On this page I will be basically showing some of my work from the beginning sketches and ideas to the final artpiece and

how it develops  I will also mention some of my techniques and how to create its pretty simple when you have a world of tons of brushes and filters and computer programs to create and different surfaces to make this happen.

Many of my ideas begin with just that an idea that i don't know how it is gonna look it just forms as i go...There are different tools to make literally anything you want if you have imagination, determination, and love to experiment on what different things do and how easy it is yet the one thing you have to know is real art takes time you can use a photo now days and just stick it in a program app and it look like so called art and not really its not the real deal but hey some of these look really cool... yet in creating from scratch an idea whether you use a pencil and paper or a photo it can form into art

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There are things in the programs I use that help make what I want look the way I want it to look! and its done on a budget of well you have a computer and a mouse and keyboard and then regular ink, paint, paper, and real pens and brushes... all of these are tools... its real art when you lay it out a certain way and manipulate the sources at your fingertips to create the image you want and as with everything it takes time to work this and perfect it I have been working with three programs mostly ...  for my figurative art it can begin with looking at a image whether its a model from a photo, a figure from an ad in a mag, or stock image from the internet, or completely drawn from my mind and taking bits and pieces of many different things to create it ... like say you want a wire look of a computer well there are zillions upon zillions of images on the internet to work with its how you use them and what you do with them as a part like a multi media created piece on canvas where someone takes text from newspaper adds it into the canvas by gluing it in a specific spot ... then add paint and move to create around that or looking a image for inspiration yet you pick up the pencil and paper and draw it out first... then the fact i don't have a scanner but i do have sources in a camera so i will take a picture of that drawing and then go from there.

I want a wacom or equal drawing tablet so i could learn to by pass this step and draw right on the surface however right now i don't have the 100 or so bucks to buy a size pad tablet i want or a touch screen computer/tablet that is usually for the good ones at least 1000 bucks or more... so i have learned to work with what little I do have and make some amazing things from that.  Years of working as a graphic artist in and out of printshops and silk screen places taking images from a light table to a computer screen with Adobe products gave me the learning to use a mouse and keyboard to do some cool things many take three to four days back then to create now it can be done in hours with better processors and such yet I can't afford Adobe and its Creative Cloud programs so I turned to open source and beginning apps like sketch book to draw what I choose. One day I would like to have Adobe stuff again but if it never comes its no lost cause I have alternatives now to do just about anything I need.

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Many of the things I create have a few features that I use all the time one of those that i have used from old days to now is the layers pages which is how many things are made one on top of the other... depending on how powerful a computer and how much memory I have determines how many layers i can work with but most of the time I use maybe five or six at the most then combine the image and work with that same amount of layers again.

Opacity and the Settings from Normal to Burn or Overlay or Color or such come in handy to create and affect...

Certain filters seem to add a depth and feel I like after I have painted and painted the image... There is one I simply love

its the Cartoon feature which adds a black to anything it gives the piece that jewelized look of black like a wash does over a sculptured piece for cracks and crevices.

It some what stylizes it yet it is the way I want the piece to look not using it to make the image just accent the way I desire the view to be its like my way of things someone else could make theres different . 

Adding color you have to know how basic painting like in oils or acrylics works the blending of one color to a tint or shade of that color or its opposite or the blending of many colors to bring out the look desired takes skill, talent, and years upon years of painting on canvas and paper and on computer to get it right the way my eye wants it seen and over the years I have gotten better and better and better and keep at it one of my favorite mottos is Practice makes perfect... I have

been painting since I could pick up the brush and mix a color to the paper or canvas I am not the best at it and techniques are only a part of it ... most of what I do comes from somewhere out in the universe and comes through me to have it look in the end how i want... that also takes time... i can work on one section for three hours to get just one look then go back and look at it and say it needs more so the other major thing you can do is learn to process your work over and over

I have a painting on canvas right now that I keep looking at it for a year now tweeking it here adding there and its still on going ...  I can have a image done looks great the way it is and I see it to be a new way so I will take that finished piece and go back and work it again and again and change it add color take away color add a shape or affect and then say yep or nope and then when that piece is finished I could at any point go back look at that piece and say hmmm what if I did this

and make it into a new piece of art.

There is a lot more to making a piece of art digitally or on canvas than a few strokes here or there... the hardest part is always taking a image and reworking it to be better than it was or different and there are no limits to this and how it can be done to be abstract or realistic or somewhere in between the both... for me studying how the golden mean of things work in nature and in other masterpiece artists of the past helps me create a piece there is a basic math a basic grid of where things

pop or don't pop where things may look better here than there...it is how you put it all together in the end to design the piece how you want it to be...

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ok enough chatting on how I do and just do....  for anything can be made to be art....

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