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Sometimes you just feel like painting a quick zombie in a suit. No reason. i kinda like to think of this as a zombie who just strolled into an olan mills for a quick picture and a snack.

cheers
-p
]]> Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:20:30 +0000 http://pbcastle.cgsociety.org/gallery/638758

hi folks.

For this image i was just in the mood for mindless destruction. It's just your atypical giant beast running around town destroying a city. Overall it was alot of fun and i was suprised how easily the city came together. On a side note, keep in mind this file is a whole lot larger in higher rez, the file is 20 inches by 11 inches at 300 dpi...so there are details upon details that are compressed in this image. as soon as i can figure out how to post closeups on this i will.

also, for optimum viewing pleasure. please listen to "mogwai- auto rock...

as usual no pixels were harmed in the making of and all comments and crits are always appreciated.

-p]]> Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:13:22 +0000 http://pbcastle.cgsociety.org/gallery/626129

Hi everybody,

I've finally had a good enough lull in deadlines to finish this piece off....
I've had this idea in my head ever since reading Eric Haney's
Inside Delta Force. My concept was just a group of Delta soldiers in an arctic station and running into a rogue group of SEALS....
and there you have it.
as usual comments and crits are welcome...
oh yeah. before i forget. this was all done in photoshop with alittle help from google sketchup for a rough 3d guides for the hallway.

-P]]> Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:15:52 +0000 http://pbcastle.cgsociety.org/gallery/551484

Hello again folks.
this is a result of watching Midway one too many times. I've been working on this for the last couple of weeks here and there between jobs, so i really have no clue how long it took.
all done in photoshop. as usual comments and crits always appreciated.

-paul]]> Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:44:48 +0000 http://pbcastle.cgsociety.org/gallery/545924

I've had this image in my head for a couple of days now. after a quick colour test, ( i'll post that later) this is the result.. anyhoo , this is the result. special thanks to everyone who gave me feedback on this, it was much appreciated and made for a better image.

all in photoshop.]]> Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:18:45 +0000 http://pbcastle.cgsociety.org/gallery/519833

I was just goofing around in photoshop, experimenting with my style and whatnot....somebody kinda suggested that this would be me in about 10 years. all in photoshop, made some new brushes...all in all about 5 hours work.

comments allways welcome

-p]]> Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:29:17 +0000 http://pbcastle.cgsociety.org/gallery/519420

I was in the mood for drawing chaos, and destruction...the general thought was that of a city caught in the middle of a war. again just using custom brushes in photoshop. no pixels were harmed in the making of.

=p]]> Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:48:42 +0000 http://pbcastle.cgsociety.org/gallery/508950

Red Chair

This was actually just a marker drawing i had in my sketchbook and decided to take it into photoshop...
this was also an excuse to experiment alittle more with technique and some photoshop settings.
yes i could have fleshed out things alot more but personally i love the unfinished look of it. anyhoo, as usual comments and crits are appreciated

-p]]> Wed, 20 Jun 2007 04:34:27 +0000 http://pbcastle.cgsociety.org/gallery/508147

Here we are folks

Frank's Wild Years

I've always been fascinated by old planes, mostly the corsair.
the image was created with google's sketchup ( for the background). i'd been wanting to try the program out and built several makeshift buildings to make sure my perspective was right....then photoshopped over them....the corsair itself was painted in photoshop using various images as scrap.
that's pretty much it.

-P]]> Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:43:49 +0000 http://pbcastle.cgsociety.org/gallery/496239

here we go folks. i felt like doing a piece with massive spaceships on a long voyage....i've proly spent too much time watching BSG....
anyhoo. all done in photoshop with custom photoshop brushes

-p]]> Mon, 14 May 2007 23:39:32 +0000 http://pbcastle.cgsociety.org/gallery/482404

Order to Charge.

in my head when i started this i tried to picture the last thing a poor indoctrinated farmer would ever want to see on a battlefield. A line of bloodthirsty soldiers with no home of there own with no regard for your life.

I would also like to note that, yes, i could have tightend the image up overall, but personally i enjoy artwork that has in itself a raw unfinished feeling.

Total amount of time spent on this image is about 12 hours or so. Again, all with custom photoshop brushes and the help of my cat who refuses to get off my wacom.

- P. Castillo]]> Thu, 05 Apr 2007 07:53:25 +0000 http://pbcastle.cgsociety.org/gallery/455992

here's a piece that i had a dream about. all i can remember really was waking up and this image was stuck in my head, not much more beyond that. overall i'm pretty happy with how this came out, alittle tighter than normal.

again. straight photoshop with custom brushes.]]> Fri, 26 Jan 2007 02:11:40 +0000 http://pbcastle.cgsociety.org/gallery/454863

magic hour in the city.
for once i wanted to do a nice happy piece
this image was done straight in photoshop. . . no pixels were harmed in the making of. ]]> Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:26:07 +0000 http://pbcastle.cgsociety.org/gallery/454530

a lone shadowy figure, you can make up the story. i just wanted a sad somber figure. done straight in photoshop with some custom brushes. personally my favorite part is the odd colours on the background.]]> Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:01:32 +0000 http://pbcastle.cgsociety.org/gallery/448887

you know, i never know what to put here...

this was originally just a quick goof off peice. i had made a couple of new brushes in photoshop, and was just testing them out. after working for alittle bit i just decided to finish this image.]]> Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:15:37 +0000 http://pbcastle.cgsociety.org/gallery/423388

just a sunday joyride in the aircar. this was alot of fun going loose from the start with no real idea what i was going to do. all in all a fun peice to do.]]> Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:45:49 +0000 http://pbcastle.cgsociety.org/gallery/417807

a friend of a friend owned a boxing gym.

that's all i got. he owned a gym. i owned photoshop and a wonderfull thing happened.

this was a lot of fun working on, i did work from photo reference on this. bouncing between painter and photoshop.
i'm not all that comforatable with painter but in the end i like how this came out.]]> Mon, 16 Oct 2006 05:06:29 +0000 http://pbcastle.cgsociety.org/gallery/417802

well here we are, this piece done was actually just a test piece. it was never intended as a finished work. there is actually alot of it i don't like but in the end it was alot of fun.
maybe one day i'll come back to this.]]> Mon, 16 Oct 2006 04:54:23 +0000