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I've wrapped up the final illustration, but this video is not the final of the tutorial series, there will be a part 7 I'll be posting hopefully tomorrow!
In...
2020-09-22 05:15:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Drawing Beast - YouTube(may still be processing HD) - or - Download
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So, tonight I wanted to share a 35min video walkthrough of how I approach all of my X-Men portraits. This video explains the process but you can a...
2020-09-16 05:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHey!
Hope you're well! I can't believe it's already September, I started this Patreon back in February and it's already been 8 months, that's really wild to me. You've all changed I and my family's lives and I couldn't be happier working with you all rather than constant clients! It's been such a great time to try and expand my personal work and learn new skills and techniques - I've really found I'm truly able to challenge myself through this and find new levels with each piece I'm put...
2020-09-09 18:11:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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Well, I worked these up last night, nothing too crazy, just some sketches I put together after working a bit. The PSD attached to this post has all the layer intact so that you can look through and see how I did each step of the process from line to final pencil render.
Here's the general order I go through for these(this was all done in Clip Studio btw) -
- loose sketch
-tight drawing(set to multiply on n...
2020-09-09 17:54:24 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hope you're all well! Here's the next in the Evangelion series - Asuka Langley! I've been waiting for this one, Asuka is definitely my favorite character of the series - this illustration is going to take place in the final battle location from End of Evangelion.
Anyway, looking forward to working this up!
Thanks as always for your support!
Dave
2020-09-08 20:15:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Check it out here -YouTube - or - Download
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In this video we walkthrough my final lines, fill colors, and texturing - the end result of which is here -
2020-09-08 16:27:55 +0000 UTC
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Check it out here -
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In this video I walk you through my process of working up the final lines before lay...
2020-09-07 06:15:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hope you're well! Thank you for your patience with this! I've recorded over 4 hours of the process since the last video, I'll have part 2 up tomorrow, but in the meantime here's the current work in progress. I'm in the final stretch with the painting, all the hard stuff is done(drawing, wash, underpainting), now all I need to do is blend and render everything out like I did with the face so far. I generally will black out the background so that I can make it easier on myself render...
2020-09-06 00:00:43 +0000 UTC View Post
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Thank you all for the great questions, and for making me freestyle, I appreciate it! I played the upcoming(one of them at least) video from my Magic Style Illustration process in the background of this one so that hopefully you can stay mostly entertained if I touch on older questions or anything like that.
Please let me know if you have any follow up questions below or if you need any clarity on anything I may not have elaborated on.
Thanks again for all your sup...
2020-09-01 20:59:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Watch the video here(1hr 3min) -
YouTube(video may still be processing to HD) - or - Download
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Hope you've been well! Here's the first part of the Magic Style Illustration series I'm going to be putting ...
2020-09-01 05:17:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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So, as we move forward doing tutorial type work and all that, I wanted to show my approach of how I go about my Magic the Gathering style illustrations. This here was just a test to see how I may want to go about sharing the process in a video but I think it'll be fun to walk you all through how I use this approach for spooky fantasy.
This is basically a ping pong back and forth between Photoshop and Clip Studio. I included 2 PSD's on this post, most of part 1 was done ...
2020-08-25 21:42:39 +0000 UTC View Post
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Here's the latest progress I've made on the Mega Man Legends piece. Since the last update I completed all the final lines for the background and the characters/ships. After that I took it into Photoshop and rendered a lot of the values using soft light, overlay and multiply layers using textured brushes to create a kind of base painting look(similar to what I did in the Venom walkthrough).
My aim with this is to tap into that old feel that a lot of Playstation 1 games h...
2020-08-25 19:16:19 +0000 UTC View Post
(edit - I fixed the PDF, sorry for the issue!)
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Hope you're doing well! I've been working on a few bigger walkthroughs for this Patreon and I wanted to share this more in depth step by step of my most recent Venom cover. I've included a PDF of this as well as the PSD showing the images w/o the text so you can look through the file.
Here is the PSD(the PDF is attached to this post) - 2020-08-24 23:37:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hope you're doing well! Here's a progress update on the Mega Man Legends piece as well as a video showing the process of the servbots final lines to color as well as the environment sketch. I worked up the composition with all the colors to get things moving along so I have a clear path ahead when I move into the final piece.
Here's the link/download for the video! I am still recovering from surgery so I couldn't talk throughout the video, but this goes through the refi...
2020-08-19 01:29:39 +0000 UTC View Post
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I've been working this up the past day, just trying to finalize the lines and get all the elements in place before I render anything up. This was sort of a spur of the moment type illustration, I didn't have any real idea I was going to do this a couple days ago so I'm doing my best to try and speed through it all and hop back onto the Asuka Evangelion piece. But, I'm having a ton of fun on this! I hope you like the progress so far.
I'll do a more in depth look at the p...
