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Study of Jules

Wolvie VS the World

Mountain Djinn Passage:

"along the road there lived a djinn,
filled with fire and questions,
both that would burn into the night"

Concerning going from grayscale to color...

Traditional oil painting has a step called "under-painting" or "dead layer" where the painter creates the values of the piece -- a grayscale version of the final painting. Over top of that, the painter then applies a small amount of color (think of it like a glaze) so that the dark/light value of the under-painting shows through.

In photoshop this can be done by scanning in a grayscale image, then painting over the gray with colors at various opacity.

Read up more on the subject by searching for the terms underpaintingand dead layer

Red/White/Black

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That's no sun -- its a very shocked moon

Metal Gear Solid sketch to paint process

Fox Spirit and her 10 tales of love and betrayal

I've heard the whole custom brush thing myself and figured its largely hogwash -- traditional painters use a few brushes and have been pulling off amazing stuff for over 5000 years.

The biggest help any illustrator can get is learning how to draw before painting. I've seen alot of portfolios where the person tries to fix the line art in the painting stage -- its just building a house on sandy ground.

Here is a sample of how I normally paint -- a sketch that has tonal values, then a paintover. By the time I get to the painting stage its a like painting by numbers because the sketch already works.

@ Rhunyc

95% of the time its just 3 brushes - one for solid lines, one for blending, one for edging.
I don't mess with jitter or feather or anything but opacity.

The Murderer of Briar's Run

I dig the last one -- that's not an easy angle to convey

Last details

From here, she'll be given a range of emotions to fit with dialogue.

Flipped
Colors built up

Line art layer set to Multiply

Beneath goes the flat colors kept in the same tonal range

Flipped to fix

PRINCESS
She's betrothed to the Knight. She's moderately spoiled, but with a glint of intelligence and a helping of heart. Blond hair, blue eyes, pink dress, etc.

Light pencil with 30% opacity digital pen overtop

I'm doing some characters for Last Stand tonight/tomorrow -- I'll post them up WIP style

Yes. You can see them at the top of the page.
I do new work everyday except for Sunday.
Some specific client work is under NDA till the time the publisher releases it.

I will be releasing some artwork from an upcoming flash game - Galiard's Last Stand so stay tuned for that.

Thanks mates!

The work so far has been pretty straight forward, just blocking in shapes and playing with colors.
Here is something more refined with more detail -- Elves of Ragnarok!

"Lost my contact" zombies

Pencil & Photoshoppery

I'll be posting daily arts here.

Anime/manga is a cartoon form so everything is going to exaggerated. A lot of starting artists make the mistake of wanting to come out with their own manga/comic book. Don't fall for it because it will just drive you crazy.

Learn how to draw correctly before tackling an exaggeration of it. Look at portraits of people to get an idea of why features are distorted.