Some of my recent studies. Granted they are very much in my comfort zone but it felt nice to play it safe for a while. I've found improvement and a stronger sense of style as I went so they are doing some good! I intend to move forward into head and body studies and hopefully achieve similar things there. ...
It's been quite some time since I have updated this blog. Mostly because I have been far too busy working in 3D/uni work to do regular paintings like I used to but also because I've been having (another?) crisis with my art. At the moment I'm really starting to enjoy working in 3D especially since using Zbrush; the program is the perfect balance...
First painting of 2016 In many ways 2015 has gone extremely fast and extremely slowly. I'm looking back at paintings I did early 2015 and thinking 'that was only a year ago?'. In many ways I feel like I've improved; I feel like I'm a stronger and more confident person, my 2D work is better AND my 3D work is better. First painting...
Since I'm lacking in uni content on here I figured now that I'm working on my next project over Christmas I can do some process updates on my personal blog. The next uni project is the 'Dichotomous characters' project which involves us concepting two characters that (to my understanding) look well together but also look very different. To begin the project I used...
So I've just completed a five week university project. I completed the project itself in 3 weeks and I'm really happy with what I've produced. In the last two weeks I made a tomb from scratch which was something I'm completely unfamiliar with doing. I'm proud of myself. I think I worked really hard and I think I've produced some pretty good work,...
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In a world where information is at the tip of our fingers and tutorials and advice are so easy to come by its no wonder that we want everything fast. I've found that a lot of questions to artists are now worded in a certain way: what tutorial did you follow? What brushes did you use? What reference did you use? What technique...