Climbing Rose Tutorial

Here it is! Finally found the time needed to put the finishing touches to this one. A bit like it says on the tin, this tutorial goes over the process I used to create the rose prop from my Fantasy Graveyard. It’s maybe not quite as novel as the grass tutorial, but having worked this process out I am [...]

Added Traditional Art to Portfolio

I had some Ink and Pen sketches I had produced for my coursework in my final year of university up before. But now I have spent some time photographing the larger painted pieces I have produced over the last few years. These new pieces should help show my artistic ability outside of the digital realm. I’ve added [...]

Postcards of Skyrim

Skyrim has been a massive hit on productivity of late, it’s just too good. The time I have spent “playing” the game “properly”, is probably easily balanced by time I’ve spent just inside the world taking in the environment though. I think artistically the world they have created is much stronger than Oblivion, which whilst it had different environments in the world, the [...]

Hand Painted Grass Tutorial

Like promised I have the first of my articles featuring my workflow on the fantasy graveyard finished. First up is a tutorial that goes over my workflow I developed to create the grass textures in the scene. I came up with this method myself after finding very little similar information  on creating good hand painted grass textures [...]

Fantasy Graveyard Scene Finished!

With this post I declare the scene actually, properly finished. It was hard drawing a close to this project, and as any artist knows there are dozens of things I could spend hours tweaking until they are just right, but at the same time there’s also the insatiable itch of wanting to move on to a new project, and new challenges.

This update brings a whole [...]