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Hope you're well! Here is that Pilot concept I started, it's mostly done - at least this is what I would send in for a piece of concept art if this were a job! Really enjoyed this process, gonna keep on using the steps involved in this one on future illustrations. I could certainly take this to a more finished look, but for now, I hop...
2022-04-27 21:46:49 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hope you're well! Here's two paintings I did over the past couple days, these were both pieces I used to test out a new brush that I grabbed from an old pack of mine and adjusted to fit my current workflow. It is the Venom brush of the pack attached below - lots of nice texture in this one, helps render out a bit with some nice n...
2022-04-25 16:52:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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We'll be live at 9pm MST, 3am GMT, gonna be working up the Pilot Concept from yesterday! Hope to see you there - if you can't make it, you can rewatch the stream here, thanks for your support!
Dave
2022-04-22 01:51:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hope you're well! Here's a couple things I've been working on, I wanted to show my process for a character concept as well as play around with a more "realistic" type of rendering similar to my older process back when I did TMNT portraits.
I also recorded a bit of the Pilot Concept, gonna post that up soon, it's around 2 hours, ...
2022-04-21 03:32:27 +0000 UTC View Post
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Figured I'd post this isolated as well - here is The Basics video without the Pig Man video attached, should cut down on the amount of time watching!
Thanks as always for your support!
Dave
2022-04-16 01:55:19 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hope you're well! This video covers my most recent concept process in photoshop - been enjoying these steps quite a lot in my workflow and have been turning stuff around really quickly using it - hopefully this will ...
2022-04-16 01:53:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Maybe we'll draw Elden Ring, maybe we'll paint a Cat man, who knows, the world is an oyster and we are the clams.
Thanks as always for your support!
Dave
2022-04-15 02:01:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hope you're well! It's finally done!
If you'd like to purchase a discounted print(discounted $5, cost of the patreon!)- this will be exclusive to the patreon until the first week of May -
2022-04-12 05:14:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hope you're well! The stream will be started soon, figured I'd drop a post here in case you're not on the discord! Feel free to join in the chat and ask whatever questions you like!
Thanks as always for the sup...
2022-04-08 01:50:50 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hope you're well! I wanted to share the current progress on the Chrono Trigger painting - it's almost done, just a few final things left to do - I need to finish Ayla, add Robo's backpack, do some blending/painting on Lucca, paint Crono's hand up and finish Marle's foot - then it's a matter of touching up the background stuff. I mean,...
2022-04-06 05:37:17 +0000 UTC View Post
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We're about to get going live, inking the Elden Ring illustration, if you'd like to join in and ask questions or just follow along, you can click the link here!
Thanks for your support!
Dave
2022-04-01 02:20:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey!
We're about to get going on the live stream I mentioned yesterday, if you'd like to join in and ask questions or just follow along, you can click the link here!
Thanks for your support!
Dave
2022-03-25 02:14:39 +0000 UTC View Post
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before I get into it, we'll be having a live stream tomorrow night at 9pm MST, 3am GMT, I'll post up the video link tomorrow!
Hope you're well! This video covers the basic process of the Forest...
2022-03-24 06:48:22 +0000 UTC View Post
*Before I get into describing the video, we'll be doing a Youtube Live draw along Thursday at 9pm MST - the topic will be arctic space ape - this will be a concept art type of draw along but feel free to do whatever you like! There will...
2022-03-17 06:05:29 +0000 UTC View Post
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Here's the latest updates to the Chrono Trigger painting as well as a Cell portrait - I'm not wild about the Cell portrait so I made a video about burn out and working through a painting when you're not super motivated - when to keep pushing and when to start over.
Hey!
Hope you're well! Here is something I've been working on, a pen & ink style Elden Ring poster - still not totally sure on the composition but this is where I'm currently at with it - if any of the comps stand out to you, let me know! The previous post is also a process stream for this piece if you'd like to check that out and watc...
2022-03-08 06:46:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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This was an impromptu stream of the current Elden Ring piece I've been working on - went through some process as well as questions and general conversation from the chat. Future streams will be announced on here as well as ...
2022-03-08 06:31:49 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hope you're doing good! Wanted to share a couple things I've touched on to experiment around - these were both started using the clip studio brush attached - this brush has a great amount of control, it has wet edges but you can turn those off if you want a smoother look, I generally paint with it around 60% opacity.
Both ...
2022-03-04 06:52:11 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hope you're well! Thanks for all the questions on such short notice, we really appreciate it! My portion of the video craps out at around 25 minutes and instead continues on with Kim and my FF7 painting process - on...
2022-02-28 18:14:55 +0000 UTC View PostHey!
Hope you're healthy and bulked up! I know this is last minute, but I wanted to make sure that everybody was in good health here before posting this up! My wife has been sick for a month now and the rest of us have been on and off fighting colds and covid and who knows what. All that to say, it's time for the February q&a!
Th...
2022-02-26 02:41:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hope you're good! Here's the latest addition to the Chrono Trigger painting - Magus - feeling good about the overall painting, I'm excited to go through the tighten everything up, but before that I'm gonna work in the background. The background will be the big C with the clock design integrated. So glad to be this far into this one, c...
2022-02-25 05:50:31 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hope you're in good health! Here is a video I recorded tonight, I wanted to try the old sketchbook style I posted up awhile ago using the watercolor look in Clip Studio - similar to what I did on the big Metal Gear Solid il...
2022-02-22 08:41:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hope you're feelin good! Here's two small images I worked on for tests - one is the Asuka done in a watercolor style and the other is a grayscale to color approach in Clip Studio with colors added in Photoshop using Krillin's noseless face as the vehicle. I included the Asuka PSD below with layers intact so you can comb through everyt...
2022-02-22 08:40:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hope you're well! This is the latest process I've been using for my grayscale painting approach - this starts in Clip Studio and moves over into Photoshop. The video is real time process and I've included my brushes(...
2022-02-15 17:45:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hope you're well! Thanks for being patient with me on this one - this past week my family caught covid, I was pretty sick for 5 days and really wasn't able to do a whole lot and the following 3-4 days my wife got hit pretty hard as well as the kids so we've been doing what we can while keeping everyone taken care of! That's why things...
2022-02-10 07:31:32 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hope you're well! Here's the latest update to the Chrono Trigger painting as well as the Lucca tutorial write up - I think this approach with Lucca works pretty well, I especially like it on Robo so far, I think once this all comes together it's gonna be pretty strong if things lean toward that Robo level render. Lots of learning and ...
2022-02-02 05:05:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hope you're good! This is the latest bit of progress I've made on the latest Chrono Trigger illustration - making decent progress, had to take a short break to wrap up some long running jobs - but I'm free now! I'm trying to mix a couple approaches in this one, I want to see if I can render out Lucca in grayscale and make the jump int...
2022-01-28 07:24:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hope you're well! Here is the first part of the Basics series for my current process using the Grayscale to Color technique using the ~ key for the painting in/out of values in black & white. ...
2022-01-20 05:01:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Watch the full 3hr process here
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Hope you're full and warm! As promised, here's the full & timela...
2022-01-14 18:29:17 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hope you're good! Here's the latest addition to the Chrono Trigger painting, this time it's Frog/Glenn, possibly my favorite character from the game.
At this stage I have his main values rendered out and all that's left to do is a paint over to smooth everything out - but, as I said before, I'm loving this approach, I thin...
2022-01-14 07:38:19 +0000 UTC View Post