“Sunset Dreams”

This is my very first computer art picture. It was originaly created in 2001 using a demo of Bryce 4 and Photoshop 5. At the time my computer was a very old and slow Mac.  In 2004 I went back to this picture and improved it. I had a much better computer by then and more knowledge of Bryce and Photoshop.

I really can’t say what inspired this image. It just kind of evolved as I was first playing around with this wonderful new software I had found. Compared to later images, this one is very basic. But I still love it and find that it’s very nice to look at on a cold winters day.

Many of you have know me for a long time now. You know my photography, my poems and my writing, but there’s a part of my artistic world that I haven’t really shared with you before. And that’s my computer art. These are pictures that I have created on the computer using landscape modeling programs and model posing programs. There’s normally a lot of Photoshop thrown in too. I think at one time I put a link up to some of my pictures, but I’ve never went into much detail about them.

The main program I use to create these pictures is Bryce. It’s a modeling program that lets you create landscapes and terrain features like mountains, lakes, trees and much more. I also use a free program called Daz Studio. It alows you to pose models in different positions and then import them into Bryce. Photoshop is used to add the final details to the image and get the color and contrast how I want it.

I’m very proud of these pictures. To me this is what art truly is, creating something that doesn’t exist anywhere else except in the heart of the artist and the medium that it’s created on. I haven’t made any new pictures in quite awhile. I’m hoping that by sharing my older ones with you guys that it may help get the old creative juices flowing again.

I’ll put up the first image in the next post. I hope you enjoy this new addition to our SierraVisions world.