One of my favorite sketch projects over on Instagram is a series I call “Forced Perspective Comics” (@Joshings if you’re curious) These vary in complexity from simple multipart comic stories Series dedicated to a single character or one off images created in a moment of inspiration. This series was inspired by films like “Who Framed […]
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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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#timelapse #figure #drawing at the Jean Henry School of Art hosted by @mikeritch A video posted by @joshings on Jul 17, 2015 at 7:37pm PDT Figure drawing for illustration can be broken up into roughly 3 basic topics. Structure, Line and form. All three are intertwined, but each can be practiced independently. Today we’ll talk […]
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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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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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The title of this post may be a little misleading. This is not a brush set of pencils. It’s a set of brushes that I’ve created for speed painting by using a HB pencil to draw the shape, then scanning them into Photoshop. I’ll be doing a speed painting with these brushes to post as […]
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The last two weeks I’ve been extremely busy but I wanted to make sure I took an hour here and there to keep working on my process and speed painting. I also took the opportunity to explore a pallet I’ve extracted from a Paul Bonner painting that I’m using for one of the book covers […]
Continue readingThis is just a series of 20 to 30 minute environments I’m speed painting to work on quick concept painting. All of these are similar but I’m hoping to develop more variety as I practice them.
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