2020-08-18 05:35:53 +0000 UTC View Post
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So, I wanted to try and put together a composition for a Mega Man Legends illustration. I'm just about done replaying the first game on my vita and thought it might be fun to do a homage to the game on here. I'd likely do something in the style of a type of pencil/color pencil/paint hybrid like the previous Zero piece but more rendered. Anyway, I tried to fit most elements from the first game in this illustration, or at least all of the ones that stand out to me.
Hope y...
2020-08-16 23:01:33 +0000 UTC View Post
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Here's a concept for what I think Zero could look like in Mega Man Legends - went for a straight pencil style with colors over top, nothin too crazy, but I like the look of it. I also included a PSD with all layers intact so you could look through the file and see how I went about doing each part. To get the fuzzy line look I just duplicated my final lines and added a gaussian blur.
Hope you like it! Thanks as always for your support!
Dave
2020-08-16 20:32:36 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hope you're well! Here's a quick portrait I did of Mega Man from Mega Man Legends - I also included a small process gif as well. I wanted to play with keeping the Capcom style alive in the painting, hope you like it :).
Thanks for your support!
Dave
2020-08-15 22:01:26 +0000 UTC View PostHello!
Hope you're all doing good! Please feel free to ask whatever questions you like for this month's Q&A - questions about art, my life, how deep and dark porn can get, etc. - I've been less active the last couple days because I got some of that good mouth surgery. Nothin' too crazy, just been a bit dizzy from the pain meds as I recover but I've worked out a few things I really want to get out for you all.
Specifically things that address the questions asked during th...
2020-08-15 18:27:32 +0000 UTC View Post
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So, I'm happy to say that the Rei Ayanami - Evangelion piece is done! I'm pretty excited about wrapping this one up, I learned a ton painting this and I can't wait to take what I've learned into future paintings. Thank you all so much for supporting me throughout the process and making paintings like this possible.
Here are the high res files! Please make sure that whoever prints these files for you converts it first to CMYK and then does the necessary color adjustmen...
2020-08-11 23:52:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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Things are starting to really move now, I've mostly finished Rei and now I'm mostly focused on Unit 00. Shouldn't be too much longer now before it's all completed. Once I get this all wrapped up I'll of course be sharing the full res for your own print purposes and hopefully soon after I can get working on Asuka.
The last bit I'll be focused on in this piece is how they all work together overall, I'll likely add a bit more to the background and maybe add some more atmos...
2020-08-11 01:26:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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Here's where the Rei - Evangelion piece is at today - as well as a PDF step by step writeup of the background painting.
Thanks as always for your support!
Dave
2020-08-10 04:12:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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So, today I wanted to share the current progress on the Rei Ayanami piece - I spent a good amount of time drawing out Rei/sketching out Unit 00, I'm liking the way the textures/color on Rei's suit and the colors in general are coming along. Over the past few weeks I've been researching a bit more on Yoshiyuki Sadamoto's promo style images(the fully rendered ones), I managed to grab a copy of 'Carmine', his artbook, which was very helpful. For where this style is at right now I'm pr...
2020-08-06 19:58:46 +0000 UTC View Post
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I thought I'd share this with you all, here's an Orc sketch I did in Photoshop & Clip Studio, all layers intact if you'd like to look through and see how I went about the process.
I used Clip to reinforce the lines and to add in the white/green/brown pencil rendering.
Hope this helps! Thanks for all your support!
Dave
2020-08-04 20:40:39 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hope you're well! Here are a few character concepts I worked up today and yesterday. I wanted to get back to the original style I intended for StarVeil so I moved back to Photoshop for these and used a more charcoal-like brush for the inking to get that older feel(hopefully).
Here's the video as well, about an 1hr 15min
Video - YouTube - ...
2020-08-04 19:14:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey!
Thanks for all the questions last month, this was a fun Q&A, I really enjoyed getting into the backwoods Carver stories a bit. If you have any follow up questions or if you feel I may have misunderstood your question feel free to reiterate or ask whatever you like in the August Q&A questions thread that should be up shortly!
Thanks as always for all your support!
Dave
2020-08-03 18:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hope you're well - today I wanted to share the current process on this StarVeil character concept, I've included two videos below, the second of which has the completed Character Concept Q&A if you'd like to listen. The first video is more of a straight forward watching me draw the design type video. Looking forward to finishing this one, the next post will likely be that wrapping up process.
Here are the videos -
Part 1 - 2020-08-01 16:01:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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So here's the next sketch, playing around with design and shapes trying to find something interesting - in these videos I walk through my design ideas and general thought process of creating characters while addressing some of the questions from the Character Concept Questions post on here.
If you would like anything addressed in the follow video as far as any process questions or w...
2020-07-26 20:10:49 +0000 UTC View Post
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Did a little warm up this morning to just take a break and do something fun for myself - I kept all the layers intact so that you could go through the whole thing and see how I breakdown my process now. Hope this helps!
Thanks for your support!
Dave
2020-07-24 19:54:18 +0000 UTC View Post