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The Day We Left Earth

January 28th, 2010 80 COMMENTS


Art by Grzegorz Rutkowski, Poland.

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  1. Logan
    February 1st, 2010 at 1:48 pm

    Brilliant.

  2. Jared
    February 1st, 2010 at 1:49 pm

    Beautiful

  3. Jon
    February 1st, 2010 at 2:07 pm

    Really beautiful work!

  4. andrew
    February 1st, 2010 at 2:26 pm

    firstt :)

    wow love the colorss

  5. Joel
    February 1st, 2010 at 3:05 pm

    simply amazing. I love the emotion in her eyes…

  6. Pierre
    February 1st, 2010 at 3:34 pm

    Someday, this will happen, and I will cry too…

  7. Erin
    February 1st, 2010 at 3:39 pm

    This is gorgeous. (:

  8. coolvenus
    February 1st, 2010 at 4:31 pm

    Simply beautiful! Highly emotional.
    Listen to “Sands of Time, by: Paul Spaeth” when looking at this photo.

  9. Thaddeus
    February 1st, 2010 at 4:52 pm

    reminds me of Wall-E… anyone else?

  10. Cyberdrake
    February 1st, 2010 at 5:56 pm

    Very nice!

  11. BeBe BLuff
    February 1st, 2010 at 6:25 pm

    if that is the last plant… wtf are they gonna eat on the ship.

  12. busa kiss kiss
    February 1st, 2010 at 6:39 pm

    the day we left earth i carefully styled my hair and applied eye make-up.

  13. drew
    February 1st, 2010 at 8:17 pm

    word on thaddeus’s comment, nice artwork but poor choice of material, something original please?

  14. Peter
    February 1st, 2010 at 9:50 pm

    Awesome artwork.. But I LOL at the stupid environmental message it portrays..

  15. Draquel
    February 1st, 2010 at 10:28 pm

    Her face kind of looks like Ashley Olsen’s of the Olsen twins.

  16. Tolle
    February 1st, 2010 at 11:30 pm

    I agree on the Wall-E thing. First thing that struck my mind. :)

  17. mays
    February 2nd, 2010 at 6:31 am

    I agree with the Wall-E reference too …brilliant work

  18. DJ Bogtrotter
    February 2nd, 2010 at 7:37 am

    Maybe if she hadn’t used so much conditioner for her hair, the earth might have stood a chance.

  19. Rowan Watson
    February 2nd, 2010 at 8:49 am

    this is great. wonderful job of capturing the emotion of the moment in her face. i can see the tears welling in her eyes!

  20. dxr
    February 2nd, 2010 at 9:00 am

    Beautiful. bullshit, but beautiful.

  21. Old_Fart
    February 2nd, 2010 at 9:54 am

    Great drawing/painting. makes you want to stay a while longer.

  22. Eric
    February 2nd, 2010 at 11:03 am

    Oh, it’ll eventually happen when we have 30 or 40 billion people on the planet. It does remind me of Wall-E before they became a bunch of fat people.

  23. ERIC
    February 2nd, 2010 at 1:54 pm

    WOW WHAT A PIECE OF TRASH

  24. X4nNu5
    February 2nd, 2010 at 2:33 pm

    @Pierre It won’t happen in our lifetime.

  25. Stefan
    February 2nd, 2010 at 8:25 pm

    I’ll bet that’s a weed plant lol AWESOME ART

  26. Sleepwalker
    February 3rd, 2010 at 2:12 am

    @Eric, the earth can barely handle the burden of 6.69 (current) billion people, so i wouldn’t wait around for it to hit 30…
    also i don’t understand why people call the message bullshit… that we’re affecting the planet beyond repair? (at least nothing we can fix…)
    why is environmentalism bad?

  27. sean
    February 3rd, 2010 at 3:26 am

    Pierre
    February 1st, 2010 at 3:34 pm
    Someday, this will happen, and I will cry too…

    Sean
    you will be well dead by the time that happens

  28. Robert Brent
    February 3rd, 2010 at 4:04 am

    To the usual detractors…who just like to insult…you really should produce some artwork better than this before you glibly crap on it, my friends.

  29. Colin
    February 3rd, 2010 at 9:14 am

    Wheres the Afghan?

  30. Terri
    February 3rd, 2010 at 3:30 pm

    Beautiful work, if people start thinking about what we are doing to the planet maybe it won’t happen.

  31. Abomb129
    February 3rd, 2010 at 3:35 pm

    @ bussa kiss kiss…ROFL. This is a nice piece. I dig it.

