I’ve been working on the tutorials section – including GIMP, Photoshop, etc – at my Illustrations website. It’s going to be a great page when it’s done, with link after link to step-by-step tutorials telling how to paint and render all kinds of images, from sc-fi to children’s book.
But as I was editing [...]
OK, so I just watched Avatar and I’m not going to even fight the influence this is going to be having on my sketches for the foreseeable future.
It’s a great movie and I absolutely loved it. It has attracted some criticism for a certain simplicity in the story, but I think that’s missing the point. [...]
This week we internet artists are being challenged with the word “hatch”. Now of course this is going to produce one or two images of dragons hatching from eggs, produced by the more fantasy, science fiction and role-playing game minded – like me – but it could also be associated with a hatch in the [...]
The Americans (not just the Democrats, the Republicans have voiced similar concerns) have told off the Tories here in the UK for embracing European partners with views that are a little too worrying, a little too closely. The Guardian comment piece that inspired this editorial illustration. I immediately wrote a little something for my [...]
This is my latest editorial illustration for Dragonbat (my illustrator/Guardian reader rants and sketches blog). I’m writing an article about copyright on the internet, and as usual I wanted a cool illustration to accompany it. The article itself isn’t finished yet – pressures of actual work that brings me real cash money, rather than [...]
I’m working on that long overdue new logo for the various different creative things I’m doing, so that it all has a more uniform look.
There are some things about the current look that I like and that I’m going to keep. The purple colour scheme looks great both with the sci-fi, comic book, role-playing [...]
I think this 3D model that I am currently working on in Blender (the free 3D software solution) is really going to be something special. In my last post I mentioned how I’m keen on putting some of my 3D images on the front of t-shirts and I think Dark Cat here will be perfect [...]
This Blender 3D tutorial has really helped me with my latest problem. The problem was that no matter what I did the body of the 3D cat mesh that I’ve been working on refused to look like anything other than a piece of hexagonal metal. I desperately needed to smooth it but I didn’t [...]
I need a background for my 3D witch’s cat animation and I’ve decided that the easiest way to go is simply to sketch one, scan it in and colour in the resulting image with Photoshop. Then all I’ll need to do is finish the cat mesh, a mouse mesh and possibly a mousetrap mesh as [...]
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