Obsidian Fire's Graphic Art

[Obsidian Fire]

This is a dump thread for all the "art" I've made/am making in GIMP. Starts from when I didn't really know what I could do with the program to the present.

The first desktop background I made. I was playing with some of the pattern generators GIMP has. The text is from two songs, "Rise Above It" and "Chem 6A", both by Switchfoot.

Second desktop I made. This time I was playing around with layer masks. The quote is something my mom said to me.


Third desktop I made. This one was inspired by the rap song "War" by Tedashii.

Number 4, taken from the song "Yahweh" by Reily.

The last one I made. This was an experiment with GIMP's lighting effects as well as a foray into a grunge/techno style. The quote is from one of my dad's running magazines. The above desktops are all at half size.

My current Facebook timeline cover. This officially got away from me; I did not think it would look like this when I started making it. And my profile pic does match up with it.

Random space graphic I made. I'm still not quite happy with the reflection/shadow job I did on the planet/rings, but I'm really happy with how the galaxy came out.

That's all for now, but I am making more.

 

[Lex]

Some digital art! That's awesome, I really like the 4th one, the space one and the graphic style of the 5th.

 

[Flintlock]

I think the progress from the first image to the last is plain to see, so keep it up! I'm glad to hear you're using GIMP, too

 

[Obsidian Fire]

More stuff...

Found this lurking on my computer. I usually don't post the stuff I make by following tutorials, but this was an exception.

The last piece I made. I was aiming for a more muted color pallet, but as usual it turned into brights and neons.

 

[Obsidian Fire]

Another desktop. The words are from the song "Gotta Know" bu Lecrae. The hardest part was making the coffee stain look right.

 

[Obsidian Fire]

More space. I decided to mix things up by adding in something I made in Blender. And I finally learned how to make starfields look realistic. Sorry about the size, but it didn't look right scaled down.

 

[Obsidian Fire]

Another Blender/Gimp mashup. This one was made by stretching the same shape in different directions.

 

[Obsidian Fire]

Here's a starfield that was made with one of the galaxies from the last picture.

And here's one of several variations I made of same picture.

 

[Obsidian Fire]

Recently found out about fractal art... it's awesome 'cause I just manipulate triangles and enter in variables; the computer takes care of the rest.

 

[Obsidian Fire]

More fractal... I really like the gradient I used here.

 

[PhantomSephiroth]

low efforts art?

 

[Obsidian Fire]

Kinda, it's a lot of "enter in one variable of a parameter, decide whether it works or not, and then change it". It's a lot of trial and error and knowing what certain parameter will do to the fractal. The cool thing is that it's a really young art medium (the equation was discovered in the 90s) so there are a lot of different user made parameters out there that don't come with the software. And that's before you get into coloring and gradients which can make or break a flame (fractal).

I like it because I'm really bad at actually drawing things and because I'm a bit of a nerd who likes math. So when I look at other fractal art, I start guessing what parameters they used.

 

[Obsidian Fire]

Finally went and got my self a devientART account. You guys can find all the full size art there. http://0bsidianfire.deviantart.com/

 

[Obsidian Fire]

Another fractal:

 

[Obsidian Fire]

Variation of the above fractal. I really like the ribbed look of this one.

 

[Obsidian Fire]

You'd think I'd have gotten this fractal out of my head by now...

 

[Obsidian Fire]

Got back into space art.

 

[Tennyo]

Those are pretty sweet. What program do you use to make the fractals?

 

[Obsidian Fire]

Apophysis 7x... is open source! http://apophysis.xyrus-worx.org/

 

[Tennyo]

Oh sweet.

 

[Obsidian Fire]

Along with the fractal I posted in the Nauto thread, I also did this one.

 

[Obsidian Fire]

Finished this one this mourning.

 

[Obsidian Fire]

Vacation leaves me lots of time to play around with stuff.

 

[Obsidian Fire]

Started playing around with Inkscape. It's a vector-based graphics program as opposed to pixel-based. The workflow is definitely different.

 

[Obsidian Fire]

More spacescapes. This is my favorite galaxy so far.