Guangjian Huang

 Guangjian Huang is a chinese illustrator of digital science fiction and fantasy art. His work are incredibly detailed and awesome, spending hours with the tools needed to make such pieces of artwork. His work can be found on these websites: http://hgjart.deviantart.com/ and http://www.hgjart.com

Jovian Floater

For one of our newest assignments was for digital manipulation and my first one was to enhance the sketch of one of my earlier designs, so I chose this from when we were creating strange creatures. Wanting this to be more alien so I did a few sketches first before scanning it to the computer.

1. Here is the sketch of the original design, I used two creatures to make up this strange one: one a star fish and the other was a jellyfish. There was an idea of making more than one but with other designs to do at a limit, I just stuck to using one.

2. Removing the creature below and expanding the one from the top to fill in the area.

3. The next thing was to start on a new layer and draw over the sketch. I had to do it a few times over to make it enough to look good and most of all with the smaller tentacles.

4. Now I started on the coloring stage, Tried a few ideas for how the creature would look so I came up with a brownish color scheme. Did the lighter colors first and then tried some shadings. It was more like experimenting of the color scheme for how it will turn out before going further.

5. Added a more pinkish color and darken it a little more, including the brown larger tentacles to make them browner before adding lighter shades to it.

 6. Creating a lighter tone on the surface of the top of the creature and using a lighter brown color, before doing that I needed to use a lighter and more softer tone of the brush tool to brighten up the design. The same thing for the 'head' so it would have some soft patterns.

 7. I figured that it looked a little dark by the use of colors by the lower half of the body and the smaller tendrils, so I used the Brightness/Contrast tool to adjust the color with a more bright pink tone. Made certain it was not so bright otherwise it would loose the dark luminous patterns.

 8. Moving the design to a new page and on to a new layer over the background, going for a near-blue sky from using a dark blue to a lighter blue. Rotating the creature to make it more right for the background later on.

 9. Blending the three colours together using the Smudge tool which made the sky more like a cloudy-background.

 10. Making a new layer to make more clouds, I lowered the capacity and flow to make it work, took a few minutes to get them look just right. The bottom was now more of a brownish color to make it look as though it was actually flying or drifting in the air.

 11. Creating more clouds and wanting to brown 'surface' to appear more like a giant cloud using more brownish colors to make the idea work and using a darker brown for the depths it would be from the light. Adjusting the brush tool to do detailed tasks before it can be completed. For the final touch, I worked on the clouds again and this time making them into a great curve by the distance as if they were pulled or moved to turn by the wind currents.

 12. Finally completed and made a few adjustments to be sure it is done. The background I had the idea from looking some planets of how it should have and stumbled upon the amazing image of Jupiter's clouds from the surface and thought why not make something like that. So far this is as close as I can get after hours of work but very much enjoyed how it turned out in the end.

Arne Svenson

The sculptured facial expressions made by Arne Svenson are almost live-like with almost all the details. Possibly how this was done before computers become more of use for investigations on the skeletal remains of the person.  It must've taken sculptures like Svenson a lot of effort to get the faces right and also the bodies to know what they once looked like.

Michael Kuo

This one from Michael Kuo seems very interesting and how they look almost cartoonish by the way they look.  The proportions are unusual by their body shapes, but what I dont normally like is the bright colours more use than dark colours apart of the shadows and the greyish background, probably thinking of this gaining attention of children and family audiance.

Artist Research: Terryl Whitlatch

Terry Whitlatch is an illustrator that creates many animals with skills and talent that are known for such

works, such as the art books, strange creatures in many films like Star Wars, Brother Bear, Jumanji and Men in Black. Celebrated as one of the top creature designers in the art world. She had also drawn many illustrations in the Katarran Odyssey book. Studied and researched in anotomy of animals and also include extinct species such as the dinosaurs; bones, muscles and organs for research of how these parts function.

Creating new and strange looking creatures would require sourceful materials of the existing animals, working on certain things they need such as how they behave, eat, adapt to such environments.

Photographer Hal

One of things I find interesting, yet creepy in the same way is how the naked bodies of people blanketed in plastic sheets, sealed tight as though they were body bags from a crime scene. Although not all of them are bad to look at but still felt that people wrapped in vacuum-sealed bags is like something from a movie.

Ted Sabarese

After seeing several photos taken by Ted of people and fish, I found it funny how each of them look almost similar by their face, shape and color. One on the right having the mustache with the fish having whiskers for example. It's actually like seeing two opposites but having something in common. His photography skills were used for surreal adverts with people and whatever things that gives a message. Even took photos of fashion models as part of is career

http://www.tedsabarese.com