Slumscraper, Duc Truong Huyen (2D)

[Aran-Pirayandeh]

vooooooh!great,i can't belive this kind of nice

[schmeerlap]

I like the contrasting dark of the almost subterranean slum to the light of the world outside. Very effective.

[Shahanart]

This is a Great Image Indeed

regards

[LuckyBug]

fantastic :)

[siftingsand]

highly impressed.. good work.

[BenDstraw]

this is a very busy image yet very easy on the eyes.

the lack of people also gives it that gloom feel
great job keep it up!:thumbsup:

[DutchDimension]

Wonderful work. You managed to strike a fine balance between complexity and "readability".
Well done!

[varunbondwal]

Fantastic work !

[JosueMariscal]

I love this...I would frame this piece.

[mrhahn98]

I couldnt believe my eyes, that's a Vietnamese on frontpage!!! :D. Awesome work man, i really like the lighting, u captured the atmosphere really well!

[RockinAkin]

Great work man. :thumbsup:

[Bignanfer]

Beautiful work you got there, nice mood and very good story telling, love your work.

Reminds me many streets in Hong Kong!!

[Digiegg]

wow, awesome work I loves it!
Love the mood and the subject matter you picked.

[DANKA]

Amazing image! great comp, light, and style...love the balance fo dark and bright...good!

[AnalyzerCro]

Awesome composition! GREAT JOB!

[rabieart]

super awesome , great :cool:

[agasco]

beautifull paint! i agree with bignanfer, it reminds me to kowlong! awesome work

[KechaoMi]

How great work that u do!!!

[fxEVo]

Woah, I can't believe my artwork can be on front page!!

Thank you everyone for comments and compliments and thank you CGTalk for this great honor. :applause:

[dy217]

simply amazing work! congratulation!:buttrock:

[AndyH]

Great pic - really good atmosphere and sense of sprawl and decay.

It reminds me a bit of when i went to macau, got lost and ended up walking through the run down part of town.

[StephaneD]

great mood
I'm curious what district of HCMC inspired you?

[fxEVo]

Oh my God, I'm so happppyyyyyyy! Thank you guys so much! :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

@StephaneD: I'm in 3rd District. The area inspired me is near Cầu Muối.

[goilo]

Very good work. Nice mix of various elements with nothing jarring... I wouldn't want to be walking down that street with a piece of c**p falling on my head from 20+ stories up!

[Djampa]

OMG....

wow....

what else to comment on that... please Ballistic... print it out !

:surprised

:applause:

masterpiece, superb

[ASW]

Do you live in Hanoi or Saigon? Great work!!

[sugg]

Man, this is one version of modern, urban slide.... tough going here for the residents. Vertical survival sprawl. Awesome work! - Gus

[navarrostuff]

WOW.... this is truly amazing work, keep it up :beer:

[vindow]

hi friend.
very different and artistic image. can see the feelings that u had after being there. you have nicely transformed emotions is picture. also gr8 use of technique. simple yet complex...
gr8 job...

[HELLBOY3D]

hi
its nice job and great perspective but there is really nice ,on your self.:wavey:

[marcogalli]

I don't know...I can't understand it. I can't understand where is photos and where is paint. I think that if you create this art using traditional media (for example oil colours) you can do realy a great art. Using Pohotoshop I don't know all is too digital. But this is only my stupid opinion, all people say it is great so...

[fxEVo]

Ah, talk about traditional or digital, I don't want to start a war here, but I can say I'm very confident about my skills in traditional field, since I'm final-year student in art-school. So digital is just a medium, the thing really matter is vision, and that's something I polish everyday.

[marcogalli]

Yes...
My question is: is this image a paint or a photo changed using photoshop?
Prospective, colours, concept are based on hand made ore are based on photo?
This for me could be important paint and photo are different...I think.

[Ikaria]

Fantastic work, sir! Please consider selling prints on deviantart.com. Would buy and frame in a heartbeat :)!

[fxEVo]

Ok, this is my workflow.

First is the research progress:
- I came to the actual site in my city, take alots of pictures for research and reference, and draw some sketches in my sketch book (learned this from great Feng Zhu), I even recorded some ambient sounds.
- I also watched some movies have familiar scene: Slumdog Millionaire, District 9 and also Alive in Joburg. Some scenes in Half-Life 2 gimme the inspiration too.

Second, developing progress:
- Based on my sketchbook, I developed some greyscale thumbnails and decided go for vertical composition (since I like my previous painting FEAR, please look in my portfolio).
- After that, base on my greyscale thumbnail, I paint and colorize the whole composition, some building element is from my architecture design drawing in school. Since I gathered a lots of reference pictures, I have a strong foundation what I'm painting.
- I also have some texture brushes collection which is very good asset for urban painting. (some of them are from Vyle and Zhu Zhu)

Finally, touching up progress:

- I overlay some photo elements for deeper sense in texture (some of them is just a dash of watercolour or picture of my cardboard model, or even another skeches scanned from my artbook - they make very unpredictable textures, the rest is from references I took before). I also need some "international" meaning in the scene so I google for reference misc. additional billboard in Latin and Asian languages and add them in.
- Lots of colors masking and sharpness, contrast layers... for enhancing lighting.

