I've been involved in doing the artwork for Skytalks (Defcon offshoot, run by 303) for four of the past five years.  In years past I have taken the reference photography so I've had a hand in creating lighting and composition for these pieces.  My photos have been used as reference for original art pieces by Mar with (Dwight Bennett assisting on a couple) and they have created some fabulous designs.

This year the task fell fully on my own shoulders.  This piece is the result of a reference shoot at Sobo 151 with Tashaya and Acr0nym.  The original photo was subsquently used as reference for an original design on my iPad using Adobe Ideas.  Once the original design was complete a lot of texture and color tweaking was done using varoius other iOS programs.