Experiment 133: Bird of Paradise

Created using Photoshop CS4 Extended and Apophysis 2.02

Been a while since my last real experiment, but here's another. Hope you enjoy. At least I enjoyed creating it, and that's the main thing :)

Day 83: Futuristic fractals

Created in Photoshop CS3 Extended using a Wacom Intuos 3

I read a tutorial somewhere about making brushes from fractals generated by the program Apophysis (http://www.apophysis.org/ ) and got inspired and ended up with this. While there are several things I'd like to do better another time I'm really happy with the way it turned out.

Day 61: Night fowl

Created in The GIMP using a Wacom Intuos 3

Today there are two pictures, they're really the same, it's just that some things went wrong when I tried to save the above picture and before I figured out how to solve it I got the below result several times. The more I looked at the faulty version the more I liked it though, so I decided to show it too. (I've later realized that they are in a way each others opposites, the above is the bird in the sky, and the below looks a bit like the stars have fallen from the sky onto a planet.

Created in The GIMP, but since I didn't check the settings when saving it didn't turn out like it was supposed too. A proof that even great artists can make mistakes ;-) (I mean, if I can make mistakes, then I'm sure that great artists can too, maybe not as many, but still... All kidding aside I'm sure that the greater the artist the more mistakes, you gotta take chances to reach above the ordinary ;-) )

Day 54: Bird on vacation

Created in Inkscape using a Wacom Intuos 3

Even birds need to go on vacation sometimes, and this one is so exhausted that he falls right down on the sandy beach to relax.

I noticed some minor stuff I should've fixed, but it's a quarter past midnight here, so you'll have to survive =)

Day 31: Biker bird

Created in Inkscape 0.45.1 using a Wacom Intuos 3

"From the bicycle championship for birds we bring you 'Biker bird', the new sensation. With victories ranging from the prestigious downhill race 'Mt Chekov stop-when-you-drop' to the little league 'Mrs Johnson race for the face' he's now taking on the world elite and with very good results I got to tell you. Give him a big welcome!"

Day four: Military bird

Made in openCanvas 4.5 using a Wacom Intuos 3

Not sure how military he looks, but still, that's what first came to my mind when being more or less finished with this picture, so that's what it'll be :)