Per request, I made this basic digital coloring tutorial in photoshop. I just colored the skin on his face, but I go through a lot of the steps I use for coloring. I go through my tools, how to put lineart on a separate layer (two different ways), different blending methods, and briefly go over gradient maps.
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As you know, I’ve been working on my series “Worlds”. While I am excited to show off these works, I’m wary to upload them without them being a set! However, I do want to share with my blog readers the animations I’ve been working on for these works. I’m still working on this set — there are plenty of ideas of mine and lots still needed to be done, but here are some fun, somewhat unsettling, somewhat creepy animations of the most recently completed illustrations for my series.
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This isn’t exactly a polished or completed work by any means. I set out originally to do a true “speedpaint” (when you draw a picture as quickly as you can) out of a sketch I had that I liked a lot. Unfortunately I took a little longer (about 3 hours) than I intended, but I like how it came out. I also filmed myself painting it!
Continue reading New Video: Timelapse, Untitled Quick Sketch
My original character Azra, as you probably know him through a lot of the personal works I’ve created, struggles with a lot of byproducts of PTSD (Including a lot of anxiety and a variety of other mental tics and symptoms). One of those is struggles is insomnia. It’s more of a reluctance thing. As with anyone who struggles with insomnia, he has trouble finding sleep when he wants it, and when he does it’s at seemingly random and/or unwanted times. On top of that, the sleep he does find is plagued with nightmares.
Continue reading Hypnopompic Hallucination, 2016, In Progress Shots
While I was working on getting some sketches down for a new digital series, I decided I wanted to make sure I had something nice and new for 2016. I decided to draw a picture of my character Azra, similarly to the way I drew him in January of 2015.
Continue reading Azra, 2016, Process Gif
