Grab your graphite sticks, Rapidograph 3×0 pen, that long discarded set of French Curves, and we’ll walk you through a 785-step tutorial on how this piece was conceived and brought to life using art tools that haven’t seen light of day in well over two decades!

Just kidding :^)

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Rendered in Oxidizer 0.4.5. Post processed in Photoshop CS.

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Spring wears a red dress and my, oh my — she looks darn sweet, casually dancing in the breeze, teasing our eyes after the cold and colourless days of Winter.

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A nice smattering of ten fabulous images are collected in our April 2008 iPhone Wallpack. Enjoy!

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Remember when each major update for Mac OS X included an ever evolving default desktop picture that went by the simple moniker of “Aqua Blue”? Looking in my personal stash of desktops I see four variants of the image plus the grey renders of each. Ah, nostalgia :^)

Then with Leopard a sudden and unexpected twist; good-bye “Aqua Blue”, hello “purpley space strangeness”. What the heck happened? Who spiked the Cupertino water cooler? Good questions Grasshopper — but this aint Jeopardy.

The only thing I can say for sure is that this release makes an attempt at bridging the gap between those disparate images, sort of an evolutionary step you might say. All the fun happy lines of “Aqua Blue” but in a color hue that points in the direction of “purpley space strangeness”. Or maybe it’s all just crazy talk…

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Rendered in Oxidizer 0.5. Post processed for contrast in Photoshop CS.

This looks like a very intricate wooden carving and reminded me of the crest on a Roman soldier’s helmet.

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Discovered and rendered in Oxidizer 0.4.3.

© 2008 pharmagician.

Taking a meandering, random path through tall grasses, heat and wind form a temporal and devastating alliance. Desiccation of the prairie is followed by rebirth and renewal of the landscape.

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Rendered in Oxidizer 0.4.3.

This image was composed from two similar renders that were merged in Photoshop CS and hit with various filter and colour treatments; two of the more obvious filters used were ‘Radial Blur’ using the ‘Zoom’ setting, and ‘Lighting Effects’ which was used to create the heavy texture.

A fabulous set of nine 1920×1200 desktops has hit the download page at twelfth night, and with fun names like “nebulosity”, “rift”, and “schoepfung” you just can’t go wrong by adding these pieces to your collection.

Topping off the cake is an amazing animation that is sure to blow the socks clean off of your feet. Nicely done ralf!

Finding titles for these images is not easy — this one made me think of chocolate, of copper, that chain of coffee shops which shall remain nameless… Any other ideas gratefully received!

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Discovered and rendered in Oxidizer 0.4.3.

© 2008 pharmagician.