EOW 97 Wnner's Choice: Asian Urban Flair

**chaosrocks** · October 9th, 2008

Eow 97 Winner's choice:Asian Urban Flair

The winner of the Skytrain round was Hideyoshi who was asked to choose a topic for this round, this is what he chose... Go for it

Brief
"Asian urban flair"

- any time period goes

REQUIRED
limited to East Asian countries only (China, Japan, Korea etc.)
- add recognizable typical asian elements
- make it urban

DUE October16
alright do hideyoshi proud! Not much participation in th e last round t was a very specific brief as you might get for a game , this one is wide open GET TO WORK!

NO description required, say what you need to say visually.

FOLLOW THE TOPIC.

POST YOUR FINAL HERE THREAD.

SAVE YOUR FILES IN THE FOLLOWING FORMAT. EOW##_Nickname
example: "EOW#100_Chaosrocks.jpg"

PLACE THE IMAGE IN A FRAME WITH YOUR NAME/TOPIC

example from CHOW

(you can add CA logo, etc).

Add an icon to you final post
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k thx

**Relic** · October 10th, 2008

Pardon my not so good English,what's the "Flair" as in "Asian Urban Flair" means? Is it means our works have to exhibit the charm of an East Asian city?

**gmblfdz** · October 10th, 2008

I think by "flair" they mean using architecture/items/objects that give an Asian feel. So in other words, make an urban scene that is recognizably Chinese/Japanese/Korean.

I think.

**thescala** · October 10th, 2008

When i think of flair all i get inmind is Rick Flair, WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

**Hideyoshi** · October 10th, 2008

hey Chaos, maybe we could change the topic to "Asian Urban Ambience" then? I think that would be more clear.

gmblfdz actually summed it up correctly.

**chaosrocks** · October 10th, 2008

essence?
"a feeling of"
influence?
or we could just say "urbanAsian" and leave it at that
HongKong Luna anyone?

**Hideyoshi** · October 10th, 2008

hehe, alright, I think people get the idea now!

**Vyse** · October 10th, 2008

HIDEYOSHI!

I accept the challenge...!

**gmblfdz** · October 10th, 2008

I also accept the challenge although I think I am way out of my depth.

**Relic** · October 13th, 2008

a thumbnail I got so far.Since I live in China,I can't get away that Spring Festival ritual out of my head,so I decide I do this.

Any comment will be appreciated

**Vulgar`** · October 13th, 2008

This topic is sizzling, here's some inspiration/references:

Mm.. food.

Enjoy.

**OTTA** · October 13th, 2008

REQUIRED
limited to East Asian countries only (China, Japan, Korea etc.)
- add recognizable typical asian elements
- make it urban

Could it be in South East Asian? I think I'm gonna use my own country's inspiration.. THAILAND

**chaosrocks** · October 13th, 2008

ok

**revenebo** · October 13th, 2008

I used Hong Kong as reference. Advertising boards are taken from photos found on internet (cityscapes from Japan and Hong Kong), I really dont' know what's written on them...

I think I need some practice in composition (and many other subjects...).

**Relic** · October 13th, 2008

revenebo:great work.clean and mellifluence.but I think the characters on the advertising boards on top left corner are reversed

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**OTTA** · October 13th, 2008

revenebo : Good work, I see your work is very neat. Just in my opinion,I think perspective is too high eye-levels,so it divide a picture in a half. That make it hard to put any interesting point in it, but may be, you have a little gimmick in your head for this already

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**revenebo** · October 14th, 2008

Relic ooops. I fear I placed some of the boards while the image was mirrored...

OTTA Gimmick?

Ehm... Like a naked woman silhouette behind a window? To divert attention from the rest of the image...
Ok, I have no idea. I should take more care of composition before starting to paint... Here my intention was to divide the street from the skyscrapers in the background, with no real focus except for the temple at the end of the street. I chose a higher point of view to give a panoramic view on the street (from an elevated position like a metro station, a highway, etc.).

**Hideyoshi** · October 14th, 2008

revenebo: nice start! What I noticed is that the scyscrapers in the back should be darker since it's an overcast situation and usually things are darker than the sky value. Of course that doesn't apply to light scources or directly sunlit areas.
Darkening down the buildings (at least gradient-like from the top) would nicely pop them against the sky.

Vulgar: great reference!

I am gonna cook something up soon, haven't found time yet... (damn, deadline is close!)
Won't necessarily go for cliched modern neon city though...

(remember, this can be urban in any period of time - think: 'pagodas' etc.)

**gmblfdz** · October 14th, 2008

I'm having trouble with this one! Not used to doing straight lines of buildings and such.

**wilkerson** · October 14th, 2008

Do the rules forbid posting work that was done a month before the topic was posted? I made a cool Japanese scene...I've never participated before.

**Lander** · October 14th, 2008

Chaosrocks: Thanks for doing this. Btw we said hi at Revelations.
Here is my very first wip at a EOW.
Fire away cos it's more or less the first time I do this eow. I need to hear it all.
Or don't and let me work some more first

I'm taking the Environment Concept Design by Philip Straub. ha ha ha. Well I'll have everything to learn and nothing to loose.

cheers.

**Lander** · October 14th, 2008

update

**KWhite** · October 14th, 2008

great topic! I really want to join!

wait... "DUE October16" don't tell me it's the deadline? no...

**Hideyoshi** · October 14th, 2008

still very WIP, trying to get down the lighting and color scheme.
Perspective is horribly eyeballed

**chaosrocks** · October 14th, 2008

no you may not post work for this activity that was not made for this activity. OMG i forgot to post a poll for the last one
i Am sooo sorry

i 'll get to it asap
where is every one?
hehe you all are buckin for that midwest farm again

**Adele** · October 15th, 2008

i thought it would be cute to stick in some worshiping of hello kitty...so cute!

i wont get to do this....but took on the subject...i have always had problems pushing my distance and perspective when i haven't done environments for a bit.

the top one is a little girl up close to a hello kitty restaurant, the second is from the downtown streets and the bottom is from a highrise apartment in the city where a kitty airship is flying by

**peetsbeets** · October 15th, 2008

Originally Posted by revenebo

I used Hong Kong as reference. Advertising boards are taken from photos found on internet (cityscapes from Japan and Hong Kong), I really dont' know what's written on them...

I think I need some practice in composition (and many other subjects...).

Really digging this right now, however, as someone mentioned your characters are backwards on the middle left sign, hope you consider righting them

as its really distracting.

**Lander** · October 15th, 2008

only distracting if you can read

**Vyse** · October 15th, 2008

Gyah! O__O

Deadlin is so close...!!
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU............ ...LL SPEED NOW!

Hideyoshi, i am using Pagodas also, dammit!
Now it looks like i´m using tem because you reminded us of them
grrrrrah, curse you ~___~....

**Vyse** · October 15th, 2008

Pheeew!
Finished! Done! I´m through with it....!!

Well, what to say.... i´m not really satisfied with the composition, but due to multiple painted-on-wrong-layer issues it became nearly impossible to do major changes, like moving the island somewhere else, etc. etc. ...
Also, the hills could have been done better i think.
Next time...... need sleep....

Cheers everyone~!