It’s so much fun having viewers who know more about these programs than I do! Thanks again, everyone, for the input. I think we’ve come up with a seriously cool alternative, that pretty much used everyone’s suggestions, in one form or another.

Who said too many cooks weren’t a good thing? As long as only one adds the spices… (slideshow:) Read the rest of this entry »

Harmonies is all about Stephen slowly being sucked into NSpace, both mentally and physically, with Wesley as his rather reluctant savior, so I thought a symbolic black hole would be appropriate.  I started with the same computer/space background as the other two, but added some “warping” effects with the good old warp brush in PSP. This and its companion the warp mesh is my new best computer friend. You can just nudge pieces around in a given direction, or you can grab a section of the image and “twirl” it around a central point. It makes it easy to turn something static into something in motion. That’s what I did to the background, especially in the middle, where I wanted to create a pseudo “black hole” behind the boys’ image.

Turns out you don’t see much of it, but I know it’s there. (slideshow:)  Read the rest of this entry »

This cover had the most actual “painting” involved of those I’d done thus far. (The Ring covers are all digital) The others, being primarily composites,  I could have done without the wacom board, though it would have been much harder. This one…nuh-uh. Without the Wacom, it wouldn’t have happened. (slideshow:) Read the rest of this entry »