Tag Archives: GIMP

Resolutions, illustration for IF art challenge site

When I saw that the art challenge word for this week’s illustration at Illustration Friday, the art challenge website, was resolutions the first thing I thought of was food. How we all eat way too much of it, and how we resolve every year to eat less. I’ve illustrated this facet of the human condition [...]

Yay! The UV Unwrap is Done!

OK! I finally got to the end of a UV Unwrap. This is where you take a 3D model and peel it like an orange, so you can paint on the peel (the UV unwrap) and wind it back on. Because my model is a spaceship my UV unwrap doesn’t look much like an orange [...]

The Banshee – thanks to GIMP and GURPS

I always need starscapes to go behind the design sketches and finished renders of my spaceships and in the past I have always resorted to an awful lot of mouse clicking to make white dots or searching around the internet for copyright-free images of supernovas and the like. But not any more. There is a [...]

Computer graphics painting, elephant, done with GIMP

It’s Friday, and you should probably know the procedure by now. Every Friday I visit a site called Illustration Friday which provides a showcase for the work of artists from around the world. Every Friday they post a word which is to be used as inspiration for a piece of illustrative art work. Once I’ve [...]

GIMP Tutorial section gets a makeover

I’ve been working on the tutorials section – including GIMP, Photoshop, etc – at my Illustrations website. It’s going to be a great page when it’s done, with link after link to step-by-step tutorials telling how to paint and render all kinds of images, from sc-fi to children’s book. But as I was editing it [...]

Cool new GIMP tutorial on Starbright

I’ve been meaning to add tutorials to Starbright Illustrations for a long time. I’ve been putting a lot of effort into learning programs like GIMP and Photoshop and trying to get good results, and I thought it would be a good idea to share what I have learned. I wouldn’t say that I’m a power [...]

Shark-like spaceship design with exaggerated perspective

From now on I’m going to be coming at all my sketching from a spaceship or science fiction point of view, because it seems to be what the vast majority of visitors to this site want. Every week I’ve been producing sketches for an art challenge called Illustration Friday, and these sketches are going to [...]

New cleaner look for the Starbright Illustrations scifi art site

As I mentioned in my last post, all the science fiction sketches, designs, art, 3D renders and illustrations have always been the most popular element of both the Starbright Illustrations main site and the Starbright Illustrations blog. It seems that now might be a great time to refocus the site towards this sort of work, [...]

Love Birds Valentine Vector Image with Inkscape

This image is called Love Birds, and it is, of course, in honour of Valentine’s Day. I’m focusing on producing images in Inkscape right now. Since the death of my XP laptop and my consequent inability to use my new Bamboo graphics tablet – Linux just doesn’t like it (even my brand spanking new Mandriva [...]

I just saw Avatar in 3D and loved the design, the alien ecosystem and all the concepts.

OK, so I just watched Avatar and I’m not going to even fight the influence this is going to be having on my sketches for the foreseeable future. It’s a great movie and I absolutely loved it. It has attracted some criticism for a certain simplicity in the story, but I think that’s missing the [...]