Added to the “Studio” section of the gallery is part one of a three part tutorial all about Perspective and Composition. Part one centers exclusively around understanding and drawing one, two, and three point perspective. If you’re an artist who needs some help in this subject, I’d highly suggest giving it a read. The tutorial is on-par with most college-level classes :)
Coming up in part 2, we’ll be looking at building meaningful compositions and looking into how they work through compositional theory. Stay tuned!
I’m thrilled that Plastic Shards and my work has recently become popular among blogs and design/illustration sites, I’m grateful for the exposure!
However, with all of this new exposure comes a bit of the “telephone effect.” Basically, as some blogs pick up my work and publish it in a post, some facts can get skewed here and there. Most notably is some confusion about what I do, and the focus of my work.
I’d like to take the time to clarify that I do photography as a hobby. In the case of some blogs, they write that I “often use photography” in my work, when in fact I’ve only used it in two pictures within my gallery. [The "Series I" images.] All of my work is actually created from a more classic approach — that is, I start with a quick thumbnail of the scene, I bring the thumbnail to a rough sketch, the rouch sketch to a cleaned up sketch, then the cleaned up sketch to a final polished drawing. I have some supporting imagery to show the processes in a couple of my images.
[Click the image below to see a larger version.]
I also have a video recording of one of my one-hour speed paintings, start to finish, compressed into about 10 minutes. You can see how I work directly!
So I like to use photography as a method to improve my visual memory, composition, and value, however photography is actually RARELY present within my work :) This would make me a Matte Painter if I did use photography — but the truth is that I’m not a matte painter. I like to be a conceptual designer and illustrator. I like to sketch and draw things from my head, quickly, and then embellish the sketches after the initial speed sketch. [Much like the video above.] Of course if anyone has any questions, feel free to drop me a comment here!
Just wanted to clear that up, and hope you found those examples interesting!
