Battle #427 "London Skyline from the Thames" via previous winner, BlockMaster320

Weekly Battle | Closed

 

###Previous Winner

This week's image was chosen by u/BlockMaster320, the winner in Battle 426:

Stock image: Abandoned Gas Station

Winning entry: Last Stop Before the End

 



 

 

#The stock image for Battle #427 is... London Skyline from the Thames

 

 



 

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Posted Oct 18, 2020, 3:07 PM UTC

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241baka•
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241baka•

Bonus sci fi novel cover:^^sorry ^^Londoners ^^:P City of Waste

Here is also a bit of info:

creation

I made most of this in procreate on ipad. I used stock of glass sphere. The smoke, water fall, puddle & glass shards are painted in. The refraction in the sphere and the reflection on the puddle are distorted copies.

I also added a few filters, adjustments in affinity to make the picture a bit more gritty (not in the gif).

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CptSasquatch•

This is by far the best! Nothing against the rest of us because there's loads of other great work in here, but this is just magnificent!

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241baka•

There are for sure lots of nice submission here! Thank you squatch!

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fishhooks811•

yea for sure I seen that and thought well damn that's the winner need to figure out how to do that

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texasfld57•

u/241baka AWESOME! reminds me of looking at the emerald city on the wizard of OZ. glad to see ya back!

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241baka•

texas! Thanks mate!

I get where you are coming from with the city of Oz... I had to think of a sci fi novel cover all the time while I made the picture. My father had a bunch of those. I put a bonus of what I mean in a separate response.

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texasfld57•

u/241bakaglad to see you back,you add so much to the Battles! one more question how do make your gifs of your process?

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241baka•

It's actually kind of underwhelming :(

I can only show the parts that I do in procreate on the tablet. There is a feature that tracks your progress as a video and you just have to export it. For the stuff I do outside of procreate I don't have a convenient solution especially since I work across apps and platforms... Although I would really love to show the full process I cannot bring myself to get into video-editing.

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staffell•

This has my vote, stunning work

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241baka•

Thanks staffell!

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Maymayfish•

Mesmerising work baka. Beautiful blend of photomanipulation and digital art. Looks like a lot of manual brushwork and textures went into this. And the warp on the sphere and reflections is just so genuine and seamless. One of your finest pieces dude, we are not worthy of your skills!

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241baka•

Dude, stop! 😳

There is a bunch of painting in there... I added a creation gif and a bit of a description in a separate response.

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Khyta•

Really epic man

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CptSasquatch•
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BlockMaster320•

This is really well executed. Great work!

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CptSasquatch•

Thank you BlockMaster320! Had a lot of fun with your image.

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texasfld57•

u/CptSasquatch. another great job! Nice job with the layers..are you using PS?

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CptSasquatch•

Thank you texasfld57! I do use PS.

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aikidoent•
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texasfld57•

This looks cool. looks like a movie cover,nice job!

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aikidoent•

Thanks! and it basically is - the new Bladerunner movie is visually stunning, highly recommended if anyone missed it.

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texasfld57•
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staffell•

Lovely! Look at you smashing it

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texasfld57•

Thanks mate!! The sketch was made with real custom sketch brushes(12 brushes) pencil sketch onto a blank paper and then taken a picture then making the brush(full disclosure I did not make the them,they came from my PS instructor...he made them...there are seven different shades lightest to darkest ,I actually sketched out city with just a white blank canvas. its pretty cool! There is some more that goes along with the process too I would take forever to explain...I wish I knew how to make a video of the process it clear it up better than what I can explain.

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texasfld57•

Here is a screenshot of my workflow layer 5 thru 13 are the sketch layers

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staffell•

What do DM2 & L2 refer to?

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texasfld57•

DM2=dark midtones level 2

L2=lights level 2

lower the number more highlight, higher the number is less,same progression for the darks. when you select a level, lumenzia automatically makes a layer mask and names the mask with the level and tone you picked

they are luminosity masks targeting the specific tones of information in the image that I want to adjust. I use a plugin that is integrated with PS is called Lumenzia. Screen shot I use it for retouching photos ie: shooting with my camera and doing a post process,it comes in real handy with composites too.. always before I would do the same process through channels my own action that I made,lumenzia makes it so much better,I call it my swiss army knife "LOL" hope I explained it ok...I am not good at explaining things

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so_banned•
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Clortbags•

This gets my vote this week, really like the old book/magazine aesthetic.

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texasfld57•

nice work,nice blending job.

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so_banned•

Thank you very much! It was a fun one.

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Xzenor•

This is very well done

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Bottatadiet•

London has fallen

Alternate high contrast version

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Layers

Edit: added alternate version

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BlockMaster320•

Amazing! The scene looks very dramatic.

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Bottatadiet•

Wow thanks, man! Means a lot coming from you!

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staffell•

Wicked effort you've put in here man, very nice.

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Bottatadiet•

Wow thanks! I love your edit as well!

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texasfld57•

The purples and orange blends well...I think what really set off the most to me is the dude standing on top of the pier with the flash light.....cool effect..nicely done

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Bottatadiet•

Thank you for your kind words!

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Coolness04•
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texasfld57•

I really like this! the simplistic diffusion in the overall tone of the sky,not overly done and easy on the eyes! You gave your composite surrealism in a artistic way...nice job!

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staffell•
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Bottatadiet•

Love the helmet haha!

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texasfld57•

u/staffell You sure have a great imagination and the talent to put it into a composite! nice work!

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staffell•

Haaa, this was a bit of a rush job really, I had a very clear idea for what I wanted to do (the pier looks like a cage helmet; the skyline, spiked spaulders), but I ran out time so it didn't quite come out how I wanted! Ah well :P

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MrSocko250•
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EJY2003•
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ThePickleRibck•
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PromisedLand84•
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Bottatadiet•

Haha so subtle!

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mackimus•

Look at what you did

I definitely need to work on my titles lol

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VectorA101•
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TheEliteFork•
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Mr_4ge•

Spiderman with deadpool head running from police with trump's head dead https://i.imgur.com/jtJ6Cyn.jpeg

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Clukk-Clukk-YT•

My entry for battle #426
"London Castline"

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