Posts that relate to the production of art for product assets, concepts in work or tutorials on drawing and painting.
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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Fillip is our most complicated Sprite in Fillip’s Feast. Makes sense since he is the playable character and protagonist of the swamp. In total Fillip is made from 76 different Sprites. His Body which transitions form varying degrees of girth consists of 17 different sprites with a separate sprite for his Legs. However His head, […]
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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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Hey! Welcome to ‘How do you Figure’ a bimonthly feature exploring the use of figure drawing in Illustration. All images are copyrights are reserved to their respective holders and are presented here for editorial and educational purposes. Series 1. I can see your model stand In sci-fi and fantasy illustration the human figure is […]
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Just a quick sketchbook update with the most recent digital painting character design I did and submitted to Conceptart.org’s forum challenge 350. Wips
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Today’s post is a impressionist portrait study. The Obama image is one I painted a while ago and I’ve been wanting to do a similar portrait ever since but wasn’t sure who to paint. With recent political events I decided a version of Putin would make a good counter point to the image. I think […]
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