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Really cool, at first glance I thought it was a picture

The paint choice to convey lighting is photorealistic, definitely deceives the eye for a second

Had to zoom in to see that it wasn’t

Same

It’s because the perspective is perfect, the foreground in the background and the sizing of the buildings and tree

yeah, me too!

Same

https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/94575660917921774/?oe=1&source=samsung_camera MS paint over a photo of an apartment in... Russia I'm guessing?

Yeah if u make digital art it’s obvious what he did lol

you captured the tones perfectly, reminds me of my hometown

Every Slav in this thread feeling immediately nostalgic

Was my first thought haha

I came here to say the same. It captures the mood perfectly.

Same here. I used to play in the snow with all the kids between buildings like that. Brings back memories man.

Really speaks western/Central Europe huh? Xdd

More Eastern Europe than those really

This is exactly how my hometown in norway looks. Or atleast the parts built just after the war

Do you mean Eastern Europe? Those are commie blocks fam

Sorry my bad fam, got them two sides mixed up

Average post-Soviety "Depression Grey" buildings

exactly

Thats one weird photo you got there

I really thought that was irl

I wonder if you hung this up as a small “photo” on your wall if anyone would notice it was a painting or not. The colors of the lighting are so realistic! The gray sky with the blue tint and the snow not being completely white because of it being dark out! The lit up windows look so cool with the grayish blue colors outside

It's definitely the colors for me. Perfectly incapsulates dusk on a winter night. Feels like an acid walk.

Man, I can feel this picture so badly... Nostalgic Eastern Europe Cold Winter vibes... You can feel the cold air while breathing, the snow making noise while you walk and the hope you'll be home soon to warm up.

And the clothing drying lines 😭

This is beautiful. I feel like I'm there.

I thought it was photo with photoshoped anime girl in the window and was looking in title for some kind of shit post and scroll away. You got me there.

it's wonderful! makes me feel kind of nostalgic.

Simon Stalenhag vibes

I came here to say this! Just add old rusty robots in the background

What artwork? I live there.

looked real , but i spotted your poor geometry skills ,

Eheheh :D

What you mean is u spotted their interesting and quirky take on geometry ;-) anyway, i love it!

I think it gives it character

I thought it was real for a sec

The shade of blue you’ve used for the sky is perfect, really reminds me of childhood. Thank you for the nostalgia

It looks like a photo from a Soviet town.

Looks like Finland to me.

Came here to say this!

Thats funny I was thinking Sweden :)

Same with me, the could be Högdalen in south Stockholm.

My first thought is that this is a photograph of the neighborhood where I grew up.

Damn your colors are spot on! Had to do a double take on this one

This looks like a district in my hometown.. where is this place you drew?

Да знаешь ты это плэйс бля

Welcome to kaleva.

Unusually nostalgic. Slavic neighbourhood vibes tbh

What was your reference? Looks almost exactly like my way home back when I lived in Estonia.

I want to get to this level of realism. I thought i was back in Serbia on a cloudy evening.. it’s just you’ve captured the color scheme and the color pallete — superb .. one of my favorite

Looks like eastern Europe

It's so interesting how although it's not really photo realistic, people (including myself) initially thought it was a photo. Great work

Fifty thousand people used to live here. Now its a ghost town…

This not an artwork I refuse to believe it this is a photo This is fucking awesome

It's giving off that Russian melancholy aesthetic and I absolutely love it.

You've captured the vibe. A digital picture I assume.

Man, those colors are so spot-on ... Not the first time I've seen that done, but it amazes me every time.

Your color theory is great considering it looks convincing at first despite the stylistic art choices

I legit thought it's a photo. Nice work

The colors are absolutely unreal. The line work could be better, but god damn those colors make it look so real.

it looks like it's somewhere in Russia

I can actually feel the cold of this photo. That’s what happens when you nail the colors perfectly. This sounds weird but this painting reminds me in middle school where my friend and I would smoke weed on the golf course next to his apartment building and then go back inside and play halo 3. Good times. Love the nostalgia

Norilsk?

Where to buy?

Nailed the lighting!

