and still capture som many stars, if any, in the background. If this was photography the aperture would be extremly small so the stars are just too dark to be seen on an image that was taken at a thousandth of a second.
The headset he/she is wearing needs some more shading.
I would write this in a critique, but considering I don't have any experience with digital paintings and no degree, I do not feel qualified. I hope I do not come across overly critical. I think by now you know that I like your work very much. All the critique points are on a pretty high level.
-vT
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Thanks for the feedback!
You are correct that it's very bright in space and he does have a sunglass-equipped helmet, the sunscreen of the helmet is actually rotated upwards at the moment (this is actually how a real space suit helmet looks) - you can see the "lever" for flipping it just above the swivel mount in height by his ear.
I might experiment with more highlights on the space suit surface, it comes down to how "shiny" one wants it to be. The headset might indeed need some more shading, I'll look at that, thanks.
You are absolutely correct that one would not capture any stars at all in the same image as the astronaut - the dynamic range is huge and stars are very faint by comparison to the foreground (and to Earth). That the stars are visible (it's actually a "correct" star field) is purely an artistic liberty - a solid black background is simply pretty dull as a background, even though it would be realistic.
Thanks a lot for the feedback, I'll take a look at the highlights again to see what can be improved.
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