OASIS is something I came up with while looking at an old piece of work “Star Girl I”. I realized since working on that image that my skills have progressed a great deal and wanted to see what I could do with that stock image today, and that is how I made my start on this project.

OASIS Moonchild by Roberto Blake

Photo Manipulation and effects are the area of graphic design that I enjoy the most. I love taking images and bringing them together in new and interesting ways to make something wholly different. For this I wanted to creating something stunning and dramatic that had an organic feel to it. I also still wanted to use lighting effects in this image, but something more than typical streaks and swirls.

The end result was something beautiful that I feel is also unique.

Roberto Blake

Roberto Blake is a Professional Graphics Designer and Photographer, living in Fayetteville NC, has work been working with Photoshop® for over 8 years now, and Flash® for the past 5 years.

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Roberto Blake Featured in Photoshop Creative 60

Hey everyone, I”m really excited about this post. I was recently featured in another photoshop magazine. Photoshop Creative recently started a Reader’s Gallery section and was kind enough to include some of my artwork in issue 60 of the magazine, which you can find at pretty much any book store in the magazine section or oder from their website. I can’t tell you how happy I am about tall the wonderful exposure my art has been getting lately.

As creatives we always seek some level of validation from our peers and the people who inspire us. We also have a desire to share our work with as many people as possible. In this way seeing your work published in a major venue is a great boost to morale for any artist or designer. The pieces selected were some of my own personal favorites.

Roberto Blake- Photo Manipulation Energetic

Roberto Blake Photo Manipulation Touched

Roberto Blake Photo Manipulation Catch U If I Can

Roberto Blake Photo Manipulation Celestial Being

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Roberto Blake is a Professional Graphics Designer and Photographer, living in Fayetteville NC, has work been working with Photoshop® for over 8 years now, and Flash® for the past 5 years.

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Celestial Being is one of my favorite pieces. I wanted to create something both angelic and alien in nature. This had various concepts applied to it each holding different meanings, particularly the lotus. Those following eastern culture/philosophy will pick up very different things from those adhering to a more western/traditional view.

Roberto Blake Photo Manipulation Celestial Being

Most of the work for this was done in photoshop where as the vectors were done in illustrator and brought into photoshop with effects applied to them after the fact.

This is one my images that were featured in Advanced Photoshop Magazine issue 67.

Roberto Blake

Roberto Blake is a Professional Graphics Designer and Photographer, living in Fayetteville NC, has work been working with Photoshop® for over 8 years now, and Flash® for the past 5 years.

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Touched was inspired by a series of songs on my playlist, particularly “Touched” by VAST. I had a lot of fun with this and was able to bring a lot of raw energy and chaos to this composition. Doing the brushwork for the background took quite awhile to do. The retouch work was also quite fun for this image. I wanted to do something different as far as the colors and I’m satisfied with how those choices turned out.

Time: 14 HRS
Tools: Photoshop, Wacom Intuos3 4×6

Roberto Blake Photo Manipulation Touched

Touched was one of my images to be featured in Advanced Photoshop Magazine 67. It has always been a goal of mine to have my work featured in this publication so I was really happy about this.

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Roberto Blake is a Professional Graphics Designer and Photographer, living in Fayetteville NC, has work been working with Photoshop® for over 8 years now, and Flash® for the past 5 years.

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Maybe some of you are as tired as I am of the same list over and over featuring the same artwork by the same people. So here you go some new fresh eye candy from you from some digital artist many of you have never seen or heard of who produce some of the most amazing digital artist in the deviant art community.

Be sure to show these people how much you love their artwork by commenting and visiting their pages!

If you are digital artist and you want to be featured, or you want to recommend another artist to be featured please drop me a comment and a link to their work!

And don’t forget that there is a second page to this post to keep it from taking forever to load!

