Silhouettes

 by
Armand Cabrera

I like working on silhouettes as a purely abstract exercise. They're great to do when I don't want to draw something specific. I just make shapes and once I have a page of them I go back and pull what I see out of them like a Rorschach test. I refine them with the eraser tool  as they take shape in my mind.

With this set I liked the one on the upper left and had an idea for it immediately. I saw this pastoral scene right at sunset with these terrifying things in the air just as it was getting dark.

sunset patrol                                                                  digital

I isolated my design and started to flesh it out giving it some form. I then created a background for it from my own reference. This was one of those images that was fully realized in my mind once I saw the shape and it made the concept painting go very quickly.

Ice Station

This is another piece that started as a traditional painting that was finished digitally. In this case its an 18x24 oil on linen. The digital parts were created  in Photoshop and 3d studio max.

Some Things From the Vault

My goal with these paintings is to solve a problem of design, gesture, lighting, color or mood and  the subject is just the vehicle for the painting. This work compliments my traditional painting background and allows me to apply my real world experience to scenes of imagination.A selection of these pieces are available as prints onthis page.

Corwin of Amber Digital

 Marooned Digital

 Take Off  Digital

 Fish Hunter Oil/digital

  Deep Space Outpost

  Remnants Digital

     Jump Rift Digital

   Mountain Stronghold Digital

 Strange High Houses in the Mist Oil/ Digital

       Robot Emissary Digital

  Cthulhu Digital

The Scout Digital