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Published: 2005-02-24 08:02:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 6772; Favourites: 119; Downloads: 1343
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Photoshop 7; Illustrator CS; I originally started the piece in Illustrator, then realized i needed photoshop for the stars and lights.In any case, Nightfall is the companion of Sunset [link] . This one just took a lot longer to submit because i just couldn't get the colors and focus on the boy right. No pretty words for this one, but i'm guessing it speaks screams "antisocial" and "loneliness" without any help from me. *cough*
Critique would be very welcome - i really do enjoy reading what others like and dislike about my work.
-- edit -- i changed the moon, and the big star a little, so everyone should be happy now; also, following ~anathel 's suggestions, i've added some detail to the city. i hope it looks better now!
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Comments: 65
so dreary. gives me a feeling of loneliness. I like it.
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great work!
ps. your personal quote = Aim for the STARS, baby, and don't let anyone pull you down.
check [link] and enjoy the similarities.
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meow! really good peice. I really like ur new style, illustrations are incredible.
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Thats a very nice moon. the city looks great and so dose the little person siting there looking into its beauty.
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Oh k...you have absolutely no idea as to how much the person in the scene looks just like me! In fact that's exactly how I spent atleast one month of my life in college...just staring away at the vast cityscape,drowned in my loneliness.
Maybe I should replace the can of Nescafe I usually have beside me with that flower.Very cute touch
I have no critque for this piece...I'm just drawing a comparision to my experiences. Like from the place where I used to sit,you can get a beautiful view of Singapore. It's very quiet and peaceful (and usually pretty cold).The buildings in the piece however seem a bit threatening,thus creating a rather depressing mood.
One more comparision I find interesting is that I usually sit under a tree there(sometimes I even fall asleep at that spot)...but the lack of it in the piece further adds to that feeling of emptiness.
I'm absolutely in love with Nightfall.I hope you make a wallpaper out of it...that would be plain awesome
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i'll consider it 
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I use 1024x768
Hope it isn't too much trouble.
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so nicee! very smooth and great style
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the image reminds me of the chobits mini story line ^^
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lol yeah the chobits mini story line was really cute... i didn't think about that when i made this, though. (haha if i had, i might've added one of the characters in just for fun)
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i love this.. great choice of colors sephu!! although id like it if it had more stars.. X33;; (star freak) anyywaaay.. luff it.. !!!! keep up the great work~
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i like your girl icon more i think, great scene though. Nice haphazard calmness to it all, very sweet.
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you can't have a lonely girl without a lonely guy somewhere
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It remembers myself a lot, really. Only I'm a girl.
well, it's not that I'm anti-social, but I do enjoy loneliness a lot, sometimes with a huge smile on my face, ever since I got used to it.
Also, since I got to university I go to the balcony and stand there, at night, looking to the city where I now live in, just breathing the nightfall... it's so quiet & peacefull and, at the same time, anoying... I just can't explain myself!
Now, about the work I can't really point anything out, particularly from technique, because I don't understand those programs, so can't be of any help, tho I really don't think you need it! 
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Oh this one is cute too. I love all the dark purply shades. Awesome awesome. :]
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this is dazzling. but the brightly glowing star is a bit distracting (if the viewer decides it's not like that for a reason), and the moon is, yes, cut off.
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lovely pic. the only thing is moon. it looks like cut off ... anyway it's very pretty
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Great pic! It has a lonely, but calma feeling... very pleasant, I must say 
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I love the style of it
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A good piece to accompany "Sunrise" which happens to be my desktop at the moment
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It's so lonely, but at the same time so beautiful 
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aww pretty pretty, i like it how it matches Sunset~ nice colours, it's hard to make things look good at night time, but this is great!
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nice but where the hell do you find time to do this, haha
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tbh, i like sunset better because it has more color variation. but i understand that it's hard to really have any other colors in a nightfall piece. i would've like it if the character was the same... xD again, this is really good, i love all the little skylights.
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Reminds me of the overview of Las Vegas, ie. home sweet home <3
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My problem with this image is the cloud gradient you did in the back of the city and the fact that the moon is cut. The image looks rather odd. A simple gradient would have worked better imo. Another object in this image is the star. It seems a bit half assed and not thoroughly thought through. It also seems to draw focus away from everything else as it is bright and boldish. The city could use more details to add depth to the image so it looks like it is farther away from the boy. Maybe a blackish gradient on the bottom, outlines, and small details like antennas. A different color outline for the boy maybe as well.
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wow. this is just so adorable! i love the dark colors and the shading! [that's cos i suck at doing shadings 
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i thought the moon was covered on accident, then i realized after reading someone else's comment that it's covered by a cloud. *shrugs & plays along* wallpaper! wallpaper! rawr! *wallpaper-demanding monster eats j00* x3
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