I graduated from college in 1980 with a fine arts background in painting. I've sold many paintings and etchings and even mixed media drawings throughout my college days in the late 70's and through out the 80's. I started doing digital art in the early 90's. Now I only do digital artwork for CD's and various illustration jobs on my own. I do promo & production animations and medical illustrations for my job at WABC-TV for a living.
When I graduated I wasn't sure what type of professional (career) art I was going to aspire to. I spent a lot of time moving around from different production art studios until I decide to make a change and get a job at a TV station doing news graphics and animations. That's when computers were really developing and breaking new grounds. I started working at CBS here in NYC on the overnight shift for a few years. I then took what I had learned and moved over to WABC-TV. I am very fortunate here because we get to learn and excel with some of the best software out there in the digital world today. So at this stage of my life I have in the last 15 years found what I believe to be the best way to express my personal art outside of traditional painting. I work in many different applications. The 3d application I always use for modeling and scene layout is Cinema 4d 9. I also use Modo from Luxology. As much as I love to model and create a scene in a 3d program, I always finish up in After Effects applying any special effects that I need to composite and then in Photoshop with any final touch ups and color adjustments.
Comments (13)
CurtieBear
Wonderfully macabre image.
devineydesignsllc
such a Exploratory mind, how ya been Frank? great work very, very inspirational!
tazman
Very Cool
MarkusVogt
Hi Frank, nice to see you back ! Wondeful creation here in your typical (and very individual!) style. Markus
fpicini
Thanks for the compliments. It's been hard to get any personal work done during the last year. My only other post in almost a year was the Forest Crawlers until now. I've been quite busy with my job any all my home computer time has been taken up with freelance projects, Book covers & CD covers and what not. Frank Picini
jif3d
Very symbolic, this character seems to reaching out for a helping hand or maybe reaching out to catch another victim ? Either way fantastic layering and creepy concept ! Well done & ~Cheers~
Tablesaw
I just found your work tonight...Its sad,as an artist I see so few comments on your images! Yet a foolish poser girlie can fetch 80 plus comments? Fluff heads abound I guess!!!
rudiruth
great
aliensprog
Wow!!! This is exactly how I feel right now!!! BRILLIANT PIECE!!!!! Fully agree with Tablesaw!!!! No accounting for taste I suppose.
Rodma_Hu
Inventive and artistic. Very nice work!
mysnapz
Super image I like the mix of textures and details, making it a joy view.
calum5
I agee with Tablesaw ,your work should be on the front page and stay there!Frank,glad I popped over to see if you'd been at it again and voila!Wickedly evil with elements to just fall into.Disturbingly beautifull work !See ya,cal
M2A
A Photoshop megablast painting ! Deeply creative and gorgeously good-looking. The idea of the head, the eyes and the arms is well done. The details within are fine-drawn too. Marvelous artwork. =================================== E-X-C-E-P-T-I-O-N-A-L ========================== :D