FACEPOCALYPSE

Andrew Android Jones, the man of a thousand faces. Literally. This is one of the reasons Conceptart.org garnered attention and grew as it did. It was started so there’d be something which kept people coming back to the forum regularly, and 1000 daily portraits later CA.org had grown immensely. Ofcourse, not all of its successes are attributed to this but perhaps this is one that shouldn’t be overlooked.

Anyway, Andrew is one of the best known digital artists, and virtually the face of Corel Painter, as well as the inspiration for Alchemy. This week he dropped by the Kansas City workshop and spread some inspiration. Read the rest of this entry →

Digital what now?

You know, on those computer things, with their megadrives and hardbytes. You can use them for art, too, using software (Painter and Photoshop in my case) that simulates painting/drawing/airbrushing. People seem surprised when I tell them I painted all my exhibition artworks on a computer. For those unfamiliar with the glory of digital painting, it goes a little something like this:

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I’ve been working in Painter for the majority of my Snapshot exhibition pieces purely because its colour blending is so superior. The brushes can draw underlying colour and mix it with the colour you’re painting with, and the colour transition is much nicer than an opacity based mixer akin to painting in Photoshop. It does a great job of simulating real, wet paint. At least for a program. Read the rest of this entry →