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Recently, I’ve decided to attend more art events again. For a while I had declined the invites because the days I spent away meant that I wasn’t working on the magazine and it was hard to make up the time. Also – if I’m being honest here – I felt a l
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WORTH £40 Discover how to grips with key 3D concepts in Get Started in 3D Artist reveal their inspirations in The Ultimate Sketchbook Collection 100 Best Typefaces presents essential fonts for artists and designers • FREE digital special issues worth
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Concept Art Awards 2019 winners revealed
Despite being a thriving industry packed with some of the best creators, there’s never been an event dedicated to recognising the work and achievements of concept artists. Thankfully, this year’s LightBox Expo corrected this oversight in style. Takin
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Dawn Carlos
Beholders, Fenders and books, oh my! I’ve lived in a small apartment in San Francisco for years, starting out with a TV tray for a desk in 2009. Over time, I’ve evolved my home studio into what you see today. I share a small, one-bedroom apartment wi
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Robh Ruppel
Robh Ruppel likes this quote by Stephen King: “Writing equals ass in chair.” When King’s working on a project, he has a strict daily target of 2,000 words. He could be done in a few hours. He could be working after dark. King doesn’t stop till he’s g
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A Ringing Endorsement
“Painting on my phone came out of teaching. I had been experimenting with painting from life on my laptop. This was back in 2005 or so. Painting inside or at night was pretty successful, but trying to paint in bright light was a challenge. I had seen
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Paint Video Game Character Art
For this workshop I’ll be taking you through my painting process, starting from my initial rough sketches through to making last-minute edits I’ll be working primarily in Photoshop with the exception of my sketches, which I’ll be making on my iPad Pr
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Use Reference To Design A Boss Character
I’m going to walk through the process of designing and painting an elaborate end-of-level boss character, ready for integration into our game engine. Our antagonist is Cichol, the Bloodless King. He’s a huge lich, an undead sorcerer king. He needs to
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Paint A Chinese Fantasy Figure
This personal piece is inspired by the amazing art from Magic: the Gathering. I love the Magic style, but wanted to design a character that’s true to my Chinese heritage. Authentic armour designs for Chinese characters are quite hard to do. This is b
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Sculpt A Dynamic Fighting Beast
In this workshop I’m going to design an elephant creature in ZBrush and Photoshop, eventually creating a realistic final image. The bulk of my work will be done in ZBrush, as I create the foundation to paint over in Photoshop. This is an intermediate
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Transform And Select In Krita
Krita is a great program either for beginners wanting to get started with digital painting or for more experienced illustrators who are looking for a streamlined and dynamic painting software. Among the other useful features of the program, the Trans
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Cintiq 22
Price £870 Company Wacom Web www.wacom.com The Wacom Cintiq 22 is the latest model in the company’s drive to make this respected digital art brand more affordable. The Cintiq range is neatly divided into two: Cintiq offers relatively basic displays a
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The Anatomy of Style: Learning to See Parts 1 & 2
Publisher Patrick J Jones Price £17 Format Download Web www.pjartworks.com/shop You’d think that it would be simple to translate a 2D image into a 2D drawing. Yet somehow things have a habit of going horribly wrong. In Photo-reference: Problems and S
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The Art of Heikala: Works and Thoughts
Author Heikala Publisher 3dtotal Price £24 Web www.3dtotal.com Available Now Finnish illustrator Heikala is best known for her work in watercolours and inks. Her style – a blend of anime and children’s book illustrations – is one that resonates with
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Science and Fiction: Concept Art from Pixoloid Studios
Editor Mark Molnar Publisher Caurette Publishing House Price £35 Web www.pixoloid.net Available Now Pixoloid Studios specialises in post-production art for the entertainment industry. This hardback book pulls together a collection of case studies fro
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Watercolour Over Digital Work
As an independent artist, I enjoy the creative process as much as the satisfaction of a finished painting. A fun way for me to spend an afternoon might be playing with ink to create Photoshop textures, or going outside and seeking reference in the ro
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First Impressions
Milivoj Ceran What was your first paid commission? I created some illustrations back in high school for free that were published, but my first paid commission was when I was still a student at the Academy of Fine Arts. A friend of mine asked me to pa
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The Power Of Negative Space
As an artist who strived for realism, learning the impact and value of negative space within a piece helped break the confines of what I believed a work of art should be. When you’re learning how to add values to create form, the idea of intentionall

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