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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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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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 readingThere 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 readingAfter 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 […]
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The Hunting Grunkals of Fid. Grunkals are a species of Goblin that inhabit the center region of Bas. Fid is their largest city. Unlike other Goblins, their colors very greatly even within individual families. (Right) Boots is the First Gun, and leader of this particular hunting party. He is especially talented at tracking the Pepkin […]
Continue readingSo 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 […]
Continue readingSpeed video of working on the face and the background.
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