Dark Angel
by David Luebbert
Title
Dark Angel
Artist
David Luebbert
Medium
Painting - 2d/3d Digital Painting
Description
A United States Air Force SR-71 Blackbird uses its military afterburners to attain very high speed.
"I rendered a model I purchased from a great model maker source: Mesh Factory, then posed and rendered it in front of a cloud background I created with the 3D program, Vue. After the render I used many of the render passes to paint from as sources, to balance in and out the aspects that I liked with Painter X3 and my Wacom Cintiq display. I like to blur the closer parts of the cloud to get the effect of relative speed differences. I once experimented with texture alphas, glows and cones to simulate the dancing diamonds that are visible with the afterburners, and it was used with the model here to get that effect."
Then the finished painting was done using all the preparations made using Corel Painter. David finishes his prints in very high resolution, so even large size prints will have great smoothness, sharpness and details. His monitor is color calibrated, so for a person viewing this image with a calibrated screen, the ordered print will look very close to it. Visit the LouBear Pixels gallery, loubear.pixels.com, for many more forms of printing... puzzles, lifestyle, stationery, beach, coffee mugs, apparel. Use the CODE at Pixels for an artist discount.
David has always been good at sketching exactly what he sees and as faithfully as possible, that is, if he can see it first, this has become his ADVENTURE, once he helps that subject become reality, he finds something else he has not created before, something that he yearns to paint. For David, style and technique are secondary in importance to the subject, making them transparent, so the subject can form completely as it should without him interjecting his own personality. The joy of creating, the love of the Creator and appreciation of Creation itself is what drives this whole process, more than anything else. Starting with an idea, a concept, he starts sketching, imagining, studying, creating the subject and composition, then develops the idea into his painting. The adventure of creation is not about David, it is about letting the creation come into existence, and his sole goal as an artist is to experience the joy of creating something fun or enjoyable, and to be able to share those creation experiences with all others.
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November 21st, 2013
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