New Header

I got to messing around with my header/title so it went from this

to this

So does it look better to you? Any thoughts, opinions, suggestions?

Shuan character progress

Still not happy with him. I'm working on improving my male character painting skills.
Or should I say creation skills, easy from a single image. Harder when not.
In order of completion (old to newest)

Some art in progress for Paola Banco

     These are some of the sketches to color sketches to the beginnings of more refined art. These pieces are for a 3 series ad campaign on children's hunger and food insecurity taking an unique approach on the subject; a horror like feel with the emphasis on the lack of food. These illustrations for Paola Blanco's Portfolio; she is an advertising student who is directing the campaign.

    I think I made the first set too dark. The middle set girl's hair feels like it needs more work. The last set feels like it needs something, but it could be fine the way it is when text is added. So, any thoughts, suggestions or comments about the work?

More great references for art

Wonderful poses and angles and ability to move it 360 due to the 3d models
Donations of course appreciated here.
http://www.posemaniacs.com/

References by creatives for creatives: searchable photograph references.
Donations to the reference gallery appreciated here.
http://morguefile.com/

Human Anatomy Photo reference (though it is mainly free samples for a pay website of references)
http://fineart.sk/

Nice set of references images that are organize by the left side bar. It has a variety of plants, places, and water scenes.







A good place for buildings, still lifes and places with easy navigation.
Donations of course appreciated here.
http://www.photos4artists.co.uk/

Wet Canvas has their own reference library created by users, and can
only be accessed by users, so get a free account.
http://www.wetcanvas.com/RefLib/

Other things for detail anatomy of muscles, veins, etc.

Game to learn anatomy
http://www.anatomyarcade.com/games/PAM/PAM.html

Body flash reference and anatomy (A bit hard to navigate, but very nice)
http://www.getbodysmart.com/

Amazing Face Reference

I discovered this at random. I was looking for something else all together when I stumbled into this hidden amazement. Artnatomy is as it states the art of anatomy. It specialize on the face and emotions of a human. This can help with all sorts of different expressions, both extreme and not, with it's 21 expressions. Not to mention all the options it has with the different muscles movements under your control.

It can be used online for free or pay a small price of 30 Euros or 45 dollar to have it at your fingertips for whenever you want (They have it in English and Spanish as well as for Macs and Windows). So get a drawing and enjoy.

Linda's Art and Frame Gallery

Just went to the gallery of the student works from Linda's Art and Frame. As you may or may not know, I was a student of hers beginning when I was 12 or so. Linda was the one who first taught me oil painting techniques; I continued lessons till late high school. She taught me valuable lessons and would gladly to recommend her as a teacher for all ages.

The artwork in in display at the Schorr Gallery within West Jordan City Hall
8000 South Redwood Road, West Jordan, Utah 84088

Unfornately the open house has already past. But the gallery is open
Monday through Friday till September 24th
10:00 AM to 5:00 PM

There are original paintings on sale as well as miniatures and prints.

Corel Painter Crash Saves

I know it's been a problem to many people including myself. We all know as great as Corel Painter is; it has a bad tendency to crash. Then it would of course save your work as a painter file, which when you tried to open in Painter will claim to have a memory problem: Mine usually stated, does not have enough visual memory for this action. This of course is a bogus, but won't changed the fact all that work is lost in that saved file. The only solution in the past is always save multiple times, but we all forget at times.

Well, not anymore. I discovered that GIMP, a free program similar to Photoshop, can open painter files and save it in Photoshop format without any trouble. I discovered this after losing an hour's work and happened to have downloaded this program recently to try out for fun. I decided to see if it would open the file and it did. I tested it several times and every time without trouble it opened the Painter file and allowed me to save as a Photoshop file that would open just fine in Painter. It is amazing and worth it; don't worry about lost files due to painter crashing ever again. ((To the left is their logo, all rights of that image belongs to them))

For those who don't know where Corel Painter puts the recovery file, check your Document files and look for a folder called, "Recovered". Inside will be the random recovery file saves from when Corel Painter crashes. All you have to do is open the file in GIMP, and save it in PSD file or whatever format you regularly use (as long as it isn't a painter file anymore it should work).

Hope this helps people as it did me. If you have any questions about this feel free to leave a comment and I'll get to you as soon as possible.

In Progress Autumn Webb

I have redone and redrew this character soooo many times. So I figured I would post the progress and the current final of her. It is in order of completion (first attempts to last), just the digital works.

So what do you all think of the versions of her? Any favorites?

 I will be using the last two for her blog that is coming soon.

Buried Finds

Here is a school project I forgot about. I did a nice job with it. So I decided to post it. I've seen multiple covers to the book. The one I bought I like best which for Tithe is pair of butterfly wings. But as a good alternative for ones to have the character (and not look like it was badly photoshop-which is my opinion of the other covers), I made this. ((white lines are where it would be folded))