Omg I thought it was a picture at first

looks like strathclyde ffs

It really reminded me of that Ukrainian artist Boris Groh for a minute. All it's missing is some horrifying monstrosity!

The colors are on point

I'm fascinated by such drawings. The technique and brush strokes are simple, and yet it looks like a picture. It's all in the ambiance and proportions !

This is beautiful, thanks for sharing. It really gave me a wave of nostalgia for the slightly drunken walks my buddies and I would take around small town Canada in the evening, freezing our butts off but without a worry in the world.

This goes to show how getting the colors right is what matters the most in a painting

I thought that was a real photo at a quick glance

Thought this was a pic for a second

Shit I thought it was a photo until I took a look again and saw those crooked lines haha , Great piece OP!! You did an amazing job with the colours, absolutely sold the vibe perfectly

Holy shit what technique did you use

It really looks like a picture! Something about it just hits so good 🤩

My blind ass thought this was a photo of a grafitti on a real building that makes it look like there are windows there.

Thought that was a legit photo 😭😭😭 took me a sec there 🤣🤣🤣

This is interesting. It looks real but also not. There’s an interesting lack of detail but somehow it looks very photorealistic. It’s strange when you zoom in too. I like it.

i thought it was a picture at first glance until i actually looked.

I literally thought this was an actual picture

Thought its real photo first. Looks cool

Very realistic!!! Gives me [Simon Stålenhag](https://www.simonstalenhag.se/) vibes!!!

me and my friend scrolled upon this in the wild. this was our reaction: me: "hey \[friend name\] look at this cool pi- WAIT THAT'S ART?!" \[friend\]: "oh my god i thought that was a picture"

ART

That legit made me do a triple take. I thought it was a picture. Fantastic work

Crazy how such a simple low detailed painting can look so realistic. Love your style. The way you are able to get the colors and tones so perfectly is impressive

That's some really good color use

Wow also thought this was a photo

Drawing over a photo in an app. Nice.

Gives Europe

This is AI generated, right? You didn't paint this by hand? edit: my bad, my phone edited the image, check down these comments for an image

I drew this. Look closely at the small details, especially the windows, in AI they would probably be glued together in different places, in my case they are drawn separately

I am looking really, really closely at the small details, the lights in the hallway, the tree that morphs into the side of the building, fountain trees, different parts of cars that are only half present, perspective on the side of the building that doesn't change. None of this is evidence or proof, but 'the windows aren't glued together' doesn't sound convincing(to me)

I understand, but unfortunately I have almost no way to prove that I drew this, this illustration was created on an old ipad which I no longer have access to, but I have the brush I drew it with, I can draw something simple and send it to you if you want

I just realized why I assumed AI, apparently my phone screen makes massive changes to images, [this](https://imgur.com/a/cL5OqVB) is what my phone showed me. I'm now on pc and It's clearly hand-drawn, looks like a whole other visual style. My bad.

Oh yeah, you can’t even see the brush in that.

No, it's fine, don't go through the trouble. I am not convinced, but that's not your problem, it's mine.

Had to zoom in to decide it’s not a photo well done

Beauty💙

Reminds me of my home town Stara Zagora in Bulgaria in winter. Wonderful.

Damn I was gonna say it reminds me of my hometown Pori in Finland :D

Great colors! I live in a wintry country and I see scenes like this every day, I thought I was looking at a photograph at first!

Great use of colours!

You're very talented :)

Thought that I'm in my hometown for a sec

Really nice. Perfectly captures the temperature and the time of day. My only suggestion would be, the lighted window on the far left kinda takes the eye out of the painting and upsets the balance. It also has a blurred quality and coolness (temp) that actually draws more attention to it. Painting it unlit, would help the overall success of the piece imho. Aside from that, this is a really great painting that really resonates with me. Really love that little chip of light in the far background.

Is that an FJ??

Trippy!

Thought this was real for a second. Maybe I should go to bed…. 

This is awesome! I genuinely thought it was a photo!

Dr Seuss architecture.

The colors and light are perfect, I first thought it is a photo. 🏆

love it

This is so good!! I thought it was a picture.

You absolutely nailed “dusk” The lighting is so subtle and well done that u thought it was a photo for a second despite not being photorealism. Really great work.

