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Hope you're well! This is going to be a short post but I wanted to share the progress so far on the Chrono Trigger piece I've had planned for bit. After applying the techniques I've learned over the past month or so I think I've found something that is really working for me. I'm really hopeful that this one will turn out well, it's been a lot of fun so far!
This one is just the value painting you see with flat colors beneath it and a shadow layer.
Thanks as always for y...
2022-01-11 08:00:24 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're doing good! These two paintings here were small tests I've been doing to nail down the b&w look and see just how much of that initial drawing/b&w painting I want to incorporate into my style. I've been finding that colorizing a slightly rendered drawing using basic values in shadows rather than fleshing out all the mid tones to be the best approach after working through these.
I think both of these paintings are failures in and of themselves, but I w...
2022-01-08 04:00:40 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! I wanted to share the process I used for this quick Rei study - I'm more or less playing with the idea of using the b&w approach for finished paintings with this one, I was hopeful that I could pull off something loose bu...
2022-01-08 03:52:44 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! Attached to this post is the high res file of the YuYu Hakusho piece I've been working on - learned a lot on this one, tried combining all of my past approaches into one and I think by the time I got to Hiei, I pretty much had it figured out - at least how I'll do it in the future. Once I had completed that piece I decided to try the same style on a more realistic painting - that's what the Battle Angel Alita piece was for, just wanted to practice a quick applicat...
2021-12-31 05:22:31 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well, happy holidays! Today I wanted to share some more progress on the Yu Yu Hakusho painting - here is the realtime + timelapse version of Kurama's process. I'm feeling great about this approach to lines/values in the initia...
2021-12-24 04:45:14 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! Here is the current progress on the Yu Yu Hakusho piece I've been working on - this one was started so that I could try and use the same approach I had used previously in the Super Metroid piece but with a slight alteration in the initial drawing phase(something that I hoped would work!).
I'm very happy with how quick this approach is for me - instead of using my lines/values as multiply layers like I did with the Super Metroid painting - which ended u...
2021-12-21 07:16:25 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! I wanted to post this up before the weekend, almost had this done last night but needed just a bit more time - I feel good about it considering I wasn't approaching this with any intention of really finishing it as an illustration - tried a different type of execution on this that was a lot of fun, mostly the hard outlined SNK vs Capcom era art.
I've attached the high res file to this post - feel free to do whatever you like with it, just please only u...
2021-12-18 06:45:51 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! I wanted to share the current progress on a Mega Man X piece I was playing around with. When I started I was just loosely sketching around and ended up liking the direction so I figured I'd build off my initial image and create a composition out of it -...
2021-12-14 06:57:39 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! Been working on a few different pieces back and forth this month, I've been trying to make some progress on the comic as well and since I know a few of you wanted to hear how I imply those small ornate details - I figured this would be a nice approach to share.
This process translates pretty similarly to my painting style, but I think when I use...
2021-12-11 07:12:55 +0000 UTC
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Thank you all for the great questions! We were able to get this video done in one go this time around - we covered a lot, we even got deep on my art related insecurities which is something we haven't touched on too much in the past. Lots on building career and entering the art industry!
Thanks as always for your support!
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2021-11-30 21:25:17 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! We're all setup and ready to go on future process videos - my new computer is here and things are running smooth again with screen recordings and process videos - this time around I wanted to hit on my comic process(same general process that I used for the Guts image I did previously).
The brushes used are attached to this pos...
2021-11-23 06:09:55 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! Please feel free to leave whatever questions you may have for me here - they can be about process, my interests/inspirations, how I'm able to eat all of my used batteries in order to help protect the environment from pollution - whatever you like!
Also, Kim will be joining me as always so feel free to ask her whatever as well!
Thanks for your support!
Dave
2021-11-17 07:38:06 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! Here is the second part of the discord challenge review - this one took a bit to edit together as my computer has been trying to end it's life recently and I have had to talk it off the ledge a bit! That being said, this was great, th...
2021-11-17 07:34:52 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're good! Going off of the previous Guts piece I wanted to take a stab at something a bit softer but still line reliant - I was hoping to pull off a softer look with the hyper detailed lines I've been using in that type of manga look. So, I thought Sailor Moon might be a good subject matter for that approach!
I have the high res attached to this post for both the images, feel free to print them how you like - or - if you'd rather buy them outright, here's the
2021-11-13 23:01:07 +0000 UTC
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Quick update here - I wanted to share the Manga variant to the previous Guts post, I really spent most of my time inking this one so I figured I'd share a version that was just meant to show off the classic manga look.
Here's access to the discounted print - or - the high res is attached to this post! The discounted print will be active until the 19th of Novembe...
2021-11-09 17:14:19 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're good! Been working on my inking style a lot lately, I wanted to share a piece I worked up recently - some Berserk fan art of Guts! I wanted to have a go at the detailed inks that Kentaro was famous for, I hope I scratched the surface of what he was able to produce.
If you'd like the high res, it's attached to this post - or if you'd rather - here...
