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Fatal Fury - WIP + Timelapse Video
Check out the timelapse here!edit - if you're unfamiliar with the characters - These are characters from SNK's Fatal Fury(they're also in King of Fighters and some other titles) - they're Mai Shiranui, Terry Bogard and Andy Bogard. I was a big fan of all these characters having grown up playing the games as well as the Fatal Fury anime's being some of my first introductions to anime itself.Hey!Hope you've been well! I want...
Color Pencil Process in Photoshop - video
Watch on YouTube - or - DownloadHey!Here's a breakdown of my color pencil approach in Photoshop, the first chunk of the video is the basic approach followed by some of the Chun-Li process.I find that it's easiest to share my process by doing quick step by steps with simple images, so I hope it's helpful - if you'd like me to elaborate on anything in the video, please let me know in the comments!You can grab Kyle's brushes here...
Chun-Li - High Res
Hey!Here's the next in the, uh, Street Figher series? I don't know, I just started drawing Street Fighter characters and now I'm here, there's way too many characters for me to do them all, but I might do some more - or I might hop around to SNK characters - not sure! But anyway, there will be a video up where I explain a bit about how I'm achieving the color pencil/pastel rendering look - I recorded about an hour of this proc...
Elena - Street Fighter III - layered PSD + printable file
Hey!Here's the latest piece I worked up using that sketchbook style. In this approach I began by using the Kyle T Webster "perfect pencil" brush in Photoshop for the initial sketch & refinement sketch - after this I did the inks in Clip Studio using the attached inking brush - once I had that done I just dropped in some colors in Clip Studio, did a pass with some slight color shifts in the hair/skin/accessories and dropped in shadows ...
Digital Sketchbook Style - video w/full commentary
Watch it here on YouTubeHey!So, today I wanted to touch on how I'm doing those concept sheets for the manga. This style is mostly a sketch in photoshop with slight refinement followed by some colors done in clip studio with final adjustments completed in photoshop. I like this style and approach because of the speed and the final look of it all - it feels traditional and a little warmer than I've been able to get across before. Things are...
"Fuck You - A Basketball Manga" - inking style tests
Hey!I was pretty happy with the concepts so far but I hadn't really hit on exactly how the comic would look in print with the inking style. What I had previously was more of a loose pencil/color pencil/marker style - but here I've been doing my best to channel a classic manga style akin to Inoue Takehiko. I'm going for this approach because I want this to feel very authentic but throw a curve ball with all the subject matter of the co...
"Fuck You - A Basketball Manga" - Concept Art - 2
Hey!So, here's the next round of concept for Fuck You - I needed to add more players to the team to get a handle on how to write them - it's very hard to write a character you can't see, so I tried to get some down to have a jumping off point for dialogue and character interaction.So far I'm feeling really good about these - been tossing around a bunch of ideas between me and Dan(we write Steve Lichman together) - and I'm happ...
"Fuck You - A Basketball Manga" - Concept Art
Hey!We're finally here, we're back to comics and I couldn't be more excited - I'm working on the script for this one, got a ton down already and am just starting to concept out everyone in the series so I know the style/vibe for the whole thing. It's really important to nail down how this manga will look before I start, I don't want to be deep into this with the style suddenly shifting into something totally different.So, ...
The Legend of Zelda - Link - pt.2 (w/full video commentary)
Watch it on YouTube - or - DownloadIf you missed part 1 - Watch it on YouTube - or - DownloadHey!Hope you all had a good weekend so far and a fun Halloween if you were out eating kids and talking to different types of demons and all that.Here's part 2 of the Link process video, in this part I touch on the techniques used throughout the video as they come up, I tell you about the time I wandered the forest/met the elves/fought the spider as we...
October - Halloween -Q&A
Watch on YouTubeHey!Hope you're all well! Thanks for all the great questions this time around, I appreciate the asides that lead me back to the woods and toward dumb stuff like the exorcism.If I did not address your question fully please leave a comment below so I can follow up with you!Thanks as always for your support!Dave
Ganon - it's done! - high res download
Hey!It's done! Took me a bit longer than I thought but I'm happy with how he turned out. I really wanted to try and push myself with the smaller inking detail on this one. I've always enjoyed drawing all the little tiny coins, pages and ornate stuff in scenes like this - so I indulged a little and tried to see where I could take it with this style.I hope that you like this one, feel free to download and print the attached high res fil...
The Basics - inking forms on forms on forms
Watch on YouTube - or - DownloadHey!So, I wanted to touch on something slightly more complex in this video - building forms on top of forms when inking. I usually see comments when I ink something more detailed asking about or commenting on smaller details like veins or muscle sitting on a larger form and I thought I'd address how I approach these things simply.Most of the time when I think through this process it's a matter of finding wh...
My Goddamn Goodness, this Ganon.
Hey!Man, this Ganon is taking too long, not sure what I was thinking doing this big of a pen & ink style piece hahah. I thought to myself it'd be relatively easy, the Link piece didn't take me too long. But I got it in my mind that I'd try and push and learn a bit more about how I can render forms using the lines alone, hence all the veins and muscle definition. When this is done I'm hoping it looks cool, I gotta make all this eff...
Drawing Ganon Live
Come hang out!This was just a test stream btw, I'll do my best to schedule these in the future!
Sketching Ganon - video
Watch on YouTube -or- DownloadHey!Hope you're doing good! Here's the next in the Zelda pen & ink series, this is the thumb-nailing and sketching portion of the Ganon piece I'm working up. Most of the major design ideas and compositional decision making is done at this stage so I wanted to share my thoughts and approach to the character and the illustration.This part of the process was done entirely in Photoshop using a chalk style bru...
