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"To our great surprise, the enemy has advanced faster and stronger than we expected. City upon city is being lost in the battle. The more we take out, the more come. We kill one and ten new crawl out of cracks, holes, and corners. Thousands of civilians, women, children, were brutally slaughtered. Their superiority is appaling!
So far, nothing has been found that could stop their advances. We are running out of time."


Man, I'm so glad that I managed to finish this painting. This piece took me by far longer than any other project. I spent pretty much my entire free time during my vacations on it, so working-time should be something between 60 and 90 hours dooming with Photoshop's default hard round brush. Conclusion: my will to destroy things seems to be larger than my laziness. lol.


Basic concept behind it: some super-high-developed mutated spiders have decided that it's much more enjoyable to rule humanity than to be ruled by humanity, so they start invading cities and tape down every resistant force to the ground where they can slowly rot away by themselves.
At this point, I'd especially like to thank `j4m3sb0nd with his seemingly neverending stream of ideas. He was definitely a great help!


Enjoy :)


PS: If you like this one, you might also like Unhallowed Dystopia


Facts:
:bulletblue: Software used: Photoshop
:bulletblue: Hardware: Wacom Intuos 3
:bulletblue: Working time: ~60-90 hours
:bulletblue: Original resolution: 4800x7200px
:bulletblue: Final PSD-size: 463 MB (my laptop needs ages to open/save it :P)
:bulletblue: Temp PS-file: 10.4 GB
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~avdsouza Feb 8, 2013
Do you know where can i find to read this story?
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*BLPH Feb 9, 2013   Digital Artist
In my head :p
Well, I made it up on the fly. Therefore, there is no full story.
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~avdsouza Feb 9, 2013
But when you make the story complete, can you send me the link? please?
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*BLPH Feb 11, 2013   Digital Artist
As I said, I made it up on the fly and am not planning to develop that further in any way. I might paint a new post-apocalyptic scenery that could require a background-story, but a logic follow up is unlikely...
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Mood: Glad ~avdsouza Feb 11, 2013
ok,ok. :)
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~Aniphine Mar 7, 2012  Professional Writer
Really beautiful. :)
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!DrOedi Aug 11, 2011   General Artist
what a big original file size!! How much RAM and HDD did your laptop have??

btw awesome picture!! :icongoodjobplz:
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*BLPH Aug 11, 2011   Digital Artist
Hmm, 2GB RAM and 75GB HDD (from which 63GB are used). It's definitely not the most comfortable way of doing stuff, but my constant lack of money prevents me getting a new computer xD
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!DrOedi Aug 12, 2011   General Artist
oo, so 2gb ram is enough... are your laptop getting hot when you use high resolution on Photoshop? what processor did you use?
(sorry for the questions, because now I want to buy a laptop, but still confused about the spec for digital painting.. hehe.. ^^;)
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*BLPH Aug 12, 2011   Digital Artist
My laptop is actually pretty robust (Lenovo R52). Not the fastest with its 1.7 GHz Intel Celeron processor, but I guess it does its job quite well xD

Actually, as for painting, you can almost take the oldest computers there are because hardware doesn't matter as much as it does for 3D-artists who need to render out everything with as much processing power as possible. A 5 year old computer works for digital paintings just fine and, as long as you stay within reasonable sizes (aka. anything below 5000 pixels), you won't experience a whole lot of issues. As for the heat, it pretty much depends on the environment. If I'm sitting in the sun, 30°C outside, I'll quickly notice that the laptop isn't particularly happy about that. But other than that, it's not really getting hot, just a bit warm ;)
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