DukeArt

Corridor

Corridor my dream

Many times I walked in this corridor in my dream, there was a light far far away, I walked and walked, but could never get to the end. The light was unreachable.

Have you ever had a dream like this?

I was planning to read a book this morning, but this image came to my mind, a lot of dream flew through my memory, I just can’t help myself to paint this on my PC.

It was really simple to build the basic model in 3dsmax, apply maps, render… I spent my time on the passes outputting from 3dsmax, considered the postproduction later in Photoshop, I made a color pass, an AO, a “depth of filed” channel, and of course, the Alpha channel, as you can see, the background was hand painted. Some passes are added when I compose it in PS, you don’t know if you would really need that.

Painting the dream?
Yes. That’s what I did, and I am having fun from it.
A blog asked a question I quote:

Why do we make art?

I cannot specific the exact answer now, but to record the images cameras cannot, I think, is one of the reasons why we make art.

Say hell

Say hell to my life

The draft of this zombie head was started months ago, I took every odd moment to make this image close to complete, first I did a sketch on the canvas just using black gray and white, actually there ware no white at all, coz brightness can never be increased on white color, we gonna leave some spaces for the colors in case we need it to be brighter.

I accomplished the details of the light side face, the teeth and the lips, still with black and gray. Then I stopped, I couldn’t go on with it. I made this expression on my face when I looked into the mirror after toilet, and times people passing by looked at me from behind when I did that.

I didn’t make any progress until tonight, I took my wacom, color it, then I finished it in about 1hour. I really didn’t feel good about it, I don’t like to stop a painting and I hate doing what I left months ago.

But sometimes you can’t paint, you can’t paint.

Octopus

octopus

All done in Photoshop, it takes about 2hours.

I didn’t paint much in the past few months, so I choose to resign from the work. Now I live alone in a dark tiny room, prepare for the graduate candidate test, at lest I got more time for painting.

I don’t wanna be a stupid octopus, sees only the food but not what it could bring.
I won’t be an octopus.

Nest

the Nest

I made the model and textures in 3ds max, rendered by using mentelray, and did some post process in After Effects, finally output from the Photoshop.

Simple geometries are a symbol of my simple mind. A “cube”, a “box” is what we really desire and work for, but even that simple things you could never reach.

The world is made of boxes, a nest flow up in the sky.

It’s been a long time since I updated the DukeArt if you noticed, I want to create a lot of art works but I can’t help myself from current works. I’ve been like crazy animal look for time for painting and resting. Life is hard, but I still have to hold my faith, making art work is what I really what to do, and I will do it with my whole life.