Space Cadet Cover illustration for audio recording of Space Cadet, by Robert Heinlein. Client: Full Cast Audio Medium: Digital paint Technical notes: Painted in Adobe Photoshop using a Wacom graphics tablet. Step-by-step
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Chemical Molecule Illustrations for Product Marketing Molecules: Codeine (C18H21NO3) and Chlorphenamine (C16H19ClN2) Models based on 2D chemical structure drawings Modeled and rendered in StrataStudio 3D CX8. Agency: Fingerpaint Marketing Medium: 3D Model & Render
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Heat Stroke Illustration, page design & layout Client: Adirondack Explorer Photoshop, InDesign
Read more →All about Pixels (well, some stuff about them) People get confused about pixels, and resolution, and image size and things of that sort when considering digital images. Here’s a little chart that will help explain some of the terms and hopefully demystify the subject. Feel free to share. Just let
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Studio Tips: Here’s a little tool I fashioned for scoring paper/cardboard prior to folding it. It makes for a clean, precise fold.
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A digital painting step-by-step of the process behind the cover painting I did for a Full Cast Audio’s Space Cadet packaging.
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Calculating Gallery Pricing Hey Artists! (or anyone who sells through a gallery or business that takes a commission) Here’s a formula you can use to price your work so that you end up with what you want for it once the gallery takes its commission. Let’s say you want to
Read more →[Originally published April 27, 2014] It’s an entirely misleading term, computer-generated art. Digital art, or even just art would be more accurate in most cases. Computer generated art conjures an image of someone sitting back with their arms folded watching while a computer auto-generates a painting. This couldn’t be further from the truth
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Building a lattice cylinder in Strata Design 3D CX … a rough approach. Turns out as a tapered basket form, in spite of starting with a cylinder. Probably something off in the rotation of the initial rib. Or, in the Z position of the rotation center.
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Impressionist painters avoided using straight black in the shadow and dark areas of their paintings because straight-from-the-tube black is a rather lifeless color. They chose instead to use chromatic blacks (a.k.a. mixed black), which usually don’t contain any black pigment. They are mixed either on the palette or in advance
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