Yay~
Love the colors and the painting is well done! I love the reflection on the water!
Artist Comment
Phew, finally finished.
Three reasons I did this:
1. I got a duel-screen setup at work, and wanted a duel-screen wallpaper (those are so rare...)
2. 
's Urban Paradise Contest
3. I wanted to play around with Open Canvas :D
Anyway, in case you don't know, this is the skyline of Toronto Canada ^__^ . I vectored the basic outline of the city from a photo found via Google, extended the city 'cause the photo wasn't wide enough, then exported into Open Canvas 4.06 and painted the whole thing from scratch with the watercolour tool (<3), using a couple of reference pictures.
Doing the buildings one by one was tedious x_x ... so was doing the lights, but that was kinda fun at the same time... now my arm hurts... you can see at the edges is where I kinda gave up on perspective ^_^' ... and I don't like the reflections either DX
Yes I know that not everyone has a duel-display, so I made some normal-sized ones.
More resolutions here
Tutorial: How to paint city lights
PSP8, Open Canvas 4.06, mouse (I want tablet!), lots of hours, sore wrist/arm.
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*for the sore neko gives you a massage with his cat pads*
^^'the buldings, the reflection and the sky are great. the only, only detail that i found disturbing (not too much really) was the red lights.
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OMG
thats a wonderful work
the view is gorgeous
well done
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You worked with such a huge canvas.. (refers to the biggest version on your webs) I'm still in procrastination btw. >_<
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Interesting artwork
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This looks really great!
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wonderful colors for a night sky and great way to work with water reflections, even if you dont like them, I also have a problem with one of the red lights it seems to be out of contrast, love however everything else, the other lights and how this makes me want to have a night view like that.
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haha, open canvas is so fun...
Awesome blending of colors. ^_^ The reflections are great.my favorite skyline is still the nyc one, but I"m biased. lol.
The painting itself is great, although the building's look static and boring. (they're better than my buildings though, since I didn't have patience for it, so I can't talk) -
Oh wow. How long did this take you?
I really like this - esp. the way you did the building's lights with the squiggly lines - I'm not sure what it is but something about that is just so...cute. It somehow makes a simple night-time cityscape into something fun and almost warm. To me, anyway. ^_^
Now I'm just sad that I don't have dual-screen so that I can use this version in all it's glory T_T
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Awesome painting style you have! It's very beautiful.
As what alterlier had said, there are parts where the red is a bit too bright.
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*blink*
...Wow. Seriously, WOW.
*speechless*
*fav*
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Well done! The simple colors and painting went well. I mean doing a perfect circle is super hard even for me when it comes to painting. Once again the reflection of the city was pretty. The city color dark was a great idea. Painting urban houses in the day would be a pain.
I think a very little white area all the way at the top right of the corner. You'll notice it. :)
I kind of regret that I didn't submit for the contest. :( I'll try to next time!
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It's a very nice view =D ~
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Really nice painting, and congrats for the sky and water (though apparently they weren't the hardest part for you, i think they show a real display of coloring skills !). Ahah, i express my condolences for your lost arm, it must have been a hell of a job to do those lights (what a waste of energy though).
Thumbs up :D
merged: 06-07-2007 ~ 08:06pm
PS when i wrote 'what a waste of energy'... it's not supposed to be you wasting your energy painting, but the lights being on all the time... sorry if i created any misunderstanding ^_^' -
Amazing! I love wallies like this! :D
Night sky in the city looks so beautiful!Fav from me! ;)
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*_* So pretty
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Oh wow, this is amazing! Such pretty colors of a beautiful nightscape. I'm glad I stumbled upon this great painting. :)
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Seattle?
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