Posts that relate to the production of art for product assets, concepts in work or tutorials on drawing and painting.
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.
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 readingAs 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 readingI’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 readingFor 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 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 […]
Continue readingIn 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 readingQuick 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 […]
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