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Magic Style Illustration Final + video part 6
Part 6 - YouTube - DownloadHey!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 part 6 I cover lots of tiny rendering detail, this is most of the stringy skin bits attaching to the ribs and the guts, also we get into the small ornamental brass pieces.This piece came together pretty much how I imagined it which is a great feeling, I ...
X-Men - Drawing Beast Video w/commentary - Beast, Jubilee, Omega Red PSD's
Drawing Beast - YouTube(may still be processing HD) - or - DownloadHey!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 also follow along by looking at the steps in each of the attached PSD's - Beast, Omega Red - Jubilee - these all follow the same steps from the Drawing Beast video.I've also attached the brushes that I use for these, I hope th...
Magic Style Illustration - Part 4 & 5
Part 4 - YouTube - DownloadPart 5 - YouTube - Download(both of the videos above may take a bit to complete full HD for YouTube)Hey!Hope you've been well! I've been hammering away at this over the past few days to try and get this close to a finished render, still have the background planet to render up and the clouds/sky, but it's well on it's way. Once I clear through what's left of the character it'll wrap up quickly.In ...
September Q&A - leave your questions here!
Hey!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 tru...
X-Men - portraits PSD w/layers
Hey!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 new layer)- duplicate drawing layer a...
Asuka Langley - sketch
Hey!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
Magic Style Illustration - part 3 - video w/full commentary
Check it out here -YouTube - or - DownloadHey!In this video we walkthrough my final lines, fill colors, and texturing - the end result of which is here -This is done all in preparation for the final painting where I will render out each element of the character using the established colors/textures in the image you see above. Essentially I'll be using the eyedropper tool to select colors and move throughout the piece blending and hopefully ad...
Magic Style Illustration - part 2 - video w/full commentary
Check it out here -YouTube(may still take some time to process HD) - or - DownloadHey!In this video I walk you through my process of working up the final lines before laying down the underpainting - addressing my thoughts on building from the thumbnail with a rough sketch to further guide the line work as well as all of the mistakes made throughout the process. At this point in the process we're focused on the most crucial aspect of the paint...
Magic Style Illustration - finished lines/underpainting/wip render + PSD
Hey!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 ...
August Q&A
Hey!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 ag...
Magic Style Illustration - part 1 - video w/full commentary
Watch the video here(1hr 3min) -YouTube(video may still be processing to HD) - or - DownloadHey!Hope you've been well! Here's the first part of the Magic Style Illustration series I'm going to be putting together. In this video I walk you through how I come up with my ideas for Magic cards as well as my thoughts on composing an image for a small card and my design decisions when it comes to characters/monsters. This video is a bit dif...
Magic the Gathering style sketch - PSD w/layers
Hey!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 ...
Mega Man Legends - almost at the end!
Hey!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 ...
Venom - step by step - PSD + PDF
(edit - I fixed the PDF, sorry for the issue!)Hey!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) - DownloadThe other post will be a long form video, i...
Mega Man Legends - progress update + video
Hey!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 throughou...
Mega Man Legends - progress so far!
Hey!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 s...
Mega Man Legends - illustration composition - wip
Hey!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 t...
Mega Man Legends - Zero - PSD
Hey!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
Mega Man Legends - w/gif process
Hey!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
August Q&A - leave your questions here!
Hello!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...
Rei Ayanami - High Res Files
Hey!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 an...
Rei - Evangelion - update
Hey!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 b...
Rei - Evangelion - background step by step - PDF
Hey!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
Rei Ayanami - WIP + PSD w/suit texture breakdown
Hey!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, whi...
Orc - PSD w/layers
Hey!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
StarVeil Character Concepts + video process
Hey!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 15minVideo - YouTube - DownloadThank you for all your support!Dave
July Q&A
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
StarVeil Character Concept + Concept Q&A video w/process
Hey!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 - YouTube -...
StarVeil Character Concept + Concept Q&A video w/process
Hey!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 whatever else related to the character design process pleas...
Wolverine - PSD
Hey!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
