Pergamon

2008-03-12T14:43:00.000-07:00

ArtRaging the Aphrodite with nose dirt

2007-10-07T13:09:00.000-07:00

Overpaint a pic from Louvre:

Final version after some edge detection, blending etc:

An Apse

2007-10-06T17:07:00.000-07:00

An idea of an apse or a portal or a niche with a sitting cardinal:

etc...

Basilica III

2007-08-30T12:00:00.000-07:00

From current series 'Basilica III':

Xajima

2007-08-24T14:52:00.000-07:00

Current series. Some mystic architecture again:

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Final version:

Cryptozoology

2007-07-17T13:13:00.000-07:00

Eine Telefonkritzelei mit kryptozoologischem anmutenden Dingen / A handdrawed cryptozoological sketch:

A primitive creation with Bryce / Umgesetzt als primitives Ding in Bryce:

Dozens quick try-outs....:

Final version, combined with rocks, lights and nonsens title:

"The coustic teddy bear"

2007-07-11T13:00:00.000-07:00

Another digital painting with ArtRage
Some excerpts from the working series:

Final version:

Artrage sketches

2007-07-06T15:30:00.000-07:00

Backsidekitsch

2007-07-02T15:10:00.001-07:00

Just combining one of my tuby sculptur (created with Bryce) with a female backside (created with Poser) and tune it to red/orange infernal tones (with Photoshop):

Well, looks completly like Boris Vallejo.

Final version:

'Conceptual continuity'

2007-06-03T06:57:00.001-07:00

A usual drawing, fifteen years old:

But fifteen years later I create a CG-reproduction of this drawing.
Well, nothing special, but I was surprised, beacuse it's happen totaly unconscious.
I don't have view/remind the original drawing many years, but I have reproduce the same lines & construction, background, colors etc...:

*Sigh*, no real changes of style, subjects or technique the last three decades.

Edge of the world 2

2007-05-27T04:10:00.000-07:00

Continue the 'Edge of the world'-series...

Then construction of two dozens Roger Dean-like floating islands in Bryce:

The reendered raw version:

Then the Photoshop afterwork:

The final version:

Edge of the world 1

2007-05-17T13:11:00.000-07:00

Another long-life theme: the edge of the world.
Some rapid skteches in bryce with a swarm (~10-12) of floating island:

One pic tuned up with golden rays and clouds:

Ye-Me-Le 2

2007-05-13T14:32:00.000-07:00

Some graphical works from this sunny weekend:

e.g., an excerpt from a series "Ye-Me-Le":

The last version. Well, a little bit overdoned & metallic..

Füssen tweaked

2007-05-01T12:37:00.000-07:00

Füssen.

Some planless, unfinished sketches for variations.
Not good enough to publish on flickr.

Neuschwanstein inverted & flipped.

Cloud tutorial 2

2007-04-16T12:58:00.000-07:00

A cloud tutorial
Part 2: Grain & rain

The previous part is already okay, but for my taste the sky looks too clean, smooth & artifical. It should becomes more painterly and so we add a second cloud layer for raw grain and noise filter for fine grain

10a) Create a new empty layer; reset fore-/backgroundcolor to b/w; fill with Filter->Render->Clouds.
10b) Choose any blending mode with the most dramatic effect. (e.g. 'overlay 100%'):

11) And now the same steps 3a..5b like in the previous part:
Select 'Rectangular Marquee' with some soft edges;
Mark a half of the pic and stretch & skew it with Edit -> Transfrom -> Perspective
(In the example only the upper part)

12) Apply a color with Image->Adjust->Variations

13) Merge all layers.

You can repeat step 10-13 to get a more and more thick sky.

Fine grain:
14) Duplicate the background layer. Select this new layer
15) Add noise with Filter->Noise->Add Noise with a quantity between 5 and 15:
16) Less bluring this noised layer.
17) Adjust the blending mode, till you get the most subtil shimmering haze. Zoom out pic to control the effect:

If all experiments unsatisfied, undo and redo step 14-17

18) Merge all layers and resize the complete pic to 200%

Windy Rain:
19a) Create a new empty layer; reset fore-/backgroundcolor to b/w; fill with Filter->Render->Clouds.
19b) Choose any blending mode with the best dramatic potential. (e.g. 'overlay 100%'):

20) Image->Adjust->Equalize:

21) Filter->Blur->Motion Blur; e.g. a vertical direction and a high distance value:

(Instead of motion blur you can use any other disortion effect e.g. Filter->Disort->Wave etc)

22) In my example I delete the upper part with the up-going rain, adjust the blending mode and the color.
This is the final version:

Ye-Me-Le 1

2007-04-13T16:56:00.000-07:00

Current series #1952; create with ArtRage:

Final version:

Cloud tutorial 1

2007-04-11T14:49:00.000-07:00

A cloud Tutorial:
Part 1: The base cloud

Examples of use:

1) Start with a new small, sized empty pic (e.g. 800x800):

2a) Reset foreground/background color to b/w
2b) Filter->Render->Clouds:

3a) Duplicate layer (to cover possible holes while later stretching). Select this new layer
3b) Zoom out to 33% or less (e.g 25%)
4a) Select Tool 'Rectangular Marquee' with a double click; set smooth to a any value (e.g. 8)
4b) Select the upper half of the pic (not excatly the center line - set the horizon where you want..):

5a) Edit -> Transfrom -> Perspective
5b) Stretch and skew the selected part by the top edge:

6) Select the lower half of the pic
7a) Edit -> Transfrom -> Perspective
7b) Stretch and skew the selected part by the bottom edge

8) Colorize the cloud layer with Image->Adjust->Variations:

9) Merge all layers:

To be continued... ( 'Grain & Rain')

Demeter

2007-04-10T05:33:00.000-07:00

Current poser series #1949.

