I’ve been wanting to share this neat trick I found while experimenting with my digital painting workflow. Digital painting and working in Photoshop tends to be a never ending experiment in efficiency. Over the years, I’ve made a couple of discoveries for techniques that really work for me. Setting up brush blending modes with ExpressKeys […]
Well, it’s been another busy month. After getting home from my whitewater rafting trip, my schedule was immediately consumed with several contract negotiations, wrapping up a commission, planning a big party for the Summer Solstice and also spending time with family visiting from overseas. Whoa! Today, I want to share a neat little perspective method […]
Sometimes, a good idea is buried under a lot of bad ideas. I was clicking through some old folders of work recently and came across an idea from last year that I really wanted to paint, but had to give up when I hit a creative wall. This can happen, especially with personal work. When […]
Whew. I’ve recently emerged from a crazy black hole of work overload. My apologies for the quiet period! Multiple deadlines at the same time forced me to chain myself to my computer for over a week. “Inka Umu”, a book cover illustration for an independent author, is the last project from this time. The piece […]
So, I’ve been really swamped with a lot of NDA work recently and the personal work has gotten shifted to the back burner. However, I’d like to share a story here with you that I actually haven’t really told since I worked on it last summer. I was asked by a client to undertake the […]
I am very excited to release my latest digital painting, “Into the Feywild.” In developing the concept for this piece, I had a bit of a revelation. I realized that the beginning stage of thumbnails and concepts for a new painting is always the most difficult for me. Rarely do I have an idea that’s […]
I recently completed my latest digital painting, “Burn the Past”, and am excited to share with you the thought process that went into this piece 🙂 One of the first things I wanted to do at the outset of this piece was design an illustration that would first and foremost be super effective as a […]
The above snapshot is a closeup of my latest painting, “Burn the Past.” It’s really close. I am just sleeping on it at the moment so I can approach it with fresh eyes before I call it finished. One thing that I discovered while making this painting was the world of possibilities that open up […]
When I started this Patreon back in October, I decided to kick it off with a painting called “Survivor”. I painted this piece in just under a week, right before the Illuxcon convention. With hindsight, I can see a lot of problems with this original painting that I just wasn’t really able to get past […]
I’m very excited to release my latest digital painting: “Welcome to My Humble Abode”. I posted a small zoom in of this character on Instagram and it seemed to generate a good bit of buzz! Something that I’ve been mulling over recently is the “There and Back Again” journey I’ve had between traditional and digital […]