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Dreaming of the Sea by $zilla774:iconzilla774:


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Submitted: Aug 3, 2004
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Resolution: 1100×1600
Comments: 446
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Created from scratch with Photoshop and Intuos2 tablet.

Well, I'm pretty happy overall with this picture. This is the very first time I have done water and waves and I'm quite chuffed that the bottom part of the image looks like water ;)

Again, Clouds feature quite highly in this submission, mainly to do with me being quite confident that I can achieve fairly convincing cloud shapes...

Joking aside, I'm loving creating these recent pictures, especially this one. I'm just letting the image grow and seeing what sort of vibe I'm getting early on and this is helping me loads in getting inspired and finishing the image.

I'm getting a little more confident now, so hopefully this is a little sharper and a little more structured than the previous submission. Its still a little dark, but I'm putting more and more into things so hopefully I'll do a daylight scene some day soon ;) Right now I'm just digging the hard contrasts that this sort of scene provides - the spray on the waves and the cloud edging was sooo much fun to do.

Original image is 2400x3600 and took around 2 evenings to complete.

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~nonsensible:iconnonsensible: Aug 3, 2004, 1:41:42 PM
masterpiece! :D i love the mood of the picture

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~ironbird:iconironbird: Aug 3, 2004, 1:46:07 PM
What a beautiful piece :clap: :clap:. I :heart: it. Is like a dream, a beautiful dream in the night.

Really I love your work, and it is directly to my :+favlove:

:hug:.

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~Ciele:iconCiele: Aug 3, 2004, 1:50:01 PM
haha, that's great. you seem to be getting better with that new tablet. keep it up. ;)
:+fav:

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~skargrim:iconskargrim: Aug 3, 2004, 1:53:21 PM
Very nice brushing skills and mood... dark, expectant atmosphere. Maybe the stars are a bit blurry, but the sea seems so mystical. great highlights on the cloud too. :D
~ekion:iconekion: Aug 3, 2004, 1:53:30 PM
+fav ! awesome work

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~Prometeus:iconPrometeus: Aug 3, 2004, 2:04:48 PM
So peaceful... I love the mood.

I like very much how you have done the sea, but what I like more is the moon... The darkness of the image and the contrast with the glowing of the moon and its reflexion on the water reach an quite magical effect.

Great piece, man.

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~greyorm:icongreyorm: Aug 3, 2004, 2:12:47 PM
Ooo...'s pretty. Great job on the waves!
The clouds look good, but I think they could use more highlights, and if you want the stars to be a little brighter, you could always try adding a little pinpoint of white to a couple of them.
~Tjeemp:iconTjeemp: Aug 3, 2004, 2:18:08 PM
it's a very nice piece of work, but i think the clouds are too much just slapped on each other, those cud use more depth, the waves and sea have some very nice texturing and stuff, all just very nice...

so that makes a fav all together!

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