Painting / Drawing

How to paint Clouds

A tutorial I whipped up on how to paint clouds/smoke/steam or whatever. It's all basically the same technique anyway right? ;] The full-sized images are actu...

How to paint Fur

Here is the way I usually go about rendering fur in Photoshop. You'll find that its actually pretty simple, but can often require a lot of patience if you wa...

How to Paint Eyes

In this tutorial you will learn how to create detailed eyes.

How to paint Lips

I guess I'm tutorial crazy! Here's yet another one - for how to draw lips. They are based off of my lips so I don't know if these same steps apply to a big m...

Simple Matte Painting tutorial

We will be creating an mystic night scene with rainy atmosphere. Few preparations are required before u start. First basic step is a concept and where will b...

Painting Hair Updo tutorial

First considered titling this walkthrough Fun With Buns but something just wasn't right about that. O_o This is a 5-step tutorial showing how to paint hair, ...

Creating the Portrait of a Cat

Here is a walkthrough of how I went about painting the portrait of my cat. Now this isn't a tutorial mind you - meaning it is not ok by me to copy this pictu...

Creating Realistic Eyes

This tutorial will cover how to illustrate wonderful, lifelike eyes using Photoshop 6.0. Unlike my older digital realism technique, this one is more detailed...

Creating realistic Fur

While a lot of people like my Digital Realism technique, it is strongly advised that if you do not have a graphics tablet, you should refrain from doing Digi...

How to create Hair

While this is not the best hair that I have ever painted, it will give you a general feel on how I occasionally will approach the subject. On the last page i...

Making of The painter

I had the privilege to attend a class by Ryan Church a while back. The tutorial below is his painting process and what I'd learn from the class. . .

Making of

Here is a scan of the original sketch out of my sketchbook. I scan images between 200 and 300 dpi.

Making of Heaven Hell

This series of images will show the general method that I used to create my painting Heaven and Hell. Each image has a brief description of what was going on...

Matte Painting a Haunted House

This tutorial is actually a making of where I explain how I proceeded to achieve this matte painting. I use a Wacom Intuos' A4 board, if you don't have any g...

Making of Marsh Dweller

I read a book about marsh dwellers recently. It described their lives so well, that new ideas for illustrations appeared by themselves. With this picture I w...


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