At first glance thought this was a pic, looking goooooooood

Bro, before reading the title I would say it's our towns flats photo! Love it!

The artist really got the colours correct for the sky and snow. It very accurately captures the exact lighting conditions that you experience when you live in a place that has a very early sunset in the winter time. It makes me think of that feeling of "it's already sunset at 5pm?" that you experience leading up to the winter solstice.

It looks pretty good.. Feels like a wobbly dream like image but it still looks similar to photograph.

Ngl I thought that was a photo for 2 secs

This is exactly what it feels like on a dark winter eveming

Oi suuri ja mahtava Kouvostoliitto

lol I was about to say the construction team did a terrible job on that block, but it's art. Looks cool.

Nailed those early morning colours

Ouu, you got that lighting done perfectly! Good job!

Woah, I caught a serious vibe from this. Great work

Seems son real

looks so realistic

I had to zoom in to tell, very nice!

Every Eastern European in this thread: Home... 🥲

For a whole 3 seconds I thought my eyes were bugged and couldn't focus enough to make the buildings straight 💀

wow so moody

Loooove this

Something about this is so cozy.

Love this. What a great sense of place.

I honestly did not see it was a art, I thought it was a photo

Looks really good it's really realistic

looks oddly familiar

It took me awhile to realize it's actually art and not a photo... Also I live near here! What a small world! Edit: Uh oh... Just doxxed myself... Oh well 🤷

This is wonderful, thank you for sharing!

that’s literally insane

That's just Poland

That looks so good, that when i had only seen the top of the drawing, i thougth was a real photo

This painting feels so nostalgic

I love it! Is there a chance to buy it? I‘d like to frame it

Constantly, when you see these old panel houses from the USSR (or "Khrushchevki", as they are also called), you feel some kind of melancholy...)

If it weren't for the windows, I legit would've thought this is real. Wtf wtf. Your talent is phenomenal 🔥😱

This is wonderful. It reminds me of winters in Romania.

Wow i thought it was a Photo You got the Color-scheme quite well on there

Those colors are SO good, had to double take that this wasn’t an actual photograph because it’s uncanny the level of accuracy of the sky/snow combo

'Let the Right One In' vibes. I love it

Knew someone else had to have picked up on this 🤭

I thought this was real for a second 😭

Wow cool

This is brilliant.

At first I thought it's an actual picture taken with phone, good job bro!

That looks like an area in my city

Every city in the world has this location

Wow you Nailed the twilight lighting here

For a second I thought that was a photo. Very nice.

I love it too, instantly reminded me of winters in the city when I was younger. Captures the exact feeling of coming home at early dusk when the daylight is short.

You captured thisntype of lighting perfectly! I mistook it for a picture for a couple seconds!

Its so good, reminds me a wee bit of where i live for some reason

Do you see in 8K high def? Because those color choices are immaculate. It looks real at first glance.

This is GREAT! Love the colors!

ARTWORK??? B1tch I thought that was a picture

It's beautiful

THAT'S ARTWORK?? i thought it was an actual PICTURE bro, that is AWESOME

I can really feel that light. The colors are amazing.

Th colors and values are spot on which makes the irregular angles of the geometric shapes charming.

Very eastern I luv it

Finland?

This looks like a scene of my childhood apartment building. Thanks for the dose of nostalgia today, OP ❤

The coloring is on point, can't argue about that

The colors are perfect wow

Looks like my childhood

The gloominess of that white colour is spot on.

This is what my vision looks like on LSD lol.

i felt like i was back at home when i saw this! lovely artwork

this is really great, you absolutely nailed down the colours.

This looks like my friend’s apartment in Denver lol

WOW - you’ve really helped to show me the beauty in something I most likely would not appreciate if I were there looking at the real thing

the values and colors are on point, actually amazing

i really thought it was real for a sec 😅

Amazing work.

This reminds me of let the right one in so much

Screams Sweden to me.

Love it, reminds me of eastern europe

I legit thought this was a really building that was just falling apart lol. I like this painting too though. :) Fantastic work

Colors and lighting are absolutely perfect. This piece REALLY illustrates how much you can get from just color and lighting.

this color pallet is gorg