Since my personal work has been known to the public mostly through traditional mediums (such as oils and acrylics), people are often surprised when I tell th...
Painting / Drawing
Making of Transformers Deathblow
Planning the work, I wanted to bring out the tension and conflict as a priority, which led me to an explosive duel scene that would draw audiences into the w...
Making of Work Makes One Free
With having a traditional art background most of my digital work has been primarily 3D, with only compositing and color correction using Photoshop. But with ...
Making of Discovery
Okay, so I didn't exactly know what to paint from the outset, so the first thing I usually do to get rid of the white canvas is to start doodling, just to sp...
Making of Hansel and Gretel
This is my great pleasure to discuss about the creation process for my latest work Hansel and Gretel. Right from the beginning, I had the intention of making...
Using 3D as starting point for 2D art
In this tutorial, Richard Tilbury will create a digital painting of an interior and will show how 3D software can be used as a useful application in the proc...
Introduction to Levels
Scanning a drawing, sketch, portfolio piece, even a photo is one of the black arts of Photoshop. There are people out there who know so much about the adjust...
“Worn, Painted Metal Surface”
Here I will show you how I create a painted metal surface worn by time with paint chipping off, revealing older paintwork underneath.
Channels Explained
This tutorial is intended to give a quick overview of how Photoshop sees and interprets Channels, as well an in-depth explanation of what Channels actually a...
Creating Worn Metal
Ok for this tutorial we're going to have a quick look at how to make a worn metal texture in Photoshop. This is going to be fairly quick & easy so it will no...
Posing a character in a natural scene
Ever want to render a Poser figure in a real photo? Or create a digital painting using a photo reference with a Poser figure? Because that's what you will fi...
Touching Up A 3d Image In Post
No matter how much I may work a 3d piece to death, it's never finished until I spend an hour on it in Post. Fixing in Post is just a fancy way of saying you ...
Create a realistic Eye
I will show how, with some patience and a tablet, you can produce your own eye textures, applicable to your 3D characters. It's a realistic texture, but it c...
Useful Shortcuts in Photoshop
Welcome to my second tutorial, this time I will try to give you useful information on keyboard shortcuts, dialogs and tricks in Adobe Photoshop(tm).
Creating Dirty Custom brushes
I am posting here some settings, so that you understand the logic of the creation of custom brushes in Photoshop 7.0. For the painting of the textures, I use...