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Making-of: Pirate’s Den 3d paint-over

Tweet Things get a little piratical in yet another 3ds max/Photoshop paint-over walk through Tweet

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Making of: Captain’s Ship Tavern – 3ds max and some paint-over

Tweet Time for another Victorian-inspired street scene using 3d and Photoshop. This time I push the realism a little further… Tweet

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Making of: Spooky Gas Station – Digital Painting Mood Studies

Tweet Old gas stations, alone on dusty highways, make for some ethereal atmospheres. Here’s how I did it… Tweet

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Making of: Batman Concept

Tweet In this making-of I get to grips with Art Deco, vehicle design, Batman and finally fulfill my dream of seeing him on a cool bike! Tweet

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Making of: The Pumpkin Tree

Tweet Happy Halloween everybody! Let’s walk through my spooky painting and also talk about the importance of thumbnails… Tweet

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Making of: Victorian Slums

Tweet This walk-through takes a look at perspective drawing, Victorian/Tudor architecture and line work… Tweet

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Tutorial: Using Zbrush, 3ds max and digital painting techniques

Tweet In this tutorial I show you how I used a combination of Zbrush, 3ds max and Photoshop to create Grayskull Islands….   Tweet

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Making of: Mountain City – Quick Concept

Tweet Let’s talk about composition (and speed for a change) in this digital painting tutorial; Mountain City Concept… Tweet

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Making of: Apocalypse House Matte-Painting

Tweet This post-apocalyptic tutorial focuses on a mixture of photo-manipulation, matte painting and 3d integration… Tweet

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Making of: Victorian Street Concept 3d paint-over

Tweet In this making-of I’ll be showing you how I used 3ds max & Photoshop to create a 3d/paint-over concept piece… Tweet

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Digital Painting Tutorial: Skeletor Portrait

Tweet See how I made this retro Skeletor Digital Painting with this digital painting tutorial… Tweet

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Digital Painting Tutorial: One Eyed Monster Thing

Tweet This digital painting tutorial takes us back into the realms of strange retro sci fi futurism where we’ll make a weird one eyed monster! Tweet

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Digital Painting Tutorial: Garbage Pail Kids – Street Fighter Blanka

Tweet Here’s another digital painting tutorial on the creation of a Garbage Pail Kids character in Photoshop. This time: Blanka from Street Fighter 2! In a previous digital painting tutorial I showed you how to create a Garbage Pail Kid … Continue reading

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3D Tutorial: Making of Post Apocalyptic City Ruins

Tweet Want to make a cool 3d post-apocalyptic ruined city? Here are the steps I took to create this futuristic image. Tweet

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Digital painting tutorial: sci fi landscape based on Vue render

Tweet This is the second digital painting tutorial where we use Eon Vue as a reference to paint a sci fi landscape with a retro feel. So in a previous digital painting tutorial I showed you how to use Eon … Continue reading

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Digital Painting Tutorial: Gandalf speed-painting plus hair brushes

Tweet I’ve been focusing on head studies lately and what better way to take a break from the anatomy books than to study Gandalf’s Noggin. Tweet

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Digital Painting Tutorial: Zombie Portrait

Tweet October’s final digital painting tutorial takes us into the realms of the walking dead. Happy Halloween… Tweet

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Digital Painting Study: Old Man

Tweet Time to bite the bullet and paint some skin and hair with this digital painting study of an old dude. Tweet

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Digital Painting Tutorial: Photo-real stone ruins

Tweet Achieve a photo-real effect in your digital paintings with this stone ruins digital painting tutorial… Tweet

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Digital painting study: Roman Ruins

Tweet This week’s painting study is of a roman temple featuring some awesome lighting. Tweet

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Free rock brushes for Photoshop

Tweet Free rock & dust brushes for Photoshop to help with your digital paintings! Here are 10 free rock and dust brushes for photoshop (made in CS3). You can create all kinds of rocky, dusty landscapes for sci-fi and fantasy … Continue reading

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Ninja Turtle digital painting

Tweet Check out this Ninja Turtle I made in Photoshop. Tweet

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Speed Painting: Rock of Gibraltar

Tweet First speed painting in a while – The Rock of Gibraltar Tweet

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Digital Painting Study: Hogwarts Great Hall part 1

Tweet Okay, it’s study time and for the first digital painting study here on SIW I bring you some Harry Potter magic… Tweet

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Digital Painting Tutorial: make your own Garbage Pail Kid

Tweet Today I bring you my own tutorial for making a Garbage Pail Kid sticker/card. I even provide the logo and font! Tweet

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Digital painting tutorial: Creature Design

Tweet This digital painting tutorial is the first creature design tutorial here at SIW. With a good amount of prep and research you can exceed your own expectations! Tweet

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Digital painting tutorial: Desert Superstructure

Tweet Photoshop digital painting tutorial: Desert Superstructure. Tweet

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