House on the Hill - Painting Demonstration 2020

This is a drawing and digital painting demonstration I did with the kids back in 2020. It started as a very quick and loose pencil sketch which we scanned then painted over. The idea was to show them how to quickly do things digitally and to make images more uniform. This was done in less than 1 hour, not really sure how much we spent actually drawing vs. just talking and showing different blending modes/overlays options.

The year of 2020 was a very strange one, I think I was busy with work and didn't actually draw all that much despite the COVID madness that had engulfed the world. This wasn't really intended to be anything special, just playing around with the kids and showing them how to do stuff.

Procreate Sketch 2021

There was a period after I got my Ipad that I used Procreate quite a lot. The applicaiton is extremely powerful and certainly something that can be used professionally, a very good alternative to Photoshop. But after a while I of course once again went back to Photoshop where everything is familiar. This is a fairly rare experiment where I wanted to sketch in Procreate sometime in 2018. I didn't have anything in mind, just sat down and started drawing things.

Fog and Dreams

Pencil drawing made in 2012, color was a simple overlay in Photoshop. I originally intended to do more with this one, but I liked how it turned out so I left it alone...

Friends

This is a digital painitng done entirely in Photoshop sometime in 2021 as part of a Mermay challenge.

The actual drawing was done in black and white only, the colors were strictly done in overlays. This was an entirely new approach for me and the result worked very well. I actually didn't spend very long on this painting considering the level of detail that got painted in.

The Red Mountain

This is a digital painting done in Photoshop and Procreate sometime in 2021. This came out of a brush test and practice session, I really liked it so I blew it up and went to town with it. This painting is also available as a print.

A Dark World

This is a digital painting which was done in 2016 but then beefed up in Procreate sometime in 2018. My goal when I created this was to illustrate a fantasy landscape, with strange land shapes and a sense of mystery. The mage character is inspired by the video game Magika, and is featured in quite a few of my sketches where I like to add a figure for scale.

Fantasy Landscape - Brush Test 2021

This is the result of a photoshop brush test.  Sometimes I like to try other people's brush packs and to just figure out what each of the brushes does I take it for a test drive.  When I started this I had no plan in terms of what I was going to draw, just made some shapes with the brushes, eventually something started looking like a tree and off we went... I actually love this process of painting, and some of my best works have come out this way.

Cheers!

Abandoned Tomb

Pencil sketch from 2009, modified in Photoshop.

Floating Temple

A ink sketch of a floating island temple, modified in Photoshop. September 2023