1. Bahomout by Genzoman

http://genzoman.deviantart.com/art/Bahamut-137575338

2. Apophis the Destroyer by Genzoman

http://genzoman.deviantart.com/art/Apophis-the-destroyer-137356584

3. Golden Dragon Departure by Genzoman

http://genzoman.deviantart.com/art/Golden-dragon-departure-141133751

4. Avatar Katara Fire Nation by Genzoman

http://genzoman.deviantart.com/art/Avatar-Katara-Fire-nation-131769427

5. Ifrit by Genzoman

http://genzoman.deviantart.com/art/Ifrit-105872278

6. Atargatis by Genzoman

Atargatis by GENZOMAN

http://genzoman.deviantart.com/art/Atargatis-99388179

7. Autumn Fae by Lillucyka

http://lillucyka.deviantart.com/art/Autumn-fae-99957322

8. Dreaming of Love by Lillucyka

http://lillucyka.deviantart.com/art/Dreaming-of-Love-128746500

9. Touch of Magic by Lillucyka

http://lillucyka.deviantart.com/art/Touch-of-magic-133075608

10. Breezy Day by Artgerm

http://artgerm.deviantart.com/art/Breezy-Day-139817701

11. Samurai Spirit by Artgerm

http://artgerm.deviantart.com/art/Samurai-Spirit-7962452

12. Masquerade by Alena Lazreva

http://alenalazareva.deviantart.com/art/Masquerade-136317242

13. Kiss of Vampire by Alena Lazareva

http://alenalazareva.deviantart.com/art/Kiss-of-vampire-138388628

14. Veronika by Alena Lazareva

http://alenalazareva.deviantart.com/art/Veronika-137022484

15. Aliens by Kyle Lambert

http://kyle-lambert.deviantart.com/art/Aliens-Painting-114330807

16. President Obama by Kyle Lambert

http://kyle-lambert.deviantart.com/art/President-Obama-Painting-114887652

17. Transformers Revenge Megan Fox by Kyle Lambert

Transformers Revenge Megan Fox by Kyle Lambert

http://kyle-lambert.deviantart.com/art/Transformers-Revenge-Megan-Fox-121647920

18. The Night Birds Song by Wroth

http://wroth.deviantart.com/art/The-Night-Bird-s-Song-133663751

19. Autumn Fairytale by Cosmosue

Autumn Fairytale by Cosmosue and 3ddream

http://cosmosue.deviantart.com/art/Autumn-Fairytale-94189136

http://3ddream.deviantart.com/art/Autumn-Fairytale-94187641

20. Caroline by MisaCharisma

Misa Charisma

http://misacharisma.deviantart.com/art/MisaCharisma-Digital-Painting-91848585

21. The Suns Consolation by BenF

The Sun Consolaion by Ben F

http://benf.deviantart.com/art/The-sun-s-consolation-141921184

22. So Very Broken by Outlawrave

So Very Broken by Roberto Blake

http://outlawrave.deviantart.com/art/So-Very-Broken-136223655

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Roberto Blake is a Professional Graphics Designer and Photographer, living in Fayetteville NC, has work been working with Photoshop® for over 8 years now, and Flash® for the past 5 years.

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Recently I had the pleasure of interviewing an amazing Digital Artist who specializes in Digital Painting. She is Russian based artist and designer Alena Lazareva and you may be familiar with her work from DeviantArt, Advanced Photoshop, Photoshop Createive, or ImageFX. Her images are nothing short of mystical and it was a real treat to get to talk to her about her work!

Could you tell us about yourself, where you’re from and how you got started in the design field?

Hello ! My name is Alena. I am 29 years old. I live in Russia.
I have been drawing since childhood. I studied at the School of Art at the artist. There I drew pictures in oils and watercolor, is now engaged in graphic design. My first acquaintance with Photoshop was in 2006. Then I went to the computer graphics courses, and began to paint in Photoshop. Now I draw in Photoshop every day and improve my skills. My interests: art, photography, computer graphics.

Sad_fairy_by_AlenaLazareva

A lot of your designs involve painting with light, is there any particular reason you gravitate toward this particular style?

In my artworks mythical creatures, fairies, elves, mermaids … The effect of light in the paintings give a sense of magic, magical world. Light – is the warmth and magic.

Fairy_by_AlenaLazareva

Were there any barriers you’ve had to overcome in entering the field and trying to develop as an artist?

At first, I did not have enough skills in the field of graphic design. Was it difficult to translate the plan. I went to courses graphic design, it really helped me. now improve their skills every day.

What has been your most valuable resources as a designer?

I think, valuable resources in the design of this creative thinking, a fantasy artist and good technique in creating artworks.

What would you say is the hardest part of being a designer?

The designer should strive to learn new skills, get acquainted with the artwork of other artists. And most importantly, the designer must have creative thinking!

Are there any other designers or artist that you draw inspiration or advice from?
I always liked works of KAGAYA. They inspire…me .It is a great artist – illustrator .

So far what would you say is your favorite piece you’ve that you have created, and why?
My favourite artworks : Angels, Paradisial bird, black angel. But very favourite artwork Mermaid!

