Your Artwork

[frankiej]

Yeah, I'm self-taught at almost everything I do.

It takes a wee while to get the hang of it if you have never used it before.

[leo-rcc]

This is one of mine from long ago:

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I didn't do this art work (the galaxy did). I just documented it with my telescope:

A friend of mine got this today:

[Jay1982]

This is one of mine from long ago:

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I didn't do this art work (the galaxy did). I just documented it with my telescope:

A friend of mine got this today:

That first pic you posted with the killer bees is very cool man, how did you go about working that one up? was the background pre-existing or did you create that from scratch and are the bees all your own creations? were you a traditional artist before you started doing digital art?

[Cinjin]

I obviously use ink on all of mine before adding screen tones on photoshop... Good ol' physical medium is the best.

are you self taught on photoshop man? did you find it hard to transition from physical media to digital? thinking of getting a wacom tablet and learning how to do digital art, it cost alot less, materials wise

As long as you have an artistic mind - you'll transition just fine. I know a couple guys who know photoshop pretty well, but they suck at creating anything very interesting because they don't have an artistic mind - just the technical know-how of using photoshop.

[leo-rcc]

That first pic you posted with the killer bees is very cool man, how did you go about working that one up? was the background pre-existing or did you create that from scratch and are the bees all your own creations? were you a traditional artist before you started doing digital art?

The background is a sphere with clouds texturemapped on them. The bees are modeled in 3D studio and then imported into 3D studio max for texture mapping and better Inverse Kinematics. Once I got one bee done, it just is a case of copy/paste and setting the wings etc a little different. The final rendering was also done in 3D Studio Max.

This was done back in 2001 I think, so I'm certain 3D programs have improved greatly since then. I did a little work in Lightwave 5.5 after that, and a year of working with Maya (which I loved by the way, the dynamics engine was superbe), but decided that it was enough so I stopped 3D modelling completely except for testing concepts for new robot designs in Lightwave sometimes.

I did no artwork prior to 3D modelling, and I am very bad at 2D art. Texture mapping is not my strong suit either but given enough time I can usually make scenes look as I want them to.

[Jay1982]

here's a link to my deviantArt page, this link will take you to the painting i have had the most online recognition for so far, it won a daily deviation award over there and has had over 500 favourites so far which I am totally blown away by. hope you guys like it

http://fav.me/d3bcrwh

[Kayenneh]

Wow, Jay.. I adore your style, it's fantastic!

[Jay1982]

Wow, Jay.. I adore your style, it's fantastic!

thanks so much really appreciate you stopping over there to check it out, cheers

[Kayenneh]

thanks so much really appreciate you stopping over there to check it out, cheers

No problem. It's never a chore to look at beautiful artwork



Oh, and here is my next idea for an art project, for those who haven't checked out Shell's "Post Card" thread: http://atheistforums.org/thread-9079-page-2.html

[Jay1982]

thanks so much really appreciate you stopping over there to check it out, cheers

No problem. It's never a chore to look at beautiful artwork



Oh, and here is my next idea for an art project, for those who haven't checked out Shell's "Post Card" thread: http://atheistforums.org/thread-9079-page-2.html

cool, that's a great idea, I'll keep an eye on the thread and see how you guys are getting along with it, it definitely has potential to be really interesting. I really like the decorative tribal art studies you put up there too, very nice