For those who are interested I uploaded some pictures showing a step by step painting process:
(2) Underneath, on a third layer I started blocking in warm colors using a low key palette.
(3) I wasn’t really happy with the face so far and while fliping the image back and forth I realised that some of the features were slightly out of place. I decided to paint it all new and continued painting while constantly fliping the image and work either on the regualar or the mirrored image. Then I established a few cold colors in the reflections of the skin and hair.
(4) I did the same to the dress and the sword: cold reflection from an imaginary window above and warmer ones from the light reflected from the floor. As you can see I also started to change the proportions of the whole figure by cutting and pasting parts I felt were too long or too short. Also the silhouette needed some more refinement.
(5) To give the whole picture a bit more dimension I thought the figure might cast a shadow on the wall behind. Further I had to check my values to not loose the silhouette of my character. I wanted the focal point to be around her face, collar and a few accents on the belt and sword. Thats why I saved the brightes tones for excactly those areas. The same goes for the amount of detail. Areas close to the center would get more attention than those further away. Some highlights and makeup are added to the face but the surrounding is treated more rough and blurry almost unfinished.
(6) To brake the vertical symmetrical composition I added a few diagonal shapes suggesting shadows casted by a light from above. In this case I put composition over realism and not trying to find out what is right but what looks good. Again lighter and warmer areas in the foreground and cold/dark areas in the background add a sense of depth to the image.
(7) Once the character was set up I decided to add some texture to the background. I chose an image of an aged wall I found on one of the various sides on the net, pasted it on a new layer with “overlay“ setting. The textures on the dress were painted with a simple round brush with “opacity“ set to “50%“.
(8) The trickiest part for me was her hands. I didn’t want to give them too much attention but then again they needed some more refinement since they play a big part in a characters personality. I changed the positions a couple of times and treated them like the face by fliping the image constantly. Keeping the allover value down helps to draw attention away from them.
(9) After turning the background layer on again I cropped the image, merged the layers down and played a bit with the contrasts.
During the summers of the past several years, The Illustration Academy has brought together some of America's most accomplished and best-known illustrators to share their insights and advice with students. The students range in age from eighteen to sixty years old and have come from not only the United States, but as far away as Hong Kong, England, Belgium, Sweden, Brazil, and Argentina.
Leading concept artist David Levy shows how to paint a piece that’s full of drama, using custom brushes to create a nuclear winter image.
Creating dramatic concept art means capturing the correct mood for your piece. The mood that I’m going to try to achieve in this workshop is one of a nuclear winter, which still has a poetic atmosphere to it. Opposing or contrasting ideas always make for great painting subjects, and a saturated winter is not a very common way to approach an image. With that rough idea and direction, we will let chaos direct the first part of the painting, then slowly give it a meaning and a more concrete perspective, lighting and mood(source: www.imaginefx.com)
fmx/07 is organized by the Institute of Animation, Visual Effects & Digital Postproduction of Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg
After years of trying to get going and numerous false starts, the live-action Speed Racer project is closer to moving forward. The Wachowski brothers, Larry and Andy, will co-write and direct the movie, with Joel Silver producing. It will be the first directing effort by the pair since The Matrix series ended in 2003 (which was also produced by Silver). Other behind-the-scenes talent will also reunite, including Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor John Gaeta. The film will be based on the classic 1960s animated series featuring the adventures of race car driver Speed and his gadget-laden car, Mach 5. Other characters that will appear in the movie include various members of Speed's family and archrival Racer X.(Source: The Hollywood Reporter)
Illustration by Sean Galloway
Earth in fact has become so toxic that -- centuries before our story actually gets underway -- mankind has abandoned the planet. We're now all living aboard the Axiom, this massive spaceship that circles high overhead. Waiting for the day that the planet once again becomes inhabitable.
When Adobe released the Photoshop CS3 public beta on December 15, 2006, lynda.com and best-selling author, Deke McClelland, released Photoshop CS3 Beta One-on-One Preview, a series of free video tutorials, which showcase the new features in Photoshop CS3.
It teaches essential skills, such as making selections, retouching, and managing layers. It also teaches more advanced skills such as applying Layer Effects and styles, using Adjustment layers, and Smart Objects. New features to Photoshop CS3 such as Vanishing Point 2.0 and Smart Filters are also covered. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.Started thirteen years ago, fmx has grown into a leading event for Digital Content in Europe attracting visitors and speakers from all over the world. After a successful co-operation in 2006, fmx/07 will again run back-to-back with the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (April 26 to May 01, 2007).
Toth's contributions to the comics medium are not widely known among casual fans. He did much of his comics work outside the current mainstream of superhero comics, concentrating instead on such subjects as hot rod racing, romance, horror, and action-adventure.
