Random Artwork "Roman Empire" - Photoshop

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From time to time, I like to create random pieces of artwork and record the process. These videos are soley

for entertainment, and act as a sort of blog post for the channel. This one uses the pen tool to create paths,

the dodge and burn tools for shadowing and hilighting; and finally blend modes for lighting effects.

-----UPDATE-------
Had a couple of people already guess correctly on why the title is "Roman Empire." One of the hidden answers was in the tags as "Book of Daniel."

This art piece is roughly based on the description of the 4th beast in the 7th chapter of book, which is supposed to represent the roman empire (Beast w/ 10 horns, teeth of iron, exceedingly terrifying). The description makes for some great artwork.

A couple of previous random art videos:

Wolf Retro Futurism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rt09rgcsbM
Owl: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hXDJZX-XIw

Tunes by Mr. Chaos Math:
http://www.youtube.com/user/MrChaosMath

Intro by FallenHDGaming:
http://www.youtube.com/user/FallenHDGaming

Prints of my artwork available to purchase here:
http://society6.com/EvanEckard

Follow me on that twitter gizmo: http://www.twitter.com/EvanEckard

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[v2Drake]

Isn't it out of a script or book? I kinda remember something like it from school. Does the script/book/poem talk about metaphorical beasts? Hope I'm along the right lines lol

[EvanEckard]

@v2Drake yup, from the book of daniel

[TheRakinArts]

@evanecard Ermm... how did you send me a message from my own account?

[EvanEckard]

@TheRakinArts It's a glitch - looks like it just started happening yesterday maybe. There's a thread on the google/youtube forums about it.

[TheLill3fix]

what do you do to get back from design block, im having loads of block right now, and i need my work done, any good idea?

[EvanEckard]

@TheLill3fix I usually create simple, geometric patterns and other basic abstract sketches to help break things up. That seems to help me.

[EvanEckard]

@Qwizp Sounds like a good idea... I did use them in the Metal tutorial I did, but that was very brief

[TF141GHO5T]

ahh shit, 2 mins to late :( I really wanted this.

[TheTobboT]

Can Any one tell me how he created the effect of the face emerging from the dark with the red light behind it:) thanks for any help you can give

[Kiernan809]

could you make tutorials as you screen record? so that you make the audio once at key segments while doing the work, and minimising the additional time spent on getting videos up, while hopefully doubling your views etc?

[Mystique1919]

wow, this one is really cool! <3

[rycolo1]

what version of photoshop are you using? CS5?

[JustY0AverageNooB]

@EvanEckard

Does have something to do with Daniels vision of the four beasts that is interpreted as the 4 main Empires of that time?

[SoBeS913]

Hey Evan!

I have seen you use many textures throughout your artwork and while I am familiar with photoshop, I have no formal training or anything so i was hoping you could do a quick tutorial of how to use textures, which to use, and where they are most effective. Thanks a lot! Keep up the amazing work.

[RockstarUnloaded]

Probably some roman god or something.

[GrafixHD]

Do you use a tablet? and if so, which one?

[upernoob]

are you using a mouse?

[JSDesiqns]

you are very talented (:

hope you do continue making video's.

and I agree with @Qwizp that would be a good idea.