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BACK TO LATEST ARTICLES

• Personal photo stock agency? SYMBIOSTOCK!
• Selling graphics and photos in 09/2012
• Definition of Time – two color drawing
• Mixed media – Daily sketch series (29~34)
• Tree study in gouache using four colors
• Portraits 2 – Daily sketch series (18~28)
• Acrylic still life with EGGS – daily sketches (17)

More blood

Biological series updated with this  bloody red vortex, already approved by agencies.  Image links to Fotolia and for other agency please view my Portfolio page.

Blood (DT) Royalty Free illustrations, high resolution 3D graphics, stylized as a microscopy imagery.

Dice-o-matic

From time to time I update my dice designs with new one. There are about six new illustrations with die as a subject not only conceptual also typical isolated.

Besides of metaphors those cubes are useful as  pure objects so I do supply such  type of image.  Available in green, white, red and also single big green/red dice cluster (as an update of previous three illustrations).

Also the Craps Table illustration, my all time WIP (work in progress)  got the new third version with shallow DOF (Depth of Field). Slightly changed lights and colors (there is completely different light environment used) and  different objects arrangement. I changed the dice material to look more glassy.

I’m sure the next image of that series will be available soon with different view angle , arrangment and few other effects.

There is also virus related metaphorical stuff updated, with gadgets like syringe and baseball bat.

New abstract dotted spheres, new SEO metaphor variant with floats instead of empty menu frames (see previous post). High resolution images available.

And what I  found is that great Dice rolling machine, almost nothing happens here but it’s  fun to look at and that thing works as the random dice rolls generator for play-by-email games:

Thanks for reading and see You soon at the monthly photo stock report.

Tag: dice, game of chance, craps game

Craps table WIP

In the mean time my timeless work in progress series 3D image of Craps table with red dice  has the second published version. Just started to show up in my galleries so You can use it.  Current version shows dice in flight, slightly blurred by rotation. Also added here  a bit of the  depth of field effect to blur background table.

Nice thing is that today this illustration was featured at Dreamstime as one of the Editor’s Choice images. In the view of search engine issues ( caching ) it stayed half a day at the first page and after about 24 hours should be seen in the best stock photos results. I’m very happy,  honored and grateful.  It always gives a breath and pushes up inspiration and motivation.

Thus Dreamstime was the second site awarding me with such a nice distinction. Previous was SXC.hu which featured one of my free illustrations showing red dice set as a metaphor for year 2009 (Dice 2009 red).

It’s always nice to hear that someone likes Your work. Now I have to transform plenty of my twisted ideas in to new designs and still improve my skills, push other images into featured;) and better transform all those into downloads what is the most important for each microstocker. Thanks for reading!

► New Craps table illustration available.
► Check out the Dice cube collection.