Uplift Universe - Image Entry: Marley Mcleay

#88

Hornlessunicorn

Thank you very much mate,. actually i’m kinda bummed being finished, its as if i am missing out on all the fun, in anycase appreciate your visit

Thank you

admkrk
HAHA
hello mate, yep all done, I do remember thinking i have got to get the colours bright as pixie, with a lot of light…Because i’d seen alot of dark images in Dominance War and it was becoming a cliche…So all had to be positive, no negativity at all.

Thanks mate

Barronimpossible
Simon, HAH Pardon?, am i to understand you are calling yourself fast…pffft!!..DRAW…wait a minute…
Thankies mate. I appreciate the note of the alien ambience…

raveneyeart
Thanks for the well wishes…Yea i can appreciate the process of creation in anyart…always looking for that one key that has the answer for art creation…so i thank you very much for teh comment.

good on ya, Carl

mmbenya
:D, cheers very much, yep i’m finished but kinda feel out of all the fun…Im really enjoying the different results that are coming up…REALLY looking forward to seeing yours completed.

take care

nwiz25
Always a pleasure having you visit, Neville, it really is.

“wish i could finish my work like you”

are you indoubt of finishing?, i hope not…your EON entry had such a unique ambience…don’t deprive us of your vision…:argh:
[b]
Pearlyking

[/b]BILL, my friend your strong support is really appreciated, especially on other sites…

Cheers my friend and again thanks for the well wishes :smiley:

[b]walrus

[/b]ahh mike, it would not be a cgchallenge without walrus…Yea…its weird, i feel i may have cheated myself somehow by whipping this in before everyone has taken their 3rd breath…I really felt a piece should be a challenge all the way…I picked up on the rhythm of this concept right from the first scribbles…and then i was finished…It really did do everything i wanted…I’m trying to decipher whether i have pushed myself enough or should i have aimed higher to take myself out of my comfort zone?..But then all i wanted was something different…perhaps if i wanted something challenging i should have put the thought out early…yea, a weird quandary of thought i’ve got going.

Anyways, thank you for leaving your thoughtful comments, Mike

Marley

#89

Wow, what great use of color. It’s beautiful.

#90

Oh letme confess I had to copy your last post and paste it on Phpotoshop (sorry for that) just to see how much of the colors were printable, and It barely changed when I turned it into CYMK oh boy!..
Great colors, I guess the non-jpg version looks better yet. It was great to see the steps.

Very well done!:applause:

#91

A job well done my friend! I wish I had the confidence you have with color. Very bold and positive piece. Congrats!

#92

Geshie…
hehe, thank you, im glad you stopped by to comment…Thanks

[b]SteevieWoo

[/b]No worries mate, that sounds ultra cool. Its amazing, generally i have to keep an eye out on my colour usage in Photoshop using the “Gammut” tool. or ctrl+y (or it could be shft+ctrl+y)… and its been one of the rarest occasions where i have had virtually no correction issues or those darned grey pixel areas…and i really pushed these colours…It really did just slot into place…No worries.thats prolly one of the most unique compliments i’ve received :stuck_out_tongue: hahaha…perhaps dropping colour onto greyscaled images is the safest way to go?.

N.E ways, thank you for taking the time to comment…(and play round with it:P )
[b]
Sasquatch70

[/b]Hey thanks very much, mate. Well yea i guess i don’t really hold back in that department…I don’t exactly follow the rules with colours i just drop em in and hope to get lucky…Thats easily done in digital, for sure :D.

Take cre mate

Marley

#93

Congratulations! This is such a wonderful piece! I have read your notes on the final image, you succeeded definitely in using visual language to express your thoughts and the concept behind this painting! Thumbs up! :slight_smile:

#94

This has a great pencil colour feel, with visual ballet of light and colours. But try to bring out some contrast to help guide our eyes. I suggest darkening the foreground elements that gradually dissolved into the bright beyond. Also, the human figure (which I think is a human) is too obscured there. How about adding a human behind the alien ‘priest’ as a guest of honor of this majestic extra terrestial place?

#95

Hey. :wavey: Nice stuff from you again :slight_smile: I agree with trying with more contrast.

#96

goodness sakes Marley whaddya mean your done already? ha ha you get back here :stuck_out_tongue: Beautiful colors as always and a very nice flow, I think that is why I love your work so much it has such nice flow and curvey lines .

#97

nice work man, great add of contrast . reads much better. good luck
!

#98

Donglu-LittleFish
Ace mate, you’d be the first to actually mention th estory and i am so glad you picked up that it conveys strongly…I’ve said this before but you just never know whether people will pick up on it or treat it as convoluted crap :P.

haha, thank you, your piece is stunning aswell

Jeromoo
AAAAh that is an awesome crit…If only i recieved that back then…yea there is still time but i’ve moved on to doing otherstuff. well see…THANKS for the valid crit…appreciated.

Martin
HAH :beer: G’day mate, great to see you here…Thanks for dropping by and commenting…

Ivy
:bowdown:Many thank yous, linda…Ahh yea i’m done…I have to race against my health before my brain truly slows to a crawl :stuck_out_tongue: hahahaha…I have a belief that least time spent on the computer is more time in the sunshine…The piece is done and dusted :D…

Thank you
[b]
Chilombiano

Yea [/b]I appreciated the crit at the time…honestly sometimes you don’t like to admit there is more work to be done, but when you read a crit like that one previously, something deep down kicks in and says, yep thats absolutely right!!.

this was one of those incidents!

Thank you for dropping by to check up :D.

Always a pleasure to recieve crits everyone and comments, even weeks after i’ve finished. its great

Take care
Marley

#99

Oh this looks epic! the colours are fantastic and everything looks so delicate. Brill image!

p.S thanks for your help!

:smiley:

#100

wow, your final image looks fantastic! So much detail and the colours are great. I love the ethereal feel. Well done to you and best of luck!

#101

Thank you Kenneth very much

#102

ANDY

Hey, thank you very much, no worries, i hope you are successfull in getting your image thru!!..

[b]KEN

[/b]Ahh thank you very much also, best of luck to you too!, hope to see you finish!

ANDY
Hey, Ken you didn’t come all the way over to my neck of the woods just to compliment Andy did you…well I NEVER…I want a full refund of the money i sent you in the mail!!

hahaha

Thank you 2 again…

really appreciated!!

Marley

#103

HAHAHA Marley! oh my god I just realised what I did! Sorry oops lmao

I get so confused when I see the forum threads in my email!

#104

snirks hehe actually I almost fell victum to this unusual technique for the previous NVart competition

Almost felt like letting rip in a packed elevator hahah.

hey i gotta good laff out of it, which is an absolute bonus in my eyes :slight_smile:

take care andy!

Marley

#105

Love your pastel palette

#106

Hi Marley!:slight_smile:

Congratulations! I like so much this concept…full of energy and gets the feeling of other dimensions totally dig that idea! the colors I like them coz from my experience in spiritual teachings , when the color looks more clear means a best pure advance kind of like more close to GOD! So thanks for sharing a nice and great detail in this universe of ideas!

Wish you the best:applause:

#107

Hi everyone, this is the version i ended up uploading last week…i uped the contrast slightly…I think its better…hard to tell on the desktop but it looked good in photoshop…

feedback from those who have instilled the old version in mind would be welcome :slight_smile:

Marley

PS) also reduced the originals pixels by 400…my final file went from 24mbs down to 18.5…a bit easier on me 56k. (4000px wide down to approx 3600)

i would upgrade to cable but unfortunately A) tis expensive B)the entire network is in use…one can’t get broadband unless someone gives it up…then your in…

i love small towns.