A Tiger for Mea (Photoshop) www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php
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I have been drawing since I was 11, some 33 years ago.
My 6th grade teacher, Mr. Knoss, was a great artist and I greatly admired his illustrations. He encouraged me to pursue my artistic interests at a crucial time in my development.
My High School art teacher "Vern", was also a great influence. He always challenged me to try different things.
I was lucky that my parents were very supportive of my interest in art. I studied at The Minneapolis College of Art and Design (1986-1990). Where I was humbled by many great artists that were far more talented than I. There it was that I rounded out my fine art skills, and then chose to major in Media Arts. Studied film, video and sound. Learned all the skills needed to shoot, direct, edit those mediums.
While pursuing a Media Arts major, I discovered computer graphics, still in it's infancy. This is where I came to an Epiphany. Here was a new medium, that incorporated everything I had previously learned into one new medium. Not only that, but it had new dimensions, interactivity, feedback, randomness, AI. I was hooked.
The next 17 years I learned and grew with the industry. Learning everything from how to create and manipulate digital imagery and create animations, to interface design and interactive authoring. My day job is an Information Architect, a fancy term for software interface design.
A few years back, my wife and I hit on some difficult times (As many people do) and it was during a very dark time in our lives that I discovered what became Renderosity, Initially I posted work, merely as a way to get myself back into the discipline of making new art.
I was delighted to find a world-wide community of talented artists, exchanging ideas and art!! I was thrilled! I have learned so much from you, and your art has brightened up my world. I am lucky to have made some great friends here, and I aim to do tributes to all of you!
Somanyartistssolittletime! ; )
I use this gallery as an online journal, and put all of my "Brain-droppings" here, over 400 images.
To see "The best" of my work, you can use the portals on my gallery page or go to my website:
www.abrainteractive.com
Comments (18)
thelma
Fabulous, well done !!!
cbender
this is really cool - like it a lot... :-)
alexsm
I like this person!!! :-)
tibet2004uk
Haha!! Excellent!! This is soooooooooo wicked cool!! :D
Tilo
youre a great talent! hope you know that! ;)
robotalk
Yes the ATKINS diet is very effective for weight loss --but dont over do it....great character creation here !! fine image !! he comes from Gnarlon my planet ...where the women are plied with a bar of copper and a pair of Gnarlon stockings..hubba hubba !!
butterfly_fish
Gasp! I keep waiting for it to turn its head. Creepy!
AgentMai
This is awesome! I can imagine how hard this must have been...great use of colours to create a very detailed drawing! Great stuff!
Lorraine
very cool....not sure where you got the subject to study...hope they kept it in a cage!...lol...wonderful job
Fahrenheit451
Excellent! Study! Study! Study & sketch what you see! Leonardo Da Vinci would often spend 6 hours out of an 8 hour day just studying & sketching his subject matter before he even touched the actual work!
ann0314
Excellent attention to detail on this...very well done...would love to see a more in depth full body B&W :O) I am bummed to miss the legs and claws :O) EXCELLENT!!!!
Li-An
Excellent!
Druidstorm
Creative work...Excellent!!!...:)
alsafysh
your 2d work is amazing. really brilliant
Naichan
A skillful, free flowing and natural rendering of something that is not at all natural! Maybe you won't be surprised I'm drawn to this one!?
Mea
Wow! That is an amzazing drawing. The rib area, whoah. And I really love that green tinge you used, it just adds so much.
Egmont
Blending human anatomy and that of ones imagination is great. Has the feel of a Leonardo sketch.
Turin_Returns
Superb work. Was some of the detail an original creation, or is it purely based on the Giger original? You have to hand it to the guy. We are all so used to the alien as an iconic symbol of the horror-SciFi genre, but the original paintings created by Giger were considered shocking on their first release.