Artist Bio

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My name is James Lyons and I am the artist whose work you see on this website.

I have been involved with creating art in one form or another for most of my life.

I have worn many different hats in my life artistically. In my various incarnations as an artist, I have done both mechanical and architectural drafting, sculpture, both acrylic and oil painting, watercolor and now, finally, I have entered the realm of digital creation.

I specialize in wildlife art, but I am secretly branching out behind the scenes into fantasy art as well.

My only hope for my work is that it touches someone, I have been accused of having less than thrilling work, but I don't feel that the goal of my work is to be "thrilling". The goal is to transport the viewer to a place that he or she may never get a chance to see in real life, if I can do that, then I have accomplished my goal as an artist.

I have had a lot of encouragement along the way and I sincerely appreciate all the help, be it a kind word or a tip on how to do something better or the support that I have from family and friends!

People often ask me how I create my work so I'll give you a brief explanation, My work is a combination of both 2d and 3d, I will pick out a picture of an animal and figure out what I want to portray with it then I will take the photo of the animal into Bryce and create a 3d environment around it to achieve the look I am looking for. After I get the basic layout, I will render it and then take it into Paintshop Pro or Photoshop to do the real magic on it. I can spend months doing postwork.(I still have a few from 2000 that are in various stages of postwork) But the average time is about a week. After that is complete, it is uploaded here for you to enjoy.

My equipment is as follows: HP 500 mhz Pentium 2 with 319 megs of ram, Wacom Intuos graphics tablet, Polaroid digital camera and a Umax Astra 610P digital scanner.

Software: Bryce 5, Paint shop Pro 7, Photoshop 7, Poser 4, and various other plugins and filters.

All Rights Reserved on all images appearing within these web pages. All images are copyrighted James Lyons. No part of these images may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including but not limited to photo copying and scanning, whether now known or hereafter created without written permission from the artist, James Lyons. Questions or comments regarding these pages please contact:J Lyons.
James Lyons © 2000-2002.