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<title>Artwork: Stars Ablaze</title>
<author>sumopiggy</author>
<category>Painting / Nature</category>
<description>Hot, fiery stars illuminate the gaseous forms of this nebula. 
 
Photoshop + Wacom</description>

<link>http://sumopiggy.gfxartist.com/artworks/132186</link>
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<title>Artwork: Slumber</title>
<author>sumopiggy</author>
<category>Painting / Nature</category>
<description>Peaceful stellar nursery, stars are sleeping. 
 
I had fun with this one, playing with different softnesses and transparencies.</description>

<link>http://sumopiggy.gfxartist.com/artworks/132184</link>
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<title>Artwork: Creative Vice</title>
<author>sumopiggy</author>
<category>Painting / Abstract</category>
<description>I was thinking about all the things in my head that are hard to express, all the ideas and feelings that I have trouble putting down on paper ) or with my wacom   ) 
 
I focused the whole image around the shape of an eye: what I see, how I view life, how I feel. The rest of the composition...</description>

<link>http://sumopiggy.gfxartist.com/artworks/129149</link>
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<title>Artwork: Autumn</title>
<author>sumopiggy</author>
<category>Painting / Nature</category>
<description>Decided to try my hand at Corel Painter and this is what I seemed to start painting lol. I enjoyed using Painter, not sure how to get a normal digital looking brush tho lol so just played around with the different traditional ones; which turned out to be fine.  
 
I&#039;m glad to be getting...</description>

<link>http://sumopiggy.gfxartist.com/artworks/126215</link>
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<title>Artwork: Volatile</title>
<author>sumopiggy</author>
<category>Painting / Nature</category>
<description>Hot plumes of stellar gases form this beautiful depiction of a nebula. 
 
Painted in Photoshop with my shexy wacom   
 
Edit: I removed the texture overlay. Decided it didn&#039;t give the artwork anything, and that simplicity would be better. Also added a bit of details here and there....</description>

<link>http://sumopiggy.gfxartist.com/artworks/118866</link>
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<title>Artwork: Storm Cloud Study</title>
<author>sumopiggy</author>
<category>Painting / Nature</category>
<description>Just a storm cloud study inspired by an awesome photo in a National Geographic magazine. 
 
Took about 2-3 hours to paint, using Photoshop and my Wacom  </description>

<link>http://sumopiggy.gfxartist.com/artworks/92223</link>
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<title>Artwork: Anger</title>
<author>sumopiggy</author>
<category>Painting / Nature</category>
<description>I used hot, vibrant colours and strong contrasts between light and dark in this nebula to give a feeling of heat and anger. 
 
Painted in Photoshop with my 4x5 tablet. 
 
Dec 17, 2004</description>

<link>http://sumopiggy.gfxartist.com/artworks/90875</link>
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<title>Artwork: Adventurous</title>
<author>sumopiggy</author>
<category>Painting / Nature</category>
<description>A strong golden view of a warm cloudy nebula.I made this artwork to express an adventurous feeling for my Universal Emotions Series. 
 
This painting took nearly 36 hours to complete! I am really pleased with the result and have learned alot from making it. 
 
Painted on Dec 11, 2004 in...</description>

<link>http://sumopiggy.gfxartist.com/artworks/90874</link>
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<title>Artwork: Envy</title>
<author>sumopiggy</author>
<category>Painting / Nature</category>
<description>This was the first picture for my new series, Universal Emotions. 
In this series I try to express different feelings or emotions in the form of a space picture. 
It was inspired by Greg Martin&#039;s &amp;quot;Genesis&amp;quot; and took about 3 days on and off to complete. 
 
Oct 31, 2004...</description>

<link>http://sumopiggy.gfxartist.com/artworks/90815</link>
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<title>Artwork: Destiny&#039;s Flame</title>
<author>sumopiggy</author>
<category>Painting / Nature</category>
<description>Painted in Photoshop using a 4x5 tablet   
I got a bit behind in updating my GFX portfolio, and so decided to add my newest works. 
This was made on Oct 24, 2004</description>

<link>http://sumopiggy.gfxartist.com/artworks/90813</link>
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<title>Artwork: Divinity</title>
<author>sumopiggy</author>
<category>Painting / Nature</category>
<description>*hypnotic, off DA, made the landscape in Terragen and I did the rest in Photoshop 7.</description>

<link>http://sumopiggy.gfxartist.com/artworks/68668</link>
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<title>Artwork: Secrecy</title>
<author>sumopiggy</author>
<category>Painting / Nature</category>
<description>Painted in Photoshop 7 with my tablet. 
This is the second piece in my Universal Emotions series.  
I hope you like it  </description>

<link>http://sumopiggy.gfxartist.com/artworks/68666</link>
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<title>Artwork: Galactic Fairytale</title>
<author>sumopiggy</author>
<category>Painting / Nature</category>
<description>A view of the inside of a massive nebula lit by ethereal light. 
Its more fantasy than realistc scifi. 
Made in Photoshop 7. 
i hope you like, I&#039;m really proud of it.</description>

<link>http://sumopiggy.gfxartist.com/artworks/63417</link>
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<title>Artwork: Flourish</title>
<author>sumopiggy</author>
<category>Painting / Nature</category>
<description>A massive spiral galaxy swirling around a massive quasar star in the center which is sending firey jets out of it&#039;s north and south axis. 
-- 
Lol, dunno if thats all acurate but I thought I should give a small description.(Tell me if you think of a better description  ) 
Been working on...</description>

<link>http://sumopiggy.gfxartist.com/artworks/58960</link>
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<title>Artwork: Nothing Gold Can Stay</title>
<author>sumopiggy</author>
<category>Painting / Nature</category>
<description>I got inspired by a poem I found while reading a book. 
Its called Nothing Gold Can Stay, by Robert Frost. 
 
Nature&#039;s first green is gold, 
Her hardest hue to hold. 
Her early leaf&#039;s a flower; 
But only so an hour. 
Then leaf subsides to leaf. 
So Eden sank to grief, 
So dawn...</description>

<link>http://sumopiggy.gfxartist.com/artworks/58934</link>
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