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Hope you're well! Lots has happened in the past few days that's been both good and bad - although the bad turned out to be good too - I've recently replaced my previous Cintiq Pro 32 with a new one only to find out that not only was my screen messed up(which was the reason I replaced it, some dead pixels and a bunch of red dots), but ...
2021-05-02 07:16:36 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! Please feel free to leave any questions you may have for me here and I will answer them all in the upcoming Q&A video - you can ask me anything, personal, professional, emotional, hormonal - I'm open to everything - here's some example questions -
"hey dave, when you get sick, does your puke get in your fac...
2021-04-22 06:35:49 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! Here's the latest progress on the Bloodborne piece - I've come back to it and have begun painting in the remaining elements before I go in and finish it all. The Hunter is coming along well enough but I'll be doing a lot of refining and detailing on his character as well as the background/framing and the final ...
2021-04-22 06:25:47 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're doing well! Here's the latest video of part of my Frieza process - in this you can expect me to roll down a hill and ramble about all kinds of art talk while enjoying scotch.
This is the youtuber I was talking about...
2021-04-16 03:48:53 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! Started these guys last night, wanted to work up some more concept art style stuff for you to check out - I've been doing a lot of that work lately and have been trying a whole bunch of approaches to see what works best for what genre I'm goin for. This style gets closer to what I always had in mind for dark fantasy ...
2021-04-13 22:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Hope you've been well! I wanted to share with you my latest approach for my current work. This is sketched in grayscale and rendered up to color making necessary adjustments along the way. The attached PSD has everything layered out so you can see all the steps - this process is very similar to one I used years ago - I'm more or less ...
2021-04-07 21:20:40 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're doing well! Here's part 2 of the March Q&A - a lot is addressed here - martial arts, darkness, discipline and how to deal with negative family members - we covered a lot of ground together!
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2021-04-04 06:49:50 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're doing well! Here's part 1 of the Q&A from March - I split this up to maintain my energy so I'm not slowing down on the question answering a couple hours in - instead, this one is around 1hr 26min. Around the end of th...
2021-04-03 21:24:42 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're all well! I wanted to share with you a small piece I did to play with the grayscale approach I used to have while working in Photoshop. This was more or less a test to see if I could apply this same look to concept art without it looking out of place. I think this works well for what it is and I've seen a ton of artists us...
2021-03-25 04:38:01 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! Here's something I've been meaning to cover - working in concept art - I'm just coming off a job working on a video game as a concept artist and, while it's still fresh, I wanted to cover my advice/...
2021-03-25 04:20:14 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! Here's the latest Basics video covering my process using the Mixer brush(attached in the snowman brushes) as a means of final render, or rather - just part of the final process. I think that this approach lends itself to a more naturalistic oil style painting, which is something I've been after since I started that S...
2021-03-14 15:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! Please feel free to leave whatever questions you like here for this month's Q&A - you can ask me anything personal/professional or otherwise. Go ahead, ask me how many rats I've eaten, ask me about my glands, ask me if I can predict how much longer my dog will live without actually taking it's life with my bare h...
2021-03-14 07:37:49 +0000 UTC
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I'm back at it! Added in Makoto, began rendering her, going to add more characters as I go, but this is coming along quicker now that I'm using the approach I outlined in the latest Basics video coming later today(Sunday, March 14th). A big thank you to Wes Burt for hooking me up with a beautiful mixer brush that has helped so much - ...
2021-03-14 07:35:10 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're all well! I wanted to share with you the current process I've been playing with for quicker blocked in paintings. I'll go into a bit more depth with the Basics video on this process as far as the steps & brushes go, but I felt this would be a helpful walkthrough to share in the meantime!
Also, I've included the h...
2021-03-08 06:05:18 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're all well! First of all, I want to thank you for the huge amount of replies I got to the message I sent out to you all. I read every response, I couldn't thank you enough for the sheer amount of relief you all brought me, the stress was getting to me for sure this past month so I really appreciate it - I also address this i...