1) Construction with Poser 5.
Taking standard female figure and any sitting pose;
adding some cubes as 'throne' and any background cloud pic:

(with some emphasized examples tits while rendering)

2) After reendering and cropping some tuning with PS:
A layer for fine grain (with noise filter ),
a layer for raw grain (with b/w-clouds)
and a layer for warm color tuning:

3) Final version:

Angel of sodom

2007-04-03T14:31:00.000-07:00

Start creating another wet-clouds-picture with Photoshop 'cloud reendering' and 'perspective stretching':

Some merged layers later:

And the final version after another half dozen layers and some cubic, ancient-city-like structures in the foreground:

Toxic athmosphere

2007-02-09T14:46:00.000-08:00

The yesterday's version looks like bullshit.
Restart with the prev-previous version and try it with some cloud layer:

The 'romantic toxic' athmosspehere and mood are now okay.
But I'm missing any subject, any scale, any reference point of beeing in the air..
The best resolution is to place a flying figure like in Roger Deans series 'The flight of Icarus'.

So I create quickly a falling/flying figure in Poser:

...and added as new layer.
Here a test of the combination of figure / clouds and a blue gradient:

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2007-02-08T14:21:00.000-08:00

Next tweaks of #1933.21
You don't recognize the origin pic anymore.
With some differenced radial blur and swirly tubes I form a kind of hectic alien cloud:

The colors are still ugly and the empty space in the lower half are should be filled...
To be cont'.

2007-02-07T14:01:00.000-08:00

Created some raw material at weekend: A rock, placed inside a mirroring cylinder, which are multiplicated to a infinity landscape:

Well, this idea of an infinity reflection are a litte bit old-schooled and I have currently no idea how to continued.
So I take the most boring pic and began to tweaked it with my swirly tubes methods.
Here are the first version:

Laagon town 2

2007-01-29T13:10:00.000-08:00

Another view to a lagoon town.
This an typical output after reendering by Bryce: artifical, pale & smooth and without any fantasy touch:

- Cropping the empty space near horizon
- KPT Seamless welder for some subtile reflections
- Adjust the color to more bluie
- Adding perspective clouds
- And a b/w-gradient to hide the empty foreground. The pyramids now looks like giants without a real ground..:

Laagon town 1

2007-01-29T12:56:00.000-08:00

Optimize an older Bryce reendering (Series #1427/Variation #27) of a lagoon town

Well, good empty space, but too dark...No more idea.

Battle of Anghari 3

2007-01-21T14:07:00.000-08:00

Current Mini-series #1932; Variation of Leonardos 'battle of Anghari'

Final steps:
- Merging all previous layers;
- Creating a radial alpha mask to divide the center and the outer parts.
- Masking the center and apply 'unsharp mask' and contrast and a little more blueness
- Invert mask and apply some blurness, decrease contrast
and add a red corona to reduce the restlessness.
And finally I lighten up the complete pic.

Battle of Anghari 2

2007-01-20T17:59:00.000-08:00

Current series #1932; Variation of 'Battle of Angihari' from Leonardo

Step #1932_03:
Expand wide; add a third layer with swirl tubes (all blend 'hard light' 100%);
add a another graphics as layer with colored pebbles & rocks, blend 'hard light' ~33%
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4) The layer with colored pebbels have a little bit disharmonic color effect;
so I replaced it with one of my architectonical graphics;
try out all possibles blending methods and layer position
for the most dramatical effect:

Well, this maybe the right way.
Not perfect, but some over-restless parts must be summarized to more balanced plains.
It not looks any more like a battle, but moe like a silly fight with a structureless dragon. ;-) This problem must be solved with the next steps.

To be cont'..

Battle of Anghari 1

2007-01-18T14:17:00.000-08:00

Start experiment with Leonardos 'battle of Anghiari' (with the reproduction by Rubens).
A little bit difficult, because the original is already overfilled - every additional stroke is unneccesarry.
Beginning overpaint with some planless worm tubes:

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2) Add some more effects: A second group with layer; and blend difference 36% with a mirrored&lighten version:

to be cont'..

Ghost in the elevator

2007-01-15T16:38:00.000-08:00

Current series #1931:
My first attempt with 'Clothing ' in Poser 5.

Well, not very original: a tablecloth falling down on a head of a standard figure/pose...

So I take a greasy pic of me in a elevator, overlay it with the figure and add some kitschy effects (clouds, radial blur and background swirls etc):

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Well, a good weird mood, but this kind of horror/depriming subject are not my personal taste...