Mermaid_by_AlenaLazareva

If you could use design to influence or change the world in a positive way, how would you go about it?
Arouse in people a good feeling ! It would be a project consisting of paintings by artists. These pictures would show human feelings, kindness, love, friendship … The project would remind all people of good qualities, which should be in every man.

What do you hope to achieve design wise in the next 5 years?

I plan to improve their skills in design, improve their digital painting technique, to master new knowledge in graphic design. And also think of interesting subjects for his paintings, and to please all his artworks. I also would like to participate in different competitions and get acquainted with the artwork of digital artists.

Paradisial_bird_by_AlenaLazareva

Thanks for a wonderful interview Alena. Be sure to check out Alena’s various galleries and the links below and show her some love and support by commenting, and rating her images!

Photoshop Creative Gallery
Advanced Photoshop Gallery
DeviantArt Gallery
DeviantArt Portfolio
ImagineFX Gallery

Roberto Blake

Roberto Blake is a Professional Graphics Designer and Photographer, living in Fayetteville NC, has work been working with Photoshop® for over 8 years now, and Flash® for the past 5 years.

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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.

Inspiration

I designed “The Formless One”, to communicate a story, I wanted to show that not only do people hide who they are behind mask , but sometimes the lose their own identity to the mask they where; so much so that the mask becomes their only true form, and stripped of that identity they are insubstantial beings.

This image is a bit darker that what I’ve worked on recently but I’m actually getting very much back into “dark artwork” and surreal imagery. The online art community has produced some amazing and inspiring artwork that has reinvigorated me to this end, especially the work featured in my “20 Top Tier Photo-manipulations” post.

Techniques
There was a lot of brush work involved in designing this image, and ironically quite a bit of masking! There was also a bit of retouch work to the model that shouldn’t be overlooked, I really wanted to make the eyes pop as they would become the focal point of the image as a whole. I spent a lot of time transitioning between brushes and various settings to give it the textured look it has.

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Roberto Blake | Graphic Illustration | Magic Melody

Magic Melody
This image was something that came to me while watching the Brothers Grimm movie. I decided on the concept for a girl walking through the dark forest spreading enchantment with an instrument, then remembered the perfect stock image by Marcus J Ranum

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Roberto Blake is a Professional Graphics Designer and Photographer, living in Fayetteville NC, has work been working with Photoshop® for over 8 years now, and Flash® for the past 5 years.

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Roberto Blake | Graphic Illustration | Raven Dawn

Raven Dawn
Model Katanaz-stock at deviantart.
Raven Dawn was chance to use a combination of different effects, that I hadn’t combined in my previous images. The stock for this model comes from the amazing stock gallery of Katanaz. The background texture was done by myself using a Wacom Tablet.

Inspiration
I thought of this piece while thinking about the movie Angels & Demons. It occurred to me that I hadn’t done an angel or any such piece in a while, but I didn’t necessarily want to do a traditional piece. I decided to take the opportunity to try out a few effects that I had recently experimented with including my custom grunge brushes. It was a hard decision to settle on the colors and tones for this, but I’m ultimately satisfied with the result.

Roberto Blake

Roberto Blake is a Professional Graphics Designer and Photographer, living in Fayetteville NC, has work been working with Photoshop® for over 8 years now, and Flash® for the past 5 years.

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Roberto Blake | Graphic Illustration | Buttercup

Buttercup
While in Barnes & Noble I decided to pickup the book the Princess Bride on a whim last week only to find that it was going to be playing on telvision soon! This being one of my favorite movies growing up, and one of my favorite novels as a teenager, I decided to do a series of images as a tribute. “Buttercup” is the first image in the series. I found a stock photo that I felt favorite the lead heroine and decided to work some photoshop magic.

Roberto Blake

Roberto Blake is a Professional Graphics Designer and Photographer, living in Fayetteville NC, has work been working with Photoshop® for over 8 years now, and Flash® for the past 5 years.

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Roberto Blake | Graphic Illustration | Poker Face

Poker Face
More often than not I get the creative inspiration for my artwork from music, movies, or books. In this case I was inspired by watching the music video “Poker Face” by Lady Gaga. I found the colors, objects and symbols that repeated throughout the video (mostly associated with cards and gambling), to be a great source of design inspiration. Feeling the need to work more with closeups I decided that the stock image on the cover of  Issue 55 of Advanced Photoshop Magazine, would be perfect for this project.

Roberto Blake

Roberto Blake is a Professional Graphics Designer and Photographer, living in Fayetteville NC, has work been working with Photoshop® for over 8 years now, and Flash® for the past 5 years.

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