In order to practice and improve on certain aspects of painting I often do quick sketches with a specific theme or subject matter. The drawing Pitch was one ...
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Making of Ply
This image is the design of a Role-Playing character; a Warrior Wizard. For those of you who may not be familiar with the term, Role-Playing character, a Rol...
Making of Spanish Girl
The first thing I did was to have a look for some fine-art references, to gain inspiration for this kind of painting. I did a few tests, specifically thinkin...
Making of Rejuvenator of the Human Flame
The evolution of the world involves the success and failures made by people, and nature's other inhabitants and resources. The same proves true when applying...
Making of Hecate
Hecate is the Greek Goddess of the crossroads Wilderness and Childbirth. She is usually seen with two ghost hounds that were said to serve her. Today she is ...
Making of Another Rainy Day
In this tutorial I will be showing you how to paint a rainy day scene without having to paint any weather effects, but rather the feeling will be conveyed pu...
Making of Taishu
Making of Taishu by Joe Slucher During the conception, I'll frequently begin the process by writing rather than drawing. I'm the type of person who likes org...
Making of Summon Infinity
I am not a talented draftsman; my initial sketches are always completely embarrassing, but I know I'll have time to fix things later. Right now the concept i...
Making of Lave Swimmer
This Making Of has been created to show my work process and thoughts whilst I was working, and I hope this will be of some help to others. Here are the brush...
Making of Self Portrait
I think that every artist has done a self portrait at some point or other, as it is the closest thing you have for reference: yourself. It's a challenge and ...
Making of Finding Unknown Kadath
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is a story about Randolph Carter, a mystic who has the ability to enter a fabulous world through his dreams. Carter isn't c...
Making of Renaissance
The base image was provided and initially had to be cleaned up before anything else (Fig01). The second stage was to create an extension of the image, follow...
Making of Funfair
I like my pictures to describe funny or strange situations, such as in my picture, 'Funfair'. The idea of the funfair came about when I was sitting in the pa...
Making of Superbad
My painting of Michael Cera, titled SuperBad, was actually created as part of a pitch for his new movie, Youth Revolt. The client wanted to persuade the stud...
Making of Howling
This Photoshop and Wacom tablet tutorial was originally published in the Digital Fantasy Painting Workshop book, by Ilex Press (www.ilex-press.com). The tuto...