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My Story
Byte Brush began as a vision of a bright and colorful future, one where digital art is built on a foundation of community, engagement, and experience. My goal is to create bizarre, otherworldly, and surreal works that encourage thoughtful discussion, stir up emotions, and provide a hint of familiarity. If you're scared, crying, or feel happy looking at my work, then I succeeded. Art is my passion, community is my goal, engagement is my motivator.
A Bit About Me
Hey there, I'm Justin, aka the artist Byte Brush
I've been creating digital art and playing around in the space for nearly a decade, and it wasn't until 2023 that I finally decided to create the brand and community I envisioned. I'm an ICU nurse by trade and passion, and an artist at heart, spending most of my time off creating new artworks, digital sculptures, animations, and more.
How I Create My Art
A Brief Overview of My Creative Process
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Start With an Idea
All my works begins as a sketch and a detailed description of what I want to create. I am very meticulous and specific, so I predetermine everything that goes into the digital work, including but not limited to lighting, color, style, position of character, props, reflections, backgrounds and landscapes, and more. I then feed this preplanned description into my generative system that helps to create the initial rough draft.
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Refining the Design
Next, I divide the image up into about a dozen sections. I will then follow a similar process to step two, but in smaller sections at a time, spending hours producing dozens more variations of each region, adding objects, removing props, fixing mistakes, and adjusting overall characteristics. This requires manual inputs and manual adjustments computers can't do on their own.
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Variations, Variations
I then produce hundreds of variations of a piece until I get to the overall idea I am going for. This process is crucial because this is where I ensure uniqueness, assess alignment to design concept, and review other characteristics. This usually involves refining the prompt over and over with specific details. I use my own art for reference during this part. This part usually takes a couple hours.
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The Manual Labor
Lastly, I spend the next 10-20 hours editing my work in Photoshop with the human touch. It is here that I do all the manual labor like painting pixels one at a time, deleting and recreating sections, adding my own props and items through layering, adjusting the lighting and colors, remodeling and retexturizing, and more. I use a wide range of tools like brushes, stamps, patches, loops, erasers, etc. just as I would on real canvas.
Additional Creations
A Diverse Collection of Creativity
Reimagined Videos
Watch my static images come to life with reimagined animated videos, created using AI software from my own concepts before keyframing in Premier Pro.
Animated Sculptures
You can find a diverse range of sculptures, statues, fashion models, and animations handmade without AI in my virtual galleries on Spatial.io.
Byte GPT
Masterpiece generator, prompt engineer, art historian, critic, collaborator, educator, and more, Byte GPT is the next innovation in generative AI.
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