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[22 Jun 2010 | 2 Comments | ]
Photo Manipulation Herald of Devotion

Herald of Devotion is part of my Herald series just like Herald of Creation, the next one in the series that I will be working on is Herald of Destruction.

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[20 Jun 2010 | One Comment | ]
Photo Manipulation Herald of Creation

Herald of Creation was a nice chance to use some of my favorite photo manipulation techniques in an interesting way and combine them with some vectors from Go Media.

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[8 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]
Photo Manipulation Rave Dawn II

Raven Dawn II is a follow up to my original Raven Dawn image using what I’ve learned since that time. For this image I took a simple and clean stylish approach.

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[6 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]
Photo Manipulation Look At Me

I really enjoyed working on this particular image. Look at me was a chance to try out some new techniques. I did extensive retouch work to this image including, completely recreating the eyes and lips, whitening the teeth, and smoothing the skin.

I used different adjustment layers to really get the image to pop. The butterfly wings I did myself using a reference. The model in this image was great and had very unique and expressive features that allowed this image to work the way I imagined it.

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[4 Apr 2010 | 4 Comments | ]

The recession is still a probably for many, not just in the United States but abroad as well. The economy has hurt people from many different fields, and the Graphic and Web Design fields are no exception. The job crisis is very scary, but embracing fear isn’t the answer, finding solutions is, and as a Graphic Designer living in the recension I have some interesting advice that will help you through it.

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[13 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
Photo Manipulation Celestial Being

Celestial Being was one of my personal favorite images, it was featured in Advanced Photoshop Magazine issue 67.

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[22 Feb 2010 | No Comment | ]
Photo Manipulation Dance Puppet Dance

I wanted to create something using this stock for quite a while. From the moment I saw it I knew that I wanted to try to make this concept work. Part of the image of course alludes to Pinnochio, but I also wanted to add a metaphysical aspect to it.

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[29 Jan 2010 | One Comment | ]
12 Stunning Prints by Digital Artist Alexiuss

Today’s featured artist has some truly amazing work, particularly some prints available through deviantart.com. Alexiuss is an amazing digital artist based out of Canada with a fantastic array of dark artwork. In fact I have to honestly say this represents some of the best dark artwork I’ve seen in the deviantart community.

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[28 Jan 2010 | One Comment | ]
Roberto Blake Featured in Photoshop Creative 54

At the end of last year 3 pieces of my artwork were featured in Photoshop Creative Magazine Issue 54 along with several other digital artist. In this article I talk about that experience and how it effected me.

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[25 Jan 2010 | One Comment | ]
Featured Artist Wiksa

Today’s artist that I’ve feature has some work that simply blew me away when I saw it. Her work managed to find its way into my favorites collection fairly quickly. She is 27 year old Turkish Graphic Designer Asli Yeniay Kizilay, and her work is just amazing.

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[14 Dec 2009 | One Comment | ]
Photo Manipulation Keeping the Faith

Keeping the Faith is one of my newer photo manipulation projects and a chance to show off some refinement to my techniques. In some ways its is similar to my much earlier work “Cloud Chaser”.

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[14 Dec 2009 | 2 Comments | ]
Photo Manipulation Energetic

Energetic was a photo manipulation inspired by the song “Energetic” by BOA. It is a high impact club song with a great beat and energy to it and was able to inspired some of my best work. This image has also become one of my most popular photo manipulations on DeviantArt.

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[7 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]
Music Monday Inspiration 1

In honor of twitter #MusicMonday I decided to not only to a Music Monday graphic, but I decided to do a round up of music inspiration for you guys! I’ve included some Music Inspired Digital Art, Music Stock Photos/Resources, and even Music to Inspire Creativity! Enjoy Music Monday Everyone!

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[4 Dec 2009 | 2 Comments | ]
Video- Promote Yourself As A Graphic Designer

In this video I cover a lot of questions that new/young Designers and Digital Artist have asked me, but also address things that are relevant to any designer or artist looking to get more work or recognition.

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[3 Dec 2009 | 2 Comments | ]
Interview with David Cousens

Today I interview a truly great and talented Graphic Designer and Digital Artist who has been featured in many publications both for his artwork and tutorials. To be quite honest he is one of my personal heroes in the creative industry and possibly one of the most talented Digital Illustrators I have seen! Many of you will be familiar with his work! He is UK Digital Artist David Cousens of Cool Surface!

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[1 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]
Featured Artist Mr Graphics Guy

In keeping with #typographytuesday I have featured a Graphic Designer who excels at the art of typography! Mr Graphics Guy of Deviant Art whom had much of his work showcased in my article 30 Examples of TypographyDesign is a master of typographic design and a great source of inspiration in the Deviant Art Community.