Journalist Tom Spurgeon wrote that Toth possessed "an almost transcendent understanding of the power of art as a visual story component", and called him "one of the handful of people who could seriously enter into Greatest Comic Book Artist of All-Time discussions" and "a giant of 20th Century cartoon design." He was formally inducted into the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1990.
PAINTER™ showcases the world's finest digital artwork using Corel's® natural media painting program, Painter.
Design is first and foremost a story of passion, which we have had at heart over the six years of sharing with you. With the 4th edition of the Peugeot Design Contest, the adventure continues. It is the free expression of tomorrow's talents and imagination is its motor. Car design fans, take up again the challenge offered to skill and talent. The great winner
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Based in London, Tino Schaedler is a former Architect who has transitioned into the visual effects industry. Having worked for such firms as Daniel Libeskind and Barkow Leibinger, Tino has expanded his skills and has now worked as a digital set designer and art director on many well known films including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, V for Vendetta, and Harry Potter.
Tino has an academic background in architecture and visual effects. He graduated from the University of Hannover in architecture with honours, studied at the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam, the University of California Berkeley in the U.S. and at The Art Institute of Vancouver. He has taught at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin, the architecture department of the University of British Columbia and the Architectural Association in London. He is currently working on a book and is planning to curate a traveling exhibition on contemporary film design. Read the interview on cgarchitect.com and baunetz.de
Renowned for his robust and impressionistic style, he has created paintings for book covers, movie posters, advertisements, and such periodicals as National Geographic, Life, Time, and TV Guide. Among those attracted to his masterful science-fiction illustrations was the young George Lucas, who commissioned him to work on the pre-production designs for Star Wars. His images appear on 16 U.S. stamps.
Paris - Voici les 30 projets sélectionnés parmi les 4000 projets reçus. Vous allez maintenant prendre part au Concours de Design Peugeot en sélectionnant les 10 concept cars finalistes de la 4ème édition.
Thirty design studies, chosen from 4,000 entries that came in from 113 countries, can be viewed on Peugeot's special contest Website. The deadline for voting is January 27. The winner will be announced at the Geneva Motor Show in March by Frédéric Saint-Geours, CEO of Peugeot, and the design will be built for a debut at the Frankfurt show in September — not to mention a debut as part of a future Xbox 360 auto-racing game. Read more... http://www.cardesignnews.com /forums
fmx is a platform for Animation, Visual Effects, Realtime and Content where experts and audience exchange ideas, experiences and insights on digital creation, production and distribution of the whole palette of digital imagery.
Concept artist Craig Mullins has worked on some of the highest profile films and video games in the last decade.Based in Hawaii, he is employed to bring his artistic talents and imagination to bear at the early stages of game or movie development.
Some notes taken by Octavian during one of Craig's lectures at Gnomon
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The entry information and forms are available as printable PDF files (Acrobat Reader required) by clicking HERE. They will also be mailing out the actual Call For Entries poster to everyone on the mailing list starting this month and will continue until suppy is exhausted or the deadline for entries hits. A new category for “Concept Art” has been added to the competition this year. Jurors for this year’s annual are Mark Chiarello [Art Director for DC Comics], Marc Gabbana [illustrator/concept artist for such films as War of the Worlds and The Polar Express], Daniel dos Santos [artist], Dawn Murin [Art Director for Wizards of the Coast], Ragnar [artist/animation director], and Adam Rex [artist]. Make their job HARD! The more quality art that is entered, the more difficult the selection process — and, ultimately, the more definitive the Spectrum annual becomes. Let’s make this jury sweat! www.spectrumfantasticart.com
Adam Hughes is one of the greatest artistic contributors in the field of comics today. Primarily known as a 'good girl' artist, Adam has worked on a myriad of books. Some of Adam's credits include the Justice League, Legionnaires, Star Trek, Ghost and Gen 13 as well as doing countless covers and pin-ups for just about every comic company.
Okan Vardarova has put together a huge collection of iPhone concept art over at his Apple iPhone blog. The art, which has been created by Apple fans, runs the gamut from the impossible to the brilliant to the absurd. In a way, it will be a huge let-down if Apple actually delivers on the iPhone at Macworld this January because it will cut off some of the most creative expressions of Apple fandom.
They received an incredible number of entries for last year's Blizzard Art Contest, with more than 3,000 outstanding submissions. Here are the galleries for the 2006 Blizzard Art Contest’s Grand Prize Winners and Honorable Mentions, featuring more than 100 pieces of artwork representing the Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo universes. http://www.blizzard.com/
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