Tarbean
An alley in Tarbean from Patrick Rothfuss’ The Kingkiller Chronicle | Personal Work
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The Waystone Inn
Overhead Design of the Waystone Inn from Patrick Rothfuss’ The Kingkiller Chronicle | Personal Work
Cursed by the Cthaeh
Portrait of Kvothe of Patrick Rothfuss’ The Kingkiller Chronicle | Personal Work
Nude Figure Study of Jenni
This week in Noah Bradley’s Art Camp we’re studying figures, gestures, and flesh tones, and one of the assignments is a long digitally painted color study of a full figure. I highly recommend this class to anyone who wants to level up their digital painting skills, especially for professional illustration or concept art. I chose […]
An Alternative to Resolutions
Happy New Year! Today I conducted my first annual review on 2013 and made plans for 2014, as suggested by blogger Chris Guillebeau of The Art of Noncomformity in his essay How to Conduct Your Own Annual Review. A personal Annual Review an alternative to New Year’s resolutions, and for good reason, only 8% of people keep their resolutions. […]
Kvothe: Color Experiments
I’ve been developing the design of Kvothe, the main character in Patrick Rothfuss’ The Kingkiller Chronicle, for my thesis project dedicated to visually developing the story for game pre-production. Above are my color experiments for Kvothe as an adult. It’s helpful to make quick study of color combinations in the process of visual development before creating the […]
What Makes a Good Silhouette?
The overall shape, the silhouette, is the primary and most powerful way to identify an object, type of person, or creature. The ability to quickly pick out meaning from silhouettes, such as whether the thing we saw would help, nourish, or hurt us. Shapes are a kind of language that we learned first to identify, […]
Master Studies: Golden Age of Illustration: N.C. Wyeth
The Golden Age of Illustration was the period between 1850-1925 in which illustrated magazines and books climbed to the height of popularity, containing a wealth of art that embellished both fiction and non-fiction subjects in mass-circulation books, magazines, and posters. Illustration had never before, and has never since, been such a popular or vital form of […]