http://architectus.gfxartist.com/profile Copyright 2000-2008 GFXartist network / Brothersinart http://www.gfxartist.com http://images.gfxartist.com/gfx/GFXartist_64.png support@gfxartist.com en-us GFXartist Engine 1.0 0 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:41:03 EST architectus Painting / Figure You can watch the sped video which is 8 minutes here. The painting took me 3.5 hours using Photoshop CS and Graphire 6x4 tablet. I plan to get an intuous. I wonder if it will make painting easier. It is based on a friend I know that is also a model. She loved the end result and made... http://architectus.gfxartist.com/artworks/157418 architectus Drawing / Nature A quick painting to practice underwater objects. A giant octopus and a skubadiver. I might refine the main leg that is coming towards us because the cups look odd. I losely followed a photo refernce from yahoo images. A purple octopus, I had to change the lighting 180 degrees. The photo image... http://architectus.gfxartist.com/artworks/131663 architectus Photo Manipulation / Dark You can contact him and give him a link to this page if you wish to varify his permission granted, thanks, enjoy. I got the permission from the original photographer. He said to link to his image and give him credit. The photographer is http://www.roge.ru here is a link to the... http://architectus.gfxartist.com/artworks/131060 architectus Painting / Figure Photoshop CS big brush style (I think I will stick to this style I like it) 5 hours or so. I do not have the patience to work on stuff for 20 hours, so I will stick with a lose painting style. I really wanted to paint a creature with this type of mouth. It started out as worm creature, then... http://architectus.gfxartist.com/artworks/127498 architectus Painting / Figure Thanks to help from these forums I was looking at some WIP for rembrandt reproductions at cgtalk, and it helped me greatly. Painting with monitor set to 80% brightness and contrast. Adjust monitor until you can see the paint on the left side of her face, that is our left, her right. I... http://architectus.gfxartist.com/artworks/126171 architectus Painting / Figure Some people look down at using home-made texture brushes, but why? When artist work with real paint they use sponges, is that looked down upon? I call the texture I use Leonardo skin. Thanks in advance for all your support, comments, votes, critiques, and so forth. IMPORTANT! I... http://architectus.gfxartist.com/artworks/125988