Here is the walkthrough I created for Digital Artist Magazine – Imagine Publishing, back in 2010.
While painting the Thief, I saved progress shots so I am now showing you the process from sketch to final in this short video presentation. I am still not able to record the real time painting process because my Camtasia is unreliable and crashes on me all the time. Just don’t have patience to deal […]
Ah, after a long, laborious endeavor, this painting is finally done. It would have been done awhile ago but knowing myself too well, I kept adding more and more, working details to “death”. I really should train harder to stray away from overworking things. In any case, I can close this page out and work […]
Here is the color rough I decided to work from. Just one look at this color version and I can see many, many problems I will have to fix in further painting. But, it should be fun non less! I am actually pleased with the warm color palette and I think in the final stages […]
The winter has been going on way too long. Not that I have anything to complain about, living in the tropics. Spring, however has so much significance in the way of beginnings; nature flourishes and awakens and animals come out of their hibernation. We shed winter coats and heavy clothing and feel more liberated and […]
I was comissioned to create an illustration for a jigsaw puzzle that would work as one piece and 3 independent pieces as well. Following the last years footnotes of “Silent Whispers” with the same intent, I thought to myself: “All right, that is really not a big deal”, but when I started to put some […]
Imagination is not the only key ingredient to successful illustration. There’s no room for ignorance when it comes to theories behind technique. Mastering skin tones through lighting isn’t easy. It takes time and determination to understand the complexity of skin, so we can achieve the level of mastery of some of the great artists […]