Where my attention is mostly focused on, with my niches; Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Astronomy.
Gallery Contains Mostly: Dreamscapes, Science Fiction & Fantasy Scenes, Fantasy Interiors, with very blunt explanations.
Order: Oldest to Newest, roughly.
Started: Circa Dec 2018
Updated: 16/09/2019
All Dreamscapes are a result of, simply, me trying to get better at what I do. Every attempt calls on something unfamiliar, whether it be a style, a technique or even a tool or effect.
I try to treat my graphic design like a sport, where I practice something everyday until it becomes 2nd nature. The goal as I've finally put it to my confused friends, is for me to have a 1:1 ratio between imagination and digital output. What I think, I make - end of story.
Note 13/09/19 - I will now include anything that has given me any type of insight, idea or inspiration. This will be like being in my head. IYNWIM...
Child walking with parent in the snow. The wavy light from the childs head is its imagination. Children's imagination are the most powerful as they're raw, unconditioned and boundless. Then they become adults, most of us taught to be logical, often at the cost of imagination...
Man walking in snow storm. Clouds used as snow storm. His spirit is the sparkly vertical light.
"Earth Needs You" A figure witnessing earth in turmoil. First go at highlights and shadows aka dodge & burn.
"Astro Springs" Someone chilling on top of clouds watching on a clear night sky and scenery. First go at a digital collage dreamscape.
"Cloud People" A digital dreamscape composition, which uses one of my photographs from a photography segue called “Foreclosures” which aims to make the most of what the UK has, clouds, plenty of it, in terms of photographic opportunities. The only thing I took myself was the clouds, the rest are stock.
The 'Cloud People' is based on a story about people who live in temples 'attached to clouds' - thing is though, the inside space is not limited to the size of the temples as we see it. The inside space, where there are miles of corridors and pathways, span across infinite clouds, most of which we don't get to see. We only get to see these lot when it is a cloudy day.
"Home" If we were to be allowed into the kingdom where the Cloud People live, this is some of what you would see.
Originally a photo from Alicante, Spain. Soft, distant moons added to complete a coastal/beach dreamscape scene. I added a Sun too.
Multiple stock photos used to compose a scene of someone, taking a photo though a 'watch station', capturing an aircraft flying in front of what appears to be a very close neighbouring planet. In 'reality' though this is 100,000's of kilometres away.
Took 3 buildings and made them into 'Watchtower Ships' voyaging through space, with brightly-coloured interstellar clouds in the distance.
Put short: This is what I saw when I opened my curtains (yeah that's me) - a Giant Totoro floating in the clouds in front of a dreamy landscape... Basically wanted to see if I could put myself in my work... Yup.
About a person who at every round of sleep is taken on a trip through all round corners of the universe, shown 'opportunities' related to her situations, but it's never really straight forward as to give answers, but to give hints. It's meant to be 'intense'.
A story about a place in an alternate universe which there's an event where a unusual type of sun rises almost every decade and triggers a series of mini-events including a green-diluted ocean and ascending clusters of mountains previously deep in the waters. Basically.
Wanted to put a character in water so needed to blend a person and half in/out ocean shot together. Once I did this, the rest (colouring, colour-grading, exposure, highlights, shadows, other objects, depth of field) was play.
A scene where someone has managed to escape death to be greeted by another dilemma, pretty much constituting that. They wanted to find the all-seeing source of truth. The Eye, something that provides the ultimate answer, usually to 'how do i...?' questions, and stipulates the necessary actions to reach the desired outcome. Though many are fortunate to ask the question, but never really make it out to perform the action. Was the shortcut to trial & error worth it?
3 main objects. Nebula, Eye, Dragon and a plethora of adjustments.
I saw this dome-like structure and wanted to create a fictional place where most of this 'part of town' is in an open-plan indoors environment. The dome would stretch miles. I had fun deciding where the shadow of the dudes knee would fall on his shoe, as it didn't exist and I had no idea what the correct answer was. So did whatever. One dome, one guy, two bridges and nebulae.
Took part of a bridge structure and used it as landing arms for a spacecraft
Car driving over a void in a planet where you get to see right through the surface. Two parts of town held together by crane-like support.
I saw an advert for a synthetic star-ceiling feature in a modern house and was inspired to make something that was 'real' instead. The reflection in the glass was the thing i had to think longest about.
A boy and tiger in a river, in front of their home. Alternate universe, places within it, there is human-animal unity, understanding.
"What do you mean he's catching up?" Sci-fi action scene still of a super-being flying alongside a spacecraft.
