This is my latest piece in the series of greyscale digital portrait paintings, featuring the endangered African penguin and painted in Krita 5 beta. With African Penguin Awareness Day passing recently, I wanted to do a piece again that brought attention to these birds. Process This was the first time doing a full painting inContinue reading “Daughter of the Sea – Digital Painting in Krita”
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Digital Painting with 15year old drawing tablet – Old Douc Woman
So… I have recently gotten my hands on a few older drawing tablets to test out. I wanted to see if some the old Wacom Intuos models available on second-hand marketplaces would make good options for beginners to digital art. So far I have not been disappointed. My latest digital painting, The Old Douc Woman,Continue reading “Digital Painting with 15year old drawing tablet – Old Douc Woman”
Digital art on a budget – drawing tablets under $50 to get you started
If you’re a digital art beginner, or on a tight budget and don’t want to spend a fortune on fancy hardware, these are some pen tablet options for under 50 bucks to get you started!
Favourite presentations from Lightbox Expo 2020
Gathering my thoughts and favourite panel discussions from Lightbox Expo 2020, the biggest and best entertainment arts industry event.
How I make stickers – from first drawing to final product
Making stickers when I decided to do art full time became an important start for me in learning about digital painting and diversifying my products. I thought I’d take you through my process and how you can make your own custom stickers too.
Digital Art For Beginners – hardware, software, and online learning.
Maybe you’re a beginner artist dreaming about one day become a hot-shot concept artist, working for video games and movies, or become a comics or children’s book illustrator. Or maybe, like me, you’ve been at it a little while and are just trying to sharpen those skills to become a better independent artist. Then these may be some things you’d like to consider on the path.
Digital portrait painting – Hoopoe Priestess for the greyscale series
So here is the 4th piece in my series of digital portrait paintings trying to depict some sort of new race of people vastly more connected with and protective of the Nature. In this one, I chose the hoopoe bird as the main feature.
Inspiration – Have you seen the massive Ghost Of Tsushima art blast?
Have you seen it yet? A huuuuuge art blast has appeared on Artstation of work from Sucker Punch Productions action-adventure game, Ghost of Tsushima. I’m having a hard time getting my jaw up off of the floor this morning as I look at this.
Graphics Tablet Review – XP-PEN’s super slim Deco Pro
Alrighty, so you are thinking about getting into digital art, not sure if you’ll dig it and don’t want to destroy the bank to experiment, or maybe, like the case was with me, cash is tight but you long for an upgrade… then here’s a product I recommend: the XP-Pen Deco Pro.
Greyscale Digital Painting Series – The Pangolin Woman
The second in my series of digitally painted greyscale portraits, featuring the only fully scaled mammal on Earth, the pangolin.