home in the country

graphite woodless pencils

For: sceneries td contest

Flowers and Vase

No sources used, done entirely in painter 9 using the air brush and oil paint brushes

For: flowers dd contest

rabbi blowing shofar

drawn with woodless pencils of all hardness. drawn 2 years ago.

For: portraits td contest

Winter Love Triangle

"You sonovagrinch! I hope you had a good time with mah girl cuz these snow guns will ruin yo' Christmas now!"

For: snowmen dd contest

To Own the Stars

Humanoids could not withstand the radiation and long term loneliness of deep space travel. So she had chosen to lose her humanity. It was the only way she could own the stars. Mostly source with a few clouds photos of my own and thanks to faestock for the model.

For: locomotive contest

Restricted

credit to hom 26 from Flickr for the bodybag Credit to 6006548654 from SXC for the sky

For: dark surrealism contest

force

I chosen to design this tarot card with an appearance to resemble a medieval drawing.

For: tarot card dd contest

Death: Facing Fate

This was sort of last minute and half old work, but I decided to do card #13 Death.... Sorry to person before me, didn't mean to use the same card. As for the subject matter, I really wanted to portray the feeling of judgement before afterlife. On one side it is heaven, the other is hell (no l...

For: tarot card dd contest

XIII - The Death

13 is always the best number to me :). Notice that the Death has many fingers, not 5 as human hand, that's what I intentionally did. He takes to soul of the victim and imprison it in his amulet, eats the victim's heart and thrown to body to the river of magma... Please view in full to see all the ...

For: tarot card dd contest

Mr P

My favourite horror creature is the good old Zombie...soooo meet Mr P ;) Used picture as reference... My technique: Apply solid colour and smudge smudge smudge, alternating from soft to hard brushes. This was created in Photoshop CS5 +- 15hours painting...

For: horror creatures dd contest

Strike Plans Brewing

For: mixed manipulations 1 contest

undead

For: mixed manipulations 1 contest

Hideout

Source only for structure, with the cobweb brush. Cut, paste, distort, warp, burn, dodge, erase, layer masks and layer adjustments, and a little bit of painting.

For: old bench contest

Haiku Spring

Spring winds call Soon the dragonflies Thank you to Lucretia-stock and Alegion-stock! Sky overlay image is my own - see SBS Step 2. Permission for stock use SBS Step 8. Tried sugge

For: mixed manipulations 1 contest

Solitary

Source image and Photoshop

For: kitchen view contest

Still can't play guitar

Used the intermediate result of my entry for the original Cubism contest (back in the photoshoptalent days) and made some small changes (mostly keeping the color in, and using a texture).

For: cubism contest

GoldenCity

For: twilight zone contest

Blood angel

Blood angel collects the blood from the devils to help resurrecting the good spirits... I can't finish the whole piece as I wanted, so I just choose a part to do, really in hurry :(. I'll take a flight in some minutes, so I just try to finish this work, sorry for the lacking of SBS steps

For: warriors contest

Where is he when ya need 'em?!

Made in photoshop. Needed some anatomy references, but final design is all my own. Please see in high res before you vote, thanks.

For: warriors contest

to be or not to be

I figured let's do it the classic way :-)

For: skeletons TD contest

Loving spoonful

For: creative smoke contest

Fantasy version of "La soif"

The original painting was made by Bouguereau, Adolphe William (French 1825-1905) in 1886. I made my own version with more vibrate color and in the fantasy scene, which inspired by Kagaya's works. I tried to do as much details as I can within 4 days, so you should watch the Hi-Res. Thank you. Th...

For: famous paintings contest

pablopicasso

For: famous paintings contest

L' Retros

L'aurore William Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905)

For: famous paintings contest