Thanks!

AAA YOURE SO GOOD AT IMMERSIVE SETTINGS AND DESKTOP-BACKGROUND WORTHY ART

:D Thank you very very much! I'm glad you enjoy it so much!

I say it worked pretty well.

so loving cool work

Thank you!

Did you just do a fast mock up of the room and structures in blender?

Yep , base structure is done in blender, playing around a bit with light and whatnot and then do the rest of the fucking owl.
But i assume the exact hows will change a bit as i get more used to it all and figure out things a bit more. For example didn't know to make translucent material with this one and have light coming through the red cloth, so i plopped down an invisible red-emitting plane underneath it.

Have you worked with 3D software before?

Nope, aside from a few times of just pulling up some cubes and plopping them down here and there.

I follow some other artists that relatively recently got into 3D art and are doing pretty impressive things with it for being beginners with that tech. I was wondering if you find any familiarity working with 3D coming from 2D or if it feels completely new?

not really familiar, no. At least not yet, i know there are ways to get more of a painter-y feel in some aspects. But at least currently i'm more focussed on more basic stuff.

does the psd have the underlying base structure? i'd love to see that.

i hadn't thought much about using blender, but if it's relatively rapid, maybe worth investigating...

Yep, it's painted upwards from the 3D render basically

seriously beautiful

Thank you very much

Wow, amazing work!

Thanks!

Steamy.

Very

what a lovely piece. thank you for sharing!

And thank you for taking the time to comment :)

Lovely scenery work here!

Thank you!

Thank you very much :) And yeah, i feel bathhouses are typically rest and relaxation first and actually getting clean second. At least nowadays!

SOOO COOL!!!

Thanks!

This is amazing, absolutely lovely! I really love how you can draw scenes and backgrounds so well. I'd love to see more of these!

Hah thank you very much Televassi. Yeah it'll depend a bit on just how smoothly i'll get to figuring things out and also kinda bend it to how i want the 3D stuff to be. This one was very much 3D first and then i had to work the picture around that. Which ideally it'd be the other way around. But we'll see, either way it's likely that it'll help me with backgrounds in the future.

You're welcome! And that sounds great, looking forward to the future stuff! ^^

Actual art in its purest form such as this should be in real galleries.

Thank you very very much!

Beware towel thieves

Psh!

Off with the towel!
Thank you, Nomax.

psh, this is a christian bathhouse!

I beg to differ, religion has nothing to do here.

Hah fineeeee i guess off it comes

Fantastic work!

Thanks!

Beautiful. I love the rich colors and the warm inviting atmosphere, plus the open air nature of it. Great work. <3

Thank you very much :) Glad that you enjoy it!

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This is absolutely gorgeous, illustrating scenes like this is so overwhelming, and yet you pull it off so beautifully. It feels real, I love this.

Thank you very much, yeah that's ideally where the 3D helps! Just lay the groundwork for it a bit more and take off some of the load of just building the complexity from the ground up as a painting.

dude, you're just awesome!

Thank you very much

Gorgeous work. Glad to see you experimenting with 3D.

Yeah i really should have done so years ago (as is always the case, isn't it?). Hell, i sporadically tried to figure it out here and there but it always was a case of weighing the extra effort against just drawing it and whatnot. But now i said fuck it, you'll at least get some basic level of knowledge down. No excuses!

is it a... gay bathhouse?

no

Not only this transport me/us to far away locations, but it does that with fictional gorgeous far away locations.
I can really feel the humidity and steamy atmosphere.
Would love to enjoy some hours in there XD
Very well done!

Hah thank you very much, goal achieved then!

I think it's a spectacular result for a "first attempt." Did you make up all the elements from scratch?

I don't actually see it as 3D; it just looks like a painted background in proper perspective. That's not meant to be criticism, incidentally. I kind of don't like really 3D-looking stuff. It tends toward hyper-realism and that can make my perception go, "Ugh!"

This all looks like a nicely-modelled oil-on-canvas scene.

Thank you very much, and yep, model was built from scratch, and yep, the idea with 3D for paintings isn't that it looks like 3D after all. Just to help along.

Can you tell me where this bathhouse is? I want to go there. It seems to be really awesome there

Just close your eyes and you'll get there. But no it actually is roughly modeled after an actual old bathhouse that exists (though i don't think functions as a bath anymore), also not sure where exactly it is located.

That looks dope as fuck
I always loved your scenery
What references do you use?

Thanks, Modeled roughly after an existing old bathhouse, but not sure where it is located or called.

Welp, when I get back from work you'll be the first person I've ever supported via patreon

Hah i very much appreciate it!

Nice! I'd pay a visit to this place!

Excellent work, as always from someone of your level of skill, Nomax! 😊

Thank you very very much Bruma!

