I have been asked several times over the years, "how do you do it?" and I never really had an answer for people. A friend of mine had suggested that I start documenting my creation process so that I can offer tutorials... Well, here goes! Without a concept to start, there is no direction. I knew what the overall image would look like and what it's final purpose would be before I even jumped in to...

Every week Bungie, the amazing people who created the Legendary gaming phenomenon known as "HALO", hold an "All Star" competition to see who's got what it takes to rise above the other mortals and trolls on the internet. The criteria for each week can change drastically and to be honest, I ignored all of them until last week when they announced the challenge would be to create a wallpaper worthy of...

A simple, yet often over looked technique, is selective coloring. Selective coloring is when we take a photo and desaturated it(make it black and white) and then re-add some color to certain areas to draw attention to them... get it? Good, read on for the step-by-step. As you can see the original image is "ok". You see the eyes and since they are the only thing in the image, you do tend to focus on...