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Monochrome City by ~Eightleg:iconEightleg:

Categories Digital Art > Paintings & Airbrushing > Sci-Fi

©2008-2010 ~Eightleg
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On my journey, exploring new ways to paint, I landed on a planet, where drawings are completely missed. I started with some rough shapes of hills, with no idea, where this may end up. But then a city formed out of it, and the only thing I had to do was to detail it.

This is the result of an experiment to paint without any drawing before, with only one colour, so that only shadows and lights form the landscape and the figures.
It was fun.

But before any complaints will occur, because of the poor people in that city having only one colour, I´ll fill in more colours later. See then the Polychrome City.

Greetings to all my visitors,
Eightleg

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~Partner-in-crime Sep 16, 2008, 2:29:13 PM
WOAH!!! Realy cool!! Love the artist's comment too! Love the way you got something out of nothing!!

Fave!!

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=TRiGGER80 Sep 16, 2008, 4:30:07 PM
Very nice!

Just my thing, as u probably guessed, haha...

reminds me a bit of that game i played for a while, DeusEX... Or Syndicate Wars...

Not that it had anything in common with those, just a subjective impression...

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=TRiGGER80 Sep 16, 2008, 4:31:19 PM
hey, just noticed your new Signature...

Very cryptic.

What the hell are you going to do in New Zealand??? ;-)

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The road to hell is paved with work in progress...

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~Partner-in-crime Sep 16, 2008, 11:13:26 PM
WELL.....

Hes a handsome man.

Put two and two together

;)
PLUS Its sehr prettyful.


so ;p

PS. You still havent replied to mty very nice reply.

Who's the unlucky gal?

--
We live, we die, and the wheels on the bus go round and round.

At present in Newzeland with handsome man and wonderful woman with back problems. DO NOT EXPECT MONEY OR POSTCARDS

Exorcism Required
:icontrigger80:
=TRiGGER80 Sep 17, 2008, 3:14:19 AM
hmmmm.... still wondering, whom you are talking about.... ;-)


Oh, and about your question:
Hmmmm... right now, i´d rather leave this whole thing in the dark, sorta...

Lets just say:
If there was a girl like that, she would be pretty ,uch the most amazing girl in the world to me, then =)

Hypothetically =)

--
The road to hell is paved with work in progress...

[link] SKiTTLES FOR GERMANY!!!
:iconeightleg:
~Eightleg Sep 17, 2008, 4:10:46 AM
Thank you very much.
It´s a very creative new method, which requires to see objects and figures in a cloud-like 2-dimensional structure. It´s like the psychologic tests in the movies, where people have to say what they can see in inkstains. You only have to make that structure come out clearer.
This is so cool to do. It´s like therapy, I bet.
:XD:

Greetings,
Eightleg

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Learning by doing!

Don´t panic!
:iconeightleg:
~Eightleg Sep 17, 2008, 4:21:12 AM
Hi!

Thanks.
Now that you mention it, it really looks like a computer game. I love that.
The work progress of that new method is a lot more quicker than the old way I did the Iron Pred-thing. I needed nearly three days for the "Iron Pred", and only four hours for the "Monochrome City" O_o.

Greetz,
Eightleg

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Learning by doing!

Don´t panic!
:icontrigger80:
=TRiGGER80 Sep 17, 2008, 4:37:14 AM
Haha, yeah, but still the IronPred has more color and detail to it, while this one is a lot "cooler" and has a bunch more depth...

Both unique.

But its funny:

I have experimented with a pretty similar method to the one you used here when i was trying out some coloring!
Laying in the flat colors, and on top of that paint only in grayscales (Layers set o "Multiply" and "Screen" blending modes) to create shadows and highlights and the overall shading.

--
The road to hell is paved with work in progress...

[link] SKiTTLES FOR GERMANY!!!
:iconeightleg:
~Eightleg Sep 17, 2008, 4:42:52 AM
I´m very curious to the result.

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Learning by doing!

Don´t panic!
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