Strange, Weird and Fetish Computer Art Gallery

started out as a rainy-day project i did after i first discovered Roine Stolt's band, The Flower Kings. i thought it would be fun to make a 'Flower King' and experiment with the concept. what i came up with the first time around was 'interesting' but nothing really to write home about. it was more the concept of the image that was valuable, rather than the quality of the artwork.

so the image languished for some time until Phil Brucato (gaming author from D&D) saw it and saw the potential. he contacted me and asked if i'd consider finishing the illustration for a project he was working on: Deliria - Fairy Tales for a New Millenium.

with that little bit of extra juice Phil added to the mix, coupled with his enthusiasm, the Flower King got a petal-lift and some much needed attention. By the time Phil and i got done, we both were extremely happy with the end results -- Enigmatic, Modern-but-Ancient, and Intelligent -- those were really the concepts we were trying to embody while having fun with color and texture.

the majority of the elements i used in the Flower King are fractals! the spiney twisty ferns, seed pods, and other bits of flora are all fractals that i discovered in xenodream. they worked perfectly for this project.

i'm like that crow who finds pretty shiney objects and brings them back to the nest to admire. LOL
well, at least i'm consistant!

this is pretty much how the finished Deliria cover ended up.	this is the base of the illustration - the 'bones' of the image, if you will	then we added the shiny metallic bubbles and that seemed to do the trick. not sure why, but hey, why over think something that feels good?
i wanted to have a few prints made up so i decided to create a portrait and landscape version that was a bit softer than the Deliria illustration version. i added more flowers and came up with this, more whimsical version.	this is the background fractal used in the Flower King image. i made it using Kai's Power Tools, as a Photoshop plug-in. very groovy plug-in with a wild and fun interface. really, Kai's was lightyear's ahead of its time. i mean the genius and imagination of that guy is just increadible. his creations are still going strong today - even after all these years. Meta Creations is responsible for the industry's most innovative and forward thinking ideas and programs - Bryce, Poser, and Carrara -- just 3 of them that are still alive and well!

software & resources used: Kais Power Tools, Photoshop, Xenodream