Re: Can you guess what this is?
None. Around june-august of 1999 I got into photoshop and started learning it on my own. I came up with methods that seem to work pretty good for building stuff from the ground up. But somethings are just come as I go, and every peice I do differently. My original plans were to be a texture artist for 3D Realms game company, and I even met them and had contacts with them, but due to family situtations at home I no longer had a stable place to work, and kind of abandoned my work. I wanted to keep progressing and do a few other areas of art before applying. A year after I no longer was working on it, a position opened at that company for a texture artist. I was very depressed after that. I never really have fully gotten back into it. Occasionally it's stable enough here to work, like today. 1 more year of college and I'll have a job doing networking, I'll move out, and hopefully pick this back up as a hobby or possibly career again!
I have 3 other images that are 10x better than this one, with one being my web site interface for all my art I never fully finished (it's 90% done) and the other 2 are post cards, 4x6" at like 300dpi, so they are huge on the screen. The 2nd one is a WIP but close to being done. I have fully re-created the "Duke Nukem" text in photoshop only in high res and it looks like it was 3D rendered.
My poor 266mhz computer doesn't like those large dpi files. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif 160megs of ram helps, but no HD space doesn't.. I'm probably going to build a new rig this summer when I have time to build and use a computer...
Phew, there's my life story just about... heh. Hope I didn't bore anyone...
EDIT: BTW, I use Photoshop 5.0. I hear 7.0 is awesome.