So I've got a dragon featuring in my next painting (my first?).  I doodled and sketched a few dozen possibilities for the head, but wasn't quite hitting it.  So I thought I'd bring in the third dimension and do my next "sketch" in clay to see if I could hit what I was looking for.  I think I did!  I might play w/ some extra spines (I know I want a ( Read more... )

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Wanted to get my feet wet on Photoshop's new color mixer brush, so I did  a little study from a photo of Jules Verne this morning.


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Got a new drafting table:


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I posted this on my website Monday (I think it was Monday) but someone pointed out I should post in on the blog as well, so . . .


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Asked a buddy about the drybrush technique he'd used on a recent piece, and turned out it wasn't live media like I'd thought, but one of the nagel series 33 photoshop brushes I'd picked up awhile back.  So I had to go play with the drybrush in that group (#3, to be specific):
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Hanna wrote up a Christmas list, so I'm sharing it here (anything in square brackets is my addition, normal parentheses is just what she wrote ( Read more... )