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Personal Portfolio piece, set within the D&D universe. I wanted to challenge myself to paint an original character within an established gaming world, so I went with one I'm very familiar with.

This was also an experiment in using atmosphere to enforce perspective and planes, and trying to capture movement. I consider it *mostly* successful.

Comments welcome, and critique, but I don't usually change finished images. I prefer to learn from mistakes and apply that to my next piece. ]]> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:33:22 +0000 http://mercuralis.cgsociety.org/gallery/779480

Illustrated scene from the beginning of Act II of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Done mostly as a personal portfolio project. Painted in Corel Painter. ]]> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:28:32 +0000 http://mercuralis.cgsociety.org/gallery/698855

Originally created for a contest at Pixelbrush.net, this image is a reimagining of Jean Leon Gerome's classic painting "The Pelt Merchant of Cairo".

The idea behind the contest was to take a painting by one of the Old Masters and reinterpret it. I did not win... but I may have reinterpreted TOO much. This still remains one of my favorite paintings. ]]> Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:09:12 +0000 http://mercuralis.cgsociety.org/gallery/698854

One of my favorite personal pieces, depicting a spirit of the swamp, a dragonfly fairy, and various Florida swamp animals.

Painted in Corel Painter X with various references used for the animals (no direct copies). ]]> Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:06:06 +0000 http://mercuralis.cgsociety.org/gallery/737522

This was basically done as an experiment with using Google Sketchup and incorporating it into a painted image.

The castle in the back is Butron's Castle, in Spain. I've been experimenting with using google sketchup to help me out with perspective. The castle model can be found here: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=deb51733f99d40e03e7dfaaa1a03c302

I did, of course, light it and paint it myself.

The model is referenced from a stock photo image, found here: http://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/art/Drac-Bride-7-68644466

WIP steps can be found here: http://mercuralis.deviantart.com/art/Mina-80386851]]> Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:56:53 +0000 http://mercuralis.cgsociety.org/gallery/698853

Portrait of Alice in Wonderland's infamous queen.

Since this made it into Exotique I figured I probably ought to update and add it here.]]> Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:03:34 +0000 http://mercuralis.cgsociety.org/gallery/591676

This image has been a two month labor of love. I started it in December, got horribly frustrated with it after a week or so, and put it away for a bit. I worked on it off and on at the beginning of January, but finally pulled it out and finished it in the last few days.

This has been my most challenging and most complicated painting to date. I wanted to really make the painting sensual, and give the viewer the feeling that they could reach in and touch the various textures and elements in it. I looked at a lot of old master paintings for the feeling of old world decadence.

Figure is referenced from this image: http://linzstock.deviantart.com/art/Dark-Moods-10-69724986

Most of the textures here are hand made, though I borrowed one or two from http://www.cgtextures.com/

This is a record breaker. It tops out at around 90 layers in Painter. (hooray for new computers!)
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Corel Painter IX
Some reference used for hands and background, all else is from my imagination.

Hopefully this image will be January in the 2009 calender I'm working on. Overall I'm very pleased with how this turned out. I've been trying to paint this character now for two years.
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Painted in Corel Painter IX.

Pose referenced partially from this image: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/59642115/ by
http://linzstock.deviantart.com/ I also glanced through some of her ship photos to figure out what a ship deck *might* look like from that angle.

I suspect, in real life, there'd be far more rope.]]> Sun, 03 Feb 2008 22:26:10 +0000