Watch David Kassan drawing a male portrait using PanPastel. Time lapse from a live webcast film on 2.15.11 in NYC. Please visit David's website and You Tube to see more of his work.
Loki (sketch card from Dangerous Divas) By Melike Acar
This is one of Melike Acar's sketch cards from the Rittenhouse Archives' Marvel Dangerous Divas trading card set.
The following images shows the step-by-step using pencil, ink, and markers.
Thank you Melike Acar for, again, letting us share your amazing talent! Please visit her facebook page. :)
Red Skull ATC (Artist Trading Card) By MARLO
MARLO shows us how to make an ATC (Artist Trading Card) with a cut-out. MARLO used a recycled cardboard, pencil, white gel pen, copic markers, ruler, and an x-acto knife. See more of MARLO's work here.
How To Carve A Basswood Bottle Stopper by Bob Stuart Of OLD MAN CARVINGS
Bob Stuart of OLD MAN CARVINGS shows us how to carve a basswood bottle stopper. Thank you Bob for giving us the permission to share your awesome talent! Please visit OLD MAN CARVINGS to see more amazing carvings.
Cut Basswood to 2" sq. x 4" long.
Drill a hole for the sealing cork.
Shaping the Basswood block with a carving knife.
More shaping of the Basswood block with a carving knife.
Bob's still at it :)
Shaping and Outline completed.
Detail power carving with a flexible shaft foredom and burr.
Power carving the details.
Detail carving's completed.
Wood stain applied.
Multiple coats of Marine grade Urethane applied.
Sealing cork added.
Completed Basswood Bottle Stopper with display base.
ACEO Of Chewbacca From Star Wars By Jeff Lafferty
"I'm Jeff Lafferty and I draw ACEO sketch cards. Here's a short video about how I create my sketch cards and some of my thoughts about what I do." ~Jeff Lafferty
Sketch Cards From Pencil To Color By Nestor Celario
Nestor "JesterretseJ" Celario is a freelance illustrator from the Philippines.
Here you see the progression of two Artist Proofs from the Marvel 2012 Greatest Heroes Trading Cards set from pencils to inks to fully colored. You can find more of Nestor's work on his facebook page.
Here you see the progression of two Artist Proofs from the Marvel 2012 Greatest Heroes Trading Cards set from pencils to inks to fully colored. You can find more of Nestor's work on his facebook page.
Painting "Hang Among The Stars" By Laurie Maves
Laurie Maves is a Denver artist who strives to live her life with purpose and meaning. She loves doing commissioned artwork and live paintings. Laurie was commissioned by the Denver band, I'm With Her, to create their CD album cover. Thank you for the permission to share your work, Laurie! :)
"I am here on this planet to make your painting." ~Laurie Maves
"I am here on this planet to make your painting." ~Laurie Maves
How To… Make a Polymer Sculpture By Lisa Marie Owens
Lisa Marie Owens is an artist. She sculpts her passion… FAIRIES. Today's installment is her step-by-step of male fairy Phileurus. The descriptions were written by Lisa. To find more of her sculptures please visit her SHOP. Thank you Lisa for giving us permission to share your process of making Phileurus' sculpture. :)
1. The armature, about 6 ½" miniature sculpt.
2. Working on the under armature.
3. I like to do the upper body first, adding to the arms, then I smooth it over.
4. I like to play out the shape of the face before I attach, then details come out later.
5. Head is on and sculpting the neck. More clay add to the torso and hip area and arms smoothed out.
6. Details are made to back and rear, adding the legs now. I build up under the rear to make the thighs.
7. Adding more clay to torso, building up the chest and doing some shape to arms.
8. Adding to the legs, lots of smoothing.
9. Same to the backside, adding and smoothing.
10. Shaping and smoothing to torso, waist and things. No he will not be anatomically correct. lol
11. More details and smoothing.
12. And the back side as well.
13. Working on the feet now, I usually do the shape of the foot, attach, carve away excessive clay and add where it's needed.
14. Feet and hands are not my specialty but I make it work. :)
15. I always add a thicker wire in the legs. I usually do this before I sculpt the feet and shape the legs but it's been a long day. HAHA!!
16. More chest and face details.
29. I add mod podge to the paint for a glossy finish.
30. After the painting, I move on to the hair. This is brown tibetan lambs hair.
31. I add small sections at a time.
32. A little goes a long way.
37 - 40. Worked on the clothing and finished up with all the details.
1. The armature, about 6 ½" miniature sculpt.
2. Working on the under armature.
3. I like to do the upper body first, adding to the arms, then I smooth it over.
4. I like to play out the shape of the face before I attach, then details come out later.
5. Head is on and sculpting the neck. More clay add to the torso and hip area and arms smoothed out.
6. Details are made to back and rear, adding the legs now. I build up under the rear to make the thighs.
7. Adding more clay to torso, building up the chest and doing some shape to arms.
8. Adding to the legs, lots of smoothing.
9. Same to the backside, adding and smoothing.
10. Shaping and smoothing to torso, waist and things. No he will not be anatomically correct. lol
11. More details and smoothing.
12. And the back side as well.
13. Working on the feet now, I usually do the shape of the foot, attach, carve away excessive clay and add where it's needed.
14. Feet and hands are not my specialty but I make it work. :)
15. I always add a thicker wire in the legs. I usually do this before I sculpt the feet and shape the legs but it's been a long day. HAHA!!
