https://www.facebook.com/bluerosestudios
If you actually go to said studio page and look around, you'll notice an album titled "Digital Artwork". You'll see a lot of trippy, psychadelic images that look like this:
"Psychadelic" by Blue Rose Studios
This:
"Snow" by Blue Rose Studios
Or maybe even this:
"Frost" by Blue Rose Studios
Okay, enough showing off (for now...) A lot of people have asked me how I go about making these digitized masterpieces. So, I decided to spend this week's Art Wednesday post listing the step-by-step guide I use to creating the digital works of Blue Rose Studios!
Step 1: Create a base imageDo you all know what a fractal is? If not, it's okay. Lots of people don't. A fractal is basically a visualization of a calculus equation, or, as I like to say, "Visual Math". I first discovered fractals on Deviant Art and LOVED it. There were so many cool colors and patterns and it fell into the abstract genre I love to work with so much. A nice gentleman who went by the username "FractalMonster" was kind enough to let me know how he went about making these, and told me where I could download a free program to make my own. So, I went and downloaded Fractal Forge 2.0 (it's free and legal, so feel free to download this if you want to try making your own!)
My first creation looked something like this:
Not bad for the early experimentation phase, right? Okay, it's pretty weak. I also hadn't really discovered my "method" yet. Thankfully, FM was very supportive and encouraging and gave me a lot of help.
When I discovered my own means of making digital images, I began to use this program to make what I call my "base image". Right now, the little amoeba-looking-thing above would be considered as such. Here's another example of a base image though, this one being to my most recent creation, "Haze":
All I did to make this was pick a default image in Fractal Forge, zoom in on a area of interest, change up the colors, and resize it to be the highest resolution possible. If you're a mathematical person, you could use math knowledge to help you out. But I'm NOT a math person, so I'm going entirely off of what looks "pretty".
Step 2: Open Photoshop/Gimp
If you have a (totally legal) copy of Photoshop on your computer, great! I generally use Photoshop to edit all of my base images. If you don't have Photoshop, though, Gimp works too. It's a free version of Photoshop that pretty much has all the same features Photoshop does (just not as fancy).
Open your base image in your program of choice. From here, it's all freeform and up to the artist. I generally make "layer copies" of the base image and then skew and distort them, change up colors, and maybe throw in a couple filters and paintbrush-based things until the image is the way I like it. Sometimes, this part takes 10 minutes. Sometimes, it takes an hour. It just depends on how much needs to be done for me to be happy with the final result. The final result for "Haze" took about 30 minutes of experimentation:
So there you have it. It's really not complicated, and it's a lot of fun! When I'm between progress on paintings I like to pop out a few of these to keep fans of my studio page interested. I also sell them as poster prints, and they make a nice addition to a household (trust me, I know, my parents have a ton of these hanging around their house)!
Happy arting, readers! Feel free to post links to any creations you make using the techniques I wrote about today :)
-Rein
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