This is a portfolio of my work in many forms. It should give you some insight as to the products I might help you to create.
Using the technique I’ve focused on lately, and using a photo from my very good friend Sam, here is a portrait of him.
tags: portrait, paint, Sam, snow, GIMP, GNU, GPL, open source, creative commons, cc-sa, daily, 365, lemasney, postaday2011, sharing
Obviously I’ve fallen in love with the painterly technique that Angel Bee suggested a while back. In this one, I tried to apply a sepia look and feel to this particular image, and painted into the image with various brushes.
tags: self-portrait, brushes, painterly, gimp, gnu, gpl, open source, creative commons, cc-sa, sharing, lemasney, 365, postaday2011, daily
So, yet again, my 70’s upbringing betrays me in today’s sketch. I started with a simple head-on image of a classic stormtrooper mask from Star Wars: A New Hope, and began to paint into it with various floral and urban brushes, varying in size throughout. It’s certainly something I’ve seen others do, and thought to myself, “I’d like to try that”.
tags: starwars, stormtrooper, urban, floral, play, 365, daily, postaday2011, sharing, lemasney, gnu, gpl, gimp, libre graphics, creative commons, cc-sa
So using the same technique that I used for a self-portrait a few sketches back, I decided to do a portrait of one of my favorite songwriters, singers and musicians, Thom Yorke, most famously of Radiohead. Starting with a well-known photograph of Thom, I worked in with various brushes, using samples of color from the photo itself. Holding my Wacom stylus in my right hand, I switched back and forth between sample (O) and paintbrush (P) to first choose a color from an area, then paint into that area with that color. A very fun technique.
tags: radiohead, thom yorke, portrait, painting, sampling, gimp, gnu, gpl, open source, creative commons, cc-sa, postaday2011, lemasney, 365, daily, sharing
So this is just a series of layers with different brushes used on each to create a scene. I created a layer in the background of sky color and painted into it with grassy notes. I added a transparent layer on top of that and placed some cloud brushes on it. I added another transparent layer and placed a woodland brush on it. I created another transparent layer and painted a single tree on it using a different brush. By keeping the layers separate I was able to adjust and edit each conceptual layer without affecting or destroying the others.
tags: clouds, trees, woodlands, sky, grass, nature, GIMP, gnu, gpl, open source, creative commons, cc-sa, lemasney, sharing, postaday2011, 365
It really depends on the one thing you know through and through, but I genuinely believe that this is true.
tags: zen, understanding, practice, universe, insight, enlightenment, gimp, gpl, gnu, open source, creative commons, CC-SA, lemasney, 365, sharing, postaday2011