The Art and Blog of Bill Corbett
Checkout my new Q&A and my classic flying saucer in the A-Z of Sci-Fi in Januarys edition of ImagineFX (Out Now) . I painted a six headed monster for one of the Q&As which was really fun to do, and I got to paint an alien abduction which was pretty cool too!
Looking forward to the Christmas holiday and spending time with my family now. Have a great xmas and a happy new year to you all!
With winter upon us and the New Year fast approaching I was very happy to see my two Q & A columns in this months ImagineFX magazine.
The picture I painted for one of the articles very much had winter in mind! In fact I liked doing it so much that I’ve reworked the image in Santa colours and made it into a family Christmas card! Not quite Father Christmas, more a gnome or dwarf in festive spirit.
So I will encourage anyone reading to purchase this month’s ImagineFX magazine and read through and marvel at all the wonderful stuff inside!
Speaking of XMAS check out my prints at deviantart. There are canvas prints, greeting cards, mouse pads, mugs and puzzles as well as prints featuring my artwork available for purchase.
In between pictures I’ve been taking the chance to research artists and illustrators that I may not have come across before ‘ John Bauer’ being one of those. It’s been a good exercise as I’ve managed to produce a few pictures influenced by what I’ve come across lately and I’ll update the gallery with one or two of them pretty soon. I’d definately recommend a visit to http://bauer.artpassions.net/ to see some fantastic illustration of yesteryear and a great source of inspiration.
In other news! I am again very fortunate to have another couple of QA’s in this months Imaginefx magazine. Grab it from your newsagent now!
Sorry for the lack of posts recently but I’ve been away on my holidays. I thought I’d give a mention regarding my QA in septembers ImagineFX magazine (issue 60). It was a great opportunity to use one of my more expressive artrage pieces for the question to be answered. It’s a style I’ve been moving towards due to how natural it feels when painting, I was reasonably pleased with the expressive qualities of paint stroke I got out of artrage, and especially the research I’ve made into John Bauer.
Free Tubes Update
Some people have mentioned that they are having a problem downloading my free-tubes. All I can recommend is that you try downloading a few times to get a non-corrupt file. I don’t know why it is happening, but my web hosting is free and therefore not entirely within my control or accountability. Sorry to those of you who have encountered this problem, I will try and find an alternatively download host for the files in the near future.
Checkout this months ImagineFX magazine (issue 59) I have a Q & A in this issue about painting worn leather. I revamped one of my old paintings for this one as the girls original jerkin was a bit newer looking. It was a good opportunity to repaint a fantasy piece that I liked. The original picture is actually available as part of my free tubes pack (for non profit use) so you can download it and have ago at creating the worn leather look yourself!
On a completely different note I’ve been spending a lot of time researching older illustrator styles. I was quite pleased to have stumbled across John Bauer a swedish illustrator from the turn of the last century read wiki entry here I can see where Rodney Matthews and Brian Froud found a lot of their inspiration (not to mention a lot of other illustrators). I came across him when I was looking at Larry MacDougalls blog a contemporary artist whos style I very much admire.
