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! 
Uplift Universe - Image Entry: Marley Mcleay
jeromoo
#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?
Ivy00
#96
goodness sakes Marley whaddya mean your done already? ha ha you get back here 
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 .
LightSovereign
#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 
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 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
Wildlifehoodoo
#99
Oh this looks epic! the colours are fantastic and everything looks so delicate. Brill image!
p.S thanks for your help!
nethken
#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!
LightSovereign
#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
Wildlifehoodoo
#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!
LightSovereign
#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
take care andy!
Marley
AxelAlonso
#106
Hi Marley!
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
LightSovereign
#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
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.
LightSovereign
#108
hey thank you very much, Axel…that would be one of the more unique compliments i’ve recieved…I thank you for that…honoured to have you visit!!
thank you very much
SCALA
You know i never set out to achieve th epastel look, but every now and again someone says, “nice pastel colours” hahahaha
thats totally cool, thank you for visiting ^^
Marley
OKMER
#111
HI MArley!
Yep indeed, you got your own personal style and a nice one!!!
Those kinda pastel colors really contribute to this feeling of being in another dimension.
Very dreamy, Great!!!
Congratz on finishing a great pic and hope to see you next time.
-Remko
LightSovereign
#112
HI REMKO :applause:
ahh, great to see a familiar name floatin around…Thanks for the compliments…well i can say i guess i was lucky growing up in a small town in new zealand and not really having net exposure untill the ripe ol age of 22…The NET has really opened my eyes…i could not get over how out of touch i felt with regards to whats seen on photoshop…But on the other hand i had time to have developed somewhat of a universe before slightly commercialising myself :).
HAHA
Thanks Remko
great to see ya.
Marley