Sketch 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 […]

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Fillip 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 […]

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Gellini’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, […]

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Creating What You Know: Dali

As I have been exploring many of the questions that we use to journey through a creation as well as how a person thinks, I was sharply reminded recently of one of the most frequent pieces of advice by other professionals in creative fields. Use what you know. Last month, Mark and I visited the […]

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The 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 […]

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Creating 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 […]

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Remembering ……..

When creating, the advice is to use what you know. This can be disconcerting when you are trying to create about events you do not have any experience with. Recently I was reading the author’s commentary in the back of a book and this author was commended by the publisher for conveying the feel of […]

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The Thinking of a Creation

I have been using the cat as a hook for my discussions of the questions that are being asked and answered either deliberately or within the process of creating. More so as the cat is exploring and watching, calculating and responding, testing and pushing the environments in which it lives. We are working through these […]

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