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[Xhin]

Hi all. Just discovered this place. I make all of my art in paint.net, so I figured I'd post it here.

It's all abstract, and made from scratch with paint.net. I only "draw" occasionally (industrialism was made out of a scribble), I use distortion effects like dents to get me the shapes I want.

I have a deviantart account here: http://xhin.deviantart.com/ Until I get these hosted on my site, I'm using direct links from there, which occasionally break.

I only use a few tools (no plugins so far), but I've discovered hundreds of techniques on how to use them. I'm separating "generations" by points where I learned and practiced a bunch of new techniques at once.

Hidden Content: 0th generation (Music set to and named after my art)

Sundream


Clockwork


Empyreal Tempest


Hearts & Diamonds


Jupiter


Unicorn

Hidden Content: 1st generation (crystallization and dents)

Skyscape


War


Skybeast


Dog King


Father Earth


Seascape


Desertscape


Axis Mundi


Visitor


Empyreal Tempest


Sundream


The Needle


Portent

Hidden Content: 2nd generation (Objects made from heavily dented 3-d shapes)

Mandala


Jurassic


Trans-dimensional hipster


Amobea Gymnastics


Sea Warrior


Threat

Hidden Content: 3rd generation stuff (Misc techniques)

Panspermia


Master of Chaos


Meaningful


Machine Code


Stellar Yang


First Sight


Master of Order


Mistress of Color


Industrialism


Elsewhere

Hidden Content: 4th generation (hybrid of object-dents and background dents)

Frame of Reference


Circuits (actual shapes made in Harmony, everything else edited and adjusted in paint.net)


Hollow Girl


Album


DNA


Slaves of Reference

Hidden Content: 5th generation (Using Framing techniques)

Lotus Blossom


Tapestry


Dawnchosen


Silver Plate


Gold Plate


Worldmakers


Matryoshka
Matryoshka dolls are those russian dolls that fit inside each other.)


Roots & Seeds

Hidden Content: 5th Generation (Light backgrounds seeded with interesting objects)

Skygears


Calligraphy


Highrise


Jewelers

Hidden Content: 7th generation (more experimentation, polar inversion/tile reflection/relief used a lot)

Birth of Time & Space


Duskdream


Maelstrom


Hearts & Diamonds


Dawndream


Jupiter


Clockwork


Untitled

Hidden Content: 8th Generation (Flint and Polar Inversions)

In this generation, I used polar inversions a lot, plus overused a few objects I'd made before that I call "Flint".

Rebirth


Sandsowers


Unicorn


Spacecube


Flint Waves


Clover Jewels


Plasma Kingdom


Blood Arrows


Bat Flight


Gold Worlds


Point The Way


Vortex

Hidden Content: 9th generation (Blue/purple webbing)

With the exception of the song image and jellyfish tale, everything in this generation was made by "webbing" one dented gradient. The webbing technique formed the basis of generations 11-13.

Nova


Eye Web


Flame Strike


Many Moons


Yggdrasil


Fetus


Worldbubble


Unnamed (was going to be used for a song which was also unfinished)


Jellyfish Tale
Warning: Massive. (1398x1044, both too wide AND too tall for a desktop image) I don't even want to put a preview here, so direct link:

http://imageshack.us...02/awesomeo.png

Hidden Content: 10th generation (Simple inversions / Noise)

Aside from simplifying 8th-gen techniques, I also experimented around with the noise effect in "Platypus", "Mayan", "Sky Confetti", and "Seafloor".

Platypus


Mayan


Sky Confetti


Stonebloom


The Core


Seafloor


Gold Warrior

Hidden Content: 11th generation (Webs and jewels / Noisy Inversions)

This generation is marked by the use of simple webbing and jewel-objects I've made before. I also messed around with the noise techniques in the previous generation to make "Greenhouse", "Mind of the Snail", "Stained Glass", and "A Thousand Rainbows".

Jewelry


Threaded Gears


Flame Webbing


Autumn


Greenhouse


Jewel of a Thousand Rainbows


Eye of the Dragon


A Twisted Sunset


Stained Glass


Mind of the Spider


Mind of the Snail

Hidden Content: 12th generation (Complex webs / More color)

Same as the last generation, but I used more complex webs, added more color, added in some new techniques, and came up with a method for each piece in this style.

To Hell and Back


Bridge to Infinity


Summer (will be renamed whenever I finish my current song project)


Privileged Peacock

Hidden Content: 13th generation (Two-color / More objects)

Same as 12th, but pieces now have two contrasting color schemes and I use more objects that I've previously made besides the jewel (I love that jewel though! )

Fire and Ice


Edge of the Universe


Web of Worlds


Mosaic

Hidden Content: 14th generation

Nostalgia

Plethora (attempting to make an older style with new techniques)

