A photorealistic (slightly sylised) vector alarm clock done in Adobe Illustrator CS3. This took me about 2.5 days. If I ever do something like this again I'll make sure there aren't many objects around to be reflected when I take the photo! What a nightmare! It is entirely blends, shapes and meshes. This was just a cheap freebie clock I got with something else. It looks much better here than it does in real life. :)

This one took me a little while but I'm pretty happy with the result. This is Dexter (from the TV series of the same name) painted in Corel Painter using mostly Artist's Oils. It's my first attempt at a colour portrait and really the most I've used Painter.

Painting the blood splatter on the side of his face was the best part of it. I spent most of my time on the eyes and could probably spend some more time on it (if I had any!!).

Click on read more below to see some detail of the portrait.

An interspecies romance between an ant and a ladybird. They're enjoying the sunset from atop their eggplant house. This one is going up in my daughter's room.

This soft pastel on Canson card. I also used black and white charcoal pencils to put some detail back into the characters.

You may have guessed by the title that this gorgeous girl (I'm not biased at all) is my daughter. I painted this in Photoshop from a photo I took of her on her swing in our backyard. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. It's almost photorealistic but just painterly enough.

I'm usually not really into photorealistic painting. I always think; why not just take a photo? I could have it printed before you've even finished setting up the canvas! Unless of course your painting something that doesn't exist for example and so you can't photograph it. Otherwise, if it's a painting, it should look like a painting. The same goes for vector art I think...but i'm rambling now so i'll stop.