day two of the jack-in-the-box. so far so good... but i still have quite a ways to go.
that's alright though, as i don't really have any idea of what to do next, subject-wise.
i'm thinking maybe it'll come to me in a dream or something.
i dunno.
anyway, jack's getting a break for the rest of the evening.
husband is home. :)

today i invested 4 whole hours on him.
doesn't he look happy about that?!

All Sketches, Drawings, Random Markings, Inkblots, Bloodstains and Any Other Crap That Can Be (mis)Indentified as ARTWORK is © Andrea Klingenberg 2001-08

fast sketch | experimental projects | Adobe Photoshop

this is what i'm working on today... and probably tomorrow.
probably for the rest of my life.
a painting of a jack-in-the-box in Corel Painter.

practice.
that's all i can say about this.
...i need to practice.

All Sketches, Drawings, Random Markings, Inkblots, Bloodstains and Any Other Crap That Can Be (mis)Indentified as ARTWORK is © Andrea Klingenberg 2001-08

A little dab here and there, I think I'll call this one done for better or worse.

Here's one for this year:

-- genece hamby, contemporary digital artist & poet
To purchase Afternoon Stroll, http://www.shibuistudio.com/afternoonstroll.html

Suspect I'm getting in over my head here. Trying to work more from my imagination versus photo references. This could be a dangerous thing.

Continued from 7/26/2008

Hey all, this is my first post and I'm still figuring out how this posting interface works (durhhh) so bare with me. This lily illustration is a submission for the 2009 Easter Seals (http://www.easterseals.com) stamp design contest. Should I make it into the final running I'll post a link to the site where you can vote for me. :D

images?query=PARADISE

The images you see here, are part of a project I have yet to finish, involving large-scale prints (digital painting?), created from "averaging" the results of Google Image Search. I got a handful of successful results, and less not so successful. The images on my my Flickr account contain a few more of what I had working, and eventually, I aim to polish up these images, perhaps add the new data, and try to complete the series as a whole set of search terms.

The interesting part is the results that come back from whatever may be attached to the word, "paradise" for example, as many different kinds of images can be tagged with that word, but all may hold different meanings and reasons (vacation photos, hotel pamphlets, religious illustrations, etc.)

The challenge was working to make a cohesive "photograph" of a word, idea or phrase that wasn't entirely a garbled mess of abstract image data. It's too easy to just slam everything into one image area... it's more interesting to part through the fog, and pull something out of the layers - something new.

I have to sort of play a game with the words I chose, as the more conceptual the word, the more varied the results became, and that in turn, made it more difficult for me to make something from the compilation of imagery (ex: heaven, hell, color, love, symbol, abstract)

Digital painting of oriental women walking in the rain in colorful gear.

-- genece hamby, contemporary digital artist & poet
To purchase Rainy Day, http://www.shibuistudio.com/rainyday.html

karena pengen cepet2 ikut meramaikan event rutin DG art perdana di DG dot com, so bikin cepet-cepetan deh. line art akhirnya ngambil dari mangascan aja, bersihin dikit lalu mulai coloring ^_^
kebetulan memang fans one piece juga jadi kalo mo nyamain style ama one piece ga terlalu susah, dah kek alami ^_^

so here goes ^_^

see you at deviantArt and DG dot com

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TRANSLATION TO PORTUGUESE | TRADUÇÃO PARA O PORTUGUÊS

dois desenhos para divertir. não fui cuidadoso com eles pela experiência.

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This digital work of the writer and sage, Joe Bageant, is an example of looking beyond the photograph to find a new interpretation. Joe's essays and other work can be found at http://www.joebageant.com/ . I describe him to my friends as a modern Henry Thoreau with more grit (and grits) in his soul.

Joe Bageant (from a photo by Alvin Hill) Photoshop and TwistedBrush

Joe Bageant (from a photo by Alvin Hill) Artrage 2.5

So I decided I would rebuild the Frankenstein Monster and make him bigger and better than before. I had a couple low resolution images of the piece in various stages of completion and I was able to use those images to begin the process of reconstructing the green beast. So far I'm pretty happy with how the second coming of the Frankenstein Monster is heading. It is always easier the second time around.

But this experience brings up a very important question about digital art and photography - How do you archive your digital files to ensure that your work will survive 100+ years of technological evolution? How do you ensure that your files will always be readable? Will you be able to open and edit a JPG file 100 years from now? Will there be a drive that can read a CD-ROM disk 100 years from now? Will digital art survive a nuclear holocaust? or will a single scratch erase all of history. Is the Mona Lisa the only thing that can survive the end of the world? Who knows.

Film and prints processed and stored in proper conditions have demonstrated the ability to remain virtually unchanged for 100+ years. Why not create film negatives / slides or prints of your digital images to help ensure the longevity of your digital artwork? That might be one solution.

Longing
by

Whitney Moore

The next painting I finished today is called Underground and it is based on a dream I had about being trapped in a post apocalyptic world. The poster is more like an abbreviated version of this dream and world.

Underground
by

Whitney Moore