Shoreline

Solar Wind

Strata

Underground

Hidden Content: 15th generation

Enlightenment

Fractal Jewelry

Julia Encore

Lullaby

Oracle

Pendant

Hidden Content: 16th generation

Cosmic Egg

Drop

Earth Jewel

Flame Staff

Back to the Heartland

Many Worlds

Meteor

Wheel

Shield

16-1

16-2

Hidden Content: 17th generation

Cosmos

Firewater

Gateway

Jigsaw Sun

Marble

Nest Egg

Pink

17-1

Starburst

The Storm

The Storm 2

Wheel Sea

Hidden Content: 18th generation

Lattice

18-1

Nebula Storm

Nimbus

Treeworld

Stormbringers

Wood and Bronze

Hidden Content: 19th generation

Bolt

Crime of Passion

End of Paradise

Interstellar Plume

Painted Sky

Sky Wizard

Hidden Content: 20th generation

20-1

20-2

20-3

20-4

20-5

20-6

20-7

20-8

20-9

20-10

20-11

20-12

20-13

20-14

20-15

20-16

Swans

Hidden Content: 21st generation

21-1

21-2

21-3

21-4

21-5

21-6

21-7

21-8

21-9

Hidden Content: 22nd generation

Psychedelic Snowflake

22-1

22-2

22-3

22-4

22-5

Peppers

22-6

22-7

Hidden Content: 23rd generation

23-1

23-2

23-3

23-4

23-5

23-6

23-7

Hidden Content: 24th generation

24-1

24-2

24-3

24-4

24-5

24-6

24-7

24-8

24-9

Hidden Content: 25th generation

25-1

25-2

25-3

Hidden Content: 26th generation

26-1

26-2

SO MANY GODDAMN CUBES WITH A CYLINDER OF PSYCHEDELIC

LOVE VOMIT IN THE MIDDLE

26-3

Warehouse

26-4

Hidden Content: 27th generation

Dragon Egg

27-1

27-2

Pulse

Rigel

The Sun

Underworld

Hidden Content: 28th generation

28-1

28-2

28-3

28-4

28-5

Hidden Content: 29th generation (++CURRENT++)

29-1

29-2

29-3

29-4

29-5

Hidden Content: The House

A while back, I looked at the somethingawful thread that created the Slenderman

mythos. Basically, you had to take a photo and photoshop it into being something

supernatural. I decided to do this with photos of the interior of houses:

HATE (Technically an abstract, but fits well with the theme)


Hallway Source: http://upload.wikime...ns/5/54/Hallway,_Palacio_Real,_Madrid.jpg


Bedroom Source: http://files.fatakat.../1255815821.jpg


Kitchen Source: http://annashouses.com/wp-

content/uploads/2011/01/kitchen2.jpg


Living Room Source: http://upload.wikime...mons/0/07/Hotel

-suite-living-room.jpg


Shower Source: http://www.trendir.c...ower-column.jpg

Hidden Content: Sketch Collabs

I have a couple friends that make more traditional drawings. My friend viovis makes

drawings with charcoal, while my friend kristi makes digital drawings. I've improved

(imo!) some of their drawings here:

= Viovis =

Source: http://hairypiano.co...11/rickross.png


Source: http://hairypiano.co...gmoon3thumb.png


Source: http://hairypiano.co...2011/orion4.png


Source: http://hairypiano.com/wank1.png


Source: http://hairypiano.co...july2011/wm.png


Source: http://img52.imagesh...6/suziemoon.png


= Kristi =

Source: http://i.imgur.com/mhnUx.jpg


Source: http://img843.images...32881440599.jpg
Her source: http://www.dailyartf...7/Job-Alphonse-

Mucha-1896.jpg


= Other =

There was a photomanipulation contest on a site I frequent where you have to manipulate

a digital picture of an island. This was my entry:

Source: http://www.neromir.n...erentBeach).jpg

Edited by Xhin, 27 February 2012 - 03:29 AM.

[Aislin]

there are really some good ones between them.

[barbieq25]

WOW! Such a great start. I really like the 4th generation works the best. Good to see you here!

[Xhin]

Made a few new ones today:

Hidden Content:

Slaves of Reference


Lotus Blossom


Tapestry

[barbieq25]

I like the second one the best.

[Xhin]

Thank you! Also, couldn't resist making another one today (tonight?):

Hidden Content:

Dawnchosen

[barbieq25]

Love the style & colour of this one!

[dug]

Great stuff!You obviously like dents. I like the way you have made abstract almost surreal.

[Xhin]

New stuff:

Hidden Content:

Silver Plate


Gold Plate


Worldmakers

[chrisco97]

You have a great style of art. My favourite is "Visitor".

[Xhin]

More:

Hidden Content:

Exploration


Canvas

[chrisco97]

I really like the new "Canvas" piece. Well done!

[Xhin]

Update: Some art I made yesterday, plus descriptions:

Hidden Content:

Matryoshka
(I started with a 32x32 icon I made a while ago, and scaled it up 150% for each successive generation. Matryoshka dolls are those russian dolls that fit inside each other.)


Roots & Seeds
(Exploring older techniques; this one is done in the style of second-gen "Jurassic" and "Mandala")


Skygears
(I made a tutorial on how I got these specific shapes; also the zoom-blurred background is the same one I used for Lotus.)


Calligraphy
(Playing around with the same technique)


Highrise
(Made by accident as I was messing around with skygears. The shape in the top-right corner is from the same seed as skygears and calligraphy.)


Jewelers
(Trying to replicate the techniques of Highrise, using first-gen "Otherworld" as a base. The shapes at the bottom are, again, from the same seed as the previous three drawings)

[Xhin]

Update: I've been experimenting with some new techniques. Using dents sparingly.

Hidden Content:

Birth of Time & Space


Duskdream


Maelstrom
(A lot of people like this one for some reason. It's probably the contrast of textures.)


Hearts & Diamonds
(Various techniques involving polar inversions and reliefs)


Dawndream
(Not one of my best, imo, but I put a ridiculous amount of work into it.)


Jupiter


Clockwork

[pyrochild]

I like your stuff. Very weird and unique.

[chrisco97]

Nice work on the new pieces. I really like them.

[HELEN]

Keep working with Dents. You create such wonderful work!

[Xhin]

Thanks guys

Also, I haven't made any new ones in a while, but I've made some music lately, and decided to name them after/set them to my artwork:

Sundream

Clockwork

[barbieq25]

Very nice images & the music is good too. Relaxing.

[chrisco97]

I love Sundream. Nice work with the music as well!