  32. Glass Teapots
    February 3rd, 2010 at 5:29 pm

    Wow this is a pretty powerful piece. It’s sad…

  33. Fluidmechanics
    February 4th, 2010 at 2:27 am

    @COOLVENUS

    Good lord. Thank you for introducing me to Paul Spaeth. It’s absolutely incredible! Much more exciting than the picture! (Even though the picture rocks)

  34. Reynard Ealisaid
    February 4th, 2010 at 6:30 am

    It reminds me of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, with the endangered greenery and all. I appreciate the details and atmosphere. (i.e. the wind and it’s effects, the silhouettes in the background, the ground over the cliff, the tears in her eyes, etc.) Well done. ;)

  35. worthruss
    February 4th, 2010 at 8:05 am

    The galaxy Andromeda will crash into the Milky Way in 2.2 Billion years. The sun will be so hot in 1 Billion years that there will be no more water on the earth. A lot of what the Heaven of the Bible may be about is the intelligence of ancient astronomers saying look above the sky we are racing through at this moment could fall on you at any time. If some thing large enough came through and hit the sun, there would be one large flare and then cold, just like Revelations predicts or warns? As the ice cap melts it brings more water into the ecosystem to feed more people, all we have to do is irrigate with it better. We may even have to drain the oceans and store all of our precious water as long as possible, leaving room for even more people. The people we don’t have room for are those out to make a buck spreading fear and ignorance.

  36. hurdPAY
    February 4th, 2010 at 9:49 am

    looks like final fantasy spirits within with that plant in the tube

  37. Flonkbob
    February 4th, 2010 at 12:36 pm

    Gee, I guess I’m supposed to offer up a smart-ass comment so everyone will think I’m cool. But then again, I don’t like everyone.

    I do like this picture though. Wonder if the theme is something you’ve seen before because it’s something that matters…and you’re still not listening?

  38. sven clavo
    February 4th, 2010 at 1:30 pm

    Glad to know there will be beautiful women up until the last day on Earth.

    @BeBe BLuff
    “if that is the last plant… wtf are they gonna eat on the ship.”

    Each other. muahahaha.

  39. anri
    February 4th, 2010 at 6:25 pm

    The sun will get too hot in 5 billion years, not 1, worthruss

  40. Namık Cıracıoglu
    February 5th, 2010 at 6:50 am

    I really would like to be in such a spaceship with such a beutiful lady.
    Thanks.

  41. Ben
    February 5th, 2010 at 11:35 am

    How very morbid.
    Makes you think and wonder what are the stories behind it all. You’ve done a marvelous work.

  42. weez
    February 5th, 2010 at 11:39 am

    here’s the thing…
    according to science, the planet has been here for billions of years. (even before humans) So, I’m reasonably sure that the planet will survive anything we can inflict on it with our ignorance.

    according to the Bible, it doesn’t matter anyway because God is gonna wipe the slate clean whenever the mood takes Him. So, I’m reasonably sure that it doesn’t matter what we do to the planet.

  43. Perfect plastic cards
    February 5th, 2010 at 3:06 pm

    Very nice, high quality!

  44. mythster
    February 5th, 2010 at 3:15 pm

    so wall-e

  45. waldo
    February 5th, 2010 at 6:38 pm

    give me a break

  46. Jessi
    February 5th, 2010 at 7:50 pm

    Wonderful colors, really fits the mood. Thankfully, this sort of thing will never happen.

  47. stilgar
    February 5th, 2010 at 9:10 pm

    why is she wearing a stillsuit?

  48. kevin
    February 6th, 2010 at 9:54 am

    very cool, that’s it!!!!

  49. FENASAH
    February 6th, 2010 at 12:46 pm

    Something will happen in the next few years!!!!!!!!

  50. Xomeron
    February 6th, 2010 at 9:13 pm

    Looks like concept art for a kick ass videogame. I would hang a print of this on my wall.

  51. Nick
    February 6th, 2010 at 9:58 pm

    Nice art. But how come all the women in future depictions are always super hot and thin? I want to see Rosie O’Donnel holding that plant.

  52. roo
    February 7th, 2010 at 1:35 am

    Is that real leather? We may have to kill the last of the animals so we can suit up and save the plants! I ain’t going into space wear’n vinyl long johns, no chance Billy bob.

  53. Angela
    February 7th, 2010 at 9:08 pm

    @coolvenus I got chills down my spine when I put the music on while looking at the picture.

    And I agree. Environmentalism is only such a big thing now because we’ve made it so with all our consumerism and wastefulness.

  54. fallendevil
    February 7th, 2010 at 10:39 pm

    fabulous.. remind us to take good care of the earth..

  55. thisislame
    February 8th, 2010 at 1:28 am

    ya it’s rendered well but what the hell kind of message is it trying to say? “ok we’ve finished with Earth let’s go destroy some other planet”? and why don’t they need face protection and oxygen masks? if it’s gotten to the point where all the trees and plants are gone then there would be no air, not to mention the complete destruction of Earth’s atmosphere, and the raised temperatures of the Earth… ok ya that’s all.

