Tag Archives: Illustration

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 [...]

digital painting art for open-source book covers

Digital painting illustrations for classic out-of-copyright books. I was surfing the Internet looking for outlets for the artistic talent on display at Starbright illustrations, and as I was clicking around I found the websites of a few mainstream illustration agents, such as The Artworks here, and I noticed an interesting thing. These mainstream sites didn’t [...]

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 [...]

New spaceship design gallery, and some SEO tips

This spaceship design is an example of the sort of spaceship that might be used by characters in a science fiction role-playing game when they want to avoid being seen as they go about their adventures. It’s a good example of the sort of science-fiction illustrations I’ve been doing recently, illustrations more orientated towards role-playing [...]

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 [...]

The Hatch Dragon Illustration, Saved for Web thanks to the GIMP Plugin Registry

  This week we internet artists are being challenged with the word “hatch”. Now of course this is going to produce one or two images of dragons hatching from eggs, produced by the more fantasy, science fiction and role-playing game minded – like me – but it could also be associated with a hatch in [...]

Guardian inspiration for my 3d CGI illustrations and…

The Americans (not just the Democrats, the Republicans have voiced similar concerns) have told off the Tories here in the UK for embracing European partners with views that are a little too worrying, a little too closely. The Guardian comment piece that inspired this editorial illustration.  I immediately wrote a little something for my blog [...]

3d editorial illustration for article on internet piracy and copyright article

This is my latest editorial illustration for Dragonbat (my illustrator/Guardian reader rants and sketches blog). I’m writing an article about copyright on the internet, and as usual I wanted a cool illustration to accompany it. The article itself isn’t finished yet – pressures of actual work that brings me real cash money, rather than the [...]

Dark Cat 3D Mesh

I think this 3D model that I am currently working on in Blender (the free 3D software solution) is really going to be something special. In my last post I mentioned how I’m keen on putting some of my 3D images on the front of t-shirts and I think Dark Cat here will be perfect [...]