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483 - Sketch dump ✏️

Sketch dump time!! Heres a lil page of doodles and warmups from the past few days.

For warmups, i like sticking to my comfort zone- that being random car sketches and low-pressure thumbnails. I also have some anatomy and painting studies, serving as refreshers for myself on various techniques and fundamentals.

2024-11-22 05:42:45 +0000 UTC View Post

Workstation Reveal 🖥 (free post)

What's up everyone!! I wanted to do something a bit different today, and show you a more behind-the-scenes of my art and where I create it.

I recently moved, so my setup atm isn't anything crazy... but it gets the job done. One day I hope to upgrade, and maybe even have my own sort of office/art-room; but for now I'm super thankful to hav...

474 WIP

Hey everyone,

Here's some flats that I'm currently working on- I think I'll start blocking in shadows tomorrow. I'm pretty happy with how the sketch developed, since it started out as a really rough concept but became more refined with each sketch-layer overlayed on top.

Here's a lil gif so you can see how many tries it took me to g...

COLOR + WORKFLOW 🎙 A closer look at colors in my process

What's up everyone, check out this new TUTORIAL video 🙌

While talking a bit about my process, this one goes deeper into how and why I pick the colors I do, and why they work. In the future, I'd like to make a vid covering purely color theory, but this one aims to give context with how it ties into ...

469_2 Landscape - Remember to thumbnail ☝️🤓

Hey everyone! Just taking a break from editing this month's video to show you a little landscape painting I've been working on, and what i've learned from it.

It's been a while since I've tried to build a full scene like this, since they can be pretty pretty tough to get looking "right" when taking into account the level of details and com...

Tutorial update

Hey y'alls

I previously mentioned that I would drop a tutorial vid tomorrow, but due to some minor health issues, it will be delayed for a bit! Hopefully I can get it edited and posted within the next few days.

Just wanted to keep you guys updated. Sorry about that and thanks for your patience 🙏

461 WIP

Hey everyone, just wanted to share some color flats I just finished for a painting I'm working on.

I made the sketch on my iPad, then transferred it over over to Photoshop. The scene originally had mountains in the background, but I found that it compositionally took away from the car as the focal point... and also the square frame felt a ...

457 WIP "doomscroll"

Here are some flats I'm currently working on! Trying to take a more narrative/story-telling approach with this piece.

The hand in the bottom panel actually took a bunch of tries to get looking right 😅 it's a tough angle but I think it looks good for now

Regardless, I'm super excited to get into shadows and lighting! Glad I took th...

4-5 Week Art Course ⁉️⁉️

Hey y'alls, I’m planning a 4-5 week course designed to help you better understand my style and/or advancing your own artistic goals and style. Right now, I'm just gauging interest to see if this is something you'd be excited about!

There would be two options:

• Lectures-only – Pre-recorded lectures fo...

  2024-09-29 10:37:45 +0000 UTC View Post

453 WIP

Robots are fun to draw!

Figured I'd paint another one of the sketches from my tutorial.

I was imagining this one as a sort of...repair/helper bot?- Featuring two arms for precision repairs, storage area for tools up top, and gyro-assisted propulsion mobility systems to get to those hard-to-reach repairs.

How to draw a Robot - TUTORIAL 🎙

Hey everyone 🤙

Today I have a much shorter and succinct tutorial, coming in at just under 7 minutes.

Follow along as I explain my thought-processes from ideation to render, as well as a bunch of workflow and painting tips.

Did you find this helpful? Let me know! Thanks for looking y'all 🙏

448SketchPage

Hope you're all doing well!

I just quickly wanted to share this page of sketches, studies, and doodles ✏️ Throughout the week, I'll get quick ideas and want to sketch them out, even if super rough. I'll also use these pages for little warmups and even studies, making sure to keep the pressure low and encourage myself to explore and be ...

"Car troubles" GIF Process

This was a fun one, guys 🚗

I actually ended up adding the lil guy towards the end, because I felt the scene was a little too empty/ lacking a defined focal point. He was originally standing up, but thought that him laying next to the car told more of a story!

Anyways, all of my "rendering" was done using multi...