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TheAstro — The Light Before We Land II
Published: 2012-02-09 13:46:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 4332; Favourites: 81; Downloads: 3775
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an original cartoon/comic about a lost city atop a daemon's head, the villains trying to awaken him, & the pirates who crash the whole deal.more:
Pirates in London also a dandy wallpaper! download image for enjoy!
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that is an awesome cover... is this an album i should check out?
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Lustmord does ambient music. It's like "the universe is collapsing" kinda music. Definitely good for creating a mood, or just to listen for the effect.
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thanks, these shamelessly hot palettes are a guilty pleasure
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Wow great work on those clouds! The contrast between the red and lighter toned clouds up above gives a sort of hope or discovery feeling to the viewer I think
Beautiful lighting work :>
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much obliged. i labored over them clouds, it's really best to just stroke them down and use the blenders but getting meticulous sometimes pays off.
i dig your sophisticated, understated compositions too. wish i had [any] self control to pull that off.
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You're welcome! I feel it's paid off on this piece 
Hehe, thanks ever so much for the compliment! Very flattered!
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no prob. do you use Corel Painter? if not i'd recommend it, and this guy [link] has awesome helpful stuff about migrating into it and just general art stuff that i couldn't be bothered [afford] to go to school and learn
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I'll give it a shot when I have the time
And I'm definitely bookmarking that, thank you so much
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Mighty awesome, man! I can't get over how freaking epic those clouds look. And the composition... it looks like they are about to sneak attack the sleeping demon. Great job, dude.
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i was particularly looking forward to your reaction, man, while finishing this up. waited to revamp this pic for a long time until i'd developed a quartet of epic cloud brushes [Painter, tell if want]. the original was always too cartoony for my taste -- this was supposed to be an epic moment (sooo close now to paneling it in the comic pages, woot! got about a dozen to release soon).
i'm still a bit uneasy about the left-side swirl, tried to assault it a few times without totally replacing it with something else. guess it's not too horrid.
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There's more PiL on the way! Woot!
BtW... what's the deal with mr. steampunk connoisseur down there? trying to tell what's steampunk and what's not... lol what a freaking douchebag.
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after counting, it's actually just 8 pgs up, but i'm on the last 2 now.
hecklers! comes with the territory i suppose - i suspect PiL is bound to be the ire of fundamentalists of all stripes (if it ever gets more than 5 fans 
good sport for the project to get a better sense of itself, anyway.
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wicked, i really love this, it just looks so cool :3
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thanks, i've been tinkering with it a while, decided it was time to just let it be
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heavy steampunk elements throughout the project, click through the project link
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I did and i have yet to see the very elements of steampunk, mind pointing them out for me?
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how bout you write me out the canonical definition you've prescribed for steampunk first so we can both save a bit of time
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In a nutshell: Victorian science fiction is the core but if we are talking 'elements' then it's just and only just the classic ingredients of brown in contrast to gold/brass really, everything else is totally independent. i sensed adventure from your stuff but that's not steampunk alone and i sensed pirates from your stuff and that's not steampunk either but could be if it had the 'elements' you where mentioning but which i cannot detect anywhere so again, please point out the 'heavy steampunk elements' you mentioned because i see none.
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thanks for the writeup Nils, your points are worth due consideration if for no other reason than that you clearly have an enthusiasm for steampunk. tricky thing about steampunk is how nebulous a genre it seems to be, depending on who you ask about it. the most objective opinion would have a much wider variety of factors hospitably finding their place in a work tagged as steampunk than what you've mentioned -- but i'm actually not one of those people who would complacently ride the outer vapors of a term i'm applying to my work, so i'll posit that Pirates in London is definitively steampunk according to the following description i just found atop a field of results of a "steampunk defined" search
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without lapsing into a project summary, Pirates in London is absolutely a speculative, anachronistic fiction, set in quasi-Victorian (quasi-Medieval, quasi-futuristic) circumstances (it's a global fiction contingent on "timestorms", to be brief). this can be detected in various images in the project gallery. if you cannot detect them, you should be more thorough in your inspection. if your issue is with the project's color scheme and choice metallurgical application in the world, i fear our discourse will remain at an irreconcilable impasse (brown is in fact my favorite color, but it [unfortunately?] has and will never be a defining aspect of any art or fiction genre) because that is an absurd objection.
it's worth my noting (though not relying on) the fact that there is a far greater amount of art in-progress evidencing this project's steampunk orientation than has been currently released (a gestating source of my righteousness to post pieces in steampunk groups -- the comic pages to this point are but prologue); as such you might be prompted to claim that i withhold submission of any and all concept/sequential art to any steampunk groups until i complete said works (to which i would be prompted to respond in a tone exceeding impolite dismissal, unless you were willing to pay me to work faster). the very reason i am submitting the art without reservation or apology, and taking the time to address your query, is because i do believe to date that enough pieces have been completed to indicate a suitable amount of the project's extensive steampunk aspects.
i wouldn't argue that Pirates in London is exclusively a steampunk project - its origins actually predate the coalescing of steampunk as it is now known, it has gravitated to commonly accepted "steampunk" elements through its development - i believe that pigeonholing a narrative into a single genre (even one as expansively defined as steampunk) is unnecessary and usually queite arbitrary. but i also believe that despite what elements of project fall outside of the venn-diagram-designated-steampunk slice, a significant portion falls within that slice, and overall the fiction would appeal in more instances than not to declared steampunk enthusiasts (who also, i suspect, have interests lying in regions of fiction adjacent or peripheral to steampunk). just because it's not a "purely steampunk work" (whatever that would even mean) doesn't imply that i should be restricted from sharing it in steampunk groups. it is a project that is heavily, if not mostly, steampunk oriented, and i will continue to promote it as such.
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But really, in this case; colours DO matters, otherwise the steampunk borrowed genre would never be recognized and hence not be steampunk. it would be same for calling a dogpoop for glass or anything else for glass for that matter and those definitions are far astray since pirates got nothing to even do with steam, there is a reason why it's called 'steampunk' heck we even got a sidekick genre called Dieselpunk which are refering to a later, more modern sci fi era so your wrong there. but spread your art as you wish, you would not be the first that takes every group possible 
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i think an entire project taking place in a city powered by steamworks and laden with technology interspliced from 3 of the 4 main eras most commonly associated with steampunk, starring air pirates, qualifies it to be described as steampunk.
but maybe i'm totally wrong and it really is all about the sepia filter.
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Oh the airpirate thing is totally a famous steampunk concept but that can also be an invention 'outside' steampunk if you know what i mean? most steampunkers takes the role as 'pirates' indeed but that's in it's meaning like the todays pirates are mostly from africa someplace (madagascar? don't remember) but that does not mean they are sailing with a nice Galleon and wears cool outfits with swords and cannons. what i'm just trying to say is; adventure is an own genre and pirates is a concept of it's own but they can both influence other things and mix, they can otherwise stay pure and be exclusive to themselves but steampunk as a science fiction idea usually contain the adventure feeling and after the famous caribbean movies came out the world knows quite well that pirates is a huge influence on the adventure feeling considering freedom and when putting airships to that: ultimate freedom, now that's a tempting lifestyle if you ask me.
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prone to calcium deficiencies, but yeah, lifestyle choice always comes down to security or seeking. i'm for the frontier.
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I have no idea what you just said
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