Artist Portfolios

I think my favorite image of all the portfolios was Peter Baustaedter's Princess' Palace. I also liked his Smog City and Squeed, and I found John Crane's images very interesting as well. The three Baustaedter images all make me think of fantasy and technology mingled together. Squeed looks like a cross between some fantastical creature and a machine. Smog City has pollution, but it doesn't look like a modern city - it looks to me more like a castle. Princess' Palace has more of the fantasy element than the technology, although the architecture seems real rather than just randomly drawn, if you know what I mean. I remember reading that Baustaedter worked on designs in some video games, and I think this images would fit well into that category, although I don't know that that was their original purpose. Besides, this is just the type of image that I like. I have lots of posters in my room of unicorns, fairies, dragons, castles, etc. I'm a fantasy junkie :)

John Crane's images are more futuristic, which is very cool as well. Flying Under the Radar may be a modern image, but it doesn't look like it! Maybe it's all the pink and orange. Looking at that, I am not reminded much at all of Earth-based technology. It seems more fitting to an alien device of some kind.

It was very interesting to see these examples. I haven't ever really paid much attention to digital media before - I've mostly stuck with paintings and more natural photographs. But these were different, in a good way. Some were just weird, but I liked the majority of the images presented in this chapter. Sometimes I forget that image editing doesn't have to mean keeping the original subject the same, and it's good to see reminders of what a professional can really do with these programs.