Valacar's Art Gallery : Miscellaneous Art

	My first head model done in Maya, and also one of the few things I've modeled. Unfortunately, it's not finished, nor do I think it ever will be. The topology is bad, and I kinda lost my motivation to do any 3d modeling :( Maybe some day I'll pick it up again and do a better one.
	While learning some new photoshop techniques, I created this photo manip of Helena Christensen. The original pic is here if you care to see it.
	A 3d rendering of a model a friend made a long time ago (in trueSpace 3 I believe). I brought it into 3dsmax 4, added the materials, and setup the lighting (using a dome light plugin to simulate radiosity).
	Practicing with the pen tool in photoshop again. It's a tracing of pikachu from a crappy TV screen capture I found on someone's web page. I gotta say, tracing stuff is really good for practicing the pen tool! =) Anyway, top pic is my tracing, and the bottom is a TV screen capture. PIKA PIKA! =)
	Was playin' with the pen tool making random shapes, and it sorta ended up looking like an 'X'. Then I started doin' all kinds of crazy stuff to it until it became what you see now. Pure photoshop randomness (no plugins).
	Traced pic of Snorlax character from Pokemon. Just practicing with the pen tool in photoshop. It's just a bunch shapes, and then I added shading afterwards. Also, I think it's pretty obvious, but the bottom pic is mine, and the top is the original. Thanks to LawMaker of #photoshop for telling me this character's real name.
	Crosshatch drawing (scanned) of a few objects set out on a table. This was done about 3 years ago (1997 I think) in an art class I took in college. It's pretty much my first crosshatch drawing, as you can probably tell (I never learned how to do it correctly), and the perspective is off, but overall I think it's pretty nice.
	Charcoal drawing (scanned) of some wine being poured into a women's highheel shoe. One of my first charcoal pics I did, and like the one above it was done in an art class I took around 1997. Oh and the pic was done from a reference pic out of a magazine I think.
	Yet another interface made for practice. You may notice some similarities to some images on the Eyeball Interface Gallery web page.
	A simple interface I made after reading some tutorials on this really cool web page, Eyeball Interface Gallery. that has tutorials on making interfaces using some simple photoshop techniques. It's amazing how nice they come out....you almost wanna touch 'em =)
	A simple interface with some buttons. Same story as above.
	A little interface I made for fun. It was actually more like practice after reading a tutorial on www.cooltype.com. Turned out pretty nice. Also, the text inside is a "hello world" program I wrote in x86 assembly (and no, tasm 7.6 is not out)
	The first thing I made in Rhino3D was this insect leg inspired from the Starship Troopers movie. After modeling it, I brought it into 3D Studio Max and rendered it with a snake texture. Maybe one day when I'm better with rhino3d, I'll model the body for it. Not bad for a first =)
	This was the second thing I did in 3D Studio Max. Simple revolutional solids (or whatever they're called). The texture map was made in photoshop. It's just a modified version of some egyptian columns I saw in my encyclopedia (texture map is my own creation though).
	This is the only thing I ever did in trueSpace 3 besides messing around. It was inspired by one of the tutorials that comes with it. It's also not finished, but I already gave up on it a long time ago when ts3 collapsed the heirarchy. Texture mapping is really messed up too, but it still looks kinda cool =)
	One of my old drawings (was actually done before `97) that a friend let me scan using his new flatbed scanner. It's just a pencil drawing of a pic from MAXX the comic book (my favorite comic besides Spawn). Didn't have any of my good pencils at the time...so I did it with a 0.3mm mechanical pencil, which is why you can see some sharp lines in there and crisp edges between shades.
	My first try at making a menu in photoshop. It was gonna be used on my programming page, but at the time I couldn't figure out how to make the interface and menu all fit together using html (back when I was still learning), so I just gave up on it. It was kinda fun to make though.
	Another menu/navigation bar that was intended to be used on my programming page. Basically the same story as the menu above...couldn't get it to look right. Might find a use for it some other time...oh well.
	First banner I ever made. It was for one of those LinkExchange banners you see everywhere. It was pretty tough to squeeze everything in that small space, but I think it turned out nice.
	Some web icons I did for www.cdrom.com. Can't believe I did these...it was hard as hell working that small (35x35). I got paid though, so it was worth it =)
	One of two old ANSI logos that survived a hard disk crash. I think I did it back in 1996 when I was in a group called humid. Obvious Lord Jazz influence here =)
	Tetris blocks anyone? =) If anyone's coding a tetris game or something, feel free to use these. Email me if you want a cleaner 24-bit color version (the one on here is an 8-bit dithered gif). Note: each block is 20x20