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Visit the Starbright
Illustrations Blog to see the latest images I'm working on and find
out about the latest tips I've discovered.
Email me at fitzpatrickbrett at
yahoo.co.uk with the details of your illustration job for a quote.
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Welcome
to Starbright
This site started as a simple portfolio site
to show off my illustrations and designs, but it
has grown to
become a lot more than that.
You can find sci-fi illustrations, spaceship designs, 3D renders,
tutorials for apps like GIMP and Photoshop, and some choice pages from
my sketch book.
But it is still first and foremost a portfolio site.
Ever since I was a very young child I have been sketching visions of
the future. I have been sketching monsters, robots, cities which have
been reclaimed by primeval forest and of course spaceships.
In this
process I have been influenced by a plethora of great artists,
including artists doing the visualistaions for major sci-fi motion
pictures and the less trumpeted artists of minor British weekly pulp
comic book science fiction. The designs to be seen on daytime TV,
especially spaceships were also a great influence. And on top of this I
have also been steeped in the written works of the fabulists and
visionaries who feel themselves compelled to commit their imaginings
and
fantasies of the future to paper.
And standing on the shoulders of these giants, I have been adding my
own ideas into this mix and creating images and designs in my own
detailed but free and creative style. Finding the best way to turn my
sketch-book images into attractive colour designs and illustrations has
been a long journey. I've dabbled with almost every way imaginable in
my search for a good, quick and effective way to do this. I've used
paint, oil paint, acrylic and water colour, and I've also used all
manner of digital painting processes. I've used trueSpace, Blender,
Photoshop, GIMP, Inkscape and many others over the years, and each has
something to contribute. The ideal image is often a sketch scanned into
one application, with 3D elements added from another then completed,
coloured and detailed with layer after layer of detail in yet another
application. And an often overlooked finishing touch is the blurb
written about an image in a word processor like Open Office. A piece of
fluff, just a few lines long, can make an enormous difference to
enjoying an image.
I hope you enjoy journeying through these worlds of the imagination as
much as I have enjoyed making them.
Some old pages that have been on this site for a time include pages on 3D
spaceships, animation,
2D
vector art and general
illustrations. edit
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