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Artist PROFILE
Blake Rottinger
LOCATION: Australia
Blake is a freelance concept artist with seven years of professional experience in the AAA games industry. He is currently working on Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 for the PlayStation 5. blakerottingerart.com
When starting my personal paintings, such as this one, I tend to theme them around a specific colour wheel and general mood. I always try to change the environments I paint and don’t usually do similar colour schemes throughout recent pieces. My professional work also influences my personal work, so I found myself looking to change it up from the dark and dreary work my clients are asking for at the moment. For this image I started with a photo plate I found online where I found the colour and lighting appealing.
I tend not to plan too much with these types of pieces, allowing myself more creative freedom. If I’m working on a specific skill I will plan the image more – however, for this piece I knew I wanted a detailed figure in the foreground looking over this vista, so I came up with a travelling merchant peddling strange curios on her way to a trading hub of sorts. I knew I didn’t want to have too many compositional elements and keep the read of the shapes fairly simple, instead focusing on the lighting and details of the figure as well as the water in the foreground. I personally find set dressing a space really fun, so I knew the figure would be the focal point and I would spend a lot of time on the items and patterns shown there.
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Jan Wessbecher
Dominic Carter talks to the visual artist about creating his own comic and why sketchbooks are great for creative experiments
Kyounghwan Kim
The Korean character concept artist speaks to Dominic Carter about staying open to ideas and the value of drawing regularly
Slawek Fedorczuk
Dominic Carter talks to the concept artist about what keeps him motivated and the advantages of using physical sketchbooks.
Raquel M. Varela
Raquel is inspired by magic, fantasy and fairy tales. She loves designing female characters from distant worlds. \"My greatest reference is Loish's art, thanks to her I learned to draw the movement and fluidity I like to convey.\"
Estrela Lourenço
Estrela is a children's book author and illustrator. Her work is influenced by her background in character animation and storyboards for clients such as Cartoon Network, and she channels comic strips like Calvin and Hobbes.
Daria Widermanska
Daria, also known as Anako, has been drawing for as long as she can remember. Inspired by Disney and classic anime, she loves creating new characters and often finds that a single sketch can spark a unique story.
Allen Douglas
Allen has been painting professionally since 1994 for the publishing and gaming industries. Inspired by folklore, he distorts the size, relationships and environments of animals, and calls his paintings 'unusual wildlife'.
Thaddeus Robeck
Thaddeus has been drawing from the moment he could hold a pencil, but it was the 2020 lockdowns that gave him the time to focus on honing his skills.
DRAW FASCINATING SYMBOLIC ARTWORK
Learn how JULIÁN DE LA MOTA creates a composition from his imagination with a focus on crafting figures, volumetric modelling, and light and shadow
First Impressions
The artist talks about his journey into the mythological world
