This is awesome. I love the colour contrast.

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This is extremely beautiful. The use of colors and textures give alot of depth to a simple subject matter, loving it...

*dies*

How did you DO that? And could you, perhaps, point me in the direction of said custom brushes? Your style of art is making me want to expand my horizons and give it a shot.

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I use Photoshop. Basically any drawings you do in your sketchbook, such as a rock for example can be defined as a brush. So you can literally paint with a rock. Applying the same process to other subject matter to convey the escence of what you are after, you can define any drawing, or even contrasted photographs. If you paint with bone-like shapes, you'll get a deathly image.

The other important thing you need is a Wacom Intuous 3 Graphic Tablet. They are expensive, but well worth the investment. For a custom brushes tutorial DVD I would highly recommend David Levy's 'From Speed Painting to COncept Art'. It's yet another fantastic DVD from [link]. They have an exhaustive supply of training DVDs from the professionals, including Ryan Church and Doug Chiang who both worked on the Star Wars prequels - but I'll forgive them for that. ImagineFX is well worth trying to get hold of at your local News Agents. This is the industry magazine for Sci-Fi and Fantasy art and often has tutorials on the process.

What brings the paintings alive is knowing how to refine and apply texture from your sketchbooks and utilising the blending mode options to enhance the colours and refine the texture. It's all about 'free association', trying to see something that isn't initially there. Happy accidents are as important as planning a drawing or painting, especially while experimenting with the tools.

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Richard (James Johnson)

"One truth is clear 'Whatever is, is right.'"

Alexander Pope

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I'll have to check out all those DVD stuffs. I do happen to have a tablet - Wacom Intuos3, no less. It's a 6x8, which works fine size-wise for me.

I like your style of abstract art, and, in reference to some of your other art, I hadn't really known was vector art was, but I quite like it if yours is anything to judge by. Have any favourite vector artists? I'd like to see more of this sort of thing.

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Kind of funny expression it makes - there is and is not a whale.
I like those spike-things; they look like a spine.
Great painting .

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Adorning every public street
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Cheers for the comments. I wouldn't say I hava favourite vector artists, but I appreciate some of the companies such as Twelveten and Designers Republic that tended to harness this style back in the late 90s.

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"One truth is clear 'Whatever is, is right.'"

Alexander Pope

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Homerun once again, Rich ... I'm really becoming a fan of your painting-style and colorschemes.

Beautiful!

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'Nowhere special.'
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Glad you like it. I'm putting nother together as we speak.

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"One truth is clear 'Whatever is, is right.'"

Alexander Pope

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Wow. Beautiful painting.

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