tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41440515225391167892024-03-13T23:59:32.872+02:00Marko Petrik: Illustration, Science Communications and... Other Stuff.Some of my illustration, science communications, and graphic design work. Possibly other stuff. You never know.Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11516216803080872659noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4144051522539116789.post-70116931119767654062012-09-18T11:53:00.000+02:002012-09-18T11:58:02.699+02:00Infographics and flowcharts. And flippen' flashback arrestors!<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rather a while since anything has happened round here. Apologies to all 14 of my fans.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, I wanted to put up some INFOGRAPHIC work. Info graphics. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Information graphics that I made with graphic design and illustration in Cape Town for e-learning and science communications.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Hopefully Google will pick this up and send clients with lots of money my way.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One lives in hope.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sigh.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But seriously, if you need any of the above things which I won't repeat for the sake of my own and my 14 fans' sanity, drop me a mail already, guy! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">red.swifts(at)gmail.com. Just put your own @ sign in there and I'll sort you out with design that will make your eyes party.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyways. Here is a little flow chart that I made, while I was at Bridgewater Learning, to depict the procurement procedure at AREVA. To be honest, I'm pretty stoked with how it came out, especially since the initial form was a spider's nest of a document!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You like that, huh?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well check THIS the flip out!!!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Every time mining staff say "probe assembly" they snigger.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's how to set up a mining probe. For probing holes in the ground. You're probably doing it wrong, if you haven't checked this baby out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are some flashback arrestors for you to look at.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And this is what they look like if you cut them in half and simultaneously create an oxy-acetylene flashback accident** at the same time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">**Don't do that. Just take my word for it.</span>
Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11516216803080872659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4144051522539116789.post-46486420461435487542012-04-06T16:12:00.001+02:002012-04-06T16:12:47.315+02:00Two blokes and a horrible shirt.Right, here are another coupla gents, doing work-related activity such as calculating, reading, and wearing eye-watering clothing.<br />
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<br />Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11516216803080872659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4144051522539116789.post-56198859247787823632012-04-06T15:51:00.002+02:002012-04-06T15:51:34.024+02:00Nigel Banner, less-famous sibling of Bruce.Been a while since I last posted, so here is a little something I produced for one of our clients at Bridgewater.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Hulk's less beefy sibling, Nigel. </td></tr>
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<br />Yeah, I know he is green, it is on purpose.<br /><br /><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nigel has no time for your nonsense.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And by death, we mean flaming bonfire death.</span></td></tr>
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Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11516216803080872659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4144051522539116789.post-2143181187839206102011-08-27T16:00:00.000+02:002011-08-27T16:00:08.740+02:00Flux<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And here is some flux for brazing. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If you don't use it, you have a flux-up.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Terrible pun. Sorry if you are offended.</td></tr>
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Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11516216803080872659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4144051522539116789.post-62660286378891342252011-08-27T15:54:00.000+02:002011-08-27T15:54:47.205+02:00The dangers of welding, baby...<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So here are some images illustrating the dangers of welding...</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Radiaaaation baby! Don't mess with that! It'll burn your eyes out your skull holes!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...and freakin' fumes! All over the place! Death everywhere!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">for upright bending y'all need some serious guns...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...and bending conduit with your feet. Take that, pansy conduit!</td></tr>
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Anyways, the Bremen artwork got me interested in looking at rich-looking graphic artwork, particularly whisky and vodka bottle labels... Then onto Russian imperial jewellery, and faberge eggs. below is a sample of my reference images.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div>Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11516216803080872659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4144051522539116789.post-84133102327567046952010-11-17T12:19:00.000+02:002010-11-17T12:19:12.031+02:00Musicians of Bremen Calling Cards<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Here are some "Calling Cards" I've made from elements from my poster entry in my last post.</span><br />
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</tbody></table>Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11516216803080872659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4144051522539116789.post-82418997627902960792010-11-17T10:54:00.000+02:002010-11-17T10:54:40.037+02:00Musicians of Bremen<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Musicians of Bremen Poster</td></tr>
