Elevaras City - New Piece

Well, I'm getting ready to head out today for MEGACON in Orlando and showcasing my work there! Should be really awesome as estimated 10,000-20,000 people will come by this weekend! Anyway, here is my latest piece of art entitled "Elevaras City" inspired by "Logan's Run" (1976). Although, the movie's city never showed the Dome city lit up like this, I was still inspired by the careful model work done by the movie's effects team of that time. Great lines on some of the architecture. Other inspirations were coming from my head as I pondered the recent tragic events in Japan and how we could improve on power stations and creation of energy in the future. The power lights were inspired by Nicoli Tesla's vision of drawing energy from the Earth's magnetic fields and the Ionosphere. If we put our heads together to solve the energy problem, we could probably have free energy in 20 years! NO MORE OIL! Except of course, for making Lego's....
Well, here's hoping you like the new image and I will keep trying new techniques.

New Sci Fi Image from My "Shanara City" series

In continuation of my "Shanara City" images, I rendered out another camera view of my rapidly growing city in the 3D world that I'm creating month by month. Using Mental Ray, I was able to create the "glow" and reflection effects that are reminiscent of "Tron" and "Forbidden Planet", I'll upload more when I get a chance. My main thing was that I wanted to learn how the effects wizards and the 3D animators created the backgrounds in Tron.
Hope you like.... :)

A new "Spooky Image"....

What can I say, I was playing around and created this new piece. I used the castle that I created in the other painting and placed it in the background of this one. It was a last minute choice, but I like the new concept of the castle with a dark cemetery in the foreground. Of course, a large, ominous and familiar bird makes a guest appearance. "Thus quoth the Raven, Nevermore...." - "The Raven - E.A. Poe."

An old painting from long ago

Years ago, I painted one of my favorite singers in the world - Kate Bush. This is a totally airbrushed piece on canvas using a Paasche Dual Action VL and waterproof paints for textures. It took me 14 hours to paint from start to finish and I finally had it photographed by my photographer Rick Rhodes. He did a great job! In case you are interested in using a reproduction photographer, you can find Rick at www.RickRhodesPhotography.com.

Concept art study....

Something to do on a Wednesday night. I'm continuously trying to hone my skills on the Cintiq tablet and Photoshop brushes along with "Concept-Speed Painting". Here is something I created for fun in about 40 minutes while studying another concept artist's piece. It's basically a study of their piece created by an artist that I know as "Concept_on_Mac".

Updated Castle of Radja

O.k. After several variations and some good suggestions from my friend Rolf, I think I finally have a piece that I'm proud of. If you look closely at the new piece, you will see that I have destroyed the direct access to the castle and made it more foreboding with ruins and only one "mysterious" light in the belfry. Meanwhile, you can now see the two figures standing ominously next to a dark statue and lighting a torch in response to the light in the castle. A story begins to unfold.

Updated Images

Here is an updated image based on your suggestions which were very helpful! Thank you everyone!