SPEEDAPINTING CHALLENGE nr. 16

[Michael]

This week's challenge will be to illustrate following description, concetrating on the either the asteroid entering the atmosphere or the impact itself :

"The "Orpheus" - cause that's why the NASA called this meteor particlarily - seemed to move very slowly. Maybe because it's size was so enormous, maybe because the only point of reference was the Earth itself. The fact was, that it only SEEMED to move slowly, he was accelerating. The nervous man on the news said, that the size of of the meteor is about the size of Australia and he is about to hit the center of Texas. Orpheus was said to be even bigger than the asteroid that caused dinosaurs to die.
The view was incredible - a giant fireball entered the atmosphere, pushing the clouds down, making the sky red. The trail rose after it, covering the sky. An armageddon was upon us.

And then it hit the ground."


Have fun.

GO!

[David Ciprian]

Cool theme!!! :D

[David Ciprian]

Crappy..but at least I have an entry this week:p
Maybe I'll be able to do a better one until the weekend comes

about 40 mins in ps7

[Drakala]

So now the themes are descriptons...good! I have to think of something great to make a great painting.. oh yeah

[bobjackson]

whoasha! great painting David, i really like it! another pliz!

[Michael]

Yup - a good idea and pretty cool showing of it :) MORE!

That is also to all the other people that READ THIS MESSAGE! :p PAINT! :D

[Nojoy]

Ill try my luck as well... i started the 3d speed challanges with the watches and hope to participate often, now ill move on to the harder area for me drawing.

Im definatly not a great painter but know my phototshop.... ill see what i can come up with ... I agree great theme micheal. I hope to make it regulary.

Just wanted to introuduce myself to those that dont know me on this side of the challenge. Ill hope to throw a concept in later today. Ill go for the impact i think

[ROB]

Here's what I've got so far, hopefully I'll get it coloured in soon!

[w00t]

this is my piece i made in about 30 min
i hope i can finish this one, i hope it
thats what i got for now

[enjoiskating543]

hm i know these are all speed PAINTING challenges, ive done one once.. but are photomanips allowed or does it have to be 100% original paint? speed photomanips would be interesting.. :D

-thanks

[Nojoy]

Please read the froum rules... i think most would advise you....

under point number 2 you should get your answeres.... i think you can mix... please review it enjoiskating543

click on speed painting challenges on top and than choose the thread that was posted to state the rules... i think the 3rd one down.

[Michael]

Photo manipulations are mostly used in matte painting. We'll get to it later on :). Maybe even in next challenge :).

You can use the photos as reference, but it needs to be hand painted :).

[enjoiskating543]

ok thanks
<--too lazy to do paintings right now

[ROB]

Well I got it coloured, Hurrah! :dance:
Looking forward to seeing everyone’s entries!

[Michael]

I like the fireball effect you've made :). The clouds are a bit off, but it still looks cool.

[ROB]

I was trying to portray that the meteorite was so big that it affected the atmosphere around it as it flew through the sky, because the meteorite was spiralling I thought that it would effect the clouds in the same manor. This is of course a theoretical assumption on my part, but hey I think it looks cool.

[Drakala]

hey that looks like a pig's head coming down from the sky!!!:D

[gabcatyper]

hey i know it looks wack but the reason why i post it is so tha i can get some advise on what to add an what techniques to use to make it look more realistic. well here goes nothing

[CHK]

HEy great paintings all! Nice one ROB and I specially like David painting's mood...!!!IoI. So I'm back with a quick one! Few minutes in PSD!! I think Starting from dark to white is better for this kind of theme don't you think?...

[bobjackson]

it reminds me something...lol

don't you?

lol chk have you only one painting for all the challenges?lol:D :p

[ROB]

gabcatype,
Your painting reminds me of a big sunflower, I like it.
If you’re looking for techniques you should checkout the 3dtotal tutorials section.
One in particular would be good for the tail of your meteorite would be the clouds tutorial.
Clouds (http://67.15.36.49/team/tutorials/2dcloud/2dcloud.asp)
Another thing to think about is the impact and what would happen when it hits the city,
you will get lots of debris and parts of the meteorite will also break off and shoot up into the air
I attached some pictures for reference, Hope it helps.

[CHK]

mmmhh!...It does remind me something!....damn' Bob you got me!....Alright I'll try something else..Actually when I did it I didn't realized that unconsciously I was repeating my hidden inner thoughts...Ahaahahahaa!!!IoI

[bobjackson]

lol:p

justa few words to say i saw the pig in the sky
i have got another picture of him

[ROB]

Well actually he should look like this.
PIGS IN SPACE!!! (anybody watch the mupets?)

[Michael]

Getting a bit off-topic here, guys...:roll:

[gabcatyper]

this is my final post
i hope i have improved
next time i'll do better i alredy took 4 hr on this project
i liked the other posts they're cool but where are your metiorites?
nice colour but no visual of the main object :P

[gabcatyper]

this is my final post
i hope i have improved
next time i'll do better i alredy took 4 hr on this project
i liked the other posts they're cool but where are your metiorites?
nice colour but no visual of the main object :P

[Lord Soc]

Well, I know this isn't 100% keeping with the description....although you could assume that this is a modern day cultist on a mountaintop. Hopefully acceptable? :)

A4, graphite, 40mins from conception to completion. Scanned &contrast adjusted slightly in photoshop.

http://img223.exs.cx/img223/6446/fireballwizard7py.jpg

I have another, A3, piece on the way....will take a bit more time. It's more of a modern setting. In fact, I may post the WIP, before someone posts a similar scene before me. :D

[Androgs]

Woow:D , some good entries here. at last I found some spare time to did a speedy, :o I really miss this moment. here's my entry, just want to have some fun with the topic. a couple hour with photoshop.
Good luck to you all and hope to see some other entry!!:)

[Ibbo]

Cool! Great stuff... Ive decided to give this challange a miss and work on my skills instead. I had a great idea but it needed lots of smoke and clouds so im practicing drawing those instead!

[Drakala]

I hope you like my sequence...

[bobjackson]

very funny and original!
hahahahah
excellent it's my kind of humor
bad taste is my taste!


well done!

[Drakala]

Glad you liked it. This time I skipped the philosophical introduction because I think the painting speaks for itself.:)

[Michael]

I thought you take the competitions seriously...

Please do not post that kind of images anymore. Have fun, but too much is too much.

[Gerbilho]

:D I found it quite funny..... :D

LOL

[w00t]

haha nice
ontopic: deadline is on wednesday right?

[Michael]

Yeah, the deadline is on wednesday.

[w00t]

well i think its kinda finished
i hope :)

[bobjackson]

my drawing about 3h

hope you'll like

[Michael]

Cool idea... that gives me topic for another speedy... :D Thanks, bobjackson. :)

w00t - maybe colour it... you still have 3 days... :)

[w00t]

@ Michael-3DT
am not very good at using photoshop cause never tried
and its kinda difficult to color it with a mouse
will have enough money to buy myself a tablet in a few weeks but not now
but can always give it a try

[bobjackson]

thanks Michael but all my ideas are copyrighted!!!

lol:D

[CHK]

Some new great entries wow!! here is another try since my previous one was too repetitive...hehehehe!!!

[Michael]

12 hours left, guys... any more works?

[LittleFish]

Yep, I have one, should be done in a couple of hours.

It's kind of interesting though, that I actually had three good concepts come to mind (right before, right before, and right after), all with their own environments... but I wanted to paint skyscrapers more than water at the time I started, so it's in a city, looking up, just as it's coming down... it's a fun exercise in perspective; took a lot of sketches.

[Lord Soc]

Michael-3DT: I have another one finished, but I've encountered hardware problems getting it scanned.....the only time I'll be able to get it digitised will be after 12GMT. :( Will that be a problem? (I know the rules say that's the deadline...)

[Ibbo]

Owww dang, my PC died and i havent been able to get onto PS for 3 days now. I had a great idea too! Some cool stuff here guys!

[Gerbilho]

I want to participate! I hope the deadline's not over yet!