16. More chest and face details.
17.Working on the hands.
18. I attach at the wrists and smooth.
19. More face details. Hands are now on.
20. Making the hole for the wings.
21. Fitting him with real Hercules Beetle wings.
22. After the first fire I sculpt the ears.
23. I sand the legs and some other areas as needed. Because of the sculpt size and small details I don't sand too much.
24. Ears and sanding before the second fire.
25. After firing, I smooth him down with light acetone all over, then I rinse him off under water and dry.
26. Getting ready for blushing the body.
27. Body finished, testing out a stand for him.
28. Hand painting eyes using acrylics.
29. I add mod podge to the paint for a glossy finish.
30. After the painting, I move on to the hair. This is brown tibetan lambs hair.
31. I add small sections at a time.
32. A little goes a long way.
33. A rustic braid for a forest fairy.
34. Hair is wet here. I will let it dry naturally. Next will be the stand and his clothing.
35. Starting with the clothes.
36...
37 - 40. Worked on the clothing and finished up with all the details.
Finished product.
MidDreamers 6 ½" One Of A Kind Male Fairy by Lisa Marie Owens
Arya Stark (Game of Thrones) Sketch Card By David Desbois
Instructions are excerpts from David Desbois' tutorial. Thank you very much for giving us permission to share your work and learn from your step-by-step instructions! :)
1 - I start with pale marker Warm Grey 0.5, 1,2 and 3 (WG) to do a general structure that do not need to be exactly perfect or complete, can be just a part that you wanna work with for now. The pale crayon lines are watercolor pencil that can more or less fade in with marker(or water).
2 - I'm starting with stronger color, hence a Lavender from TOUCH and Lavender for ProMarker and a Pale Lavender from TOUCH. Stronger colors can be modified/faded with pale ones, so you need to start strong.
3 - I started using Cool Grey 7 and 6 that are quite dark, when shading a visage, I recommend not going over 6 or 7 because if you miss, colors too dark won't 'decolorate' or fade much with a colorless blender. By keeping colors low, you can pretty much move them around and rework them with other layers to alter their value.
I then attempt to shade it all that with Warm Grey using mostly 4, 5,6 and 7, the Pale Lavender(TOUCH) and Lavender(ProMarker).
So you play with layers until you are pretty much satisfied of what you get, it can takes a few layers or a crazy number, you just need to wait a bit between consecutive layers if you don't wanna screw your paper (and make sure your paper do well with blending). For eyes, used a Pale Blue Light (TOUCH) and lavender tones and the Mauve Shadow from TOUCH, Putty from ProMarker.
4 - I continued detailing the main features and perfect the blending with warm greys, lavender tones and also used a layer of putty in pale areas for details I used watercolor pencils, multiliners and verithin prismacolor.
For the iris, I used a Marine (ProMarker) and diminished it's intensity with Blue Grey 3 or 5 and put some 7 in the upper part. I also used the colorless to enlight some parts before that. White light dots are Copic White (with paint and brush).
5 - Background consist on the right part of a gradation from black to Cool Grey 8, using the 9 in between, left part I went up to Cool Grey 5, then used a Warm Grey 5 in the bottom part. Finally I used the Pale Blue Light from middle to top part of the left section of the background. I also used the same warm grey light tones to create some texture and dilute here and there.
6 - Indeed that piece will need a lot more details, you can see I started the hair using a mix of Cool Grey 7 and Warm Grey 7 and also black multiliner 0.03 and 0.05 to direct my lines. You do need a lot precision and observation in that chapter. For highlights, I used Copic White and brush. For the blue in the hair, I used Premier Bleu Ciel Pale and Bleu Inactinique and also Creme much used in other areas. Now to get to the final piece, I'll rework the visage creating 'bridges' between too visible marker lines with either verithin, or watercolor pencil dry or Stabilo All-Brown color here, that will help create a better harmony in the shading. For micro details, I used multiliners. So the shading is pretty much done in pic 6.
Here's the final version. Total around 20 hours to finish.
Video Of Charles Hall Painting a Loch Ness Monster Sketch Card
Let's watch a snippet of a video where Charles Hall is painting the Loch Ness Monster using oil paints (over a pencil sketch) on card stock. The artwork is a PSC (personal sketch card) so the size is only 2.5" x 3.5" :) Thanks Charles for letting us share your work!
World War Hulk - Video Of George Calloway Drawing a Sketch Card
This is a video of George Calloway drawing and coloring a sketch card of World War Hulk for the official trading card set "Marvel 70th Anniversary" from Rittenhouse Archives. Thank you for letting us share your video so everyone can see you in action!
How To… Draw Jessica Hamby Of True Blood By Stan Bossard
Stan Bossard's graphite pencil drawing of Jessica Hamby of True Blood is amazing! Stan of France used graphite pencils ranging from 2H to 8B. Thank you Stan for giving us permission to share your art. :) If you have a facebook account please visit Stan Bossard's art page.
How To… Paint Realistic Bottles By Carrie Waller
Check out Carrie Waller's work in progress images of her watercolor painting entitled "Emerald City"!
Thank you very much Carrie for giving us the permission to share your wonderful artwork. :)
Thank you very much Carrie for giving us the permission to share your wonderful artwork. :)
"Emerald City" 11 x 14 original watercolor on 260lb Arches by Carrie Waller
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