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Minotaur/Centaur/Spider Concept! - layered PSD, high res + gif(also Bloodborne update)

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Hope you're well! Lots has happened in the past few days that's been both good and bad - although the bad turned out to be good too - I've recently replaced my previous Cintiq Pro 32 wit...

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April Q&A - leave your questions here!

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Hope you're well! Please feel free to leave any questions you may have for me here and I will answer them all in the upcoming Q&A video - you can ask me anything, personal, professio...

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Bloodborne - progress update!

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Hope you're well! Here's the latest progress on the Bloodborne piece - I've come back to it and have begun painting in the remaining elements before I go in and finish it all.  The ...

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Frieza - video w/commentary + brushes

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Hope you're doing well! Here's the latest video of part of my Frieza process - in t...

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Monster Squad - layered PSD + GIF process

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Hope you're well! Started these guys last night, wanted to work up some more concept art style stuff for you to check out - I've been doing a lot of that work lately and have been trying...

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Frieza - High res + layered PSD

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Hope you've been well! I wanted to share with you my latest approach for my current work. This is sketched in grayscale and rendered up to color making necessary adjustments along the wa...

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March Q&A - another video with my face in it - pt. 2

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Hope you're doing well! Here's part 2 of the March Q&A - a lot...

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March Q&A - video with my face in it - pt. 1

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Hope you're doing well! Here's part 1 of the Q&A from March - I split this up t...

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Robo Head - Grayscale Process Gif + PSD

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Hope you're all well! I wanted to share with you a small piece I did to play with the grayscale approach I used to have while working in Photoshop. This was more or less a test to see if...

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Concept Art - StarVeil + How I Approach Concept Art - Video + PSD

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Hope you're well! Here's something I've been meaning to cover - wo...

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The Basics - Current Process // video with commentary

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Hope you're well! Here's the latest Basics video covering my process using the Mixer brush(attached in the snowman brushes) as a means of final render, or rather - just part of the final...

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March Q&A - leave your questions here!

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Hope you're well! Please feel free to leave whatever questions you like here for this month's Q&A - you can ask me anything personal/professional or otherwise. Go ahead, ask me how m...

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Persona - Makoto & Ann

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I'm back at it! Added in Makoto, began rendering her, going to add more characters as I go, but this is coming along quicker now that I'm using the approach I outlined in the latest Basi...

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Fran - Final Fantasy XII - High Res + Walkthrough PDF

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Hope you're all well! I wanted to share with you the current process I've been playing with for quicker blocked in paintings. I'll go into a bit more depth with the Basics video on this ...

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The Walking Dead - Mural Breakdown // Video w/Commentary

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Hope you're all well! First of all, I want to thank you for the huge amount of replies I got to the message I sent out to you all. I read every response, I couldn't thank you enough for ...

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Snowman + Alien concept // layered PSD's + process video(no commentary) + brushes

Watch the Snowman video process here! - this video is real time, nothing sped up, runs for 2 hours w/Dark ...

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Live - Blackbirds RPG Character Concept

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Bloodborne - Drawing Ludwig video w/commentary + brushes

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Hope you're well! Here's the Ludwig drawing video I've been talkin...

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Ann - Persona 5 & Bloodborne - Orphan of Kos redo!

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Hope you're well! So, I wanted to share where I'm at with the Persona 5 piece as well as what I've done to the Bloodborne piece. I spent a good amount of time staring at the Bloodborne p...

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January Q&A - Part 2

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Hope you're well! Here's the follow up to the previous Q&A where I...

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Venom 34 - Walkthrough PDF Breakdown

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Hope you're well! Today I wanted to share the process involved in my Venom #34 cover, done for Unknown Comics. This one is slightly different for process because I leaned more into the s...

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January Q&A - pt.1

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Hope you're well! Here's the January Q&A, it's going to be split into two parts...

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Ann - Persona 5 wip + Bloodborne thumbnail video w/commentary

Bloodborne thumbnail video -Watch it here!

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Hope you're all well! I just wanted to quickly shar...

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Bloodborne - update - Ludwig, Maria, Living Failures, Laurence

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Hope you're well! I wanted to post up an update today around the Bloodborne piece I've been working on - so far, so good, I think things are coming together pretty well! Something as amb...

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Hero - Dragon Quest VIII - high res + step by step walkthrough PDF

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Hope you're well! I just wanted to share something I worked up for you all yesterday - it's my approach to working through quick, painterly, portraits - this approach takes me around 1-2...

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Bloodborne Update! + Draugr Necromancer MTG step by step GIF & PSD

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Hope you're well! Here's the latest update for the Bloodborne piece - working up placement on all of the bosses and the eventual looming hunter and background elements. I'd say the harde...

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January Q&A - leave your questions here!

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Please feel free to leave whatever questions you'd like me to answer in this month's Q&A video! You can ask me anything, doesn't have to be art, you can ask why I sweat beneath my fi...

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Super Metroid - Draygon - Walkthrough Video 1hr 22m w/full commentary

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Bloodborne - thumbnail/comp sketch

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Hope you're good! Here's the latest progress on the Bloodborne piece - this is a thumbnail for the piece, I'll use this throughout the process as reference of where to place lighting, fi...

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Bakugo - high res + PSD & Bloodborne sketch

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Hope you're well! Here's another My Hero Academia character, Bakugo! The reason I'm actually doing these is because I wanted to plan something in the future and was hoping to target a st...

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