Xtreme Painter

**David O'Neil** · 04 December 2006, 05:07 AM

Excellent reproduction, Intbel! That came up on my wallpaper changer yesterday, and I thought I recognized it! For those that would like a copy of the wallpaper, you can find one here.

Yes, you have every right to be proud. A lot of hard work in it. I've putzed with reproducing a Final Fantasy scene, and it's slow going.

David

**Intbel** · 04 December 2006, 06:13 AM

Originally Posted by David O'Neil

I've putzed with reproducing a Final Fantasy scene, and it's slow going.
David

Just takes patience and discipline.

And lotsa baccy, coffee and fried egg sandwiches

**masque** · 04 December 2006, 07:32 AM

I said it was the most interesting picture for a while when I saw it in the Stop&Post, that was before it went all painterly which has made it even better. I bet the hardest part was knowing when to stop?
Derek

**James Harness** · 04 December 2006, 07:56 AM

Intbel, I am just amazed. Great work!

**parahandy** · 04 December 2006, 08:35 AM

Well worth waiting for, a real masterpiece.Such patience as well, I wonder if you will ever do another one, given the time it took and will anyone else take up the challenge. Defintely one to print out and put in a nice frame. When are you cutting your left ear off. a five star effort.
*****Norman.

**Albacore** · 04 December 2006, 09:19 AM

Yes I agree with Parahandy on this one Raymond and I cant see why you have not made your posting larger so we all can see the detail.
Nice one Sir

**ankhor** · 04 December 2006, 09:37 AM

Originally Posted by Intbel

Fascinated by Vladimir Konstantinovic's painterly effects I had a go with this Millhouse and ... well, no modesty here - I'm well pleased with this one.

Pleased it is finally finished ...

So am I, very beautifull, I think it was worth the time.

**ankhor** · 04 December 2006, 09:39 AM

Originally Posted by parahandy

Well worth waiting for, a real masterpiece.Such patience as well, I wonder if you will ever do another one, given the time it took and will anyone else take up the challenge. Defintely one to print out and put in a nice frame. When are you cutting your left ear off. a five star effort.
*****Norman.

{TRIVIA}
A little history lesson here, Van Gogh didn`t cut off his left ear,
he cut of his left ear lope, I discovered this very recently.
{/TRIVIA}

**gidgit** · 04 December 2006, 10:53 AM

Whoa, what a splash... very nice work young man

( thumbs way up)

**Grafixman** · 04 December 2006, 12:43 PM

See, Raymond does get serious once in a while...

What everyone said. Excellent work. You must've been saving after each mouseclick on the finishing stages. I know I would be. Too much at stake to lose everything on an unforseen crash. 17 layers and 8448 objects, that doesn't sound a lot for X. Your pc must've been doing other things alongside.
So you distributed the load over several files. Maintaining coherence on the final artwork must've been harder. Or perhaps you used flattened bitmap versions as backgrounds for the different files to see where they fit in? Would be interesting to share some more insights on the workflow.