2021-11-09 07:13:51 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're doing well! This is the completed page that I had started previously on here and hadn't finished, I spent a few hours rounding out the rest of it - this is page 2 of the comic, the first page is the characters arriving on the planet, this one is meant to establish the civilization that inhabits the place. Whenever you set up large environments in comics it's generally a good idea to do some establishing shots before you go in for close ups of your characters talking a...
2021-11-04 22:12:43 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're good! Here's the latest Q&A, we managed to fit all the questions into one video this time around, felt good to hit everything in one go!
Thanks as always for your questions & support!
Dave
2021-11-04 22:08:05 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! Things are progressing along pretty nicely, trying to find a balance of the original Final Fantasy 7 concept art and the style I've been painting in recently - I think the forms are coming together pretty well, especially on Cloud's armor and things, but we'll see how things change as I continue to draw everyone and paint things in. But, I'm pretty happy so far, this is very much still a work in progress so part can always alter as the painting is realized more (A...
2021-11-03 05:33:17 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! Here is the first part of the discord challenge review, it was great going through all of the final entries, we were very happy so many of you joined in for the first challenge on here! In this video we cover the first half of the entries and we'll be posting up part 2 covering the remaining entries soon!
Again, thank you all, I hope that this review is hel...
2021-10-27 22:01:12 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're good! Here's the latest update to the Final Fantasy 7 piece - at this stage I am trying my best to capture a bit of the essence of who each of these characters are to me - I don't mind being messy when I'm working through this phase, it's more important to me that I get across some type of(hopefully) iconic look. When doing this I am mostly looking at what initially got me into FF7 in the first place - the concept art and promo artwork/menu artwork - I look to these ins...
2021-10-26 17:34:37 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! October is nearing an end here, but before we're all dead on Halloween, we should do another Q&A - you can ask anything you like, personal or professional or obesessional - we can talk art, life, body deterioration, why my feet are slowly turning into jagged rocks, everything is on the table.
Please leave your question below or feel free to ask a follow up if I messed up your question from last month.
Thanks as always for your support!
Dave
2021-10-22 03:49:27 +0000 UTC
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Hope you've been well! I wanted to share an idea I had for a FF7 painting - not entirely sure if this is the comp I'll ultimately go for, but here it is at the moment. The balance is gonna be hard getting all the characters in - my thought is that they'll live in a sweeping kind of color space and will turn more into a shape rather than competing with each other for attention from the viewer.
Also, I attached the Pokémon PDF I mentioned - this is a simplified breakdown of ho...
2021-10-22 03:39:57 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! I wanted to push this one through tonight for you all! It's done, feeling good about this process, learned a ton from this one - I think my major takeaway is that the drawing is most important and that the end process of just texturing the overall image with little brush strokes for detail adds a ton to the overall feel.
I hope you like how this came out, I'm looking forward to continuing to push this approach and see where it all takes me.
2021-10-19 06:45:53 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! This one is nearing completion, just a small bit left in texturing Char's Zaku II and it'll be good to go! Here is a hour long commentary on how I approached this piece and my thought process on rendering using this style as well as general talk on influence and how I handle reference etc.
Hope you find this helpful!
Thanks as always ...
2021-10-13 21:58:01 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! Been drawing this Zaku for a minute, hard to get in all the little details on these goddamn complicated designs! Can't imagine animating these by hand, must be so wild! Anyway, here's the current progress for the piece, I'll be painting over Char and the Zaku II from this point forward - everything up until now has just been colors beneath line art.
Can't wait to see how this all comes together, super happy that this has progressed along as fast as it ...
2021-10-07 05:46:51 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! Here's part 2 of the Q&A, this one was great, thank you all so much for the questions! If we missed anything or you feel an answer wasn't clear enough - please leave a follow up below or post in the upcoming October Q&A thread.
Thank yo...
2021-10-04 02:33:55 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! Here's the first part of the September Q&A - there was some slight audio issues with this part so we're a little late in dropping it here but hopefully we fixed most of them! Thank you all so much for the questions, we were delayed in recording this due to strep throat, but thankfully we're both past it now and our puffy speckled throats made...
2021-10-03 06:08:55 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! It's done! Thank goodness for this new process, I'm flying through these larger paintings now, it's a beautiful thing. I'll share the full process in a PDF format shortly, I made sure to save each step of the process now that I have it ironed out a bit better.
Attached is the high res file if you'd like to get it printed for yourself - please do not resell this image! Also, make sure to convert to CMYK or have your print shop/printer do the necessary...
2021-10-01 18:59:44 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! I wanted to share where I am with the current Gundam piece - I've mostly got Char in a good spot, just some light painting over top and then final painting once the background is all completed to make sure everything blends nicely, but all in all I'm pretty happy so far.
I also included some thoughts on the process I've been using to work through Char, this process has been far more streamlined than my previous pieces - I'm using a lot of what I learne...
2021-09-29 07:18:45 +0000 UTC
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