Decadent Progression (coursework), Godwin Koay (2D)

[picolo]

wow grat post man I really like the concept and realisation:thumbsup::eek::love:

[TRHaDEs]

wow~exellent details works~good lighting and design ,pretty good ,5stars from me~keep the good works up!:scream: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :bounce:

[MoonVisionStudio]

5 star work! Congratulations and good luck in the military!

[lukx]

fantastic piece of work.

[Miyagu]

these details are gorgeous.. so much to look at.. great work! :thumbsup:

[rawwad]

Excellent work! Great idea, style and details! Keep it up! 5stars :applause:

[BGHart]

WOW! This is incredible. I can't stop looking and still finding new details. Outstanding and most imaginative composition with an excellent "sad but true" concept behind. :applause: Love it - 5 stars.

[minminxu]

WOW~~~~very nice workkkkk~~~~~ great design of machine~~~~~~I so love it~~~~*****5starsss from me~~~~~~~~:bounce: :bounce: ~~~~~~~~~~

[misiek1125]

Yeah!
I've already seen it, (conceptart.org?)

beautiful! ...5 stars

[iChiaz]

Omg, looks great. I like composition, coloring.

[waheednasir]

:thumbsup: ....brilliant job.

[Durex Durpaneu]

Wow. Impressive this is amazing. Love the color palet, love atmosphere it gives, love the concept. (i wander how it would look with a few textures on.)

Keep it Hard, Keep the Core, Keep up the HARDCORE.

[ahbeejieh]

Holy details man... Seriously awesome piece you got here. Amazing first post. Keep posting.

[kbarts]

Uhh. this details are fantastic! ***** from me!

[Godwin]

Thanks everyone!

misiek1125: Ah you probably mean sijun.com because I don't post at conceptart.org.

Durex Durpaneu: Mind elaborating on the "textures"? If you're talking about texture overlays, I tend not to use them because I haven't figured out how to use them effectively and in a way that adds to the work on the whole.

[cgnetworks_le]

Yeah
just love it, esp the details and composition

[Revelation_Space]

Very very nice but pleeeeaaaaase post a link to the ultra-high resolution image you obviously have. The image you've linked to doesn't allow anyone to appreciate all the effort you've put in.

[cabotinecco]

wow wow!!

So great work!
U have painting a grand but splendid world!Love it!:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: 5 stars from me!

[Kyena]

The second thing that crossed my mind was: This would be a worthy entry for the "Spectacular" Challenge - simply because the first thing I thought while looking at the overall paintings and then the details was: Wow that is seriously spectacular.

I am so envious of people with such environment/architectural skills (but in a good way) ;)
You have my five stars for this :)

[ivoryK]

i love the idea and trhe realization. i just can say wow!!!

[AlyFell]

Absolutely great work! Hope you get front page with this! 5 stars!

[Godwin]

Thanks again all!

Revelation_Space: How high would you like it? Honestly I'm not quite keen on putting print-quality close-to-full-sized versions of it online, besides the huge filesizes (which is why I did small crops instead), it also makes more sense for me to hold on to the ultimate raw works so as to preserve some kind of... exclusivity, if it does go into print, or something. Okay fine I was afraid people would "steal" it, but is my fear unfounded? Regardless, how high-res would you (and everyone else) like to see it? Or is there just a certain part you'd like to see? I may upload new ones at a later date.

Kyena: Thanks :) but I don't think that's possible because I didn't start on the work within the time period, and it was meant as school work. Also, I've seen people's threads, I don't think I'm cut out for that kind of work, both the quality and quantity, as well as to have the courage to put the earliest concepts up for critique. That doesn't mean I won't try though, for any future challenges.

Perhaps this is a good time to ask, if I wanted to get the work printed (and sold), is there any established service that can help handle all the work, including shipping and payment? Or is it usually DIY?

[loocas]

Awesome painting man! :buttrock:

Nothing to crit, 'coz I love it all! http://forums.cgsociety.org/images/rating/rating_5.gif from me :applause:

[pimeto]

5 stars from me! wonderfull job dude!

[HellBoy]

fantastic work.

I like the design and the idea too

5 stars here too

[igorsandman]

Hey,
Awesome details! I especialy love the "naive" (in a good way) approach. All those huge dented wheels and such. It reminds me of Metropolis. So does the theme of your picture.
It's realy expresive which is hard to do with architecture :)
Keep it up.
-IS-

[blz]

stunning work, the level of details is amazing.
congratulations, thats top stuff.

[X-NoIsE]

man... the scene really shake me.

how modern artwork!

I will glad to put it on my bed room.

thank for so wonderful enjoyment.

[geneticlone]

fish eyed lens huh lol :arteest: its still cool, great job must have taken a long time to do all this.

[Luks]

Hey! Excelent picture man!

I like the reflections style in glass, very good!

Congratz.

[Immortal1490]

Thanks again all!

Perhaps this is a good time to ask, if I wanted to get the work printed (and sold), is there any established service that can help handle all the work, including shipping and payment? Or is it usually DIY?

Ballistic Publishing (I believe its called) works with CGTalk (as far as I can tell). They usually make books with work posted here.

I would love a big poster of this man. Awesome job.

[aaron111]

the first thing I thought while looking at the overall paintings and then the details was: Wow that is seriously spectacular

My thoughts exactly. Simply awesome piece. This deserves a large print to show off all that detail, good to know you've done it. I would put that on my wall, no doubt. Keep us posted on whether or not you ever arrange to sell prints or posters of this.

From the Sijun thread it looks like you printed both panels separately. I think it would work well as a single large print as well - with a black border between, perhaps narrower than the version you posted here.

[AngryScientist]

I really enjoy both paintings - beautiful..

