A short time ago I was asked by Chris Poore and Alan Lesser of rock band Winters Veil to come up with a cover to cover piece of artwork for their debut album The Storm Awakens. I already knew Chris from a previous band Crimson Altar as I painted the cover for their album The Ghost Ship Sails, so it was good to work with him again, and with Alan too. The guys had definite ideas of what they wanted so it made my job a lot easier I must say.
The Album is already available for download, with the CD due to come out very soon. I definitely recomend you checkout their site and have a listen to some great tracks.
Click on the Picture to see the full artwork, or click here
Take a look at my two QA’s in this months ImagineFx magazine. See how I paint a rusty portcullis in one of the question columns, and how I create a gritty desolate landscape in the other. As always its really cool getting the opportunity to paint and write for ImagineFX magazine!
I’ve got another two QA’s for you to checkout in this months ImagineFX magazine (issue 80). Follow my step by steps as I show you how to create a creepy spiral staircase, and then find out how to create a perspective grid from scratch in paintshop pro (or just your favorite paint program).
As always there are great pictures and articles for the SF & Fantasy Art enthusiast to enjoy, not to mention workshop and QA’s by other artists to delve into – out now!
Checkout this months edition of ImagineFX magazine (issue 79). There’s a really interesting piece on Wayne Barlowe that I highly recommend, quite surreal!
If you’re interested in gaming theres some interesting concept work for Batman Arkham Asylumn thats well worth taking a look at.
However I reserve the best to last, make sure you get to see the excellent sketches by John Howe an artist who’s work I greatly admire. Oh and did I mention that I have two Q&A sections in this months edition?
One of the QA’s you might recognise if you’ve looked through my gallery before. I’ve changed my colourful sunset for the QA article and given it more of a fantasy theme. The other QA is a new sketch that I made in artrage for a three step explanation of how to paint decaying flowers.
As always I am really honored to have my words and pictures featured in ImagineFX magazine, but more than all I recommend it as a quality publication for all lovers of the digital fantastic!
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Jan 27, 2012
Arkham Asylumn, Art, Batman, DC Comics, Fantasy Art, ImagineFX, John Howe, Science Fiction Art, Surreal Art, Wayne Barlowe
I have again been fortunate to write in the QA columns of ImagineFX magazine. This month I provide a three-step answer on painting feet! Halfling feet in fact, it was quite an interesting question from a reader and one I was happy to answer. I also covered the subject of colour from greyscale using one of my existing works ‘dragon Lord’ as the main illustration. Fortunately I had archived the original greyscale version so it was a perfect example for the answer I gave to the readers.
As always these were fun to do and as ever the magazine is fun and informative to read. There are some great paintings and articles on art nouveau and in particular the works of Mucha that I’d highly recommend taking a look at. ImagineFX issue 78 is still available at the newsagents, so go buy today!
