4) Ok I kind of answered that. My favourite modern artists are Adrian Smith, Cynthia Sheppard and Jaime Jones (shown).
17) My biggest inspirations were games I played as a kid. Diablo, Warcraft 2, Half-Life, Dungeon Keeper, Warhammer, Magic, Shadowrun... I'd read the manuals religiously and copy the art, write stories in those worlds and make little RPGs for my sister to play.
25) THIS PIECE HAS BEEN DRIVING ME NUTS FOR YEARS I DON'T KNOW IF I'LL EVER FINISH IT AAAAAAA
WAIT how did that Mapach sneak into two posts? Extremely on brand. Have some more.
I talk about character concept art with students all the time and made this quick guide for folio building - figured I would share it here too 🙏 Obviously it doesn't cover everything, but these are some good practices.
Start // Finish
this is what it's like to tattoo an art director. REFBOARDS AND PAINTOVERS BABYYYY 🐍🌙🔺
Hey can we talk about THIS OWL? Amazing work @WilHallett_art ❤️
I did a wee photobashing demo on stream tonight!
The brief for this was: "Show a perfectly ordinary house cat surrounded by the ghostly spiritual avatars of its past lives." My first approach was to do a slightly comedic take where they were all smooshed into a tiny room, forever watching this normal cat. I still love it.
True to my word, I'm going to paint the lovely @RahulKohli13 as a space marine. First up, a super loose doodle 🙏
Here's the sketch I did on stream! Lots of fun chatting through my thought process - will push him to final in a future stream ?