I'm a painter, turned illustrator, turned designer from Seattle that now makes a living as a senior creative director in middle of the desert in Phoenix, Arizona. Life is strange to say the least. A few years ago I returned to painting, through traded my Winsor brushes and Golden Acrylics for Poser, Vue, and Photoshop, and have since resumed doing commercial illustration for a select clientele. I mainly work in 3D, but almost everything I do is overpainted until my wrist hurts as I just can't roll with squeaky clean stuff - it's not in my nature.
Recently my work has appeared in Ballistic Publishing's EXPOSÉ, was added to Steve Wozniak's personal art collection, been featured at MacWorld San Francisco and can soon be seen on limited edition tee's at Barney's New York and Fred Segal Los Angeles.
I'm married with three cats and can't seem to have less than ten Mac's in the house at any given time... you never know, I may need that bondi blue iMac for something one day ;)
You can read my full bio and see more pretty pictures on my site: JacobCharlesDietz.com
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Comments (39)
OrphanedSoul
Well your play is better than my plan in vue, very well crafted scene!
flavia49
fantastic scene!
NefariousDrO
That is really cool, reminds me of aspects of Blade Runner or some such adventure. I personally think the dreary weather/industrial scene looks awesome!
722
Rocks! amazing atmostsphere
London224
Well I still like your cold weather scene!! One of the better Scifi works I have seen...
Etrigan_102
Excellent image, as always! Since we share the desert heat... I also relate to the dreariness. I spend more time deconstructing your images than you do making them... I'm thinking. Regards!
stonemason
good to see you using the new greeble blocks Jacob!...pic looks cool,very dark & moody...and congrats for getting into Expose9!
castaneda
But I love those dreary scifi scenes!!
odile
Superb sci-fi cityscape!
nosawayne
Quite awesome!
Krid
perfect dark sci-fi scene with excellent architecture and atmosphere
anitalee
Excellent
saphira1998
very great work
Pagrin
"but I do rather like my sci-fi scenes to be dreary" You say that like there could be another type? Great image.
fallen21
Superb sci-fi scene!
mtlegacy
Just excellent
texboy
bleak or not, it's gorgeous.... well done, bud!
gmvgmvgmv
Big, bad Monsanto strikes again, eh? This scene is epic in scale. Simply breathtaking. Your work is consistently outstanding. The modeling and texturing are spot-on, the use of scale and depth create a palpable sense of enormity, and the atmosphere is appropriately ominous and foreboding. What else can one say?
CrownPrince
I think thats the problem with my Scifi scenes... I cant get the dreariness. I have a dystopian world set in the 28th century that i cant illustrate, And then i see your artwork and am absolutely in awe of what you do. Keep up the work.. Its inspirational!!!!
Shiroyama
oddly, it's sunny and warm in seattle right now, so bring on the dreariness! another fantastic piece!
Orinoor
This is really wonderful, I just watched Blade Runner again and this place would be right at home there.
grafikeer
Wow...an epic sense of scale,and fantastic details throughout...these scenes look best in a dreary kind of weather,in my opinion...excellent work!
ta88
realistic look at a dark future
JOEANOMALY
Awesome, the scale, depth, and even the weather!
Cosme..D..Churruca
extraordinary job! chapeau.
cvrad
amazing scene as always.
RJS
Um, and what's wrong with Seattle? I love Seattle weather! Seriously, you are the best at this sort of image, and this is a good example of why. Layers of detail in a plausible scene with realistic weather. Nothing cookie-cutter about this work. It draws the viewer in with an amazing sense of realism. Bravo!
sandra46
WONDERFUL
billcody
Great Sci-Fi!
deci6el
But you always deliver a place that we can visit for some amount of time. By whatever amount of patience you put in there is enough detail to keep us busy exploring the scene and playing our game of choice. What elements did he use? I see Tie fighters, Bonus Dystopia, Greeble Highway. The list is long. How would it look in the real world? You take on some hard questions that would be challenging for anyone to make convincing, like what do flames look like when its pouring down rain. What is small but exceptional? The row of cyan road markers could have been perfectly aligned by the computer but by throwing them out of alignment makes it look much more natural. What element is my favorite? Not surprising, the focus of the shot is my favorite as I don't recognize the truck element and its cool. So many ways one can look around, ask questions and wonder, Is this really what Seattle is like? ; )