Tag: illustration

Laputa: Castle in the Sky – Painting Process

Laputa: Castle in the Sky

Overdue painting process… This was for the Crimson Daggers Bloodsports Challenge. We had to change the target audience of a Hayao Miyazaki film while maintaining the look of the characters. To be honest, I’ m quite ashamed on how poorly I constructed the faces here..(That’s why I’m doing more head studies now.) Some lessons learned: –… Read more »

Dragon!!

Xiuhcoatl

Hola! My first serious illustration of a dragon. This started out as a random speed paint and ended up like this after around 9hours. Big thanks to nebezial for his awesome tutorials! Anyway, I’m trying to practice constructing heads now  after doing the Miyazaki piece… realized that I waste too much time fixing those poorly… Read more »

Bloodsports # 5 – Laputa: Castle in the Sky

Laputa: Castle in the Sky

Another Crimsom Daggers Bloodsports entry, my second! I tried to go a little star wars or lord of the rings-ish with the design, meaning multiple characters all crammed up. I thought it was a good practice and doing the composition was totally out of my comfort zone. Anyway, I didn’t place but it was still… Read more »

Abaddon and Venom – Painting Process

Venom

Kinda late post. I had it up on the tube for quite a while already before this post. Anyway, I’d be continuing doing these process videos for personal pieces for as long as I can. This is my only way of tracking my progress while giving back to the art community so hopefully other people… Read more »

Lotus – Painting Process

Lotus

I know.. my girliest work ever! haha… Anyway, I’m just cleaning up my files and uploading old stuff. I did this around last february to march on and off a couple of weeks. This was an overdue request for my good friend’s birthday. She just wanted me to paint an angel surrounded with roses. I… Read more »

Alien Santa – Painting Process

Alien Santa

Old stuff again… ************************************************************************** Anyway here are a few relevant tips for digipainting stuff like this: -Fill your background with a gradient color before laying down the colors. This sets a default tint that would blend your whole painting. -Don’t be afraid to use separate layers especially for destructive effects such as lighting spills, lens… Read more »