Gx - Anatomy of an Artwork

The Gx Collections have been created and curated over many years, with each artwork encompassing hundreds, if not thousands, of digitally crafted steps from their initial starting points. Whilst I never keep an exact time lined record of how each piece of artwork is created, as I feel it inhibits the intuitive creative process, I do save drafts and variants along the way, and I thought it may be of interest to reference here a few visual examples of how several pieces from the collections came to be.

Below are two such examples of how a piece of artwork starts to form, from the initial image to the final collection piece. Both comprise a brief selection of images at editing points, along with the final Gx Collections artworks and a selection of non-collection variants chosen from digital archives.

Example One uses digital software to create an initial black background to which form and colour are added for digital sculpting.

Example Two uses an original photographic image taken and used as a base image for further editing and digital sculpting.