While browsing for new ideas and techniques, I stumbled upon a digital artist by the name of Vitaly S. Alexius. (http://www.svitart.com/)
Alexius does a lot of photo manipulation using themes and ideas that are very similar to those that I would like to work with (Urban, grunge). He then continues to further develop his pieces by digitally "painting" over them. This produces some interesting results.
I myself own a Wacom pen tablet, and I would love to experiment with this technique more. Although my digital painting skills are far from great, I'd still like to give it a shot. After comparing images with just straight photo manipulation with photo manipulations that were then further developed using this "painting" technique, the "painted" ones were far more interesting.
Here are some of Alexius' works to show you what I mean.
Alexius does a lot of photo manipulation using themes and ideas that are very similar to those that I would like to work with (Urban, grunge). He then continues to further develop his pieces by digitally "painting" over them. This produces some interesting results.
I myself own a Wacom pen tablet, and I would love to experiment with this technique more. Although my digital painting skills are far from great, I'd still like to give it a shot. After comparing images with just straight photo manipulation with photo manipulations that were then further developed using this "painting" technique, the "painted" ones were far more interesting.
Here are some of Alexius' works to show you what I mean.
Absence of Vision by =alexiuss on deviantART
Aeons of Eclipse by =alexiuss on deviantART
Pretty cool, eh?
