Somewhere over the Rainbow.

[vALKYR]

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Description (copy and pasted for your convenience)

 

Inspired by =celsojunior & co. I started to work on a similar piece of art while using my own imagination of that same dimension. It came out pretty well. Shape-wise completely pentool, other small details are brushes. Since I did a crashcourse pen tool only for this piece I do think that for starters, it's a success.

 

Tools and methods: Adobe Photoshop CS2; Illustrator (a bit), Google Image Search and looking out of the window.

 

Hope you like it.

 

[DiVaio]

I like it, Val. I haven't seen much of your previous art, but this one is quite impressive.

I can't really tell how to improve it, but there is one thing I would have done different. I would leave the house and the trees black, instead of the lights you gave them.

[papanesta]

The piece feels generally off balance to me.

 

I think the "Island" should disappear into the bottom border at equal legths. Where as, you have the "Island" slightly larger to the right hand side of it. Also, the next now being in the center at the bottom just looks weird. And the reflection is just pointless, to be honest.

 

The sections that cross across the piece, with the text on, deduct from the general attraction of the "Island" and the items/people on it. They really add nothing to it. Just remove them.

[vALKYR]

I like it, Val. I haven't seen much of your previous art, but this one is quite impressive.

I can't really tell how to improve it, but there is one thing I would have done different. I would leave the house and the trees black, instead of the lights you gave them.

Thanks.

 

If you want to have a look at other work, click my sig

[niteangel´]

I would do away the grass on the sides of the island.

And make the island float, so you can see the whole island.

The rest is really cool, especially the star on the right

[Superilldude]

Nicely done, I like it allot. One thing that threw me off is the shape of the island looks like a tornado but of course the picture is not based on absolute realism. Any who, the font reflection at the bottom should fade a bit away at the end and if you skew it just a bit then it should make it look better. As well, that baby/person in the air seems like he won't have a happy landing so you can fix that

 

 

The adjustments are not necessary though, it looks good either ways.

[jacob.]

Now this is what I like. Art like this takes true expression of imagination, and the hidden meanings behind it only make it all the more interesting. It intrigues the audience to look at it from multiple perspectives to get a better understanding of all of the well-crafted elements. Nice one, I'm looking forward to more work from you.

[Pierce Brosnan]

That's pretty good, well done. The idea of this design is fantastic.

[vALKYR]

Thanks.. well, I might follow up papanesta's ideas and release a GTAF Exclusive Version to see how it worked out

 

EDIT:

 

Edited August 26, 2005 by vALKYR

[SilentM]

Seriously, if you faded the grass out on the side with a layer mask and a gradient it'd be great. Nice work vAL

[gkl]

imo it needs some more work. It's looking quite nice so far (i'm not a fan of this style tho), but it needs the feeling that it's finished. There's waaay too much black in the middle, it feels a bit like a big unneeded chunk and is too heavy. I think you should make the overall canvas size bigger, so the piece wouldn't look so squashed in a box. Maybe move the top part so that it's more in the middle - usually that's the first place where people look (i think so). Seeing some more shapes would be nice too (unless that doesn't f*ck up the whole meaning behind the piece, of course).

I can't say that I'm in love with the diagonal text and lines either. The reflection of "somewhere over the rainbow" isn't that good, and maybe try to center that text.

Just keep working on this.

[papanesta]

That's pretty good, well done. The idea of this design is fantastic.

So mister rays if wisdom, what is the idea of the design?