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Final Fantasy 6 - Final?

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Here's the full image mostly complete! I just need to do some individual color adjustments on each of the characters and maybe a little touch ups here and there, but I'd say it's pretty ...

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Final Fantasy 6 - Frame Detail

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Thought I'd share where I'm at with the framing, got a bit to go and I gotta do color balancing and all that, but here's the top half of the characters with the frame. I'm going to do a ...

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Final Fantasy 6 - Started the Background!

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So, I've started the background for the piece, it's getting nuts fast, but I hope it looks good when it's all finished. Hope you like it so far, excited to be at this stage!

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May Q&A - leave your questions here!

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Hope you're well, please feel free to leave whatever questions you may have for me here and I'll address them all later this month, which may be prerecorded like last time. Remember, you...

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Final Fantasy 6 - All Characters Completed!

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I'm so happy to finally be at this stage, all the characters are painted and now all that's left is color adjusting per each character and then the background. It took seemingly forever ...

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Final Fantasy 6 - Celes & Relm

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Quick update of the piece so far, here's Celes & Relm! I'll probably do some color adjustments and small things here and there with them later, but mostly complete. Now all that's le...

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Final Fantasy 6 - Strago, Relm(work in progress)

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Just wanted to update how this piece is coming along, I just completed Strago this morning and got a start on Relm. It's very close to the end now, I'm really looking forward to wrapping...

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Terra - Final Fantasy 6

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Hope you're well! Here's the latest update to the Final Fantasy 6 piece, Terra. I'm very happy to have completed her as I felt she was likely the most time consuming aside from the chara...

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Sketch - Robot Head PSD

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Hope you're doing well! I got more coming on the Final Fantasy 6 piece, but I did this today to warm up for a concept art job and figured I'd share the PSD with you all incase it's helpf...

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Final Fantasy 6 - Locke, Umaro, Edgar, Setzer

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So, made some headway on this piece the past few days. I managed to wrap up Locke, Umaro, Edgar and Setzer. I'm really happy with it all coming together, only 6 characters left(Mog is ha...

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Final Fantasy VI - Painting Edgar

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Here's a 50 min video of me painting Edgar's costuming/hands/little details with the usual thought rambling! Hope you like it, let me know if you have any questions regarding process or ...

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April Q&A

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Hope you're all doing well! Here's the pre-recorded April Q&A from tonight, I wanted to do it live but I'm watching my son and wanted to edit if I needed to run and check on him or a...

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Final Fantasy 6 - Painting Setzer

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I had some time today so I painted more of Setzer's intricate outfit! It's very rewarding to see the finals of these characters come together but it is definitely detail heavy, but that'...

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Final Fantasy 6 - Setzer & Cyan

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Been working on this whenever possible, I was able to mostly wrap up Cyan and get a good start on Setzer. I need to paint up quite a bit of Setzer, but I wanted to share where I'm at wit...

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Final Fantasy 6 - Painting Cyan

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Hope you're doing well! Here's the latest video painting Cyan's armor design, it's about an hour long, YouTube is still processing the video so it's not in full HD yet, so feel free to d...

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Final Fantasy 6 - Painting Shadow

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Hope you're doing well, here's a short 40 min video of me painting some of Shadow with commentary! 

Here's the link to download the video as well - 2020-04-05 23:33:27 +0000 UTC View Post

April Q&A - leave your questions here!

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Please leave your questions here for the April Q&A I'll be doing this month. I'm open to addressing any type of question you may have in regards to painting, design, freelance, study...

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Final Fantasy 6 - Painting Process Begins!

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Here's a quick look at how things are coming along with the final painting process. Each character is separated on layers that stack on top of each other as well as separate from the bac...

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Final Fantasy 6 - Lines + Underpainting

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So here's where I'm at today! This took a lot longer than I thought, mostly because I'm trying to stick to accurately recreating Amano's designs while also integrating the sprite designs...

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Final Fantasy 6 - Finished Lines

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Been working on this when I get a chance, just finished up the lines! I'm feeling pretty good around this one, super excited to get to painting it all. I included a bunch of detail shots...

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Final Fantasy 6

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First of all, hello and thank you to all of you who just recently joined my patreon, it's amazing to be able to do work like this without a client needing to sign off on everything and t...

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Metal Gear Solid - Full Res Print Download

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It's finally done! After months of on and off work, I've finally completed this thing, took forever, fuck. The main reason this piece in particular took so long is because of the approac...

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March Q&A

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The March Q&A will start in 15 minutes, check the video here or the link - https://youtu.be/rNukoA-b85w

I'l...

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Acceptable Podcast - We're Making These Again

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My buddy Dan Warren(co-creator of Steve Lichman) and I did a podcast for a good long time, we took a long hiatus after my kid was born and now we're back doin it! We're going to do these...

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Acceptable Podcast

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Hope you're all well! Dan and I are back to do podcasts again, we're going live in just a minute! We're going to do our best to be regular again with these :).

If you miss the stre...

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March Q&A livestream - Monday 3/23 @8pm PST, 11pm EST

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I'll be doing the next Q&A tomorrow night, gonna get some paintings going as well, thanks so much for all of your patience with me this month, I haven't been able to be as productive...

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Venom - step by step - video

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Hope you've all been well and corona-free. I'm sharing my Venom walkthrough tonight to hopefully give you some insight into how I create something a bit more painterly looking using both...

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Watercolor/Ink wash - process video w/commentary

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Hope you're all well! Here's my approach to watercolor & ink wash style paintings in Clip Studio as well as some touch ups and textures done in Photoshop. The video is around 1hr 30 ...

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Kanto - Squirtle Squad - Video & PSD & High Res

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Well, I wanted this to be a full walkthrough of the Kanto - Squirtle Squad piece but my video ended up with video fragmenting throughout, it's a little less noticeable when it's sped up ...

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What would you like to see from this Patreon?

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I wanted to put this out there as a suggestion box kind of thing of what you would like to see from me as this Patreon goes forward. Also, if there are things you enjoy from other Patreo...

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