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Free artprogram with painterly style brushes and animation included!, though i havent tried the animation yet.

The programs homepage is here - http://www.squirreldome.com/cyberop.htm
Version 1.2 is the free one and save files as BMP's plus there are trial versions of build 2 and the pro version coming soon

im currently messing about with 1.2 myself and it seems more interesting and customizable than artrage, much less powerful than painter or photoshop but the other later versions may be more impressive,  it will be interesting to see what it can do. 

Thats a really cool interpratation of it, good job

DanClarke: Thanks, i like cars and like the name particulalry of that part no real meaning behind it:P

Vince Twelve:Thanks, changed the document titles good idea i forgot about those:)  Regarding a home page i figured i would prefer to have it go straight into the gallery i might have a splash page with a image preloader for the illustartion jpegs not sure yet, just trying to make it easy for potential clients to get straight to the work.

made some updates feeback more than welcome

i started work on my website and from past experience i know its stupid to make changes when you have mentally finished the project.  This right now is still a work in progress and far from finished so i  would be interested to know what you think of the design and layoutso far, how it work in various resolutions browsers, and how it could be improved? 


http://www.thedumpvalve.com/a/illustration.htm

topic was moon alien    my last post for a while

stuh505: Thanks! the glowing pic was my least fav maybe because i really struggled to do it but everyone likes it(maybe because they can see i struggled with it:P) go figure

2ma2: Thanks, yeh proportion and anatomy is something i try to do when i can, and i do need to do more studies and will do next time i have holidays:)

todays was half orc assasin - very tired and lazy today just the pencils

modified the image tags the page doesnt take ages to load 

topics were the washing of sins and jupiter based alien

Petteri:Thanks, i do really wanna contribute to some ags related projects let me know when you come up with something that would suit my style, although I'm sure there are much better background drawers around i would like the chance to work on something.  My scripting sucks so i doubt i could ever make a game on my own

Latest topic was god of war
i totally missed the topic and tone here.
http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/godofwar.jpg

topic was the blood collector - tried to work on contrast and triadic colour once again:P

http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/blood.jpg

topics were female heroin  and the gods storm


http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/heroindsg.jpg


http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/gods.jpg

topic was a bit messed up two in one i did the brainless scarecrow
http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/scare.jpg
*edit Bad Voo-doo Man thanks I'm sleepy today forgot the g ammended now

lgm: yeh i seen those stores online a couple of times, just never really followed through, hopefully in the future ill be working in bigger resolutions and prints will be possible:P

here was todays topic the heartless tinman
http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/tinman.jpg

upside - the texture and handling of the leaves is really good and reads well, same with the tree trunks - good job

downside - the blue in the background is a very strong colour, usually at night colour is washed out and generally more grey, a lighter blue/grey would help define the trunks from behind and stop your eye being drawn immediately to that striking blue.

The ground definately looks better in the new edit

topic was the cowardly lion

http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/lion.jpg

Gotta love being lazy and using a mirror instead of setting up your cameras auto timer

am i falling over or is it just a fancy camera angle


My cactus - what a beauty!


new desktop setup, so much easier to work now i have a proper desk

Haddas: I wish i was setup to do that, maybe in the future i will .   If you want a copy of any of the images in a larger photoshop or tiff file to print out just pm me and ill send you one, or ill upload it to my site for you to download from there.

This one proved a real challenge dont think i captured enough story in either of these two.  The topic  was the first day after the world wide blackout.

My first attempt was where the military had set up luminous cabling powered by generators to direct people with, dont think it read all that well.
http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/electric.jpg

so i did another more simple idea
http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/cityafter.jpg

Dragonrose: Thanks, yeh dragons are good.  The sketchy green lines are supposed to be a dragon:P type design on the fabric/suit, guess it reads okay to me but i did that bit very quickly so to everyone else it may looked like i dropped my paint brush.

the monkey one? it may remind you off the deep ones but i had to google just now to find out what they were, so i wasnt influenced by it when i was drawing, i found out that the cthulhu world was lovecraft work which i never knew before.

latest one, the topic was conquerer of hell

http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/hellconk.jpg

topic was evil corporate giant about 1.5 hours.

http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/corpgiant.jpg

Igor: Thanks, i do know what you mean, bad habit of that mine trying to paint over early mistakes:P  All good points ill keep in mind when next doodling and studying:)

Here are the last two dsg entries both about 90 minutes trying to keep some consistency to the images working with topics that you dont know what there gonna be from day to day is a nice challange too.  Topics were adam and eve and vampire monkeys respectively

http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/adevedsg.jpg

http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/monkvamp.jpg