CJ Walsh – Looking Outwards 05 – 3D Computer Graphics – [OLD FALL 2019] 15-104 • Introduction to Computing for Creative Practice

For this week’s Looking Outwards I decided to focus on a series of works by Mark Kirkpatrick, a digital artist and designer. What really caught my attention in these pieces was the cohesion of the color palettes. Each piece has a really unique and calming vibe that comes from the combination of the scenery and the color palette. In creating this series of works, he stated that he enjoyed the idea of solitude within the image of the barren landscape.

This series of works is produced using Cinema4D and ZBrush, and then was rendered in Octance Render. He also goes in and adds details after rendering using Photoshop.

I think that an interesting part of his work is that almost all of his professional design and artistic knowledge is self-taught. He went to school for business so he received no formal training with these mediums and practices. He states that as he continues to gain knowledge within these programs, he can create more interesting and complicated works. His practice seems to work well in this environment, the process of experimenting with the software and rendering enables him to create images that have a sense of being both planned and unplanned.