2004 Digital Painting Sept/Oct : Dueling Brushes Artisitic Dueling with another Artist from DeviantArt, Wicktone. We set themes for each other and drew from there. Each had to be done between 2-4 hours and within 900x450 pixel size. • Population Control was Working off his original response to my gaunlet of Sinner Saint" I took from his work the post destructive feel of the atmosphere and the blood red from the figure. "Population Control" is about The Machine remedying human over population. The guns being fueled by the borg's third trimester belly is a little tongue-in-cheek from me • Science of God was working off his original response to Salvation, At A Price I abstracted his colours from his dark image. I gave the idea of "God" and "Science" a fair bit of thought on this one. To place the idea of "God" within a box and boundaries of Science led me to formulating a literal expression of "Creation". As "Science" continues to uncover the secrets of "God", man will endeavour, more and more, to become closer to God or God-like. Terra-forming, as expressed in this piece would be the ultimate of creation - limiting not to that of the creation of life, but the stage of which life is plays upon. • Maiden Voyage was working off his original response to my End Of The Road We've decided to try something new in terms of the duel. In this piece,I've actually continued his landscape from his original piece from the right and integrated the image. This makes the duel work in terms of a series as well as a theme based one. Here's the Maiden Voyage of the imagination taking flight. • Morning Sun was working off his original response to my CrossRoads A little piece of fantastical fluff for the faeries - even the Sun sometimes need some help to get up in the morning. Cnce again, I took the right side of my duelist's image and extrapolated from there.. MEDIUM :: PS + Tablet SIZE :: 900x450 pixels