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Use Reference To Design A Boss Character

Tancred Dyke-Wells walks through the process of concepting and painting an endgame character for his new video game, Skeleton Crew

Paint Video Game Character Art

Oliver Ödmark reveals his process for tackling a character-focused illustration, as he paints Jesse Faden from acclaimed video game Control

The Camera Always Lies

Artist and painter Patrick J Jones shows why working from photographs is so risky – and explains to how make photos work for you

Paint A Chinese Fantasy Figure

Yangtian Li explains her research and design process as she illustrates a fantasy character with armour based on authentic Chinese costume.

Dawn Carlos

Sound & vision This San Francisco concept artist’s compact workspace enables her to sketch, synthesise and create in her small downtown apartment.

Cintiq 22

CREATIVE SPACE With the lowest price we’ve seen for a Cintiq of this size, Wacom’s drawing display could change the way you create art

Photoshop Paint Vibrant Portrait Art

Daniel bolling Walsh reveals how he makes use of custom brushes and a range of Photoshop layer modes to create a painterly portrait piece

First Impressions

Game of Thrones first drew a blank with this artist and educator…

Andrew Hem

Gang signs and agriculture: the Cambodian-American artist tells Gary Evans how his art was shaped by growing up between two very different cultures…

Photoshop Create A Card Art Portfolio

Illustrator Noah Bradley shares the fundamental principles for creating strong, dynamic and impactful artwork for card games

Alex Konstad

The American illustrator and concept artist reveals to Gary Evans how hard times got him where he is today…

How To Succeed As A Concept Artist

Bright ideas top concept artists tell Gary Evans how to get educated, get employed, and get better in art’s most misunderstood field

Everything You Need For The Creation And Automatic Optimisation Of 3D Content

Easily achieve more than 10x in cost-savings when creating new assets or optimising existing data with revolutionary workflows

Happy 10th Birthday Inktober!

Visible ink As the art challenge celebrates a milestone year in 2019, we get the low-down from the founder and contributors on just how Inktober has become so popular

Tor Frick: Design Without Limits

Modo’s Flexible Modelling Tools And Amd’s Powerful Hardware Help The Leading Games Artist Meet The Punishing Production Schedule At His Start-up Studio, Neon Giant

Learn Your Way Around Krita

Sara Tepes Continues Her Series On The Free Painting Program By Taking A Tour Of Krita’s Tools And Its Pared-back Workspace

Ian McQue

Garrick Webster Learns How The Boyhood Fan Of Ralph Mcquarrie Made His Name In Video Games And Is Now Living His Dream As A Hollywood Concept Artist

Get To Grips With Pencil Shading

Timothy Von Rueden Continues His Series On Drawing Techniques By Covering A Range Of Shading Methods And How To Execute Them

First Impressions

Creating the “eternal moment” is key to this artist’s approach to her work

Donglu Yu

Garrick Webster Talks To The Concept Artist About Her Work On Games Such As Assassin’s Creed, Her Creative Heritage, And Helping The Next Generation Of Artists

A Beloved Children's Show Hits The Big Screen

Aixsponza On Creating Animations For Checker Tobi And The Secret Of Our Planet

Intuos 3D

Double aCt Get started in 3D with this tag-team of a Wacom drawing tablet and ZBrushCore, a stripped-back version of the sculpting software

Enhance your finished image

Tan hui Tian demonstrates simple post-processing techniques in Clip Studio Paint that will bring out the best in your artwork

Kiri Ostergaard Leonard

Sun trap From Denmark to Texas by way of New York, this Danish artist invites us into her cat-friendly studio

Capturing Light In A Portrait

As he paints an ethereal portrait piece, Simon goinard reveals his techniques for using light to capture volume and shapes effectively

Rebelle 3

WATER WORKS Mesmerising digital watercolour tools heighten the appeal of this increasingly useful natural media package

Quill, Marmoset Toolbag & Photoshop - Use VR Tools To Build Up An Image

Freelance illustrator martin nebelong paints in virtual reality to create the base for a book cover illustration, before finishing it in Photoshop.

How To Avoid A Creative Crash

Block busters The stresses of a creative life can weigh artists down and choke their productivity. Dom Carter learns how you can get out of a rut.

Render A Surreal Sci-Fi Character

Illustrator Audra Auclair taps into the influence of music to inspire a cyborg femme concept with bright hues and expressive lines.

Improve Your Painting Process

THE BIG PICTURE Video games illustrator Atey Ghailan pulls back the curtain on how an empty canvas develops into a fully fledged painting.