Are there any underlying themes that you feel are universal in all of your pieces, or do you try to vary your style?

I'm not sure that I have my own site quite yet. I feel that the best way to become proficient at whatever you want to do, is to imitate the leaders in the field. For example, I have studied the works of artists like Alberto Seveso and James White, along with the incredible work of special effects companies like Digital Domain. It is from this research that I was inspired and driven to create something equally as beautiful and magnificent. I guess I would say that I vary my style, because I like to do a bit of everything. I'm sure that along the way I will begin to add more and more of "my style" into every piece, and maybe in a few years I will have a distinct style. If I had to guess what my style or themes would be in the future, I would guess something modern and futuristic with special effect type stuff (that's my favorite) that would appear as if it were taken out of film or cinema (with the coloring effects etc.).

Your work is very dimensional particularly the Flood effect. What is the key in bringing the picture alive?

Thank you. It took a lot of time, energy, and practice to figure out how to get a still to look dimensional. Three of my pieces that I would say are the most dimensional are the Flood, the Twisters, and Headless Liberty. What I did for all of these, is look at real life (or realistically simulated) natural disasters to try and imitate that as best as I could. I suppose the "key" would be to make your work appear as natural (from the tangible world) as possible, and that way, it will look as real as possible. As far as the Flood goes, the key for that particular image was making the water nice and dark to give it the impression of being large, and the white water found at the ends helped to give the impression of great speed. Finally, I graded the piece with a highly contrasted, low saturated vibe to imitate the ominous tones as seen in cinema (which is an effect that I typically try to achieve with a final look for any piece).

Looking ahead, what are your goals for the future?

As far as Aevion is concerned, I would love to see it become part of a network of tutorial sites that are somewhat small, like Aevion, so that we can all get some more traffic, and get our content out to a greater audience. I'll continue to experiment with art for years to come, and design pieces whenever I feel inspired. At the moment (and probably for the near future at the least) I am really into web design and development, so I imagine that I'll be creating websites for a while. I have three websites at the moment: Aevion.net, Bamefi.com, and a third which was just released, Rankjanx.com. So although my Graphic Design life is preoccupied with the web, I'll always be fooling around in Photoshop.