I spent a little time today playing with some of the brushes and textures that I've been releasing on my site. It's been a while since I've added anything to my gallery and I since I had a little free time I thought I'd put something together and show you guys what's possible using the free resources available on this site. If you would like to try your hand at something similar, download any of my brushes and textures and try for yourself. After you're done, upload your work to the Colorburned User Showcase and show it off!

This piece was inspired by one of my recent trips to New York City.  I've been taking quite a few trips up there lately and this piece kind of made itself while I was working with some simple 3D shapes.  

This was my fourth and (probably) final attempt at replicating retro artist James White's technique.  It's been a great learning experience trying to figure out how he gets very basic shapes to interact in such an incredible way.

This is another attempt at replicating retro artist James White's "Cosmic" technique.  Since my earlier attempts, I learned how to quickly create and position the shapes using illustrator.  Then how to bring those shapes into Photoshop to add layer and blending effects to simulate lighting.

This piece was another tribute to mixed media artist James White who uses basic shapes to create magnificent pieces of retro art.  This piece was an attempt to recreate his "Retro Light" style.

This cosmic design was based loosely on a piece by artist James White called "Protostar Cosmique."  I was fascinated how he combined some really nice elements to create a protostar nebula in space.  I've attempted nebulas in the past with relative success but I've always felt that the stardust never gave me the look I wanted.  In this piece I used a different technique and the look I got was much closer to what I wanted.  White's original piece reminded me a lot of Battlestar Galactica which is a favorite show of mine.  The flares looked like ships that were jumping away.  Because of that, I decided to add a Viper and name this piece "First Exodus" which might mean something to other fans of the show.