[Gerbilho]

Here it is a 10 minute drawing

[LittleFish]

Aaahhhh!!! Oops, I forgot about it; remembered when I got up. All the cool stuff was done the last hour, along with painting over about half of the stuff I did in the first hour. (I hope to have this and the other two done in good fashion, maybe ten hours each, in the future. My biggest "complaint" on this is that there ended up being too much red, so you can't see all the contrast that there was half an hour ago.)

Total time: somewhere between 2-3 hrs (unofficial title: Where do I Run?)

This should be about a second or two before it hits (no, I don't know how the smaller chunks travel faster than the bigger chunk - I tried to avoid it, but the effect just begged me). Pretty much, the point is that it's hot.

I had some difficulty trying to figure out how to paint the meteor, but then I just decided to paint it as though it was solid fire, and that seemed to work. And the buildings are to look as though they are melting (like the burning, glowing edge of a piece of paper).

[Michael]

The deadline is here.... and passed.... if you look hard enough, you'll see it vanishing over the horizon... :p

All the entries above this post - count. Lord Soc - I'm sorry, but now it's 6 hours past the deadline... can't wait any longer, sorry. Better luck next time. :)

[Lord Soc]

Yeah, I know. :P Thanks Michael...at least I got 1 entry in :)

I actually came to say nevermind about my second entry...I couldn't get it on to a computer :dunno: Next time....

[CHK]

Ok I vote first!

1_Androgs: super cool man!!!
2_David: very cool!!
3_Rob: cool!!

IoI

[Androgs]

My turn:D:
1. CHK, for the last one;), cool color!
2. LittleFish, had a nice color, a bit blur, but still nice:).
3. ROB ,nice meteor:D.

[Lord Soc]

1: CHK
2: Little Fish
3: Androgs

:)

[LittleFish]

1. CHK - for the scene, lighting, and for the morbid sense of the crowd going "Oooh, look at that..."
2. David - for the lighting
3. Androgs - for the scene and the colors

Gerbilho -- that is really, really, really cool - how did you do that? (I would have voted you 3rd, but I got the feeling that it was a bit incomplete, i.e. it has water and an insanely cool meteorite, but no scene, and with it the sense of scale to demonstrate its size.)

Well, this seemed to be a great contest -- looking forward to the next one!

(edit: It's almost interesting, that I had originally intended for most of the sky to be filled with the meteor, and painted it as such, but it never occured to me until near completion that when the meteorite blocks out a similarly colored sky, that it would be so indistinguishable - I guess it looks like two small chunks as the only meteorites in mine... I just learned something.)

[David Ciprian]

1-Androgs
2-CHK
3-Little Fish

Mine was only a sketch, i didn't tought it'll be considered a valid entry:p but thanks

[Gerbilho]

1 - Androgs - nice one nice colors
2 - littlefish - destructive feeling viewed from the ground...
3 - Drakala - for the originality and humour

[bobjackson]

so my vote

1-david > simple but my favorite
2-androgs > original colors
3-chk >good angle

good luck guys!!:D

[(o)(o)conababe]

Unfortunately, this time, i din`t had time to participate but i have followed the challenge daily ..and my votes go to:
1-androgs
2-bob jackson
3-gerbilho

[olympus]

Cool entrys guys.

1. CHK (the second one)
2. LittleFish
3. gerbilho

[mosk]

it as been a crazy week for me, will try to participate in the next challenge...

mi vote:

1-androgs
2- drakala - lol
3- gerbilho

[Michael]

The voting is as follows... ( I hope :p )

1.Androgs - 19 points
2.Chk - 15 points
3.LittleFish - 9 points

David - 7 points
Drakala 3 points
Gerbilho - 3 points
ROB - 2 points
bobjackson - 2 points

Thanks for participation, guys :)

Androgs - you know the drill... Congrats :D

Edit- sorry, in a rush....:o

[David Ciprian]

Shouldn't LittleFish be on 3rd place?

[CHK]

IoI!!! Congrat's Androgs!...So what's on next week?

[Androgs]

Wow, Thanks all:D :D . :o hehe, I take back my word, gotta something to do with the CD. Btw, you all really the winner, congrats to all of you.;)