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dez69
(Jan 10, 2009 at 12:43)
this is painted??? awesome skills dude!
Thats pretty nice 
I've watched video of you doing that and I still can't believe what I saw... Man, you're GREAT, as great as this photo is! It'd be hard to paint it on paper, and on the computer - IMPOSSIBLE, but you've made that! Whoa! I don't know if I'm worth of congratulating you... such a nice picture
I've watched video of you doing that and I still can't believe what I saw... Man, you're GREAT, as great as this photo is! It'd be hard to paint it on paper, and on the computer - IMPOSSIBLE, but you've made that! Whoa! I don't know if I'm worth of congratulating you... such a nice picture 
Well if this doesnt get POD, at least I get to see it everyday was my desktop bakground! Thats amazing 
what i find real amussing is that people are always so hard up onPB about photoshop pics or pics that have been tampered with, now everyone is creaming in their jeans over this. like i said in a comment down the page, the dude has talent and i respect his skills as a computer artist but id much prefer a real shot by a good photographer of a good rider. my P/O
i pay my respect to you man you are one skilled person! POD all the way! i will be discusted if it doesnt get it! Nice job 
this is an amazing job, there have been shitty sketches that get pod, why not this? it probably took longer too
well, they have to be bent cos the shadow falls on uneven surface (little hles, stones and so on). the track would have to be perfectly flat for the shadows od the spokes to be straight etc... but then that's nothing to do with downhill has it? more like time trial...
I used to do drawings on my graphics tablet and photoshop...havnt done it in ages, and that picture has inspired me to start up again. Amazing picture
I made it in Corel Photopaint, but Photoshop is as good. And a graphics tablet is a great help cos normal mouse makes things really difficult
f*ck me, you spent so long at this and put in so much work, and effort and the finished result is astonishing. In my opinion this deserves some recognition such as a POD, to help people understand what went into this. Well done mate! Awesome job!
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a real artist on pinkbike please amaze us with som new work, that's great watt u're doing, keep the wheel rolling dide!!!!!!!
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rather simple process overall...
you just have to have LOTS of patience, a good knowledge of how the human body moves, and some skill with a computer...
that and lots n lots of practice.
I know for a fact I couldn't do this(I've tried something similar before haha)
kudos on the painting. =)
you just have to have LOTS of patience, a good knowledge of how the human body moves, and some skill with a computer...
that and lots n lots of practice.
I know for a fact I couldn't do this(I've tried something similar before haha)
kudos on the painting. =)
Love this pic, watched the vid three times, POd for sure. nice to see a pic with no negative comments for a change
badass man, definately deserves to be POD based on the amount of skill it took you to make it. not to mention peat is a sick rider. I demand it be POD!
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thatz so lame... looks like each part of the bike was cut from different pic and pasted into this one then... Come on people - you deserve to be shown much more than this !!!
You know what is digital painting???? ... from scratch???? You talk about something very diferent and 5 minutes work.
now that people know you have these skills on the computer, people are going to use you. DON'T LET THEM!
Anybody who says this is lame or picks it apart is a frcken a-hole.
Any lame ass can pick someone elses work appart.I would like to see them even attempt this.
Any lame ass can pick someone elses work appart.I would like to see them even attempt this.
Skills, that is all I can say.
I KNEW there would be one idiot here that would say "That's not painted".. Aka hoffmanrider...
I KNEW there would be one idiot here that would say "That's not painted".. Aka hoffmanrider...
THIS IS SO GAY, WHY DO WE HAVE TO PHOTO SHOP PICTURES ALL THE TIME, IT TAKES MORE SKILL TO TAKE A PICTURE LIKE A REAL MAN AND NOT EDIT IT AND YOU APRECIATE IT MORE!!!!!!!!!!
philipstonier lets see you recreate a photo from scratch and see if you can do a job as well as this... I bet you can't because you don't have the skill. Taking a good picture takes skill and creating an image on the computer takes a different skill. Everyone has their own talent.
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im not hating, but i think the original looks heaps better. i think in this day and age there is too much tampering with photos and it takes away the rawness of what that photo actually is. you have mad ass skills for it and thats awesome bruva but in my personnel opinion i prefer pics that are all rider and photographer.
Not all of us have a grand to spend on a good camera; you can only do so much with a compact and for all that they can be fun they never look as good as one taken with a lense that is about ten times the size
i was once told by a pretty good phtographer that it sometimes doesnt matter how expensive your gear is, its about the idea. if you have a good idea you can work wonders. just gotta think outside the box a little.
thanx for that, but what I menat was that the original would have been taken by a race photographer who you can almost garranty had ann expensive camera and if all the counts is the idea why do professional photographers go and buy ten grand cameras when they could probably get a digital camera for fifty pounds/dollars/euros if you looked hard enough. its like if you had a firework and the idea of getting to the moon doesn't mean your going to get there. Therefore i think that if the pic had ben taken with a compact camera then it would look worse than the painting because it would not have as much detail.
rant over
rant over
Dude, I had no idea this was painted, this totally inspiered me to make my own. I saw your video ad it was totally amaising. Good Job Man!
This is just class. I'm glad it looks slightly computerized to show everyone hoe amazing at this you are! Props!
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I know its a painting, but as a tribute to the rider and the photographer, and the skill of the painter, i think it should be put as POD.
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oh my goodness you my friend have hands of a God for painting this. it is one of the most amazing paintings ive ever seen!
HUGE props
HUGE props
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Date: 2009-01-09
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Description: my recent digital painting of Yorkshire lad Steve Peat .. based on photo by Dave Pawlak taken during the Sea Otter event.. painted from scratch in Corel Photopaint... just posted video showing the whole painting process in my vid gallery (speeded up, cos orignally took me over 8 hrs!).. hope you like it
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