So fundamentally, is this a painting, I say yes, photo reference is at first a guide line then a "trick" to finalize my artwork, make them more appealing. Without them I hardly can finish my artwork to this level, but it doesn't mean I depend my life on them.

Hope this will answer your question, if you still concern, please feel free to PM me.

[Merick]

Hi,

this great image reminds me of cyberpunk. A real great image. Thanks for sharing.
M.

[utherdoul]

Great to see the workflow; its actually very inspiring to see how an image came about (I hope more artists include that in their posts). The actual piece is beautiful - a sort of cyberpunk futurisation of a modern slum. The details are wonderful and the whole image has a really tangible feel to it.

What an excellent idea to record the sounds while you are there! It must really help draw out the sense of atmosphere you had while you are working. Personally, I find atmospheric or ambient sounds and music really vital for my work to keep my mind focused on the atmosphere I want to create, but I've never recorded sounds myself, thanks for the idea!

Fantastic work!

[wowbaggin]

Excellent work! I've only been to HCMC for a little bit but this really captures some of the feel. Thanks for sharing.

[marcogalli]

Great! Now I have understand. Sorry but I think that for this complex art is important know something about workflow. I think that your art is different and could be a good step for a new path in digital art.
Thank for sharing your ideas.

[KarlPan]

I like it !

[changwii]

wow that's really cool. the scene could be used in a movie...i like it very much

[Paulo-Peres]

Wow... what a amazing work, man!

Congratulations!

[JansenGefert]

I absolutely LOVE this piece. I've always been fascinated by gritty, slum-like imagery and this piece really just does it for me.

[Villane]

great textural feel in this piece and :applause: great mood too.

[victorllanos]

Hi, i like it! Wooow! I have just finished two illustrations for a client with the same concept of work, Mixing photographies provided by the client, not good at all, in fact taken of google, a few photographies that I took of better quality for a few details, certain details in 3D and applying effects in PS.
But your work made me impressed, it is surrounding and the managing light gives it a real dramatic quality.
My work was more innocent for the concept of the publicist.

Congratulations!

[Neox3d]

2 words

simply insane

5 stars mate

[Matt5]

Fantastic work. Well executed.

[greenpizza]

Great work! I totally agree with your thoughts about photo and paint digital sources. :thumbsup:

[Giiyom]

sick style

[adel3d]

master work ! U had my Vote ....

[Maitreya]

You managed to strike a fine balance between complexity and "readability".

some detail tells me this is a chinese artist(*^__^*)

[navarrostuff]

this piece right here is truly amazing, the sense of emotion is truly breathtaking :beer:

[MayYeo]

After reading your description I like this image more. I know what you're talking about, poor people seem to be born arquitects. Incredible. Powerful image, I love the treatment and final outcome!

[Kait]

yeesh! my kind of picture. love it.

[motoxpress]

Really loved this. Great blend of feeling real simultaneously other worldly.

-gl

[leikokong]

wow~!!! Great~!!!:bowdown:

[Goatfuzz]

gritty and beautiful...i like it

[abynum]

Truly incredible work you've done. The way the burning sky quickly descends into a messy, claustrophobic, darkness to the street level is truly incredible and is no doubt a characteristic of the actual environment upon which the artwork is based.

[Hesketh]

excellent loads of detail nice use of contrasts

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[pyaranderson]

I love this image! I'm curious if you're willing to share more of your process in making this piece. I appreciate what you've already shared, but I'm wondering if you could give some more insight into how you put the whole thing together.

Thanks.

--Pyar

[BestZH]

Well,it's a great job!Congratulation!

[RiverKing]

I'm scared-_-

[babyandkitty]

Unbelievble :bounce:

[sunk842]

thank u for your great image,i like it very much!!

[Bogusia]

I'm shocked by the painting……Although my painting technology is not very good,but I think that a painting which have a soul can move people.:p

[Kumbari]

wow it is amazing i like mood of this place

[KarelWolf]

i like it, maybe a bit overdone (the layers), stil i like this compexity of 'poor'destricts of mega-cities; like in bladerunner.

[PontusAlbrecht]

Amazing color scheme!

[PowerRender]

I would put this over my mantel. Nice work!

[Imperial-Jade-Seal]

Really cool! Great work man

[adarc]

very Fantastic , i like that very much

[langara007]

Very nice detailed job, I like the architecture and especially the atmosphare. What doesn't fit me there a bit is the narrow silver stair-rail on the back...


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[slant]

Feeling great··Like this style··· :thumbsup:

[shaiz]

Only one word... Beautiful!