New Work.

[HipoPapi]

Hi chalkman

Great work man I love it and I am glad I have inspired you…big fan of your 2.5 D work keep it up they look great. Buy the way is there any way to use BPR on 2.5 D ?

He he they remind me of an extraterrestrial mouse pair trying to escape from the train.....sorry I have just seen you are from Brooklyn and remembered when I was living in NY there used to be always a rat wondering about on the rail tracks.
Great Work

[chalkman]

Hi chalkman

Great work man I love it and I am glad I have inspired you…big fan of your 2.5 D work keep it up they look great. Buy the way is there any way to use BPR on 2.5 D ?

He he they remind me of an extraterrestrial mouse pair trying to escape from the train.....sorry I have just seen you are from Brooklyn and remembered when I was living in NY there used to be always a rat wondering about on the rail tracks.
Great Work

Thanks so much! I am flattered that you enjoy my work. There is no way to use BPR for 2.5D at this time, actually I hardly ever use anything but the preview render as most of my work involves a lot a lot of cleanup and post in Photoshop. Lots of rats in NY subways and they are brazen! All the best, David

ps: Can't wait to see more of your work!

[blueferret]

[chalkman]

Thanks ... I think. Cheers, Deke!

[blueferret]

[zber2]

Cool! Is that one of your photographs in the background?

[chalkman]

Cool! Is that one of your photographs in the background?

Thanks! Yes it's photo I shot about ten years ago in New York on the Upper Westside. I have been a professional photographer for almost 35 years. Have a look at my photography website if you have a minute. Cheers, David

[chalkman]

One more new piece before I hit the hay! Cheers, David

[chalkman]

Further 2.5D exploration .... the first of the day! Cheers, David

[SpiritDreamer]

Hi David

Really love that train station piece on the previous page...A whole new path and dimention to explore..using your photo's..not just the clouds, but your other ones too as in the train station piece...The human element as you have in many of your photo's might add an interesting take on these Great creations that you've been exploring and experimenting with and on...Maybe even using the negative of the photo..those are always interesting and have a sort of abstract appeal about them. Just a couple of passing thoughts on my part that might be useful to you..who knows..
Question,..did you use the spotlight feature in ZBRUSH to combine your abstract elements into that train station photo of yours..Just curious on my part...They fit right into that piece, however you have done it..
Keep On Truckin David
Glenn

[chalkman]

Hi David

Really love that train station piece on the previous page...A whole new path and dimention to explore..using your photo's..not just the clouds, but your other ones too as in the train station piece...The human element as you have in many of your photo's might add an interesting take on these Great creations that you've been exploring and experimenting with and on...Maybe even using the negative of the photo..those are always interesting and have a sort of abstract appeal about them. Just a couple of passing thoughts on my part that might be useful to you..who knows..
Question,..did you use the spotlight feature in ZBRUSH to combine your abstract elements into that train station photo of yours..Just curious on my part...They fit right into that piece, however you have done it..
Keep On Truckin David
Glenn

Hi Glenn, Thanks for the kind words! I am going through a lot of my photographs and trying to see what might work ... I think that the more abstract or at least those that don't have people a prominent element work best for me. It is probably that I don't like to mess with photos that I really think are my good images, need or should be altered , they are good because they are spare and for the most part adding something will subtract rather that add to the image. I also do a fair amount of composites when I feel the need to add something. I hope this makes sense. Cheers, David BTW, no spotlight used in that train image ... it was a color image that I desaturated then added some motion blur to selectively and brought into Zbrush as an image plane, I then use some tools I have created and then carefully and with a lot of experimentation place them so they fit into the image ... It has a lot to do with the type of stroke they are put down with. Sometimes parts of a tools get lost behind the image plane, often a good thing. When I have some time I will do a short tutorial video on my process.

Here are a few examples:

[chalkman]

Something I have been working on for a while .... a bit of a departure? Cheers, David

[michalis]

Is this bianca?

[chalkman]

No not Bianca .... image plane with render from C4D hair module about half a million strands of hair!

[SpiritDreamer]

Hi David

I hear what your saying about the photo's as being what you want already..don't
fix it if it ain't broke.. That's why I mentioned using the negatives from them, where the lights and darks are reversed or maybe just pieces of them as an experimental approach to an abstraction which may lead to a new and unexpected possibility and outcome...just another tool in your great pallette....Seeds of Invention
I like this last one posted..reminds me of chasing and trying to catch and kill fleas on my dog..Just me LOL.. A fresh memory from this past and very blood sucking bug invested summer..Gld the cold weather finally got here...Killed all of those little suckers..LOL
You know that you can control the in and out of view of your tool on the plane by going out of EDIT, and then activating MOVE at the top of your screen..then drag on a blank or non tool part of your canvas, and when you get it into the position desired, ..just go back into the EDIT mode again..or at least you used be be able to do it that way....With the new version of ZBRUSH, something has changed...when you go back into EDIT mode now,..the tool goes back to where it started from...I just SAVE AS the 2.5 document with the change desired, turn off the computer, and then bring the saved version back onto the screen when I turn the computer back on..A real pain now,...It used to be really simple in the previous version of ZBRUSH..Don't know what happened and why it changed, ...wish it were as it was, ..but it's not..maybe in the next version...
Keep on Truckin David..Always a pleasure seeing what you come up with...Like those photo's that you just posted by the way .
Glenn