Julio PDN Pics

Good morning everyone! I hope you are all enjoying your holidays so far this year and that all is well. It's pretty cold right now, but the holiday spirit always brings a warm cozy feeling into our hearts. Today I'd like to share an image that hopefully shows that holiday spirit, and keeps you feeling cozy while the winter weather takes it's toll. Again, lot's of Radial Blur Deluxe in this image for that smooth look and feel. I also have been playing around with an effect called Splinter which is under the blurs menu. That's how the nice paint-like feel was put in on the ice blue around the borders of the image. I think that added a nice, natural touch. I hope everyone continues to enjoy your holidays and have a happy new year in a week.

Winter is coming fast, so since it's cold and snowy in some parts of the world, I decided to look online for help as far as inspiration goes. I found a nice winter themed color palette, and started working on a new image. Since during winter the nights are long and the days are short, and people like me wish we could just hibernate inside our warm cozy homes, I called this frosty image Winter Dreams. It has a nice snowflake-like design in the middle made with Radial Extruder, Dents, and Polar Inversion. I would then keep duplicates of the layers, combined them, and continue onward, until the snowflake was a good size. A nice dark background makes it feel like a winter night, while the snow is falling outside, creating some ice underneath while we all sleep in our cozy beds. After that nice thought, I want to go to bed.

First and foremost, Happy Thanksgiving everyone!! I hope you have enjoyed it so far and have a wonderful thanksgiving dinner planned for later. So, I've been playing around with a few new plugins as mentioned last month, and I decided to give them a whirl with my new style. Not sure how I like it since it is combining my old style with my new style, but we'll see how it goes. This is called Thanksgiving Spirit and I used a Thanksgiving color pallet that I found here . Lots of Radial Extruder, Radial Blur, Zoom Blur and Dents in this image. I tried making it brighter, but I also didn't want to modify the colors in any way, so I left it how it was. I did a bit of layer adjustment too so that the colors would stay the same in the intricate design in the bottom left-hand corner. I hope you have enjoyed your day and I hope we can keep the spirit of Thanksgiving with us all year round. See you in another post here soon.

Autumn has pretty much come and gone, but as promised, I delivered an image in November, so that's good. I'm still dusting off the blog too. ;) Anyways I decided to create an image that shows a bit of Autumn and the beautiful colors that it presents to us. I'm experimenting with a new style (as you can probably see), and it's more of a smooth take on abstract images that I haven't ever done until now. It was an accidental find honestly, and I kind of like it. I may keep it for future images. In the background there's some Radial Blur Deluxe, which shouldn't surprise many people here if you've been following me for some time. Then the rest is a mix of many other different effects, but mostly Radial Blur Deluxe! The reason that is so exciting is because I usually use that effect to make the rough spirals you see in the background here, but I used it this time to make it smooth and pretty much a constant flow. What do you guys think? Do you like this...

Another new image for Halloween! I've been doing a lot of Paint.NET images lately and I'm excited to show you what I have in store. For this one I was experimenting with a lot of different effects, like Radial Extruder, ZigZag (both by TechnoRobbo on the Paint.NET Forums ) and a few classics such as Polar Inversion, and Dents. One effect I haven't used in a long time that I used here was Zoom Blur (no, not the deluxe, just the regular one), and some other blurs. Here's the image. I also kept adding new layers since I didn't want to use many of my favorite effects here and experiment with new ones. I also worked a lot with different layer blending modes and positioning the purple "light" in the right areas and making everything blend right. Overall, I think I did a pretty good job. I hope you all had/are having a wonderful Halloween and I'll post something on here soon.

Happy Halloween!! I have an image that I made last year for Halloween, but didn't get a chance to post it here before Halloween was over. Oh well, better late than never. Lots of Halloween inspired colors in this one, kind of messy, but still pretty cool none the less. As you can see, effects like Dents, Polar Inversion, and Tile Reflection were used, and the "eyes" for the wolf's head are there in the middle. Not my best image, but at least it's something posted. I hope that I get enough time to post regularly for a while, if at least once per month. Have a Happy Halloween everyone, and I'll have something else up for you soon.

I know some of you are probably itching for new art, so I decided to post this, even though it's old. This is an image that I made a long while ago, back when I was active on the Paint.NET Forums and was doing a few tutorials. This one is called Vortex (since that's what the tutorial was called), but I then added my own spin on it to make it more vibrant. I apologize for not being able to find the tutorial. It's been a while and I did try to find it. If anyone knows where it is at, let me know so that I can give the publisher credit for helping make this image. I hope you enjoy a post from me with actual art, and I hope to have something else up here soon.

Well, once again I let this blog collect dust for a while. Work and school has taken a toll on my time so I may not be able to post anything here until November or December. I apologize to anyone that is a faithful viewer of my content, and I'll be sure to make more art come November and December.

This image is made from scratch, so no stock photos this time. I decided I have used a lot of blue and red, orange and red, as well as purple and blue, so why not change things up. I took my own advice from last post and tried something new, and I like the results! I call this one Amethyst Within and I think it is awesome! You normally think of pink as being a bright, girly color that is happy, but I was playing with blend modes and when the darker image came up, I knew that is where I wanted to go. I also did something different, where the pink and grey background I made and used before everything else, is on top of everything. So say I created layer 1, then layer 2, then 3 and so on. Instead of keeping them like that, I stacked them like 3 on top of 2, which is on top of 1. More layers obviously, but you get the idea. I then asked my wife what a good name for it would be, and she said anything with the word Amethyst, since it looks like one. I didn't know about that gem, s...

This image uses the same method I used to make Melting Furnace which is take a stock photo and manipulate it like crazy to result in a new image. This image I used Mystic Colors as the stock shown below. I used a lot of Dents, Polar Inversion, and a lot of layer properties to make it look how I wanted it to. The nice purple and blue shine that it has makes me think of sound waves, but you can't just make it sound waves, not the best name. Hence the name that was officially given being Echo. I hope you enjoy and I'll have something else up here soon. Enjoy my older works in the meantime and see how far I've come.On that thought, if you are thinking of trying something new and aren't sure if you will be successful, just try it. You will never know until you try. Take a look at my works, the first year was horrid in comparison to now and that's all that matters in life. If you've picked something up that you don't know if you can continue, again don...

My little sister has graduated High School and is off to college in a few days. That, to me, is crazy to think about since she is the youngest in the family. I don't know what I will do without her nearby, but I'm sure we will adapt. I know that I've had many experiences where I've left my family, and it was hard, but you have great experiences, and you may start a family of your own (like me). Goodness I'm starting to ramble on, anyways this image has a bit of the same style as the past High School graduation images I've made since I wanted to be consistent. This one is obviously a bit more full of color since I've gained more experience since 2010. Kaleidoscope was used obviously like the last ones, Zoom Blur Deluxe, and Radial Blur Deluxe to name a few. We've also moved since 2012 so hence she is graduating from SHS and not BHS. SHS' colors are yellow and blue so that is why those colors are the main ones here (obviously). Hope you enjoyed...

Sorry for the long time with no update. I will be updating this here soon. A lot has happened since I last updated this page as well as Facebook, but as things calm down, I've been working on new images that I hope to have up soon. Take care everyone and I look forward to interacting a bit more on here soon.