I am Yuyanda

I'm currently painting a commissioned portrait I drew a while back in Photoshop CS6 using the "clipping mask" layer feature. The effect basically means that whatever I paint above the lineart layer will only show through the layer below or clipped to. So far so good but it's pretty painstaking due to the shear detail in my line work. Looking to finish this up early September time. Yuyanda's Blog of Art and Design, Animation and Illustration. 2017. All Rights Reserved.

Product Info: Size -  60.0cm x 34.4cm Print -  Direct print on brush-finished aluminium Dibond. Alu-Dibond 3mm. Rear aluminium rails for wall displays. "It's amazing how creative pixels can be when put in the hands of artists like us, something so basic and simple  can be made into beautiful visions. C.G eye or C.G.I (computer generated imagery) is a play on the common  anagram which explores the idea of revealing  both the  realistic side of digital art to the raw pixel code behind it.  The piece was awarded a Bronze medal at the 2007  UK Skills art advanced competition." Print Available Here Yuyanda's Blog of Art and Design, Animation and Illustration. 2017. All Rights Reserved.

Work in progress. Chitchatclick character concept art. I'm experimenting a lot with glamorous textures with reflective light properties at the moment on this one. Work in progress. Chitchatclick character concept art. Working on the skin tones and palette colours first then moving onto skin texturing at a later stage. Chitchatclick's Facebook album Chitchatclick's Deviantart gallery

I remember a university lecture debating whether digital art is real art and the whole contemporary format being an acceptable one, according to the lecturer "digital art isn't art if it doesn't exists in the real world, the physical world". I’m mostly a digital artist these days but I have to say coming from an art school background I had to agree. From my own experience and exposure within the traditional art and gallery exhibition scene I can say there definitely is a biased when it comes to accepting digital forms of art on the same plateau as traditional methods such as an oil painting next to a digital one, ignorance is part of the problem. I personally believe if you put your heart and soul into honestly expressing yourself bringing to life something original from scratch then it should be appreciated as a legitimate form. Now my non existent digital painting exists and it's a thing of beauty let me tell you. Heart and Soul. The poster art was ...