In the upcoming weeks I will start posting a series of articles about composition and its rules. Rules and methods you can apply to make your images more attractive to look at and more understandable for the viewer. We’ll kick Read more
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Paint a stylized stone wall texture
I made this tutorial about creating a hand painted stylized stone wall texture for the students that follow the Game Art 1 course at Digital Arts and Entertainment. In Game Art 1, students learn how develop their own reference prop Read more
The Girl: How Mood Paintings fit in an environment production pipeline
A year ago I was contacted by Fabrique Fantastique to create some mood paintings of desolate landscapes for an upcoming project The Girl by Belgian visual artist Hans Op de Beeck. It tells the story of a girl on a Read more
Improve your digital painting skills with photo-studies
In a previous article I mentioned the importance of visual library and how we can build it. I stressed the importance of studying and actual understanding your references, rather than simply copying the reference one on one. But if you’re Read more
Study and paint rocks digitally
While I was studying the small village of Ronda to broaden my Visual Library (what is Visual Library and why it is so important), I made a tutorial explaining how I would paint rocks digitally in Photoshop. Something I miss Read more
Create impactful compositions with value grouping
Value grouping Often times when planning compositions for paintings, students tend to only think about arrangements of shapes and lines but forget about value. Applying principles like the rule of thirds, balance or other design principles can get you really Read more
Integrating figures in your paintings
Once upon a time I received the question if I could create some card art for Fantasy Flight Games’s Arkham Horror LCG: Lost in time and Space. When I needed to integrate figures in my paintings I thought of adding Read more