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...
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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...
Since my personal work has been known to t
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...
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...