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Fatal Fury - WIP + Timelapse Video

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 ...

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Color Pencil Process in Photoshop - video

Color Pencil Process in Photoshop - video

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Here's a break...

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Chun-Li - High Res

Chun-Li - High Res

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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'...

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Elena - Street Fighter III - layered PSD + printable file

Elena - Street Fighter III - layered PSD + printable file

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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 thi...

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Digital Sketchbook Style - video w/full commentary

Digital Sketchbook Style - video w/full commentary

Watch it here on YouTube 

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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 ...

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"Fuck You - A Basketball Manga" - inking style tests

"Fuck You - A Basketball Manga" - inking style tests

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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 becau...

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"Fuck You - A Basketball Manga" - Concept Art - 2

"Fuck You - A Basketball Manga" - Concept Art - 2

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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 t...

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"Fuck You - A Basketball Manga" - Concept Art

"Fuck You - A Basketball Manga" - Concept Art

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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...

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The Legend of Zelda - Link - pt.2 (w/full video commentary)

The Legend of Zelda - Link - pt.2 (w/full video commentary)

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October - Halloween -Q&A

October - Halloween -Q&A

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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...

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Ganon - it's done! - high res download

Ganon - it's done! - high res download

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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 t...

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The Basics - inking forms on forms on forms

The Basics - inking forms on forms on forms

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So, I wanted t...

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My Goddamn Goodness, this Ganon.

My Goddamn Goodness, this Ganon.

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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 ...

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Drawing Ganon Live

Drawing Ganon Live

Come hang out!

This was just a test stream btw, I'll do my best to schedule these in the future!

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Sketching Ganon - video

Sketching Ganon - video

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Hope you'r...

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Asuka - Evangelion - high res files

Asuka - Evangelion - high res files

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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 printin...

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The Legend of Zelda - Link - pt.1 (w/full video commentary)

The Legend of Zelda - Link - pt.1 (w/full video commentary)

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I hope you'...

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Legend of Zelda - Link - High Res (video coming!)

Legend of Zelda - Link - High Res (video coming!)

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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 ...

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The Basics - Composition - part 2 - video

The Basics - Composition - part 2 - video

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October Q&A - please leave your questions here!

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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, c...

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The Basics - Composition - video

The Basics - Composition - video

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Hope you're we...

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Asuka - WIP + Rei & Asuka comparison image

Asuka - WIP + Rei & Asuka comparison image

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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...

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The Basics - part 1 - (video)

The Basics - part 1 - (video)

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Update - Almost forgot! Here are the brush...

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Asuka - Evangelion - Underpainting

Asuka - Evangelion - Underpainting

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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 t...

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September Q&A + Evangelion video - mp3 also available

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!

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I hope you had a good weekend, here's the latest Q&A(the Evangelion video plays throughout the questions) - I got a new c...

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Asuka - lines complete!

Asuka - lines complete!

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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 pi...

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Drawing Wolverine - video w/full commentary

Drawing Wolverine - video w/full commentary

Drawing Wolverine - YouTube(may take some time for HD) - Download(HD right now) 

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Here's the latest in the Drawing series, this one is...

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Wolverine - Layered PSD + High Res

Wolverine - Layered PSD + High Res

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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 y...

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Mega Man Legends - High Res Files

Mega Man Legends - High Res Files

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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 u...

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Magic Style Illustration - part 7 & PSD's w/layers

Magic Style Illustration - part 7 & PSD's w/layers

Part 7 - YouTube - Download 

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Hope you're well! H...

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