Erik Johansson's Digital Photographs WEBSITE

I'm a 25 years old photographer from Gothenburg, Sweden. Working mostly with personal projects and commercial work. I see myslelf as a photographer as much as a retoucher, a combination that is only limited by my own imagination. I hope you find my work inspiring!

Here is a link to a youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKaTDHUTYPU&feature=related

Free Graphic Arts Softwareto e

Here are some, free great graphics arts programs to Art it up with.

Sculptris is virtual clay modeling. It is a  very easy way to model in 3D. I have taught 6 year olds how to create using this program.

InkScape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Adobe Illustrator and CorelDraw

http://www.inkscape.org/download/?lang=en

Gimp is a  GNU Image Manipulation Program, is a raster  or bitmap graphics editor used to process digital graphics and photographs. Here is a free great alternative to Photoshop


http://www.gimp.org/downloads/


Artrage
The best actually real painting program I have seen for any price.
You can actually blend colors, just like real oil paints."
Starter edition is very basic and free however their 30 free trial of "Artrage 3.0" is incredible and only $60
$1.99 on the iphone or $5.99 for the ipad.  Give it a try.

http://www.artrage.com/artragedemo.html

Google SketchUp 8

Create 3D models and share them with the world

Google SketchUp is software that you can use to create 3D models of anything you like. Build models and add them to Google Earth »

Get started right away.
Most people get rolling with SketchUp in just a few minutes. Dozens of video tutorials, an extensive Help Center and a worldwide user community mean that anyone who wants to make 3D models with SketchUp, can. Check out our training videos »
Model anything you can imagine.
Redecorate your living room. Design a new piece of furniture. Model your city for Google Earth. Create a skatepark for your hometown, then export an animation and share it on YouTube. There's no limit to what you can create with SketchUp.

Get models online for free.
You can build models from scratch, or you can download what you need. People all over the world share what they've made on the Google 3D Warehouse. It's a huge, searchable repository of models, and it's free. Explore the Google 3D Warehouse »

http://sketchup.google.com/download/

We have access to a 3D Printer, go to http://www.dimensionprinting.com/ to see the possibilities. So when you create something in a Google Sketchup you can have it made into a real object.


Andrea Mosaic
Welcome to the official page of AndreaMosaic, a free project to create digital art using images and computer software. With AndreaMosaic you can create your own photographic mosaics made with your own pictures. A photo mosaic is an image composed of many tiled photos.

http://www.andreaplanet.com/andreamosaic/

Processing
Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Developed at MIT

http://processing.org/download/

Blender

Blender is a software 3D animation program. It can be used for modeling, texturing, rigging, skinning, animating, rendering, UV unwrapping, particle and other simulating, non-linear editing, compositing, and creating interactive 3D applications. Blender has a robust feature set similar in scope and depth to other high-end 3D software such as 3ds Max and Maya.

http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/


Bamboo (Small) Pen Tablet with Pen Only
If you really are planning on working creating "art" on a computer, then you need this great tool for inputting your ideas. Using this with "Artrage" is the most realistic way of painting on a computer screen I have experienced.

Amazon has the best price $49.99 or direct at Wacom for a reconditioned one which just had a packaged opened by customer then returned .
http://www.amazon.com/Bamboo-Small-Pen-Tablet-Only/dp/B000V9T2JA

ALEX MEADE Painter of Live 3D objects

Alexa Meade's innovative use of paint on the three dimensional surfaces of found objects, live models, and architectural spaces has been incorporated into a series of installations that create a perceptual shift in how we experience and interpret spatial relationships.

Alexa Meade is an installation artist based in the Washington, DC area. Her background in the world of political communications has fueled her intellectual interest in the tensions between perception and reality.

Stone Sculptures Blend Art and Technology

Western artists — in concert with Chinese craftsmen — realize fine art is not possible without digital and rapid prototyping.

Click here for a "U 2 Print in 3D Advertiment !" from Uprint 3D Printer "Advertisment " U 2 CAN PRINT 3 D ART!"

http://www.dimensionprinting.com/3d-printers/3d-printing-uprint-video.aspx
Example of a 3D printed sculpture: Challenge (rapid prototype): Bruce Beasley

Streamline Your Designing: Dimension 3D Printers are priced for office use, so you can create onsite perfect working models directly from your CAD, made of tough ABS plastic that can be sanded, milled, even painted. And that’s just the beginning:

mr brainwash

This artist mixes everything together.

Here is what Shepard Fairey said bout him,

Mr. Brainwash is an enigma. I want to hug him one second and smack him the next. He is awesome, infuriating, almost impossible to define, but if an artist is defined by relentless, obsessive passion, then MBW is definitely an artist. Which kind of artist though? When I first met MBW he was a film maker. He started documenting me putting art up on the streets and in galleries back in ‘99. He has hundreds of hours of footage and often risked his neck climbing with a camera to very dangerous spots. MBW’s camera was ALWAYS on… Theoretically MBW is coming out with an OBEY documentary eventually. Somewhere along the way I introduced MBW to Banksy, which seemed to lead him to transition from just a voyeur to a participant, and he began making his own street art. MBW told me he used to paint and had actually sold his art to Michael Jackson years ago. Knowing this art background and his obsessive nature, it does not surprise me how quickly MBW rose to prominence with his street art, becoming one of the most “up” people in LA in a short amount of time. Not all of the work was magnificent, but it improved steadily, reflecting the maxim that practice yields results. Meanwhile, in addition to his street art, as flows logically, MBW was also making canvases and screen prints that could be shown in a gallery. In his usual style, MBW could not just do a small art show, he had to go completely over the top and put together one of the largest, most ambitious, non-museum shows I can think of (more detailed description below). Of course nothing can go smoothly with MBW and over the weekend he wrecked his car and fell off a billboard breaking his foot. A less insane person would have postponed their art show, but he instead postponed his foot surgery and is continuing work. With the ambition and commitment MBW has, I’m pretty sure he’ll pull the show off, but if he doesn’t, to paraphrase Malcolm Mclaren, a glorious failure is better than an underwhelming success. I will be playing records and a jazz band will perform, so it is going to be a good party.
-Shepard Fairey

MORE TO COME!

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds "video of the film"

This inspired me back in the 60's. Great Rotoscoping


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators trace over live-action film movement, frame by frame, for use in animated films.[1] Originally, pre-recorded live-action film images were projected onto a frosted glass panel and re-drawn by an animator. This projection equipment is called a rotoscope, although this device has been replaced by computers in recent years. In the visual effects industry, the term rotoscoping refers to the technique of manually creating a matte for an element on a live-action plate so it may be composited over another background.

The film crew on the Beatles animated film Yellow Submarine employed rotoscoping in numerous instances, most notably the sequence for "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds."