Digital pastel test in photoshop

Just playing around in photoshop after watching a Karen Margulis pastel demo on YouTube...

Gippsland Highway

Don't think one is quite finished yet...

Digital Bush painting

All done in photoshop... here is a detail of the bottom left.

Aussie tree - Digital paint

 

Doing lots of Australian landscape painting using digital techniques...

Merry Xmas

here is an illustration I did recently for the UX mastery website, who I have been doing several illustrations a week for, over the past few months.

Hope you had a good one...

Digital Palette Knife Painting

First try at using some of the digital palette knives in Photoshop.

Palette knife painting

Harvey Weinstein

Loving some of the new photoshop brushes.

Have a good downfall Harvey...

A beach in Tassie

Trying out more of the great new Brushes in Photoshop...This was based on a lovely little beach near The Bay of Fires which we visited in Tasmania a while ago.

Birthday fun

I am in the middle of reading the biography of Saul Steinberg, who I have always thought was one of the 20th centuries greatest artists, cartoonist, visual philosopher and all around master draftsman.

Been looking at lots of his work online and today I had a play making a Steinberg style landscape with stamps... It was fun.

Isometric cube-land with dimensional pattern... rough idea

I was revisiting my tiled patterns and wondered if I could add some dimension to it. Here is what happened.

1) Put a tiled square onto the surface of an isometric cube.

2) Seemed interesting so I grabbed a few other tiles, a bit rough around the edges ...

3) I tried using just shading on the pattern to give some dimension.

4) And tried the same in colour but it didn't quite work...

5) ... it needed some background shading to help...

6) ...and here with flat pattern on shaded background

7) But it seemed most interesting when I offset the background. Three tones in the whole thing!

Photoshop Sunset Painting

Painty McCubbin style

I was trying to get the sort of effect of the bush that Fred McCubbin did with thick oil paint... but digitally. Needs more work but I found it interesting. Be good to see if this could be done much bigger.

Hey, I'm walkin here!

Been doing a few Australian Animation backgrounds again....

Block Head

Here is a cubist head that is based on a rubber stamp I made once and have remade in illustrator.

Aussie poster

I'm a big fan of Peter Drews Aussie posters which I have been seeing all over town over the last few months.

I thought I would do my own version of a true blue Ozzie...

P.Macca in NYC 1964

I like doing this sort of portrait using a whole bunch of technical brushes and printing textures.

Beatle Macca in NYC 1964

Scraps

I am really fascinated by making these sort of shapes. I think I first saw something like this done by Saul Steinberg from back in the 50's.

It is a sort of abstract construction, random shapes that looks like something solid but don't really add up to anything specific... I call them Scraps. Anyway, I had fun shading and colouring it and thought I should do more of these, maybe even try and make a little sculpture or some repeating patterns.

Queen Purpuss digital book cover

Here is a book cover I painted over the summer for Author Robert Lawsons digital  fantasy novel - The short reign of Queen Purpuss the 40th. It was fun getting all the cat fur painted in.

photoshop brushes

I have been playing with a few new photoshop brushes found at various places online...

Walking dude

Sartorialist denim man

Hazy Bushscape

I was doing another landscape and was trying to give it a heap more atmosphere and haze...might have gone a bit too far, but I have a bunch of new photoshop brushes that were fun to play with.

Hazy Bushscape