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I love flying airships, which comes from my childhood spent playing Final Fantasy Sketchbook Feng Zhu August 2017 51 beasts oF b ...

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Stephan Martinière location: US French-born Stephan is an acclaimed multi-award winning artist, who was voted one of the 50 most ...

I like doing explorations with no specific stories. This is when I can push myself creatively Sketchbook Stephan Martinière Augu ...

56 54647 the SoFtwire “These started as a series of concepts for a film. The film didn’t happen, but a book was made inste ...

I liked the idea much better than the one the publisher chose, but that’s fine! Sketchbook Stephan Martinière August 2017 57 Mer ...

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60 Paint a bright and dynamic figure See how Lois van Baarle uses Photoshop’s colour editing and drawing tools to create a ...

paint a bright & dynamic figure Follow Lois van baarle’s process and learn how to use Photoshop’s colour editing and drawing ...

60102345 61 In depth Paint a dynamic figure ...

4 Establishing the base colours On separate layers, I block in the colours for the background, hair, body and clothing. I also c ...

5 Colour adjustments and details I feel like the colour scheme needs to be brightened up, so I add some yellow hues to the image ...

12 Adding effects to the creatures I’ve left the f lying creatures for last. I swap the green and purple ones around so that the ...

colour editing tools Once I’m happy with my base colours, I start tweaking them with Photoshop’s Color Balance, Hue/Saturation, ...

Building an image By experimenting Sean Sevestre reveals how he develops paintings in a fun and creative way, through a willingn ...

Why do you paint? What excites you about making art? Personally I love the idea of creative freedom – being able to draw or pain ...

let it grow... Material contrasts Smooth glass and a rough tree don’t look the same when you see them, so making the same distin ...

Experiment with new tools and techniques The Liquify tool was a new find that enabled me to create a new aesthetic. Always be cu ...

1 Draw a LOT, anD yOu’LL geT beTTer anD fasTer! Basically, this is the key to all of this stuff. Art is about mileage because it ...