Two paintings of rock guitarist Vivian Campbell-Digital Media

According to Steven Samuel, “Digital art is still relatively unknown or even accepted fully by the arts community, but this will change.” Sam first creates a pencil drawing, which is scanned into Photoshop, and then uses a computer to create layer upon layer of color.

Guitar hero Vivian Campbell, depicted here, performed with a number of well-known 80’s rock bands, before joining Def Leopard. Campbell prefers playing a Gibson Les Paul these days, but I am pretty sure the guitar in these paintings (two superimposed) is a Kramer.

Guitar player using Whammy Bar-Digital Media

“This is a photograph that my son Michael posed for with his guitar. There is very little detail, but it is not required!” Sam lives in South Wales, UK.