</tbody></table> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This is an entry I recently put together for a local art competition. It's an idea I've been mulling over for some time now, and I'm stoked I got off my ass and actually produced it.</span><br />
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The idea was to see what happened to the Musicians of the old fairy tale, 20 yrs down the line. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I ended up doing more than my normal copious amounts of visual research for this artwork. Part of it was looking at famous CD and LP covers, so that I'd have an obvious music history reference to pull in. In the end I settled for a remake of the Black Eyed Peas: Monkey Business cover artwork for a number of reasons: firstly, the focus is very tight on the characters--enabling me to put in a lot of detail. Secondly, the obvious reference to animals in the BEP album name--I think if i'd had more time I would have tried to come up with a more clever title... but I'm happy with "Reunion Tour."</div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">On the BEP album </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the stylized head element </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">was that of a monkey. I've replaced it with the face of Charles Darwin, (albeit with a slightly trimmed beard) for lateral reasons I'll leave you to figure out.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Poster Element: Darwin</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11516216803080872659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4144051522539116789.post-13030563219614466852010-10-27T17:13:00.000+02:002010-10-27T17:13:07.234+02:00Little Sister Crow<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7rBkRj1-Q8/TMg_6YpRKNI/AAAAAAAAAKA/2Dj0nbVeOBc/s1600/Little+Sister+Crow_mpetrik.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Been thinking about fairytales lately, anyway... here is something that emerged out of my late night meanderings last night. Slightly disturbing. </div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Pencil sketch photoshopped up... has kind of ended up looking like a CD cover for an edgy acoustic grunge band from the mid 90s.</span>Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11516216803080872659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4144051522539116789.post-50857163375882217932010-10-26T11:45:00.000+02:002010-10-26T11:45:35.513+02:00Squidboard<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxZCuJDB95XGffJbCAn-GKkLCF-cNLGSlSnUGTNKfQdvUkZ7bNuoiwzIX6z5ufEVuBxStZYUSa7pX6m5751dQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br />
Here is a very short stop motion film I was involved in the making of in 2009: "Squidboard."<br />
It was created as part of a course run at the Cape Film Commission, and was basically an introduction to stop-motion film-making.<br />
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The Squidboard team consisted of:<br />
Masha du Toit<br />
Jacqueline van Meygaarden<br />
Marko Petrik<br />
Hilette Stapelberg<br />
Yazeed Kamaldien<br />
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This 30 second animation was created using only paper cutouts for puppets. The process involved each paper element being moved incrementally and then photographed. All the photos, some 800 of them, were then stitched together into a film running at around 12 frames per second. Filming time for the 30 second animated sequence took a day to set up, and another full day was spent filming--a record by industry standards! Sound and titles were added post-production.<br />
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A special thanks goes to all friends, family, and significant others involved in the hard work on the project. Without you this project would not have been possible!Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11516216803080872659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4144051522539116789.post-68807128258987836572010-10-18T13:02:00.001+02:002010-10-25T13:38:05.398+02:00Pulse Artwork Part 2<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Right... Part 2</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So I reverted with some pencils... here is the inked version below...</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I've added a championship belt to drape over His shoulder--I actually spent quite a lot of time on it's design--it says "King of Kings" and has angels holding the earth, and lots of stars. Unfortunately you can't see it... sigh. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Besides "King of Kings" I've added various references to the other names of Christ throughout the image. The subsidiary buckles have the greek capital letters for alpha and omega on them, surrounded by a compass rose, and the tattoos on Christ's forearms are the Greek words <pistos> and <alethios>, "faithful" and "true".</alethios></pistos></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
The heart is burning--which is a direct reference to catholic iconography, but obviously the meaning is different here (read Part1 ). The client was quite happy with the conflation of iconography, so we went with it.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inks and layers</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7rBkRj1-Q8/TLwlLAKKtZI/AAAAAAAAAJA/TPu7ULRBpzc/s1600/FINAL111.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> The coloured version is below...</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">With the colouring and titling, I heavily referenced Mexican Lucha Libre iconography. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This is something that I should have mentioned earlier, the image has a deliberate Lucha Libre slant---> this is the Mexican form of WWE. The wrestlers often wear colourful masks and often incorporate religious symbolism into their costumes, such as crosses, etc. which worked well for the subject matter here.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pulse: finished artwork</td></tr>
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The final step, below, was to add a texture I photographed from a wooden wagon wheel in Turkey.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pulse: my fave... but not the one used by the client</td></tr>
