There is a common practice in digital painting these days of extracting the colors from a photograph in order to create a unified pallet. While this works quite well, as I’m been trying it I find it’s important to limit the amount of colors you pull from the photo to make sure the colors in […]
Continue readingHoliday Art
As we’re moving into the new year, I wanted to add a little blog post showing some of what we’ve been sketching over the holidays. I’m including a selection from Joshua’s 12 days of Christmas pin ups, and an image I did for the Imagine FX forum challenge “Bad Santa.” Kris Kringle and the Bah […]
Continue readingAll that glitters is not gold.
I’ve been working on a cover illustration for a young adult fantasy book and I got a piece of feedback I’ve heard before, and is absolutely no help to an artist what so ever. It was, “can you make the title more gold and less yellow.” Not that this is bad feed back. Clearly it […]
Continue readingQuartermaster Speed Painting Session
For our speed painting session this week, Josh and I decided to do a sci fi quarter master. Which has several definitions including an officer in charge of supplies, or a non com in charge of navigation. I wanted to do one delivering supplies, and I hated everything I did for the first 40 mins […]
Continue readingSilhouette studies of Fis
After doing a set of exercises with Josh involving, speed painting and character development I decided I needed to do some studies while working on the story concept I’ve been developing. So to help me develop the characters that will surround my main story I began the first in a series of silhouette studies. This […]
Continue readingProduct Update – Fillip’s Feast
Fillip’s Fly Feast. Super excited that we’ve pushed version one the game out to test devices so we can experiment with the basic game dynamics.
Continue readingProduct Update – Gellini’s Special Gift
Gellini’s Special Gift. Still working on some of the details, but after getting some feed back I’ve been finishing up the tone study for the boarder of Gellini’s Special Gift.
Continue readingSquiggle
In our speed painting exercise this week Josh and I played a artist warm up game. Each of us made a few squiggles on a document. We then traded documents and over the next hour built up our speed paintings based on the underlying structure of those squiggles. You can see how Josh built […]
Continue readingThe Do
Quick sketch blog update with a new piece I did for the Imagine FX forum challenge, “The DO.” The Brief: Design a futuristic or fantasy hairdo fit for a galactic empress. Feel free to include adornments of various kinds, as long as the hairdo shows that this woman knows what’s hip tomorrow. (She rules the […]
Continue readingMan With Sword
One of the things I’m working on while practicing my illustration is developing pre made book covers. The one I started working on last week was a very simple, often used cover concept, “man with a sword.” In spite of doing some fairly successful rough sketches and thinking it should be a very easy project, […]
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