Anyone who has spent any time studying art quickly learns one inevitable truth about the profession. You never, ever, stop practicing, learning and improving. From the tiny baby pasting their first piece of colored macaroni onto construction paper, to the master painter who has been practicing daily his whole life. So you keep working, and […]
Continue readingIt’s going to be a hot X-Mas, but Dr.C suspects it’s going to get cold soon. And he’s looking for answers!
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Dr.Cortex has a special guest on for Thanksgiving. Dr.C_001_TurkeyDay
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As I’ve been thinking about future game possibilities for our company, I’ve become enamored with the isometric point of view. This is when basically you design the point of view of your game from a top down angle where the grid for your ground plane forms parallel lines. You see this point of view in […]
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Of late I’ve found myself to be very busy and have very little time. With that in mind I’ve been working on improving my speed painting. I’m approaching this process in three steps. Step one is doing single character speed painting with a focus on keeping each step of the process as tight as possible. […]
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Recently I moved from using an Intuitions to a Cintiq companion hybrid. There was a brief transitional period where I had to get used to having my hand back between me and the surface I’m working on, but thanks to working on the I-pad I was already pretty used to that. Over all it’s absolutely […]
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As your moving towards working as a professional artist you are often told how important it is to develop your own style. It’s very important for getting noticed and having your work stand out from the artists around you. Developing your style is very important and should not be overlooked by any aspiring artist, but […]
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I’m working on my Ru’Bacom image in tandem with this one to try to submit both to the Art Order personal poster challenge. The first part of this image starts from the rough sketch and moves through the tight sketch process and laying in the basic colors and tones.
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Ru”Bacom, Pedlar of Dragons. Today’s blog post is looking at the first step of my digital painting process. My first step is subdivided into three sub drawings as shown below. A construction sketch. This is laid down in Blue, Green and Red to build up the forms and get the basic shapes in place. I […]
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For the last couple weeks my computer was in the shop being repaired. During that time I began working on some traditional paintings and was very frustrated. I discovered my skills with traditional media to be quite out of practice. To combat this I started practice sketching with pen drawings to work my way up to completing […]
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