DaveRapoza

Magic Style Illustration - finished lines/underpainting/wip render + PSD

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Hope you're well! Thank you for your patience with this! I've recorded over 4 hours of the process since the last video, I'll have part 2 up tomorrow, but in the meantime here's the curr...

August Q&A

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Thank you all for the great questions, and for making me freestyle, I appreciate it! I played the upcoming(one of them at least) video from my Magic Style Illustration process in the bac...

Magic Style Illustration - part 1 - video w/full commentary

Watch the video here(1hr 3min) - 

YouTube(video may still be processing to HD) - or...

Magic the Gathering style sketch - PSD w/layers

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So, as we move forward doing tutorial type work and all that, I wanted to show my approach of how I go about my Magic the Gathering style illustrations. This here was just a test to see ...

Mega Man Legends - almost at the end!

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Here's the latest progress I've made on the Mega Man Legends piece. Since the last update I completed all the final lines for the background and the characters/ships. After that I took i...

Venom - step by step - PSD + PDF

(edit - I fixed the PDF, sorry for the issue!)

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Hope you're doing well! I've been working on a few bigger walkthroughs for this Patreon and I wanted to share this more in depth step...

Mega Man Legends - progress update + video

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Hope you're doing well! Here's a progress update on the Mega Man Legends piece as well as a video showing the process of the servbots final lines to color as well as the environment sket...

Mega Man Legends - progress so far!

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I've been working this up the past day, just trying to finalize the lines and get all the elements in place before I render anything up. This was sort of a spur of the moment type illust...

Mega Man Legends - illustration composition - wip

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So, I wanted to try and put together a composition for a Mega Man Legends illustration. I'm just about done replaying the first game on my vita and thought it might be fun to do a homage...

Mega Man Legends - Zero - PSD

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Here's a concept for what I think Zero could look like in Mega Man Legends - went for a straight pencil style with colors over top, nothin too crazy, but I like the look of it. I also in...

Mega Man Legends - w/gif process

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Hope you're well! Here's a quick portrait I did of Mega Man from Mega Man Legends - I also included a small process gif as well. I wanted to play with keeping the Capcom style alive in t...

August Q&A - leave your questions here!

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Hope you're all doing good! Please feel free to ask whatever questions you like for this month's Q&A - questions about art, my life, how deep and dark porn can get, etc. - I've bee...

Rei Ayanami - High Res Files

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So, I'm happy to say that the Rei Ayanami - Evangelion piece is done! I'm pretty excited about wrapping this one up, I learned a ton painting this and I can't wait to take what I've lear...

Rei - Evangelion - update

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Things are starting to really move now, I've mostly finished Rei and now I'm mostly focused on Unit 00. Shouldn't be too much longer now before it's all completed. Once I get this all wr...

Rei - Evangelion - background step by step - PDF

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Here's where the Rei - Evangelion piece is at today - as well as a PDF step by step writeup of the background painting.  

Thanks as always for your support!

Dave

Rei Ayanami - WIP + PSD w/suit texture breakdown

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So, today I wanted to share the current progress on the Rei Ayanami piece - I spent a good amount of time drawing out Rei/sketching out Unit 00, I'm liking the way the textures/color on ...

Orc - PSD w/layers

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I thought I'd share this with you all, here's an Orc sketch I did in Photoshop & Clip Studio, all layers intact if you'd like to look through and see how I went about the process.&nb...

StarVeil Character Concepts + video process

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Hope you're well! Here are a few character concepts I worked up today and yesterday. I wanted to get back to the original style I intended for StarVeil so I moved back to Photoshop for t...

July Q&A

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Thanks for all the questions last month, this was a fun Q&A, I really enjoyed getting into the backwoods Carver stories a bit. If you have any follow up questions or if you feel I ma...

StarVeil Character Concept + Concept Q&A video w/process

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Hope you're well - today I wanted to share the current process on this StarVeil character concept, I've included two videos below, the second of which has the completed Character Concept...

StarVeil Character Concept + Concept Q&A video w/process

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So here's the next sketch, playing around with design and shapes trying to find something interesting - in these videos I walk through my design ideas and general thought process of crea...

Wolverine - PSD

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Did a little warm up this morning to just take a break and do something fun for myself - I kept all the layers intact so that you could go through the whole thing and see how I breakdown...