Adamn Cairns is a 14 Digital Artist out of the UK and has been one of the hugest supports of this blog! Adam is one of the more talented young artist I’ve seen in the online community, and someone I believe has a promising future. His excellent photo manipulation work is quite impressive.

For sometime now I’ve been working on a project I haven’t told many people about, but finally it’s time to let out the secret, if you read the headline of this post then you have probably guessed it, I will be publishing my first Art Book in the first quarter of 2010!

Today I feature the work of a very talented freelanced designer based out of Indonesia, Whytmonkz of Deviant Art. When I first saw his work I was completely blown away by it. What he is capable of doing with photo manipulation in top notch!

Today’s Featured Artist is someone I have been watching on Deviant Art for quite a while. His work is nothing less than stellar, captivating, and inspiring. I’m actually surprised he doesn’t have tens of thousands of views to his Deviant Art page because as you will see his work is just that good! His name is Rodney Hart and he is a Graphic Designer based out of the UK.

Its obvious when you first look at this image that it was inspired by none other than the Jabbawockeez, the Season 1 Champions of America’s Best Dance Crew, who also stared in the movie Step Up 2 The Streets, who have taken the nation by storm.

This week’s Photoshop Creative Artist of the Week is Oksana Podrez a digital artist based out of the Ukraine.
You can view her other work at her Photoshop Creative Gallery. Congratulations Oksana!

Digital Painting by New York Graphic Designer Roberto Blake. “Lady Snowflake” is a winter themed digital painting developed for Photoshop Creative’s forum Challenge “Seasons”.

I’ve seen some amazing photo-manipulations and dark artwork in the online community lately and felt inspired to create a new piece for Photoshop Creative’s Web Challenge this month.

The Star Girl, is a concept I’ve been revisiting in my Photo Manipulations, that I’ve become quite fond of. By combining and array of lighting effects to create the surreal image conveying energy and emotion. The concept was so well received when I did the first Star Girl image, that I decided to do a series of them.

The online community is full of amazing, talented digital artist, and today I’m happy to showcase some fantastic photo-manipulation work I’ve seen on DeviantArt.

Thanks to the OneOnSoftware.com plugin Genuine Fractals 6 I’m able to resize and recrop a lot of my work for different purposes. Everything from creating desktops, to prints! It really is an amazing plugin and well worth the investment to any graphic designer for the range of things it allows you to do with your images, all without a loss of quality. I decided to offer one of my favorite early Fantasy Photo-manipulations, Light Bringer, as a free desktop background.

Many designers, have and will continue to underestimate the amazing power and range of typography.
There are several reasons for this, but the reality is that typography is essential to a design skill set.
When stacked against photo-manipulation, digital painting, vexel artwork, and animation, the prospect of working with type, doesn’t sound all that exciting to most people.
Truthful, its because they don’t know any better.

Paper Gangsta Girl
Like my other image Poker Face, Paper Gangsta Girl is an image inspired by a Lady Gaga song. For this image I wanted to combine certain effect in a subtle way.

“Dark Leap” is one of my more recent adventures into the vivid commercial effects style that has become increasingly popular among designers. This image incorporated a variety of tool and techniques, to create its stunning visual effects. IN this post I will go on to explain some of the techniques and tools used to create the image.