    @Robert Brent: everyone here can see how well this picture is rendered, but just like when you watch a movie you can tell what’s wrong with it. Avatar was beautifully animated but the storyline sucked, the characterization sucked, everything sucked except the effects. but I don’t have to make my own movie to say that do I?

  56. Jeff
    February 8th, 2010 at 6:52 am

    I didn’t get the “We wrecked the en-vir-o-ment so we have to leave” vibe, I got “Holy shit, someone set up us the bomb, all our base belong to them so it’s time to GTFO.”

    And yes, I think the latest “OH NOES!!! The Erfs is gonna MELTZ!!” is all bull, especially when you consider that in the 1950’s, it was “OH NOES!!! The Erfs is gonna FREEZE!!!”

    And so, now that I’ve dealt with the distraction of all the foolish ones commenting on some pseudo-enviro-message…

    Nice artwork, man. Blogged.

  57. mx
    February 8th, 2010 at 5:32 pm

    This is totally wicked!!!!

  58. Frenchie
    February 9th, 2010 at 5:28 am

    WALL.E

  59. Willma
    February 9th, 2010 at 6:03 am

    this is from Final Fantasy the spirits within

  60. A-skat
    February 9th, 2010 at 11:46 am

    the technicals are lovely. The girl is everything Grzegorz Rutkowski seems to want in a girl~ nuture instict (plant), tiny waste, innocent eyes: the male is hidden. So if there are emotions in there, they’re tucked up in the “my suit accentuates potentional muscles” attire. ….a well done train wreck of present day’s (aesthetic?) values and fears…. Who cares if we saw wall-e do it:)
    cheerios~
    A

  61. justin
    February 9th, 2010 at 3:40 pm

    that should be a weed plant.

  62. Dustin
    February 9th, 2010 at 4:17 pm

    If it looks like one olsen twin then wouldn’t it make since to say it looks like both? If it were me it would definitely be a weed plant

  63. LGM
    February 9th, 2010 at 5:14 pm

    It reminds me of mass effect..either the first or second one

  64. George
    February 9th, 2010 at 9:54 pm

    Gives pain in my chest and a lump in my throat.

  65. promotepoint
    February 10th, 2010 at 10:16 am

    wounder full work, cheers mate

  66. Brianna
    February 10th, 2010 at 10:44 am

    I like the flower she is holding.

  67. SupaFly
    February 10th, 2010 at 10:47 am

    direct copy of Wall-E. but amazing :)

  68. Robby
    February 11th, 2010 at 5:26 pm

    This reminds me of mass effect

  69. Lewis Sandler
    February 12th, 2010 at 1:15 am

    beautiful art detail and imagination!

  70. Gargh
    February 12th, 2010 at 9:35 am

    this sucks ass

  71. McLennin
    February 13th, 2010 at 6:54 am

    It looks like the last plant on earth is a venus fly trap. And it looks like that guy walking to the ship stepped in dog crap. Bet the said dog will eat that plant.

  72. gaz
    February 14th, 2010 at 9:43 am

    Wow… ET scrubs up pretty good. BTW, what’s the betting that weed is good to smoke? Maybe that’s why her eyes are watering…

  73. siavash
    February 16th, 2010 at 4:21 pm

    Very good artwork, in particular the emotions are captured well. But I must say that the costume is quite unrealistic. I think with more hints of realism it could become an even better piece!

  74. DeltaBravoBravo
    February 16th, 2010 at 7:42 pm

    @ WORTHRUSS

    Please read the Bible, don’t interpret it. Unless you’ve read it all enough times to quote it. By then you’d probably be able to quote it to back up your claims!
    Everyone else who wants to criticize:
    This artist can draw. Whether the Earth implodes or explodes or evaporates or Christ returns and rules and creates a new heavens and a new Earth (my belief), this artist has TALENT. I myself miss the wonderfulness of my childhood imagination. This piece excites that. Do we love to imagine hopeful futures, whether we believe in them or not? Seems like our culture (as a species) shows we do.

  75. Andrew
    February 18th, 2010 at 10:21 am

    Not sure if this will work. I love it! inspiring! just put my own touch on it… sorry, lol

  76. Andrew
    February 18th, 2010 at 10:22 am

    hmm here is a link
    http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t264/Pkflier/thedayweleftearth.jpg

  77. Cliff
    February 20th, 2010 at 7:21 pm

    Ummm, I didn’t read everyones comments but i’m sure someone has mentioned this, Final Fantasy:The Spirits Within…That is what this reminds me of.

  78. bono
    February 21st, 2010 at 11:15 pm

    Whatever you say guys. This one is amazing. I like the emotion. And ohh.. this is art – It’s about IMPRESSION, not LOGIC. cheers!

  79. Chris
    March 3rd, 2010 at 6:01 am

    That is such an incredible picture! The expression on the girl’s face is amazing. There is so much emotion.

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