Asuka - Evangelion - high res files
Hey!Finally! I've finally finished the Evangelion series! I knew it would take me a bit to get it all wrapped up, but it's done and here are the final Asuka files :). I hope that you like how it all came out, I'll link to the previous Shinji & Rei final high res posts here as well so you can grab them all if you're considering printing them as a trio.Shinji high res files - Rei high res filesHere are the high res files! Please mak...
The Legend of Zelda - Link - pt.1 (w/full video commentary)
Watch it on YouTube - or - DownloadHey!I hope you're well and hello to all the new patrons! Here is the first video covering a bit of my process for my Link piece that I posted last night. In this video I will briefly touch on techniques I'm using to workout the drawing while also telling mostly childhood stories where I relate most to Link, stories where I murder without remorse, just like Link.Look forward to the next part of this video...
Legend of Zelda - Link - High Res (video coming!)
Hey!Hope you've all been well! Here's the latest piece I did for a video on inking for you all. I've attached the high res so that you can download and look through the details or if you'd like to print this for personal use(please make sure to change file to CMYK before printing).The video will cover the entire process from some initial concepts up to the final piece. I'll be posting that up soon, hopefully tonight or tomorro...
The Basics - Composition - part 2 - video
Watch on YouTube - or - DownloadHey!Hope you're well! I wanted to do a follow up to the previous Basics video on composition because I felt that I didn't really cover enough ground on different approaches and simplified breakdowns of possible compositions. In this video I touch on a variety of work that I've done over the past year and show how I use shape and design to move the eye throughout the piece and take what could potentially...
October Q&A - please leave your questions here!
Hey!Firstly, hello to all of the new patrons on here, I really appreciate you joining and supporting everything I'm trying to do on this patreon! I just wanted to leave this post up to gather your questions for the Q&A I'll be doing toward the end of this month. Feel free to ask whatever you like - art questions, personal questions, career questions, really anything and everything including asking about my exorcism when I was a child or t...
The Basics - Composition - video
Watch on YouTube - or - DownloadHey!Hope you're well! Here is the next installment in The Basics series - in this video I cover three different approaches to tackling a Spawn comic cover composition. I go over how I use shapes and directional lines as well as contrast in color, light and shape to create an interesting cover for a portrait cover, a more full character shot cover and a fight scene.Here are the compositions -The Portrait -The Fu...
Asuka - WIP + Rei & Asuka comparison image
Hey!Hope you're doing well and hello to all of the new patrons that just recently subscribed on here, I'm waving to you in real time. I'll be putting up another basics video tomorrow morning - but in the meantime, I wanted to share the current progress of the Asuka Langley piece I've been working on. Asuka is mostly complete, I still have some work to do on little details and softening some areas, but in general this will be the l...
The Basics - part 1 - (video)
watch on YouTube - or - DownloadUpdate - Almost forgot! Here are the brushes I'm using(clip brushes are attached to this post)Jaime Jones BrushesGrzegorz Rutkowski Brushes - I've used a variety of these brushes, lots of great optionsLook through here for extra brushes, lots of great posts - or - look through their archive for specific artist brushesHey!Here's the first of a small series of walkthrough videos where I'm going to be ...
Asuka - Evangelion - Underpainting
Hey!Well, we're almost there with this one, it's ready to paint finally! I did a pretty thorough underpainting on this piece, I wanted to see if establishing so much of what was there in the original sketch(color wise) would help in the final painting - or just how much that may speed up my general process.When I approached the Rei piece I went right into the colors without doing a very intensive sketch or even an underpainting like this....
September Q&A + Evangelion video - mp3 also available
Here's the YouTube link to the Q&A - YouTube - the MP3 is attached to this post!Hey!I hope you had a good weekend, here's the latest Q&A(the Evangelion video plays throughout the questions) - I got a new camera so that there's a bit more going on in these videos going forward. I'll be sharing books I really enjoy as well as my workspace and other things through this so it should be a bit easier to give more informed answers on the...
Asuka - lines complete!
Hey!I wanted to share with you the current progress on the Asuka Langley - Evangelion piece I've been working up. For this one I really tried to get across the true look of the final piece in the lines rather than doing a lot of that work in the final painting(discovering the face style for instance - like I did in the Rei & Shinji pieces). So far I'm feeling pretty confident that this will have a pretty clear and strong execution when I ...
Drawing Wolverine - video w/full commentary
Drawing Wolverine - YouTube(may take some time for HD) - Download(HD right now)Hey!Here's the latest in the Drawing series, this one is of the Wolverine bust I posted up yesterday. In this video we touch on a similar approach to the Drawing Beast video but with an emphasis on rendering using an inking approach. What you'll see through this process is more or less how I render images like the ones below in this post. I'm using a mix of...
Wolverine - Layered PSD + High Res
Hey!I've got a lot coming up in the next few days for the patreon, I just finished recording this process for Wolverine, full commentary walkthrough should be up tomorrow as well as more PSD's and hopefully the Asuka lines the day after. In the meantime, you can download the PSD to check out and then follow along with the video if you like!Looking forward to sharing everything I've been working on, hope you've been well!Thanks as ...
Mega Man Legends - High Res Files
Hey!Well, here's the final Mega Man Legends piece! I'm happy with it, learned a lot working through it all. This one was purely to fulfill my childhood dream of just putting together a big Mega Man piece, I was always big into the style and grew up loving all the games. Mega Man Legends in specific always stood out to me as such a solid universe and the designs throughout the series are so consistent.Please feel free to print these for pe...
Magic Style Illustration - part 7 & PSD's w/layers
Part 7 - YouTube - DownloadHey!Hope you're well! Here's the latest part of the video series walking you through the final steps of the painting process - there will be one more part that will contain some painting of the background as well as final adjustments in Photoshop, but it will likely be comparatively short video.I've also included two PSD's of the build up of this painting with all layers intact so that you can look throu...
