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It's been a while since I updated this blog, so here's a quick something for now, which I painted in Photoshop the other day: I'll have some Blender art on the way soon, too (I just need to prep it).

A couple of weeks ago I got an idea for a painting, sketched it out in my Moleskine, and then opened up Photoshop and began work. It's still in progress, but here's what I have so far, entitled "Whimsy": I'm realizing that I definitely need to ...

Just finished a painting which I've entitled "Meredith." I used a Flickr photo by R@punseLL for reference, then painted the rest from my head (her hair, the background). About fifteen minutes into the painting, when I was still laying down broad areas ...

A work-in-progress, which I'll call "Pathways" for now: It's unfinished. (That's what I say to avoid shrapnel and rotten tomatoes. ~sigh~ :)) The hills and pathways aren't anywhere near what I'd like them to be. I am kind of proud of ...

Spent an hour or so playing around with the defocus node in Blender, getting a grasp on how it worked. It took me a while to realize that "Preview" was what was making the noisy artifacts in the bokeh. :) Anyway, the node is really cool, and ...

Decided to spend some more time doing digital painting, so I did: Working from references is quite important, I think. (It's something I didn't do here. It shows. :)) Anyway, this is mainly just a doodle. [tags]digital painting, Photoshop[/tags]

I came across the Marshal Insect Album over at BibliOdyssey this morning and decided to see if I could generate similar kinds of backgrounds in Photoshop. (Digital art that is clearly digital doesn't have as anywhere near as much appeal to me as digital art that looks like ...

I brought my Graphire tablet up to campus today and decided to have another go at digital painting. This time I used ArtRage 2 instead of Photoshop. Let me just say that being able to mix colors is really, really nice. :) I'm now seriously considering ...

Took my Graphire tablet with me today and painted this, based on a tutorial in Don Seegmiller's Digital Character Design and Painting: Better than my last one, to be sure. :) I'm learning some neat tricks (like using the healing brush for blending), and it's a ...

This morning on my walk to campus I couldn't help but notice the way the clouds and the mountains interacted, so when I arrived I opened Photoshop and painted this, called "Mount Grinten": When I first tried digital painting with Photoshop, I ...