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There are two versions of this. One is a digitaly coloured one with light effects etc and the second one is the sketchy grey one you can see here. An annoyed version, though I knew from the beginning, that colours wouldn't have matched with the ambience and the message of this one. I prefer the sketchy version (though the grey areas are rushed) as it carries much more of the "misery" and rotten fealing I wanted to transport. It really does not look right digitaly coloured and so on. The original picture is just as small as a DinA4 page, so keep in mind that whenever you look at it on your computer it is larger than the original. I painted it with a 0.05mm fineliner. Hundreds of hours went into this one though it does look rather sketchy and sloppy. On the picture you can see two starships constructed by mankind in a ridiculous far future. But the crew is no more. All have died by the disease, now these ships, these gods, majesties of war and vast leviathans float aimlessly above the sky of a war factory. All the militairy might and power conceived, unimaginable technical endourence, robust materials and infernal destruction capabilities were not able to do anything to save the people from their fate. The pandemia infected everyone. As god decided to whipe us from this world we were not able to move our lips, we died a silent and cruel death in the skies of the cold space. |
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Irgendwie muss ich dabei an Alien1 denken.
Ich hoffe du gibst das Zeichnen nie auf!
*In die Favos pack*
Das Bild hier enstammt übrigens der gleichen Rubrik wie "Waste Site" und "Zawod" auch
that's a hell of a lot of detail.
real like the way the different textures interact.
well done
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post-industrial surrealism
Well the details are so sick, because they all look so tiny in real. I almost said the picture is only about 20cm broad and 28 cm long. I really needed an extremely fine pen for it.
I screwed up finishing it, but anyway you can imagine the work in it *laughs*
I always wanted to put this little bit more effort into my work. Though I'm an amateur I hop you can still see, that I really try. You are a dependable and benevolent person by nature, but still I hoped to post something that could wake your interest, I really really hope I've done it!
The composition itself is pretty abstract like most of the drawings I had in my dreams but then I still wake up and say to myself "bring it on the paper". If the dreams didn't tell you what to do you could at least capture them for the mystery surrounding them.
Well God is a pretty abstract term in art. The god I'm speaking of in my description often is something completely differenet, than the term "God" I believe in in my religion. You can take a look at our society and rip off everything on the hull. See that it all expands and gets more solid, more technical and advanced but we ... I mean us humans. We are still as fragile as before. We are not immortal. Just the waste we produce appears to be. That reminds me somehow of an old chinese tale......
Anyway... I thank you so much for your comment and the fave!!
I use the term god solely as a metaphor. I'm not antagonistic toward religion though. I think the coming centuries will leave us with very much material to debate what exactly it is to be human. i think machines will in time become life-like, and after that, perhaps, human-like, sapient. We shall see. We are not immortal, but nothing is. Do you know cosmicism? It's lovecrafts pet idea, focusing on instilling deep humility in people, as we are, indeed, nothing on a cosmic scale of events. vast space ruins lying lifeless in the void are an omen and interesting metaphor for all this. I have a rather passive stance about society. i am not indifferent, but curious where exactly we will go in the future. It's all full double edged knives of change and progress.
The stories of ancient ruins of older civilisations foreshadowing our possible end are the most gruesome yet intereseting one. My buddy even picked on that idead in his own way and incorporated it into his own project, though humanity left their traces and a new race discovers it in a fairly interesting, intense and very fresh storyline. I for myself am impressed about what humanity achieved. Their complete self destructive irrational behaviour is even interesting in its own twisted way. Though you cannot hide the fragility behind thick walls (Troya).
Curiosity about the future is indeed something I share, though our life time is so short... we will never quench our thirst for knowledge.
Machines becoming life like... to see that would answer so many questions. We humans are a very lonely race and need a brother dearly! Better even an older brother showing us the right path, warning us from wathever could threaten or endanger us.
Your shading of the moon is outstanding and it sets a deary tone to your picture.
I also love the view point of your buildings and how there is so much little detail into your buildings.
This is truly an great picture.
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