3-D Chalk Art

Quick side note before you start the actual blog, if you have ANY ideas as far as concentration ideas (mine is the effect of solitude) they would be most appreciated. I'm having some difficulties at the moment.

Anyhow...

The first time I actually saw a chalk artist in person was when I was helping out at the Tualatin Art Splash. His art wasn't as optical illusiony as these; he did batman with a small child. Anyhow, these are awesome. This stuff must take so much time going back and forth making sure that the effect works when standing back. I'm not too sure if the coca-cola one is legit. If it is, then kudos to the artist. It just looks so darn real. Enjoy!!!

Hand Painting

I'm sure we've all drawn on ourselves many times. (bored in class, much?) This hand painting, though, is ridiculous! These particular ones are by Guido Daniele. He not only paints people for shows and events, but he also does hand animals.

I think that he had a contract with AT&T for a while because he has a lot of designs holding phones.

He has many more nifty designs on his website
http://www.guidodaniele.com/mani01.htm . I would recommend seeing the second page of his hand gallery.

On another note, I'm in the process of completing my fourth concentration piece. It demonstrates the idea that one becomes an entirely different person when they are in solitude. I'll post pictures when it's finished.

Concentration #3

I have completed my third piece! Huzzah! Sorry the image is so bad - I took the picture with my the camera on my phone, so it's really bad. Just as a refresher, my theme is the effects of solitude. This piece shows how when one is alone, they can go into their happy place. This isn't mine (I don't fish). It is supposed to have an 'edge of the world' sort of feel to it. I don't know why I stuck that in. I guess I just felt like it. (probably the same reason I stuck in the umbrella).

Please critique me! I haven't done an oil painting in a RIDICULOUSLY LONG time. Any advice or suggestions would be most appreciated. :)

Digital Artist

One of my friends just gave this link to Carolyn Gan's webpage. She is working with a lot of digital art now.
http://wratbox.com/index.htm
As always I'm a huge sucker for the dragons. She mentions that she uses photoshop cs3, corel painter 9, and manga studio ex to color her works. All of which, unfortunately, add up to hundreds of dollars worth of software. I'll probably wind up getting something similar a few years down the road when they have an even better version out and I've saved up a heck of a lot of money.

While I do know that it takes tremendous skill to paint something digitally, I've always valued those who can create this sort of thing with pencils and paints a little bit more... But that's just me. Her work is inspiring, especially because I am going into character design myself. (or another part of the game process, whichever strikes my fancy once I've tried them all out). Her detail astounds me, in the scales of the dragon to the whole environment in the picture below.
Here's another one I especially liked. It's so nice and warm! And you cannot help but love the GIGANTIC fish. The one below reminds me a lot of the game Persona 3. I'm not sure if you've seen/played it (i've only played part, so no spoilers!), but part of the introduction video has the protagonist on a train and when it hits midnight everything goes a ghoulish green and weird stuff happens.