Hello everyone!
I've played with computer-assisted imagery for as long as I've had a scanner and a copy of Paint Shop Pro (which, in those days, was before Corel bought out JASC). I used to regularly participate in contests on a well-known Photoshop site and my images tended to place very well. I also used to create graphics for various DOOM levels. But until 2013, the only realistic CGI-specific software I used was Terragen, and I used that mainly to create more pleasing skies to replace dull skies that ruined otherwise good photographs.
The artwork you see in my gallery is all current, and created in DAZ Studio. My usual post-processing tools nowadays are Wingnut's Lo-Fi and GIMP. I use Lo-Fi mainly for the film textures, and GIMP for all other work. I'm the only person I know who continues to use Lo-Fi, and one of the few worldwide who still use it at all, but I love that basic little program too much to upgrade to one of Alien Skin's current products. When I need custom textures I use either Genetica or Filter Forge.
Most of my images fall within fantasy or sci-fi genres, with a bit of humor wherever possible. I am a guitarist, and often include musical references in my visuals. I deliberately try to include ambiguity in my narrative images to intrigue you so that you can decide what will happen next in the scene. I think it's fun for you to think about what might happen next and resolve the suspense for yourself. I'm a hobbyist, not a trained artist, and I am grateful that I've met many people along the way who have much more talent than I do, but who were kind enough to point me in the right direction and encourage me to improve.
My favorite artists are probably on almost everyone's list here - Frazetta, the Brothers Hildebrandt, Alex Ross, Norman Rockwell, Hajime Sorayama, Rembrandt, Bouguereau, Guayasamin, James Gurney, Max Ernst, and Bosch. I love Ray Harryhausen's creature designs, particularly that Cyclops from Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, and the visual look of Ridley Scott's movies, particularly Blade Runner and Alien.
Thank you for looking at my artwork, and I hope you liked what you saw!
Comments (11)
RRun
Ha. The Dwarves 2.0.
mightymysterio
That was indeed the inspiration. Glad you spotted it!!!
moebiustraveller
Lol, very nice image, Mysertio :)
adrie
Beautiful image, excellent work my friend.
buffalosoldier
wow you are right a pub anywhere amazing scene
bucyjoe
it's great
crender
Excellent !
PandaB5 Online Now!
That looks really cool - love the 3 friends and the happiness on 2 of their faces.
mightymysterio
Thank you all for your thoughts and comments. As always, I appreciate them! Yes, this was inspired by a render Rrun did in the recent past concerning a bunch of dwarves singing. I loved that render as it reminded me of a photo of singers in a pub that was taken by Joe McNally, and I used that as my inspiration. I did go after the type of color scheme the Brothers Hildebrandt for some of their interior paintings for their LOTR calendars many years back, again as a type of dwarf reference. Though my drinkers are certainly not dwarves (even though one of them has a beard long enough for a wizard). He's also the one who didn't get whatever joke the other two fellows shared.
dragongirl
What great characters! I love them. 😻
daggerwilldo
These faces have stories to tell. I wish we paid as much attention to our elders as Native Americans do. There is much that will have to relearned again and again, when you could care less about what was learned by those that walked before you.