Stronghold, Dmitry Dubinsky (2D)

[bobnolin]

Reminds me of Delicate Arch in Utah. You've cut it in half! :D Love the color, the angle, and most of all the sky. I'm a sucker for great clouds. Good luck here!

[Littlelizard]

Very nice concept i like the composition!

[Nekranea]

Fantastic work! I love the style and composition, the lighting and color are really beautiful :thumbsup:

[MartinNielsen]

Great stuff! I just love the sci-fi feel to it :)

[mitsuk]

Nice image, looks like old school matte painting :thumbsup: like it

[FireEyes]

:eek:
wow
it's a very distinct hyperfuture concept!
the hightech building is really fantastic
ahh... and the sky also... very inspiring!

congrats Dmitry!
*****

[leigh]

I love the retro feeling you managed to capture here - the colour palette and design really harkens to a classic era of science fiction artwork that I have always really enjoyed. I do think you could have incorporated the rock photo a little more into the image, as there is a noticeable contrast between your own painting and the photo (the black details, in particular, should have been removed or recoloured), but despite this, I think the image still works quite nicely. I really love your use of the pale pinks and purples in the sky, set against the stronger tones of the foreground. Your design reminds me a little of some of the stuff in the last Star Trek film, which had great art direction, so that's a good thing.

A bit more work would have improved this, and perhaps you may still decide to work on the rock a little more, but I like your piece anyway simply because of the classic retro feel. I can totally imagine this as a cover to a 1950's sci fi epic that no-one has ever heard of.

[Stoehr]

Wonderful work! I really enjoy the mood and environment. Can I get this as a print for my wall?

[SciFibrow]

Very cool. I dig the colours. Reminds me a little of cloud city with the rounded forms.

[LightSovereign]

Gosh that is beautiful, the subtle shift in tones in the sky is just gorgeous, awesome fluffy clouds. Well done!!

[PascalR]

Epic sky and composition, only the rock seems a bit out of scale, it might need smaller details to appear bigger next to the building.
Great work!

[thyn]

Great atmosphere, literally and figuratively :) Love the clouds. The one thing that bothers me is the photo look of the rock of this great painted background. But this is just me. Wonderful work !

[waheednasir]

brilliant piece of work. fine mood.
congrats...:).

[Elhor]

Thanx for comments, especially to Leigh for the developed criticism. I agree that i should to repaint rock, it's really too contrasts with foreground. What about clouds - i inspired by some sky art, on which i come across while searched for cloud references. And it was like a challenge for me.
Generally it's very unexpected to get an award here. Thanks everybody again)

[irwigb]

Reminds me the book of DUNE

[DeeVad]

Congratz ! I really feel the deepness in your illustration, I love the color choice and the details. Clouds are painted with a lot of talent.

[LoneGreyCloud]

Love the mood and the paint feeling.
Well done.

[kaparo]

Wow! This piece has the colonization spirit within. Reminds me Stanislav Lem's Invincible. Congrats!

[mike33]

Hi, I'll second Leigh's thoughts (if that's ok). I also would like to say the foreground of the rocks seem to scale to large or maybe it is the rock(photo?) is so close that the painted parts scale doesn't correspond with the rocks details...

Otherwise I love the way you worked the background and atmosphere... I can imagine coming over a ridge on this distant world, the wind blowing grit in my face, my mouth dry from the lack of moisture, I find myself stopping to stand still and look in awe at the size of the stronghold and how it stands majestically next to the worlds and clouds in the sky...

Last item...so does this Stronghold have a pub? My imagine has walked a long ways in your world and I find myself quite thirsty at the moment...:)

~Mike


I love the retro feeling you managed to capture here - the colour palette and design really harkens to a classic era of science fiction artwork that I have always really enjoyed. I do think you could have incorporated the rock photo a little more into the image, as there is a noticeable contrast between your own painting and the photo (the black details, in particular, should have been removed or recoloured), but despite this, I think the image still works quite nicely. I really love your use of the pale pinks and purples in the sky, set against the stronger tones of the foreground. Your design reminds me a little of some of the stuff in the last Star Trek film, which had great art direction, so that's a good thing.

A bit more work would have improved this, and perhaps you may still decide to work on the rock a little more, but I like your piece anyway simply because of the classic retro feel. I can totally imagine this as a cover to a 1950's sci fi epic that no-one has ever heard of.

[h4di]

hi, this is truely a master piece. love the coloring and the idea. perhapse u could put more effort to make the photo and the painting more indistinguishable.

[huige]

good,i like it.

[anezka]

I like your picture very much, the sci-fi architecture is very nice cooperating with the nature parts of picture. However colour tone and the heaven effect are awesome.

http://www.environment-textures.com/?ref=soc32

[Nirth]

Brilliant picture! I love your imagination. Amazing atmosphere and colors! Grats!

[Elhor]

irwigb, kaparo You are right, i tried to reach some imperial retro style. And by the way - Frank Herbert and Stanislav Lem are my favorite Sci-Fi writers (and Strugatsky brothers, recommend to everyone ;) )
mike33 Thank you for criticism. Such detailed remarks are very useful, it really helps to increase my skills! Glad that you so imbued by picture) What about pub - sure yes. 87th tier at the west sector of tower you can find awesome pub "Sand Duke" - the best place on a whole planet! :beer:

[juanmigueltomala]

I think that the photo part is easily noticeable so I think you should've better finished the illustration as an illustration and not add the photo part. I like the illustration very much because you're very good, actually the photo part of it is the only thing that doesn't quite look right. Awesome work.

[Sulla]

I like this image it has a nice feel to it:)

[gandoza]

Great stuff.

[Epoh]

All in All it is very beutyfull picture. starting from the technical part of job to the finished work )

[qizo]

This is amazing composition! The sky... orientation of the moons... landscape... all great!

Only one thing that I can see that would have made this spectacular in my opinion.

It appears that the rocks in the foreground have more of a "distance haze" than the focal point... the building. I would just add a bit more of a distance haze to the main focal area. This would seem to increase the size of the construction and add a little more depth to the picture. I think it would add a touch of "grandure" to the entire scene.

Great work Dmitry! I am envious of your talent!

[RichardLundstrom]

Lovely colors and setup. I like the clouds. Maybe some more faded colors on the photo of the rock there in the middle. The black areas are too black! In the desert stuff is faded out from all the dust in the air.
Nice job!

[Cgmystic]

Elhor (http://forums.cgsociety.org/member.php?u=430230)

I like the feel of your image.
There is a sense of warmth and clarity in what you have rendered
Keep making such nice art!

[CGaturist]

very interesting work...:D

[javiermolina]

so beautiful, reminds me the paint of Salvador Dali, for your atmosphere and the lights, amazing, surrealist... congrats!


http://www.javierhmolina.blogspot.com

[eyetood]

very very nice. I really like it!! great choice of color

[xupengpeng]

Picture is very beautiful, very much

[illuzto]

I really like your composition! :thumbsup:

[film842]

Absolutely first rate. I would love to have this hanging on the wall in my office or home. I find it timeless.

[IzzyIzz]

Beautiful
The building looks amazing, as does the sky above it

[Kepicy]

Nice job. I like the cloud in the sky.

[Cruzaficks]

I'm so in love with this image :)
Reminds me of chiller days in Tatooine

[dakei]

Like the sky, pretty smooth