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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 |
