Digital Art

I’ve been refining my process for painting a human figure. Here’s what I’ve got so far: Skeleton  Muscles  Values 

So I’ve been getting back to anatomy study with this écorché painting of the back muscles. Écorché paintings are where you try to paint the arrangement of the muscles beneath the skin. They’re a bit painstaking as you have to research each muscle as you paint them (unless you already know them inside out – which I don’t).

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been burning the midnight oil working on a submission to an art challenge called The Crimson Crucible. Specifically, Crimson Crucible 6: Halloween Companions. The brief was basically to design two Halloween themed companions, one had to be humanoid and the other, non-humanoid. I used my comic project and picked out a couple of the…

My friend and published author John Fulton, has written a collection of 9 science fiction short stories and needed some artwork to accompany his writings. I am pretty excited to be working with him as his artist on this project to see if we can’t get it published on Amazon Kindle. John has a website where he blogs about his…

I’ve been brainstorming some ideas for a Spider Mutant Cultist.  He will be one of the baddies from my digital comic project. The spider study is of a mouse spider.

I’m trying to improve my general painting technique as well as study ravens for an upcoming illustration. These were done with minutes minimal line work before going in with the paint block-ins.

So here’s my first master painting study ever!  John Singer Sargent’s Man Wearing Laurels. I’m just beginning to study painting seriously so am still trying to find me feet here. So what did I learn doing this? For the initial block-in it was easier to start off with a small canvas (I’m working digitally). Using a big brush helped my…

Some more figure sketches – I’m trying to get to grips with lighting the forms. I’ve also done a study from Michael Hampton’s Figure Drawing Design and Invention – a fantastic book for learning to draw the human figure.

I’m trying to upload visual information into my brain by sketching from references – here’s a Conan The Barbarian sketch:

I recently found this article about thumbnailing using values: http://muddycolors.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/composition-basics-sketching-thumbnails.html It got me experimenting with my painting process.  Here’s a male torso study using the process from the Muddy Colors link above.