2021-03-03 06:46:30 +0000 UTC
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Watch the Snowman video process here! - this video is real time, nothing sped up, runs for 2 hours w/Dark Souls 3 ost
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Hope you're well! Here's two new concepts, I did these with a focus on trying new techniques. Both use the brushes I atta...
2021-02-21 04:51:50 +0000 UTC
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2021-02-17 00:01:04 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! Here's the Ludwig drawing video I've been talking about for a bit, this goes through the process of detailing out all the line art as well as my thoughts on the style I've chose so far and the time ...
2021-02-16 15:33:02 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! So, I wanted to share where I'm at with the Persona 5 piece as well as what I've done to the Bloodborne piece. I spent a good amount of time staring at the Bloodborne piece really feeling like it wasn't up to par with what I know I'm capable of, I couldn't shake the feeling that it just wasn't going to end up looking...
2021-02-14 07:54:26 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! Here's the follow up to the previous Q&A where I had to end things a bit before the final questions. I hope this covers everything you were looking for, please ask whatever follow up questions in th...
2021-02-14 07:54:22 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! Today I wanted to share the process involved in my Venom #34 cover, done for Unknown Comics. This one is slightly different for process because I leaned more into the soft round airbrush type look for all the detailing throughout the entirety of this one. It's likely more in line with what I did on the My Hero Academ...
2021-02-08 18:31:51 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! Here's the January Q&A, it's going to be split into two parts because of the sheer amount of questions I go this time around, there were over 80 and we usually only cover around 60 in these, so, to avoid me beco...
2021-02-08 18:31:07 +0000 UTC
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Bloodborne thumbnail video -Watch it here!
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Hope you're all well! I just wanted to quickly share what I've been doing to continue to test my grayscale approach as I move a bit closer to doing a full basics walkthrough of this specific style. So ...
2021-02-06 06:46:11 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! I wanted to post up an update today around the Bloodborne piece I've been working on - so far, so good, I think things are coming together pretty well! Something as ambitious as this piece was beginning to feel a bit overwhelming when it came to filling in all the tiny little details on all the bosses, but I think I'...
2021-01-31 22:38:49 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! I just wanted to share something I worked up for you all yesterday - it's my approach to working through quick, painterly, portraits - this approach takes me around 1-2 hours generally and leans more toward the oldschool rpg aesthetic than the recent My Hero Academia stuff that I shared.
I included a PDF(...
2021-01-26 20:29:06 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! Here's the latest update for the Bloodborne piece - working up placement on all of the bosses and the eventual looming hunter and background elements. I'd say the hardest part of working on this one so far is the sheer amount of detail that each boss has to them - not to mention the often vague reads they had to thei...
2021-01-23 06:04:16 +0000 UTC
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Please feel free to leave whatever questions you'd like me to answer in this month's Q&A video! You can ask me anything, doesn't have to be art, you can ask why I sweat beneath my fingernails, how do I grapple with looming dread, or what is my favorite type of fluid to submerge my body into - anything goes.
Looking forward t...
2021-01-19 22:15:52 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! Here's the video process I mentioned for Draygon from the Super Metroid poster - m...
2021-01-19 22:09:59 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're good! Here's the latest progress on the Bloodborne piece - this is a thumbnail for the piece, I'll use this throughout the process as reference of where to place lighting, figures and overall tone of the image. I went with the iconic hunter from the concept art/cover and I decided against doing a single enemy as it did not...
2021-01-17 21:05:00 +0000 UTC
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Hope you're well! Here's another My Hero Academia character, Bakugo! The reason I'm actually doing these is because I wanted to plan something in the future and was hoping to target a style to approach that piece. This Bakugo was really quick, around 3 hours, so it's not totally emblematic of what the future piece will be, I'll defini...
2021-01-17 04:29:07 +0000 UTC
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