Artist Louis Fishauf passes along some handy tips about how he created the August/September cover of Computer Artist magazine. Where do my ideas come from? I wish I knew! Inspiration can come from anywhere, and in this case, it came out of a game that I sometimes play with my five-year-old son Jackson. One of us will draw a maze, which the other has to navigate. The goal is to reach the X (or X's) that mark the final destination. The mazes that I draw tend to be complex and rectilinear, but Jackson's are simpler and more freeform. One of Jackson's mazes suggested to me the image of a woman's head encircled by stars. I decided to scan the drawing, and use it as the basis for the illustration I created for Computer Artist. To view a larger JPEG version (176 KB) of this image click here. |  |

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