Chris Jordan: An American Self-Portrait
Posted by on Tuesday, January 1, 2008 in - leave a comment
Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait exhibit by Chris Jordan • 200,000 packs of cigarettes, equal to the number of Americans who die from cigarette smoking every six months. • 170,000 disposable Energizer batteries, equal to fifteen minutes of Energizer battery production. • 9 …
Harry Potter with Corel Painter
Posted by on Friday, August 12, 2005 in - 1 comment
Photo or Painting? This incredibly realistic photo of Daniel Radcliffe from Harry Potter shows some of the great power in Corel Painter. What's even more amazing is that it was done with Corel Painter Essentials. The much cheaper extremely scaled down version that comes packaged with every Wacom …
Portrait in Illustrator
Posted by on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 in
Recently a co-worker started a new blog called Speakergeek and I got the chance to try some new layout ideas. During this process, one idea was to create a cartoon type image from a photo which was eventually scrapped from the layout but good enough to keep as a first attempt. • I can't really …
Realistic Paintings. Life from a Brush
Posted by on Wednesday, May 19, 2004 in
Dan recently showed me the great work from Carl Brenders, a Wild Life artist that uses so much detail it can easily be mistaken for a photograph. • My obsession with the realism from Bert Monroy using Photoshop has carried over into this amazing style of painting photo quality pictures …
Powers of Adobe Illustrator
Posted by on Friday, May 14, 2004 in
When I think of Adobe Illustrator, I think of vector lines and shapes, not photo realistic graphics. While browsing the PhotoshopUser Forums, I came across IllustratorWorld. Yesterday I posted a link to this single picture of a Porsche GT3 100% created with Adobe Illustrator but the more I browser …
Painter Creativity
Posted by on Sunday, March 30, 2003 in
Jeremy Sutton demonstrated some amazing work.