The third image in this series of digital portrait paintings for the digital age.
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Getting back into Blender
Here are some quick studies I made using Blender’s native ocean and mountain creating properties. The program did 95% of the work here. I did the rest. Once I figured out how to do it, it took just minutes to come up with new versions. I got put off of 3D for a while after…
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Imagine That #55
This is a kind of relaxing work I like to do. Just start drawing with one brush, and mostly on one layer, in Photoshop. Completely unpremeditated. See what emerges. It’s a little like doing a puzzle. I did this a couple weeks ago, but haven’t been sharing much because I had a big move across…
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Cute fish exercise, with animation
This little guy isn’t up to the standards of my other recent sculpts, but the takeaway of the exercise was training at retopology, using alpha images to create textures, and how this can affect a form in animation. If it sounds complicated, probably because it is, a bit. And I know far too much about…
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DROID UPDATE
Remember this guy? I’ve made some additions and modifications. [Note: you SHOULD be able to click on any of the images to see a larger version in a new tab, if you’re using a computer, that is.] Working on the legs. It’ll have probably more than two, not sure about 3 or 4. You first…
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Final Vintage School Desk in Blender, 2 versions
The first version is essentially all Blender, and the second incorporates using Photoshop to show one desk as mostly wire-frame, and the other partially so. The concept addresses the theme of “modern learning”, and I was commissioned to create something along those lines for a forthcoming publication. My idea, because I am so busy learning…
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Digital Painting Tech: Fix for Photobashing
Some of you know I’ve been doing a lot of study over the last several months, and now it’s paying off. I’m working on portrait #32 in my SFAU series, and I decided to put in an earring from a photo. [Decided to do another portrait to practice some of the techniques I’ve learned.] There…
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New Art: [Everyday Observations #2] Scissors & Ball
Some of you may have already seen a short video I shared, on Instagram, showing some of the techniques I used. This is #2 in a just started, ongoing series of everyday observations. They are realistic renderings of photos I take of my environment. The subjects aren’t supposed to be dramatic, but are studies of…
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My Early Art is Rescued, and Musing on the Dumb Prejudice Against Digital Art
My Early Work is Saved There are many reasons being an artist is rough, or as we artists might say to ourselves at times “sucks”. 90% of art majors do not continue on to art careers (according to an article in The Atlantic), and I would guess that among visual artists that number is even…
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Gerhardt Richter’s Crappy Digital Stripe Paintings
I’m a big fan of Richter, especially his squeegee abstractions done with oil paint, and I bought a couple of his books, but his digitally created “Stripe Paintings” are trite, and a technique I figured out at least 15 years ago. When I saw them a few weeks ago for the first time, they reminded…
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The Opening of the Ripened Mind: details, process, and explication
[Above is a gallery with details of the image, and below they appear again with context.] [Note: 12/1/2014 I’m revising this one right now.] I’m pleased with this piece, and think I’ve brought together several approaches I’ve developed in other pieces and integrated them into something new. Though this is “digital art”, it’s in the…
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Feed the Fish
And then, once you have your file with 300 layers and texts, not only can you change all of the fonts at once, you can also crop it and enlarge the result without losing detail (because it’s vector text). I additionally tweaked the colors and moved around layers to improve the composition. Reminds me a…
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300 Messages
I know what you’re thinking. It looks like robot vomit, or the cat got into the yarn basket, and we’re seeing it through frosted glass smeared with ketchup and mustard. Close enough, because it barely holds together, and I’m not sure myself if I like it or not. It is the last in the EXPERIMENTAL…
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Angelic Belligerent (digital Pollock)
A conceptual digital work with 281 fonts, 281 words, and 281 layers. I used every font I have. For each layer in Photoshop, I choose a word off the top of my head, and each is assigned a font according to whichever is next in the list, and size and transparency through randomly generated numbers.…
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Spiderman, by me
I had some trouble with foreshortening and anatomy, but I think it looks convincing now. Or it could have been on purpose, in which case… Oh, alright, I guess I have to come right out and say it. It’s supposed to be bad. It’s an attack on fan art.
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The Human Fly
I’ll write more about this in another post. I just wanted to throw it out there for people to see. Following are a couple close ups.
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The Human Fly, stages of development
Update [11/12/13 12:00 a.m., Thailand]: Now I’m starting to get into it. I didn’t really like the more technical phases of getting the perspective right, and establishing a range of values. But it was a necessary step. Now I can work more intuitively, which I can see is what I really like. My imagination or…
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Recent work, Insect Angle (heavy satire)
Yes, it’s a joke. Why? Well, for one, I love my satire. Always have. And I have parodic music by the likes of Flight of the Conchords in among my “favorites” on my music player playlists. Indeed, some songs by Ween achieve a kind of greatness through deliberately trying to be bad, which I think…
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One month of art has passed.
11 months to go. The first month went well. I finished 2 new pieces, which was my goal. I would be quite satisfied with 24 new pieces in a year. I spent more money than I anticipated, because my visa run cost as much as my rent, but I also hadn’t factored in that even…
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In progress for Halloween, “The Human Fly at home”
Still in sketch phase. I started this “human fly” as a quick piece I could finish for Halloween. Probably won’t, so got the idea to share it in stages, so there’s something out there to capture people’s Halloween imagination. I’m trying to work in a more representational style here, a lot like pulp magazine covers…
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New art, The Last Scent
My latest piece, just finished. This one reeks of me. I think anyone who knows my work, and especially my early paintings, would instantly know who was behind this image. I did it completely from my imagination, in a not-so-efficient manner. I tried an experiment of starting with a composition and color scheme I liked,…
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My Miley Cyrus Twerking Drawing
I don’t know what exactly possessed Miley Cyrus to do this performance, or what possessed me to make a cartoon version of the spectacle. And yet, they exist. Later I’ll put it in color. But you can get a postcard for $3.95.
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Best of my new work
These are my more serious new images. All are digitally created using only Photoshop, my own photos, drawings, and endless tablet work. Bellow the “gallery” are all the same images in standard format. Below are the same images. Some have links to in depth posts about them with close-ups, and background information about the process,…
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Alien Autopsy Gallery
Read the blog post about this image here. Prints available:
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