Visual Art & Design
Aesthetics, beauty, and visual worldbuilding.
Traditional
Oils, Watercolours, Charcoal, Ink
Digital
Digital Painting, 3D Renders, Concept Art
Photography
Landscape, Macro, Texture & Atmospheric Studies
Design
Graphic Design, Book Cover Work, UI/Systems
AI Generated
Words, pictures, or photos to generative art
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Memories – the time I created artwork for a European cardiac conference
Glenn Ison is my brother-in-law and also a senior medical imaging professional at St George Hospital, Kogarah. Back in the 2010s, Glenn conducted groundbreaking research into improving safety for medical staff in radiation laboratories. As a result, he was invited to write an abstract on his research and to travel to Paris to present at…
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The technique of creating the Gas Giant material in Blender
As you can probably tell from some of my other posts, science fiction and space are a passion. I created the scene below in 2021 using Blender and an asset I’d bought from the DAZ Studio marketplace. The asset I’d bought was the window. Everything else was mine. This post is about the planet that…
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A bit of my history: Learning computer graphics and the road to my first digital animation – a spaceship in Bryce
1990 was a great year. I got my 386 PC, with a whopping 40MB hard drive and, at the same time, Photoshop and Corel PaintShop Pro were released. I was chuffed. To be honest, Corel PaintShop Pro was my fave over Photoshop. I found it more transparent to use – more intuitive. Nevertheless, both were…
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Using DAZ Studio to Create a Fairy story picture for my daughter
Another restored story from my old blog. This is dated 12 June 2016. At the time, I was still recovering physically from a cornea transplant and emotionally from a redundancy. This said, I recall some good aspects. Rhiannon – my daughter – had just started High School, and my wife was working. So I got…
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Digital Art Work: Encounter in the Forest
This article was originally written in May 2016 on my previous WordPress site. At the time, I was slowly recovering from a cornea transplant and from an unexpected redundancy. Life was not good, but I found an escape in digital art. Art is an intensely personal thing. Artists across several mediums abound among my WordPress…
