I went back and tinkered with this one a little bit. I’ve been comparing pictures of gas clouds in space with clouds in the Earth’s atmosphere. And they look a lot alike. It’s like particle physics are the same throughout the universe! Who knew? Well, it sure makes things easier for artists. So I roughed [...]
These clouds were interesting to paint. I started with a background, which was a round gradient from orange to gray, sort of like a sunset on a cloudy evening. First I tried using just the Smudge tool to make clouds, but that was taking too long. So I just painted in some cloud shapes, then [...]
Here’s all the shading done on an orange and gray gradient. It kind of gives it all a nuclear holocaust sort of feeling, doesn’t it? I went a bit overboard with the spiffy Photoshop grass brushes there in the foreground. I wanted to see what they could do, so I tried lots of different things. [...]
Beginning work on a commission for Aura.
October 26th – brief update Sorry about the lack of updates, folks! My computer is riddled with viruses and trojans, which were responsible for placing those redirects on this site. And the scans have taken so long in the evenings that they’ve eliminated my drawing time for the past few days. Which is a shame, [...]
