These are all 1024 x 768 (XVGA fullscreen) images in JPEG format.
If you want an lossless PNG of one, email me about it.
This one was made in a manner quite different than the others. First I
sketched the whole thing with the mouse. Then I used curves to follow
the sketch. Most of the coloration was done with gradient tools. The
other coloration was done with the Dodge/Burn tool, most notably the
eyes. I don't know about the rest of it, but the eye technique is what
I belive to be the way to do irises in raster graphics.
[1024 x 768 | 24k JPEG]
This just a smoother and less empty composition of the same portrait.
[1024 x 768 | 32k JPEG]
Far rarer than it's cousin, the fire elemental, this creature was rendered with
the IFS Compose tool. The eyes are Glfares. I did the glow manually using a
Gassian Blur. The tricky part was the fire, but it's not too hard. I used
gradient that had fire colors and ended in transparency. Using the Smudge tool
and a large brush I sculpted the flames by hand.
[76k JPEG]
This is simply a color inversion of the Ember Elemental,
but I'm more likely to use it for wallpaper than the original.
[76k JPEG]
This is an example of how I render graphics in the gimp. The shell was
rendered with Ifs Compose. The head was the output of the maze renderer
mapped onto a sphere with Map Object. The eye was done with Gflare with
some very odd custom settings. The nebula was Qbist or Sinus, I belive.
Note: This version is over compressed and has unsightly
artifacts. I post a better version, eventually.
[116k JPEG]
Here we have a plant and animal both rendered with Ifs Compose. I use
Ifs Compose so much probally because IFS is my favorite fractal system.
While watching my IFS screen saver, I had an idea for an alife program
in wich the creatures were IFS fractals. This started as a mockup of
that program, but I decided that it'd be art with a litte more effort,
so here it is. The textures come from gimp-data-extras.
The background is a grading fading to transulcent blue over the output
of the Plasma renderder.
[76k JPEG]
This only like a few minuets work, at most. Once again, the textures are from
the gimp-data-extras package. I made this because most of my other wallpapers
where very busy and I wanted something simple. This is nice in that the clear
white space shows desktop icons well (theoretically at least, I don't have any
desktop icons on my box).
[100k JPEG]