Portraits

    I drew some of these 20 years ago.  They're a little beat up, but they scanned okay.

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Caricatures

    I created these with Adobe Illustrator CS2.

Eva Green Paris Hilton Mel Gibson Miley Cyrus Jessica Simpson Chelsea Clinton

Blaze logo continued

Here is possibly the t-shirt back with Matthew 5:14-16. :)And some color variations to go along with that. :)

Legendary Guitarist Jimmy Page

Adobe Illustrator CS2. :)

Church youth group logo

Here's an idea I have for a t-shirt logo for our church's youth group. I don't know if the youth group leader will like it, but it's totally my style. I probably could have used a fancier text (I used Impact), but it's highly readable and stands out as well as I can make it.
I created the texture as a grayscale image in Photoshop, opened it in Illustrator, then changed the colors (Filters/Colors/Adjust Colors) to whatever I wanted once I had the texture masked behind the text and background oval. The lightning Z is a couple of blended shapes. :)

Illustration Friday-- Voices

3D Max, Photoshop, Illustrator

The angel girl and baby Jesus are 3D. 3D isn't my strong suit, but I think they came out nice.

The background is a digital photo of two pillows; one to represent ground, the other sky. I used extreme selective focus to allow everything except the piece of ground the cradle is on to blur. I took the photo into Photoshop and beat on the color until I hit something I thought would work.

The stars and text are Illustrator. I created one star, then used the scatter brush option so I could simply draw a few paths and multiple stars would appear.
The text is Nueva Std bold, with a drop shadow behind it.

The Bible verse comes from the gospel of Luke, where he relates the astounding miraculous details surrounding and including the birth of our Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. Luke also wrote the book of Acts, and is renowned for his historical accuracy and details.

Merry Christmas. :)

Blog revamp

All of my older blogs had pictures imported from Flickr. I just deleted my Flickr page, which, of course, fouled up my old blogs; so, I figured I'll 'start over', instead of going through the work of digging through all my CD's to find the art that matches the blog, etc. I'm very grateful for Blogger's export feature which allowed me to save all my text to my hard drive. :)

Adobe Illustrator/Adobe Photoshop CS2
I'm pretty happy with the way this logo looks. :)

Illustration Friday: Balloons

Adobe Illustrator CS2

My current wallpaper. :)

Retro Car

Adobe Illustrator CS2

Desert Hawks --"Sandstorm"

Adobe Illustrator CS2
Starting an illustration for myself I don't usually have any plan, just an idea of something I want to draw. This piece turned out to be an exercise in curvilinear perspective.

I drew the robot first. I then added the car, man, and road, then realized I'd better do this in correct perspective if I want it to look right. I eyeballed where I thought the horizon should be drawing lines from the car to see where the vanishing points would hit. One hit well inside the picture, and the other way off to the right outside the frame. Without really thinking about how I'd do the rest of the picture, I fixed the perspective on the car according to these vanishing points. I realized quickly that my poor choice of the left-hand vanishing point location would distort everything to the left of that vanishing point, a big Mechanical Perspective 101 no-no.

Unless I wanted to move the vanishing point off to the left (what I should have done in the first place had I been thinking) and redo the car with the correct perspective (NOT a happy thought), the only other solution was curvilinear perspective, keeping the left vanishing point as the center point, sort of like 1-point perspective, and manipulating the perspective in a circular fish-eye lens fashion, much closer to how the humans see things as they turn their heads from the pivot point of the neck and look around. Not a problem really, but more work than I'd considered putting into this drawing. Turned out to be a decent solution, though, as the rest of the illustration fell into place after that. Nothing amazing, but it worked in a fix.

The colors are mostly brown and bluish-green, basically color compliments, with some yellow and violet added for drama and contrast. :)

New Art

Adobe Illustrator CS2