Friday, February 8, 2008

Illustration Friday :: Blanket


Pigs in Blanket

Illustration rendered in MegaPOV Ray Tracer.
Scene was rendered at 640 x 480 resolution.
The scene took 13 minutes and 50 seconds to render.


I didn't get this anywhere near where I wanted it. Perhaps I can finish it later.
Digital Image :: MegaPOV raytracer

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Thursday, January 31, 2008

Illustration Friday :: Tales And Legends


Digital image :: Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Illustration Friday :: Plain


Three Plain m&m's,
Plain Water,
And a Plain Paper Cup


Illustration rendered in MegaPOV Ray Tracer.
Scene was rendered at 1280 x 1024 resolution.
The scene took 15 minutes and 22 seconds to render.

Table cloth was drawn in Corel Paint Shop Pro XI.
Image was cropped to 600 x 600 pixels.

Digital Image :: MegaPOV raytracer

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Friday, January 18, 2008

Illustration Friday :: Stitch


Illustration rendered in MegaPOV Ray Tracer.
Scene was rendered at 1080 x 1024 resolution and cropped to 600 x 450.
The scene took 2 minutes and 22 seconds to render.


Shadow was added using Paint Shop Pro 8.10

Digital Image :: MegaPOV raytracer & Paint Shop Pro 8.10

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Thursday, January 10, 2008

Illustration Friday :: 100%

100% Florida orange juice and 2% milk

Illustration rendered in MegaPOV Ray Tracer.
Scene was rendered at 1024 x 768 resolution.
The scene took 9 hours 7 minutes and 5 seconds to render.


Digital Image :: MegaPOV raytracer

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There seems to be a problem with perspective at the right side of the image.
I believe my 'camera' is too close to the subject - resulting in a fish-eye effect.
Unfortunately, I ran out of time to adjust for this.

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Friday, January 4, 2008

Illustration Friday :: Soar


Digital image :: Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI
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Thursday, December 27, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Horizon


Even though the sun was rising,
The Star of the East was still visible on the horizon.


Digital image :: Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI
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123rd entry for Illustration Friday.
Did you know Lotus 123 was the most popular spreadsheet
prior to the rise of Microsoft Excel?

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Friday, December 21, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Backwards


This has happened to me.

Digital image :: Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI
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122st entry for Illustration Friday.
Did you know 122 is the age of the longest confirmed lifespan of a person,
(Jeanne Calment born 1875 - died 1997)?

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Saturday, December 8, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Little Things


It's the Little Things that count.

Digital image :: Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI
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121st entry for Illustration Friday.
Did you know 121 is the number of cells on a Chinese checkers board?

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Thursday, December 6, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Excess II


If Microsoft combined flagship products Excel and Access,
this is what they might get.

Digital image :: Corel Paint Shop Pro 8.10

Illustration Friday :: Excess


We seem to be running into an excess of Political Correctness.
For the inspiration of this illustration, see this article:
It would seem that it is now offensive for Santa to say "Ho!Ho!Ho!"
"It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like P.C."

Here is a pretty good take on the whole thing:
Ha, ha, ha. Merry Christmas!

And, to be fair, here is the originating company's response,
And it probably has all been taken out of context:
Westaff Responds to Questions About Santas Saying "Ho, Ho, Ho"

Digital image :: Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI
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119th entry for Illustration Friday.
Did you know 119 is the longest
chapter of Psalms, and the longest chapter of the Bible, with 176 verses. It is composed of twenty-two sets of eight verses, each set beginning with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet, in alphabetical order?

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Thursday, November 29, 2007

Illustration Friday :: The Zoo



Drawn with pencil then colored with Paint Shop Pro

Digital image :: Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI

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118th entry for Illustration Friday.
Did you know 118 is the location of Force and Energy on the Dewey Decimal System?