Gabriel and Rhys’s Victorian Photo ( Character Portrait )
digital painting
©2012 Bran Cedio

This is a piece done as a period photograph of two fictional characters in an upcoming novel. The final submission was in the same sepia tone as extant Victorian photos.

If you would like to commission a portrait of characters to which you own the rights—whether from your book, your story, or your role-playing game—please contact me here. I’d love to work with you.

Valentine Heart
coloured pencil on card
©2012 Bran Cedio

Done for a Valentine’s Day card, February 2012.

Sherlock Holmes with Pipe Smoke

Digital art
Manga Studio and Adobe Photoshop
©2012 Bran Cedio

This is a piece I did both to try out Manga Studio for the first time and to make a piece which could be incorporated into a background for a twitter page. It was a thoroughly enjoyable experience. I love Photoshop, but the experience of inking a comic or drawing in Manga Studio is so much more pleasant that I can’t imagine I’ll want to go back to inking in Photoshop.

Experiment with my new Nomad Brush and ArtRage on the iPad.

Photoshop

This wedding invitation was conceived, designed, and and digitally hand-painted for an unusual wedding in June of 2010. It was printed on 11×17 glossy poster paper, double-sided. [Click to view detail.]

Front:

Back:

Detail of first panel:

Detail of second panel:

Detail of third panel:

The wedding program front:

Wedding program back:

Summer 2011
Bristol board, gouache, calligraphy ink

This large piece was commissioned for a wedding to serve in the same vein as a Jewish ketubah or a Quaker wedding contract. Its design combines elements both of a particular medieval islamic illuminated manuscript (on display at the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art in Istanbul) and that of a type of medieval Turkish ceramic tiles called “Iznik” tiles. The colour scheme is taken directly from the latter.

The calligraphy was designed to look similar to the Arabic calligraphic cursive scripts Thuluth and Naskh, but at the same time be legible as English. (The words themselves were chosen by the bride and groom, and are adapted from Khalil Gibran’s “The Prophet”.)

At the ceremony, the couple and the guests all signed it in the appropriate spaces, creating a visual documentation of the couple’s commitment to each other and the community’s commitment to support them in their lives together. [Click to view detail.]

ca 2006
leather, acrylic paint, polyester cord

This is just one of a group of masks I created for an exhibition back in 2006. [Click to view detail.]

ca 2006
leather, acrylic paint, polyester cord

This is just one of a group of masks I created for an exhibition back in 2006. [Click to view detail.]

ca 2006
leather, acrylic paint, polyester cord

This is just one of a group of masks I created for an exhibition back in 2006. [Click to view detail.]

2006

leather, acrylic paint, polyester cord

I really enjoy the way the texture comes through to look like leathery, tough, demon skin. The entire piece is handmade, both the sculpted leather mask & the painting.