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360° Capture
I photograph the location as a complete panoramic environment, preserving a broader field of view than a conventional photograph.
Gene Stovicek · Mixed-Media Panoramas
After the Photograph
A body of work combining 360-degree photography, digital illustration, canvas printing, and hand-applied ink, paint marker, spray paint, and oil pastel.
Artist Statement
Photography records the place. The surface records what remains.
After the Photograph is a body of mixed-media work rooted in immersive 360-degree photography. Each piece begins with a real location documented as a complete panoramic environment, preserving the relationships between architecture, landscape, people, and the space surrounding the camera.
I reinterpret the photograph in Sketchbook Pro, redrawing, simplifying, exaggerating, and reconstructing portions of the image. The expanded perspective of the panorama remains visible, but the scene begins to move away from straightforward documentation.
The digital composition is printed onto canvas and then worked over by hand with ink, paint marker, spray paint, and oil pastel. These physical marks interrupt and reshape the photographic surface, making each canvas a singular object rather than a repeatable print.
The finished work exists between photography, illustration, painting, and cartography. It is less concerned with presenting a neutral record of a location than with exploring how places are experienced, remembered, and reconstructed over time.
The Evolution of a Piece
Three Old Dudes
This sequence presents the work from its original panoramic photograph through the finished mixed-media canvas. The two interactive 360-degree views allow the original environment and final physical artwork to be explored as separate stages of the same piece.
Stage 01
Original Photograph
The source image begins as a panoramic photograph captured beneath Cleveland's bridges, documenting the location, surrounding architecture, and three skateboarders within the scene.
Stage 02
Original Photograph in 360°
Explore the original photographic environment before the image was digitally illustrated, printed, and physically altered.
Stage 03
Finished Mixed-Media Canvas
The photograph is digitally illustrated in Sketchbook Pro, printed onto canvas, and completed by hand with ink, paint marker, spray paint, and oil pastel.
About the Work
Three skateboarders occupy a panoramic landscape beneath Cleveland's bridges. The image begins as documentation and is progressively altered through digital drawing and hand-applied media.
Subject
The finished work shifts away from photographic realism and toward atmosphere, memory, aging, friendship, and the shared experience of place.
Stage 04
Finished Artwork in 360°
This interactive view documents the completed physical canvas and allows the painted, drawn, printed, and textured surface to be examined in greater detail.
Process
From panoramic capture to hand-finished canvas.
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Digital Illustration
In Sketchbook Pro, I redraw, simplify, exaggerate, and reconstruct portions of the scene while retaining the expanded perspective of the original image.
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Canvas Printing
The digitally illustrated panorama is printed onto canvas, turning the image into a physical ground for additional work.
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Hand-Applied Media
Ink, paint marker, spray paint, and oil pastel are layered directly over the printed surface, making every completed canvas unique.
Materials
A photographic image built across digital and physical layers.
The camera records where we were. The hand-finished surface records what remained.
- 360° photography
- Sketchbook Pro
- Canvas print
- Ink
- Paint marker
- Spray paint
- Oil pastel
From Process to Product
The DogWaterChamp Drawing Sleeve was born from the work.
Creating these illustrations meant spending long periods drawing directly on a tablet. During that process, friction between my hand and the screen became a constant interruption. My palm would stick, drag, leave marks, and interfere with the movement of the drawing.
I needed something that would allow my hand to glide smoothly across the display while keeping the screen cleaner and the drawing process more comfortable.
That practical studio problem became the DogWaterChamp Drawing Sleeve: a tool developed through my own artistic practice and designed for illustrators, tattoo artists, digital painters, and anyone who draws on a tablet.
Designed in the Studio
Developed to reduce drag between the hand and tablet while keeping the drawing surface cleaner during long illustration sessions.
Made for the Drawing Process
The sleeve grew directly from the same digital illustration process used to create the work shown on this page.
A studio tool built by an artist who needed it.
Learn more about the Drawing Sleeve, see how it works, and purchase one for your own digital drawing practice.
Studio Opportunities · Exhibitions · Available Work
For studio applications, exhibition inquiries, or information about available work.
This body of work is available for studio visits, gallery consideration, exhibitions, and selected commissions.
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