cyb,
How are you doing these?! They are so cool!



I'm planning what should be a pretty cool color scheme for this one. I may use pencils, or digital, or both together or separate. I don't know!! The problem with digital right now, is I can't practically take it with me through the day, like pencils.

I may add on the top part, just because of your request....

A couple recent gig/festival poster backgrounds...

Oh man, talk about eye-candy PT! Those are fantastic!

Wow SC. That is my favorite of your works. Up close the shapes are quite simple but the complexity and the symmetry of the whole thing is astounding.

I dig that one SC...

Here's one I've been playing around with for a while... it evolved 2 or three times in the makin'

OOooo...

oh yeah, quite nice. great color palette once again, lots of nice details. one of your best i've seen so far, I think.

Damn, you guys! I freakin love the art here.

spin,

You have such a cool look to your stuff, it's so crystalline. I think it is getting more and more refined. I really like that one.

PT,
I really like the 3D look that one has. I also really like the broad color pallet. Again, it's so clean and just tasty.

Love it. Great work. You as well, spinCycle.

I call this collage "Bee Keeper". Men toil as mid-level robots keep a close eye. The un-naturals chum it up and act important.

Psychedelic pinup

Bee Keeper == Hieronymus Bosch + Star Trek;
or maybe Dali.

in any case, I am extremely amused.

I was hesitant to post this here because it didn't really take any artistic skills (being just a photo, copied, mirrored, rotated, with some Photoshop effects applied) however, I like the way it turned out and thought others might enjoy it too.

The story behind it:
We had the first real thunderstorm of the year last week and my wife and I thought it called for celebration so we shared a small dose of DMT and watched the sunset & lightning. The effects were very fairly subtle but in the dim light, the silhouettes of the trees did some amazing things. I could have sworn that they multiplied, rotated and mirrored each other. It was beautiful and magical. Afterwards I decided to try to replicate what I saw as a sort of visual trip report.... and this is is=)

I love the subtle shifts in color and the fine degree of detail created by the branches. Having the organic geometries of nature coming together in a kaleidoscopic way is actually a pretty cool idea.

Wow. That's super intense.

I like how real and tangible you made it. The subtle asymmetries somehow bring it to life.

Awwww how cute!!

I've noticed your subtle asymmetries, too. I remember seeing something about a Japanese concept of art. I can't remember what it was called, but they recognized beauty in imperfection. So, if a building had columns, say, they would purposefully install one column upside down. It's very interesting. You can see this in nature, too. Trees, plants, animals and people all have this. Even the most "perfect" faces have some slight asymmetries.

So, it's really cool you add some asymmetry to your work! It certainly makes it more dynamic.

Glad you guys noticed the asymmetries ... yeah they are subtle and as you say, necessary to give a face or figure movement and 'reality'.
Symmetry is fine if you're trying to convey fractal-like linear precision but for more 'organic' structures like this Alien Skin texture, it helps to have things a little 'off '...even if it barely registers at first glance.

Lot of discreet additions, dodging/burning, hue changes, levelling and pushing around with Liquify and Warp.