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Chrono Trigger - WIP

Chrono Trigger - WIP

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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 be...

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Playing w/B&W approach

Playing w/B&W approach

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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...

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Rei - Timelapse video & Full 2hr30m video

Rei - Timelapse video & Full 2hr30m video

Watch Timelapse here! 

Watch Full process here! 

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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...

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YuYu Hakusho high res + print ✼ Battle Angel sketch

YuYu Hakusho high res + print  ✼  Battle Angel sketch

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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 d...

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Kurama - timelapse video & full length video

Kurama - timelapse video & full length video

Watch the timelapse here

Watch the 2h48m realtime process 

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Hope you're well, happy holidays! Today I wanted to share some more progress on the Yu Y...

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Yu Yu Hakusho - progress + process

Yu Yu Hakusho - progress + process

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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 w...

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Mega Man X & Zero - High Res

Mega Man X & Zero - High Res

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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 ou...

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Mega Man X - Zero Timelapse

Mega Man X - Zero Timelapse

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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 ...

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Implying Detail w/Inks Step by Step + Timelapse

Implying Detail w/Inks Step by Step + Timelapse

Watch it here! 

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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 det...

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November Q&A - video

November Q&A - video

Watch it here! 

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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 ...

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Comic Inking & Coloring process - video + brushes

Comic Inking & Coloring process - video + brushes

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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 t...

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November Q&A - leave your questions here!

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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 w...

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F-Zero Discord Challenge Review - pt.2

F-Zero Discord Challenge Review - pt.2

Watch Part 2 here! 

Watch Part 1 here! 

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Hope you're well! Here is the second part of the discord challenge review - this one took a bit to edi...

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Sailor Moon - high res + discount print + line variant

Sailor Moon - high res + discount print + line variant

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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 ...

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Guts - Manga Variant - high res + early access print

Guts - Manga Variant - high res + early access print

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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 a...

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Guts - high res + early access print + layered PSD

Guts - high res + early access print + layered PSD

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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 attac...

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Veil - comic - page 2

Veil - comic -  page 2

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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 se...

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October Q&A - video

October Q&A - video

Watch it here! 

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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 &...

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Final Fantasy 7 - Cloud & Aerith progress

Final Fantasy 7 - Cloud & Aerith progress

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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 ...

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F-Zero Discord Challenge Review - pt.1

F-Zero Discord Challenge Review - pt.1

Watch the video here! 

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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 fi...

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Final Fantasy 7 - progress - blocking/sketching/posing

Final Fantasy 7 - progress - blocking/sketching/posing

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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 doin...

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October Q&A - leave your questions here!

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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 y...

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Final Fantasy 7 idea + Charmander PDF walkthrough

Final Fantasy 7 idea + Charmander PDF walkthrough

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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 th...

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Char Aznable - High Res + Early Print Access

Char Aznable - High Res + Early Print Access

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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 ove...

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Char Aznable - video process + commentary

Char Aznable  - video process + commentary

Watch the video here! 

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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 ren...

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Char Aznable - Zaku II update + mini process

Char Aznable - Zaku II update + mini process

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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 j...

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September Q&A - pt. 2 - video

September Q&A - pt. 2 - video

Watch it here! - or - Watch pt. 1 

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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 mis...

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September Q&A - pt. 1 - video

September Q&A - pt. 1 - video

Watch the video here! 

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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 mu...

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PokéQuest - The Gastly Trio - High Res File!

PokéQuest - The Gastly Trio - High Res File!

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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...

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Char - progress update + process

Char - progress update + process

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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 t...

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