Author Archives: Daniel
Smoke
A simple speed painting.
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Gellini: Getting perspective
The first step in designing each page for Gellini’s Special Gift is laying in the perspective and then working in rough sketches of the foreground elements. These are some examples of that first step.
Continue readingSketch Blog: A Character Study Portrait Update
When I’m not working on Fillip Frogs Fly Feast, or Gellini’s Special Gift, you’ll probably find me creating more of Sol’Ashe’, The steam punk fantasy world I’m inventing as the setting for stories I’m working on. The story I’m creating right now starts on Bor Island. It’s a small island that divides a river and […]
Continue readingFillip Frogs Fly Feast: Meet the Bugs
Fillip Frogs Fly Feast: The Bugs Spencer Johnson has been doing a great job breathing life into the Bugs you’ll be trying to eat and avoid in our first iOS game. I’ll be posting a video showing the basic flight behavior he’s been programing. We are super excited about how organic he’s been able to […]
Continue readingGellini’s Special Gift: The Process
Since the inception of Infinite Cortex Creations LLC we knew that our first projects were going to be more of a journey then a race to finish. With that being said I am happy to announce that we have finalized the look for Gellini’s Special Gift. After going back and forth on styles, […]
Continue readingCharacter Sketches
Working on developing characters for The Bor Daban’ Hollow. I’ll be adding a post soon talking about details of the characters and locations in the Hollow.
Continue readingThe Bone Shaman
This was a piece done for practice working off of an art brief, in this case a Dungeons & Dragons Style humanoid creature one they put out last year as an Art Test. I started with a simple sketch and some basic tones to get me thinking about color and volume. Staring to refine the […]
Continue readingCreating Creative Context
As I’ve been working on the illustrations for Gellini, I’ve also been trying to improve my core digital painting skills and more thoroughly developed my impressionistic style. To do so I’ve developed sketches and speed paintings. At some point I looked around and was like “Crap”, these paintings are cool and everything, but in spite […]
Continue readingLady of the Dragon
So I decided now that I’m working on getting more finished renderings up, I needed to paint my oldest love. A Dragon! I can’t say that a dragon was the first thing I drew, but I doubt it took me long and through out my childhood I remember drawing more dragons then anything else. And […]
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