[woadiestyol]

As has been said, this is some fantastic work. What I'm really impressed with is your commentary and though process, and I really appreciate you including this in your post. I wish more people posted their thought process, as it really helps to push your work past the point of illustration and into the realm of true art. Good luck in the army, and definitely keep us updated on any prints you plan to sell!

[ekah]

Absolutely breathtaking! Just lovely. You are also quite humble about your ability. All the more reason why your work is special. There had been a thread recently about what makes a "mature artist". Your attitude is the very definition of a "mature artist", in my opinion.

[founded]

You are great artist! Why do you want to serve at yours country army?

[DerPapa]

really nice images! cool style! But there is something wrong with perspective, that catches my attention. It's the circles! I did a quick mockup of your image, to show what I mean.

If you don't know the "drawing ellipses" tutorial of Scott Robertson, here's a link: http://www.drawthrough.com/tutorials/index.html

anyway, nice work!

cheers
Michael

[Spc]

Awesome concept.
:D

[smurfbizkit2]

First post and on the front page? I'm jealous. :P

I'm glad you ended up posting here and hope you'll post more after the military thing (or how about a backlog of work post before you go?, maybe that awesome halo pic *nudge nudge*).

[MichaelZHsee]

simply amazing~those details are overwhelming!:bowdown:

[tellckl]

fantasy work!very good!I very like this!

[smurfbizkit2]

You are great artist! Why do you want to serve at yours country army?

It isn't voluntary. A lot of countries require military service from men and women, his happens to be one of them.

[Godwin]

Thanks again everyone!

aaron111: I don't know if I stretched the file dimensions too large, but each file is already 600mb with width 90cm @ 300 dpi. I don't know what merging them will do to my computer. :P

woadiestyol: Thank you. I included it mostly because I had to do it, but regardless I felt that the message is part of the art work.

ekah: Thank you, I'm really flattered. I just try my best because, well, I believe humility is something very important in life.

founded: Ask my Prime Minister. Kidding, but like smurfbizkit said, it's 2 years' mandatory national service.

DerPapa: I do know of his tutorial, but I don't know, your overpaint looks incorrect. Take a look at this:
http://www.drawthrough.com/images/tutorials/e_5.jpg
My ellipses may be a little flat, but I'm quite sure the shape is correct. And note that all major axes are vertical.

But I may be wrong, if I am, then it's really something big I have to fix. EDIT: Actually I think they're wrong the more I look at it... I eye-balled almost everything and I think I actually used the ellipse tool for that part, which is definitely the biggest mistake.

smurf (why 2?): Hawhaw. I don't know, I don't quite like some of my past work, but I may post the handshake one.

I will keep everyone updated if and when I do get my works to print, but I don't want to rush things, I feel that I'm not "there" yet, especially after seeing John Wallin Liberto's new prints, they're amazing.

[aaron111]

I think the ellipses look fine as they are. The overall perspective looks a bit "stylized" to begin with, but still works quite well.

Yeah, combining two 600mb files could pose a problem, I can see why you kept them separate

[smoothoperator]

Very cool concept and well illustrated. Maybe the perspective isn't accurate but it looks very cool man. I like that industrial look of it, the color and tone and highlights. Wish I could see it moving.

[LaHorde]

Great idea ! There a lot of feeling in this picture. The details and the lightning (even in some littles part of the picture) are amazing !

[Farsh]

Hey bro, im from singapore too and i know exactly what inspires this piece of work of yours. Great painting, the perspective doesn't bother me at all. The effort you put into this is apparent, very well done. And good luck escaping from this totalitarian country.

[Staszek]

Your surrealism is one of the best in the our times! I realy love it.
Its gives a lot to think about.
Grate Artist you are.
I hope i see in the future more yours greate works!

[HamsterFly]

WOW at first glance it looks like 3d ! great work man 5 stars from the hamster 8)

[adel3d]

Wow you had my 5 star:thumbsup:

[GRAIL]

Hey dude.
If you're 18 AND a student AND joining the army, I hope they give you a brush to carry and tell you to invade a school to teach art. That's a really original, really cool, piece of work. I'm glad you won an award. Much deserved. I hope you keep up with your skills. Nice work.

[dogyears]

Awesome work. Excellent lighting, scale, details, I love the stylized "art deco" style.

Good luck in the army. I hope you have fun - you'd better have, actually, considering you're one of those lucky bastards born just at the right time to get those 6 months shaved off. I am looking forward ot seeing more stuff from you. Cheers.

[Godwin]

Wow, I wasn't even aware I got the award! It's really an honour and also great encouragement. Thanks for all the kind words as well. Although army life leaves me with little time to paint these days, it doesn't mean I won't ever paint again, in fact I'm sure the exprience will serve as new inspiration and perspective for future works.

Thanks again, I too hope that I'll have new work (worthy of such praise) to show soon =)

[aryHasy]

gorgeous work godwin.... fantastic lines and light effects. Very "simple" and very glorious. Perfect technique... way to go

[Nazirull]

Great art and story....sad to say your story is not fantasy...it is really what is happenning...like what you say. Im a slave to my PC and PS2 for sure...and DVD players, Mp3 player....bla2 bla2....its sad i know but hopefully we wont come to the day when machine tells us what to do. (Which Im denying the fact that it has already begun.)

Scary shit really.

Anyway..your 18 and if your first post has an impact of a huge meteor to the feeling, You got a universe of potential! Give us more stories..and pictures of course!;)

[paradilis]

:love:... thats sooo well done. Im only 18 as well and I suck... Keep up the good work

[InvaderZahn]

wow... really amazing stuff 5 stars. Keep up the good work!

[eliment]

cool concept man five stars from me :thumbsup:

[wave-dark]

great work !!

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