September 1, 2021
Insights
August 4, 2021
August Insight | My workspace now vs. my workspace in a couple months
This fall, we'll be moving to a place where we have enough rooms that I can have my own office space! That means that I can finally have my art books, office knick-knacks and bureaucratic correspondence right by my side, instead of strewn over different
July 7, 2021
July Insight | Netherrealms was supposed to be a graphic novel
Above is a short test I did in Clip Studio Paint to try the tools for graphic-noveling. What amazing specialized software! I dove into the archives for this one. Netherrealms was first conceived as a graphic novel instead of a series of illustrations. Why? Because comics
June 4, 2021
June Insight | The difference between personal and commissioned work
Pictured above: a selection of work that I was commissioned to paint from 2020 until now. Any artist that has made the jump from drawing just for yourself to drawing for someone else can tell you that the process is very different. People might have a romantic
May 5, 2021
May Insight | How painting realism teaches me to paint fantasy
I've recently been dabbling in oil painting a bit. It's different from my digital and client work, and I imagine my next step being some still lives or some more elaborate portrait studies. I'm basically painting realism and trying to copy what I see as best
April 9, 2021
April Insight | Why I use the gradient/lasso tool so much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX7z39qIJ8M When you think of painting, you think of brushes. But even though I call myself a digital painter, I use the lasso tool and gradient tool a lot. Why? First, for those who don’t know: the lasso tool allows me to make a selection on the
March 3, 2021
March Insight | Writing Netherrealms
In 2016, I attended a week-long workshop organized by Chris Oatley, called the Storytelling Summit. I'd written a draft for Netherrealms before that, but after I came back, I rewrote the story again to incorporate what I'd learned. To do that, I use a software called
February 3, 2021
February Insight | Netherrealms website preview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgUzrGPTE8c Thought I'd share the progress I've been making on the website in this 1-minute video! I've got the basic look set up and the recent illustrations have their home - now I just need to decide how to showcase all the older content I have.
January 6, 2021
January | Work insight: Building & maintaining my composition
I already showed you all the thumbnails I have for this year’s Netherrealms content last month. I figured that I’d focus on how I construct a composition for a finished illustration for this month’s workflow insight!Sometimes, I have a concept in my head that I
December 2, 2020
November | Work insight: Survivorship Bias
This month, I want to highlight an article I wrote for my blog that seemed to resonate with more people than usual. It's less about drawing and more about mindset, but that's also an important part of my work. I think realizing what survivorship bias
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