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</div>Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11516216803080872659noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4144051522539116789.post-38247369762576626642010-10-18T12:43:00.000+02:002010-10-18T12:43:34.284+02:00Pulse Artwork Part 1<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Recently I received a commission to design the logo for <a href="http://www.kingscrosstraining.com/">King's Cross Training</a>'s youth group, Pulse. King's Cross is a Christian college located in Rustenberg, SA.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">What we were attempting with this image, was to personify aspects of Christ's character in a relevant, contemporary way, rather than make a portrait of Him, per se. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There is somewhat of a backlash in Christian circles around how Christ is typically portrayed: blonde, weak-looking, a bit hippyish. As Mark Driscoll often points out, it's no wonder so few men want to be Christians when there God looks like that. So this was our attempt to change that...</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The course of action was to depict Christ as a a wrestler, with the core scripture of the Pulse group written on His arm... During this time, the name of the youth group also changed from "72" to "Pulse".</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">My initial scamps focused quite strongly on Jesus basically beating down the Devil.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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Smash!<br />
Stamp!<br />
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The client reverted with with the idea that they wanted the image to convey that Jesus holds the believer's heart in His hands... this was my solution... and frankly, with hindsight, I'm glad we didn't go with it! -->a bit too "burning human sacrifice" for what Pulse was trying to get at.<br />
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So another revert... and the heart with chopped off veins is converted into a "Valentine's" heart--much better idea for conveying emotion, rather than the idea of a physical organ!<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> This was the final version, after several reverts. Between the publishers and myself, we came to the decision that to miss a photographic element to the cover would be to almost misrepresent the interior styling of the book. The particular photo we went with was, I think, a good choice, as it was highly illustrative in its nature, as well as pushing the artwork in a more conceptual direction. One is told "beware of the dog" (in Afrikaans) which kind of speaks in an ambivalent about the way pets are seen.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The illustration takes up the back page, and space has been left for writing on the spine, as well as a blurb. Here I integrated as much of the texture of the fence into the drawing as possible.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This is a nun...</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Quite a lot of fun to do, took me about a day or so.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The nun herself is a pen and ink illustration, on top of which are multiple layers of images, that have been pinched, punched and distorted. The ripples are actually the result of leaving a sheet of paper alongside a sputtering pot of beetroots. The rain is a Corel paint filter, but I think it would have looked better if I had used a texture instead. Next time...</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I added some "glows" to her head and body to try and give things that effect one gets when you look at a light through a rain-wet window. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;">The most time-consuming thing about this task was the VAST amount of visual research I had to do for every image. It is actually quite hard to draw an abalone from memory... you think you know what one might look like, but when you sit down to draw it, you end up with something that looks like a hat with eyes. Thank goodness for the Interweb! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;">I still need a way to figure out how to do get people to pay me for visual research--usually ends up being a freebie service, very few clients actually appreciate what it takes to produce what seems to be a simple illustration.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Anyways, these are the double page spreads for the brochure:</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">sadly, most of the info on nanotechnology out there tends to revolve around washing powder and sunscreen.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The "Dangers of" illustration was probably the most fun to produce: pen and ink sent through multiple filters in Corel paint, most notably the "Plastic" filter.</span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So my grandma had this really old cookbook about Chinese food, which had these unbelievalby good drawings of Chinese peasants from the early part of the 20th century in it. Really amazing stuff--ended up "borrowing" it for months to improve my chinese cookery. The end result is of course that I still don't know how to do egg-fried rice, but I did come up with this dude here. Who is for sale...</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Had quite a lot of fun coming up with his camo armour. It is actually quite difficult to create camo that looks like camo, especially when one tries to replicate the more modern pixellated uniforms that the US army uses, like below. Suppose I should do a tutorial on camo sometime... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7rBkRj1-Q8/TEbnvt5lq6I/AAAAAAAAAEU/aIllwVCR_Sc/s1600/armed+forces+%282%29.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7rBkRj1-Q8/TEbnvt5lq6I/AAAAAAAAAEU/aIllwVCR_Sc/s320/armed+forces+%282%29.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This last dude is for a job i just finished for the MTN Sciencentre... updates soon!</span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So anyways, this is Baba Yaga. Baba Yaga is basically a Russian witch who possesses teeth of brass, and a mortar and pestle which she uses to ride through the sky. She lives in a house that walks around on chicken feet, and her garden fence is made out of human bones, proving that Russia has the most kick-ass witches. Ever. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So this started out as as a pencil sketch in the corner of my notebook, when I was much much younger. I scanned it in, then dropped in various layers of dirt and played with the colour saturation and balances to get it to its current state. The blood stains are the result of basically scanning a page in at high contrast, and then using the magic wand set to high sensitivity to crop patches out.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">For sale! Giclee prints on, you guessed it, Hahnemuller paper.</span>Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11516216803080872659noreply@blogger.com2