"Into the Dreaming" ("Into the lucid Dream of the City")

Charcoal drawing, straight from MyPaint (without any post-processing):



/Estel

am a bad narkoman : ))), and drugs like me : o )



realy ; )
hehe

....and our rats too are ; )

wooorm

... And a colorized version (manually in MyPaint, using dyed charcoal straight over previous image):


BTW, there is funny story behind this image. It started just as "realistic" drawing on the left, but, my touchscreen is damaged a little, and contorous of windows on right side of building (right side of screen) got fuzzy in result. I'm not used to "undo" command, and I instantly got impression, that it looks like building slowly desintegrate into a dream-like shape on right side (the more to the right, the more fuziness), and decided to follow this inspiration.

It's also inspired by Neil's Gaiman Sandman, volume "Worlds End", and particular tale about man inside city's dream. Following all of the above, I used natural drawing on left, "realistic" side - keeping strict to what I could achieve with real charcoal - but, on the right side, I messed with mixing fuziness and swapping into extensive details made by ultra-thin charcoal and huge zoom, a mix that would be unachievable in "real world", natural painting. Just like Dreams, where some things and feelings are blurred and symbolic, while other's are hyper-detailedp, exceeding our perception in real world. Even the title goes from natural letters, through fuzzed something, into arcane symbols (also inspire by other part of Sandman serie).
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While I clearly lack even tenth parts of talent presented here by such individuals as Creativetone or wooorm, I'm very satisfied with resulting image and accidentaly inspired concept behind it, to the point of actually sharing it here (as opposed to all my other works, which just don't qualify). Especially for a middle-of-night drawing, done while lying in bed, holding N900 above head
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I hope that details about creating it were interesting to some, and haven't exceed actual quality of work

/Estel

scrap043_b - 230313
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scrap046_d - 240313
scrap049_g - 260313
scrap058_m - 290313

Great bird @tone, lovely colour palette

Dousan...

scrap062_g - 310313 + photoshop
scrap003_c - 020413 + photoshop
scrap004_n - 030413 + photoshop
scrap005_c - 030413
scrap006_c - 040413

i don't know people actually can draw on n900. this device is like a ghost.

in mypaint

http://m.bombala.org/pirat.jpg
in underground

http://m.bombala.org/bold.jpg
in helm

worm

Haha awesome drunken skeleton @Tone, great energy in that scrap

Dousan...

scrap007_d - 040413 + photoshop
scrap008_b - 050413 + photoshop
scrap009_d - 070413 + photoshop
scrap010_g - 080413 + photoshop
scrap010_g - 080413 "before destruction"

Thanks Dousan!