Incredible Photoshop Art

[JMK]

Being a graphic artist for 5+ years now, I can't even begin to imagine the amount of skill, patience and knowledge required to do stuff like this:

http://www.bertmonroy.com/fineart/text/fineart_damen.htm

Absolutely unreal.:eek

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

I saw that yesterday.

It's very impressive from a distance, I must admit. Sadly, the close-ups kind of ruin it for me.

The first thing I thought of when hearing about how many layers it had was how long it took to load up. I sat for a few minutes boggling that one.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

It won't load at all for me. Great error page though. ;)

[Shawn]

http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/5285/damen5vl.th.jpg (http://img154.imageshack.us/my.php?image=damen5vl.jpg)

http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/8269/damen10nd.th.jpg (http://img154.imageshack.us/my.php?image=damen10nd.jpg)http://img471.imageshack.us/img471/2866/damen28ui.th.jpg (http://img471.imageshack.us/my.php?image=damen28ui.jpg)http://img471.imageshack.us/img471/6274/damen31vj.th.jpg (http://img471.imageshack.us/my.php?image=damen31vj.jpg)

The closeups do kind of spoil it.

[Khendon Sevon]

I'd take a good, stylized concept artist with nice, fluid lines any day over a guy who takes a photo/still scene and, essentially, copies it with another media. What’s the point? He might as well have just learned photography.

[JMK]

While the close ups don't look that photo-realistic, the workmanship, time, attention to detail and computer power are staggering.

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Over. Fifteen. Thousand. Layers.

My record was thirty layers, and I vowed to never do it again unless I had a gun held to my head.

[Khendon Sevon]

I just feel like it's all a waste.

I just feel like art is about feeling something. This is just technical.

[JMK]

Sure it's a different branch of artistic expression, but how is it any different than drawing with a pencil & paper? No one calls someone a hack when they draw something that already exists.

Liken it to a movie - something a little abstract and off the wall like 'A Clockwork Orange' is considered a classic, but so is something straightforward like 'Casablanca' or Shawshank Redemption. Both have their merits and are worthy of praise.

Regardless, the guy has done an unbelievable job.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

fifteen thousand layers what?

These are amazing - the skill to make something that photorealistic (even if it isn't totally) boggles the mind.

And it is art - it's called a Still Life, Khendon. ;)

[Morgan Evanar]

Originally posted by Loklorien s'Ilancy
Over. Fifteen. Thousand. Layers.

My record was thirty layers, and I vowed to never do it again unless I had a gun held to my head. I've done stuff in the sixty to 100 layer range. It's not really a big deal.

That sort of work is really just an exercise. I can't say that I'm jumping up and down going "wow".

[Khendon Sevon]

Originally posted by Lilaena De'Ville
fifteen thousand layers what?

These are amazing - the skill to make something that photorealistic (even if it isn't totally) boggles the mind.

And it is art - it's called a Still Life, Khendon. ;)
;) It's not a still life, it's a scene or environmental work. A still life depicts a collection of objects. Usually, the lighting creates drama and the item selection has some sort of interesting element to them.

This environment, however, is a particularly boring, uninspired one. The lighting isn’t anything special or creative, there isn’t a story occurring, there’s no motion, no life. It’s just bland. A photo of the place could have significantly more character.

That’s my argument.

Otherwise, it’s damn better than I could do if I were aiming for photorealism. Then again, why not use CG instead?

[Crystal]

It does look pretty nice untill you see the closeups. Then it makes me think "Hey I could do that if I worked on it for a year or two"