Haydn Russell's Digital Art Gallery

Overview: This light bulb solar system image is my favorite creation to date. It combines simplistic subjects, realistic shadowing, surrealism, and the knowledge I've learned in Photoshop to create a truly unique product. It displays that planets of our solar system revolving around a hanging bulb, creating a miniature surreal image of a planetary system on a much grander scale.  Process: The process used to create this image was repetitive, but also explored new techniques which I had not tried previously. First, I used a PNG of the solar system and duplicated it several times, then I proceeded to mask each layer so that only the single desired planet of each layer was showing. With this done I arranged the planets around the bulb to get a basic layout to work off of (During this I also masked Jupiter behind the bulb). Next, I used the perspective warp tool on a few of the planets to help add a sense of depth and to make it appear like they were revolving around the bulb. T...

Overview: This image is a vector graphic I created in Adobe Illustrator. As this was my first project in Adobe Illustrator, I followed a tutorial  on YouTube. The final image came out very well and is a good start to using the tools I learned while studying the program. Process: The above image is a combination of dozens of layers, each with their own unique properties. The simplest items were perhaps the small blue stars and meteor-objects as they are simply filled in polygons that have been resized and rearranged. The two small planets located on either side of the subject were also simple, they are a combination of the same shape resized with each having a slightly lowered opacity than the one inside of them. Throughout the entirety of the image, the theme of utilizing gradients is heavily present. Each of the smaller planets have gradients, the two "moons" on the ring have gradients, and each of the flowing layers within the glass planet itself have gradients. These a...