The lighting tutorial is here! I covered some basic breakdowns on how to approach lighting as a concept in illustration - plus doing a quick demo on how to sketch in lighting setups, finishing off with some tips on what to pay attention to as the piece progresses.
It feels a little too long and too short at the same ti...
A new set! It was a tough one trying to get things to look interesting but a little surreal. The balance was hard to strike but I think the result isn't too bad.
I hope you enjoy it and thank you very much as always for your support!
(This set will feature in a quick segment during the lighting tutorial as well,...
Hello and hope everyone is well!
I'm doing fine health-wise, but things have gotten surprisingly busy in October in terms of catching up on lost time.
Fortunately, this are finally starting to clear up, so the lighting tutorial and this month's work will be up by the end of the week!
In the meantime, he...
Last sketches for now - it was a surprisingly challenging experience putting these together in this kind of visual presentation style.
Back to the usual full paintings next!
How is everyone?
I'm finally back and working on new pieces full time again! September was a bit of a tough month with a couple things out of my control that got in the way - fortunately, that's out of the way and we're getting back on track.
Very regrettably, I wasn't able to get the Lighting tutorial video out...
I've been putting some time into making a few design sheets as and when I can. It's just for fun, but I do think it's nice to kind of make it "official" that this character exists (and now has a name!)
It was surprising tough working in this format -without my usual complicated backgrounds and compositions to hide diff...
It's been some time! I'm mostly fine with my health now and am working on new stuff again, as well as catching up the delayed August videos. I also want to say thank you for everyone's concern in the comments of the last post, it was very touching.
I'm trying something a bit new for this set of process steps! Rather tha...
2021-09-09 13:28:09 +0000 UTC View PostSummary: August content (process steps and tutorial video) will be put up as quickly as I can manage, there will be a NO BILLING break in September (you can remain a patron, browse content, etc with no charge until next billing date on Oct 1)
Hello everyone, it's be...
2021-08-26 10:18:33 +0000 UTC View Post
This was such a tough set to complete, I'm just going to go lie down for a bit :)
For a change, what you do you think about these pieces? Do let me know in the comments!
p.s. The process steps will still be up as always, but I need a little break before writing them.
You may have seen me putting up an announcement regarding the launch of this book on other platforms just a few minutes ago!
I was honored to be one of a few contributors to write a tutorial segment for the book, regarding the creation of this piece here:
2021-08-12 15:30:22 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone and welcome to August! It's been 6 months since we've started this Patreon journey and I really can't express how grateful I am for everyone's support here.
I'm currently working on making something interesting with the Bad Guys series (in my own capacity), but it will be a little bit on the ambitious sid...
2021-08-06 12:45:04 +0000 UTC View Post
July really flew by quickly, and it's almost time for August's tutorial poll!
For now, this is teaser for a slightly larger personal project I've been working on, it's going to be quite tough but I'm feeling really excited about sharing it with everyone once it's ready!
But as always the process steps and full-r...
As promised (and thank you for the reminders!), here is Bad Guys 3 in full-resolution.
Thank you very much as always for your support and I hope you enjoy the art!
July is coming to an end and I just want to say another big thank you to everyone for your immense support, it really means a lot to me :)
I'm finding quite a bit of enjoyment in reworking and experimenting with this style of illustration again. Doing the Bad guys series is still fun, but I have to admit constantly tryi...
2021-07-31 05:58:23 +0000 UTC View Post
This month's video was decided by a poll here on Patreon, it was pretty close, but character design won out in the end!
In this video I tried to be a bit more comprehensive in covering some basics about visual character design and what it can do for you, plus a 30min normal speed demo covering the design process in mor...
Update: Process steps are now up, apologies for the delay!
Instagram also has saw it fit to delete this piece from my account, so in the future I will probably have to "censor?" stuff going up there.
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This was a really interesting piece to do for a couple of reasons - I wanted to kind of refresh m...
2021-07-26 05:46:53 +0000 UTC View PostWow, it looks like we've managed to get through a lot of big and burning questions in the past few months!
Last month we've only had one additional question, so I figured it would be simpler to break convention to answer this in a written format:
Cristina asks:
Hi, I know I’m late here b...
I hope to gradually put these up once a week, so do remind me in case I forget! Thank you very much for your support as always!
2021-07-20 11:46:55 +0000 UTC View Post
This was a fun piece to do! Ironically, with poses that are less (extremely) dynamic, I feel it's actually more important to find references to help you nail down the body language. The subtlely actually tends shows in quite a few places that I wouldn't normally think of immediately.
Also, sually I tend to omit a lot o...
The process for creating this piece was quite interesting! It was a little bit tough in terms of making sure everything looks in place (as much as I can manage), but also really fun since I got to just make up and choose the setting quite freely, with just a loose theme in mind.
Since there have been some q...
After a couple of slice-of-life type illustrations, I wanted to mix it up a bit with something more fun. This piece was the result!
Overall this was definitely more of a just have fun and see where we end up piece, especially since I decided to make up the setting as we go along. Hopefully you enjoy this piece and read...
This was a tough piece to finish satisfactorily! There were so many details and parts to making a setting like this work well that I actually felt quite constrained from doing much design-wise. Nonetheless, it was a great learning experience as always, and I'm very much looking forward to complete the next few pieces, which I...
2021-07-07 05:59:22 +0000 UTC View Post
This one might look new, mainly because I've actually never actually posted or finished the original (2nd image). Just couldn't get it to feel or look what I wanted back then but I decided to give it a quick go recently. I think the composition feels a little outdated compared to more recent works, but it was a fun time anywa...
2021-07-04 05:39:55 +0000 UTC View PostUPDATE: Character Design has won out by a really narrow margin of 182 -177 vs Lighting as of 24th July. The tutorial video will be up in a couple of days, so please do keep an eye out for it!
Since we've already covered a good range of topics with a mix of painting and technical videos, I would...
Portraits have always felt a bit difficult, but very rewarding for me. Sometimes it feels really easy to under-paint a piece and have it turn out too bland, but when you manage to pack in enough interesting stuff and find the right colors/mood, it's fun to mess around and have a nice impactful result!
Read more about t...
Wow half the year is already somehow gone!
It's been 4 months since I started Patreon and I really want to say how much I appreciate everyone's support here, it means a lot and I'm very lucky and grateful to be able to do this for a living!
I'm especially heartened whenever someone lets me know they found a vid...
It was quite fun drawing one of those shop at night scenes I used to do a lot, but now in a more recent style! I started this image with a method I don't usually attempt, so it was quite an adventure getting things to slowly work out.
Overall it's a bit of a softer scene without the usual dramatic lighting and posing, b...
2021-06-25 06:17:52 +0000 UTC View Post
This month's video is a much requested quick guide to using reference! I think it's really something I haven't talked about in detail yet, despite it's great importance to every artist.
In the video I go through a couple of reasons why reference is important, some very key things to keep an eye out for as you use it, a...
It's been so long since I've did this type of drawing! So when I came across this older piece today I decided to give it a go to rework it for fun; it took about an hour or so and I am actually quite happy that I was able to add a little bit of color in to spice up the scene.
I think the original does make use of the ...
