Hey Guys! Here’s another Diablo 3 Fanart for the Anniversary! Now with a horror movie poster vibe!
I’m one of the few artists who will be featured again by Blizzard for the Diablo 3 Anniversary! Yay! Thanks to Vaeflare!
Larger image HERE since I can’t afford to host it. :P..
Laters!
PS: Video process soon! Let me wrap up some other stuff first!
New art! Sold some prints of this girl at the summer komikon. (NSFW version here) I didn’t expect it to sell well but it did! Makes me want to do more original stuff! …so yeah, lesson learned! Also, I met a lot of new people and stuff! Thanks to those who got prints! Sorry to those who were too late! Next time maybe?
Thanks to the team, Makasining, for all the support!
Anyhow, just wanted this to be a quick update so here’s a knight sketch inspired by playing too much Dark souls. Enjoy!
Whew! Here’s my entry for Square Enix’s Tomb Raider Reborn contest. Took way to long but it was all worth it..
I used tons of custom brushes.. no photos.. its really hard but I learned a lot more by doing this the hard way.. XD
Also, I’m already one of the 25 finalists! Woohooo!
Video Process here:
WARNING: Too much Alt+Tabbing in the video… might make people nauseous
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SOME NOTES AND STUFF I LEARNED:
-Doing line art can be fun too… BUT.. don’t neglect your values! Make sure you’re values are planned out from the start. My mistake was focusing too much on the elements and not on the overall look of the painting. Since I finished the character first, this gave me a chance to adapt the background based on the character’s values. A good rule of thumb is to place light parts against dark areas and vice versa to generate contrast. You can see how the background is dark under the parts where Lara Croft is lit and vice versa.
-One major mistake I made earlier on was not balancing the pose correctly. This was pointed out by a fellow artist and friend who is really awesome with anatomy stuff. Check his stuff out here: http://allengeneta.deviantart.com/. Since Lara Croft’s right arm was raised, it didn’t make sense that her right leg was also raised. It’s like walking with both your right foot and arm being raised at the same time. Glad I was able to fix this early on.
-I took my time to do a lot of research and I think it paid off. I watched a lot of Tomb Raider promotional videos and even some movie scenes with explosions just to get a good feel for what I’m aiming for. I also collected around 80 reference images for all the unfamiliar elements I had to draw. Anatomy is still an issue for me so I had to use a lot of references and some DAZ 3D assistance because I really wanted to get this looking correct since this was supposed to be a print.
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Thanks for watching!
Did this in around 25+hrs spread across two weeks.
Hi guys! Can’t believe it’s mid February already… As usual, I neglected this blog again. I realized that in terms of online marketing, this blog is only secondary to social sites like Facebook or Deviantart. People would rather click “like” than read a blog these days… From now on, I’m going to immediately post new art on facebook, deviantart, or cghub as soon as I finish them and only update this blog once I get a decent amount of images up or at least once a month. (I can’t believe I didn’t do that sooner.)
Anyway, here’s an environment sketch inspired by Shaddy Safadi’s tutorials: This is also my most popular image to date! Can anyone explain how that happened?
The image below is something inspired a little by Anime in general. Nothing fancy. I just used looser brushes from Jaime Jones’ set while selecting colors using the slider only. Fun stuff!
Below are some old studies. ( Insect was supposed to be for a bloodsports challenge I didn’t finish.)
My contest entry for Anthony Jones’ contest below. I’m not happy with it but for the 1 hour deadline, I guess it’s decent.
Random comfort-zone-robot-portrait below!
On other news, I got featured at Diablo 3’s official site last month!!
Anyway, I’m still trying to finish as much old sketches as I can. It just feels a lot better to not have tons of WIPs lying around. I’m just not that type of artist.
So yeah, see you guys at the next update! Catch me usually at my Facebook page, DA or CGhub!
So I missed the year-end-post…I’m late again! …but whatever.. Happy New Year!!
Here’s a portrait of some girl… my last 2012 illustration.. It started out as a practice of Nathan Fowkes’ method and turned into this character for my story that I haven’t finished yet.
I’m giving away the PSD of this portrait for FREE!! There are some tips inside so check it out! I hope it helps!
And here are some 2012 monster sketches that I polished a while ago. Horny Beasts!
Of course we can’t end this post without some 2012 reflections, now, can’t we?
Had lots of highs and lows but the great thing was I learned a lot!
So 2011 was about testing the waters.. 2012 was about getting more responsibilities.. and hopefully 2013 will be more about efficiency and balance.
Demon stuff… it’s always fun to do monsters and demons!
Also, I have this new goal of getting better with faces so I began to number my studies. The second image below are all studies from Loomis. I might go and copy all the heads he drew in his book, “Drawing the Head and Hands”. Anyway, its just a small update… laters!
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