Awesome work. It looks like oil painting

Thanks!

This is really lovely - such a great sense of place, that enlivens the people in it. A strong feeling of 'this is a real moment, in real time', captured.

Thank you very very much! :)

Gorgeous work

Thanks!

I love your ability to create a sense of atmosphere. Beautiful.

Thanks a bunch!

Looks comfy

I'm sure it is!

Did you use Blender to compose and then paint over?

yeppedy-deppedy!

blender does some crazy things considering its free. Really nice looking bath house.

Yeah it's really quite astonishing. I mean i'm not a professional 3D artist (though i guess technically i am since i am working partly in 3D for my profession), but it doesn't really feel like i am handling a program where i always have to think "oh right, if i want to do that, or have it look professional i have to get program X or Y instead for 1,499,-".
I know that was the case a few years ago in the early stages of blender, but it's really come leaps and bounds!

Ahh, the delicate bouquet of wet dog.

bet it smells great around there!

it's like looking back through time...

V.

Thank you :)

This is beautiful artwork! It reminds me of orientalism in art; and the architecture is just incredible. The darker interior, treetops hanging overhead, steam over the water, and peep to the skyline is perfect!
Magnificent.

Thank you very much, yeah obviously an inspiration there. :D

Looks peaceful and inviting. ^^

Thanks!

I remember you mentioned Blender going unused for a previous piece, so I'm excited to learn more about how you used it for this one :) It looks fantastic!

Yeah the recent underwater picture technically was the first one, but the sketch that had a 3D backing just wasn't chose. And there were some pictures where rather rudimentary 3D was used for some help, but nothing major. So this is the first picture that made it to the finish line where 3D was integral.

Love the sense of openness and space!

Thank you!

your art... it's such beautiful dreams.. ; ;

Thank you very much!

Yep, its showing up as super dark again on Fire Fox, but no where else.

Yeah that's just how it'll be from now on unfortunately. It allows me some more freedom with colours and nobody else seem to have any problems.

That's too bad, but I have a workaround and some other things to try on my end.

It could be because my monitor is calibrated at full brightness and a very wide gamut for my photography. Its an HDR monitor, so it has the full output even when windows is running in SDR. You probably have your monitor set to what ever is standard for SDR for your calibration. I'd leave the whole system in HDR mode, but Lightroom and Photoshop get really buggy when its turned on.

What I don't get is that photoshop doesn't allow you to save PNG files with color profiles. It only lets you do that in jpg, so I don't understand how you can put a profile in an image like you do.

In any case, I was able to fix it by switching gfx.color_management.rendering_intent from 3 to 1 or -1 in About:Config

I found this helpful: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/3.5/ICC_color_correction_in_Firefox

If you look under the Caveats section, it says that images may display to dark in FireFox if ICC version 4 is used, so I may try a recalibration using Version 2 instead.

Honestly, I just wish that Microsoft would fix their color management shit, so it was as good as what you get on a Mac. Macintosh color management is more or less flawless, from what I can tell.

Switching the color profile from v4 to v2 fixed the issue. Now I need to figure out why Chrome is a little darker than FireFox.

Yeah man, colour profile stuff is just a hot mess anyway, but good that you at least found a solution for it. But yeah...just shows how weird it is now that it's showing strangely on chrome compared to FF :')

Must be a relaxing place~

Absolutely!

Some of the UI in Blender is a bit hunt-the-button-then-the-submenu or it's a non-obvious "that's actually a button" piece of UI.
If you poke around in the Addons section of edit->preferences, there's extra tools & primitive geometry - but also extra UI/Mesh/Object *interface buttons* which copy existing commands & tools into more accessible or obvious UI areas.
Saved me a lot of time as an archaic Blender user returning after some 15 years.

Haven't really had that problem but thank you for the tip!

oh hello there

Absolutely gorgeous painting and setting

thanks!

Looks very successful!

Great fang, as always the details are brilliantly stuning & a cool balance of colors.
Thank you, Nomax.

Thank you :)

Serene, quiet place. Lovely scene! :)

Beautiful.

Wonderful architecture. There's such an atmosphere in this one <3

Thank you very much!

Hahah, a good complimentary with that foliage and water here to really make those red tarps POP

Good to hear you're getting on with 3D stuff, helps making those perspective scenes and figuring out shadows a good deal easier. Did you have the vaguest idea of what you wanted the lighting angles to be in this scene or was this excercise very much a "I will put geometry down and then move lights around until I like it" kinda deal?

Yep it was pretty much an experimental thing all around, so playing with light was included in that. Just moving light and camera about until interesting things happened basically, but the idea was for pretty natural light all along, so i didn't go too crazy weird magical in the process. And then just take like a dozen different screenshots and whittle them down until i found the one felt had the most potential.