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Issue 043 July 2009
artist
Concept Art, Digital & Matte Painting Magazine
Articles
Sketchbook Of Alex Voroshev
New! Dynamic Painting Series
Interviews
Nicholas Miles & Viktor Titov
New! 3D Base Series
Galleries
Jason Seiler , Eduardo Peña , plus more!
Making Ofs
‘Concrete 7’ by Yang Xueguo , plus more!
New! Digital Painting Series
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Contents
Editorial
Better late than never, welcome to the 43rd
issue of 2DArtist! We’re really sorry for
the delay this month. One word: Siggraph.
So much to do, so little time … If you’re at
Siggraph this year, drop by booth #3719 to
meet Tom Greenway from the 3DTotal/2DArtist
team, and hopefully if you time it right you’ll
also be able to meet some artists who are
featured in our latest book, Digital Art Masters: Volume 4 , who’ll be doing
some book signings!
Contents
What’s in this month?
Nicholas Miles
Concept Artist, U.K.
006
Viktor Titov
Concept Artist & Illustrator, Russia
Sketchbook
The Sketchbook of Alex “Rhino” Voroshev
023
032
The Gallery
10 of the Best 2D Artworks
042
Well, it’s halfway through the year already so we thought we’d celebrate
the halfway point by kicking off some brand new tutorial series’! We’ve
packed the irst parts of three new tutorial series into this July issue,
starting off with a series aimed to teach the power of 3D in 2D painting,
showing you how to create depth and achieve a sense of scale easily
in your paintings by utilising the free and easy-to-use software, Google
SketchUp. So don’t be afraid of the third dimension, simply check out p.64
to see just how easy it is to apply 3D geometry to your 2D paintings to get
some rather impressive results!
Stylised Challenge
This Month’s Top 10 & Last Month’s Making Ofs
2D Painting
Using 3D as a Base: Part 1
052
064
Speed Painting
Richard Tilbury & Robin Olausson
Dynamic Characters
Part 1: Thumbs & Silhouettes
080
Our second new tutorial series begins with Darren Yeow , full-time
concept artist in Melbourne, Australia, who introduces us to Dynamic
Characters: Enhancing your Character Concepts . We wanted to put
together a series not alike your usual anatomy teachings, but something
a little more special and focused on helping you to achieve the very best
of your characters. We’ve therefore asked industry professionals to take
us through several stages of character creation. In this irst part we look at
thumbnailing (p.88).
088
Digital Painting
Part 1: Beginner’s Guide
096
‘Aretha Franklin’
Project Overview by Jason Seiler
106
‘Concrete 7’
Project Overview by Yang Xueguo
‘
114
Our other new series for July is one that we hope will be useful to those of
us who browse 2DArtist and can only dream of understanding Photoshop
like a pro. Well, wish no further: we have Photoshop guru, Nykolai
Aleksander on hand to teach us how to start painting in Photoshop from
scratch, taking us through the tools and techniques we need to know to
get started. I’m pretty sure this in-depth series will also teach some of our
hardened readers a thing or two as well, and if you’ve ever seen any of
Nykolai’s stunning paintings at high resolution then you will understand
why the setting up of your Photoshop before you even start to paint is
so important. So follow Nykolai’s handy guide to painting like an industry
professional. We start off by looking at graphics tablets and brush
dynamics on p.96.
‘Gross Worm’
Project Overview by Alex Heath
‘
120
‘The Machine’
Digital Art Masters: V3 Free Chapter Promotion
126
About Us
3DTotal.com Ltd Information & Contacts
128
Editor
Lynette Clee
Layout
Layla Khani
Matt Lewis
Content
Lynette Clee
Tom Greenway
Richard Tilbury
Chris Perrins
Jo Hargreaves
Proofing
Lynette Clee
Jo Hargreaves
We interview two talented artists this month: Nicholas Miles , insect-loving
concept artist based in the UK (p.6), and Viktor Titov , hamster-inspired
concept artist and illustrator from Russia (p.23). Both are featured in
Digital Art Masters: Volume 4 , and when we stumble across talents as
great as these we just want to know more, more, more! So join us as
we learn all about Nick’s Insect Dynasty , and how Viktor plans world
domination through outsource company, Grait LLC!
Lead Designer
Chris Perrins
Marketing
Jo Hargreaves
Free Stuff!
Wherever you see this
symbol, click it to download
resources, extras!
Our making ofs this month feature the exclusive making of Aretha Franklin
by Jason Seiler (p.106), Yang Xueguo welcomes us to his world with a
walkthrough his painting, Concrete 7 (be sure to check out his free brush
set!) (p.114), and Alex Heath teaches us how to recycle while we paint
(p.120).
Well, I will leave you to enjoy your magazine with what July has left to
offer. We’ll be back in full swing next month with more great stuff and yet
another new tutorial series for you. Till then, stay creative! Ed.
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Contributors
Contributing Artists
Every month, many artists around the world contribute to 3DCreative and
2DArtist magazines. Here you can ind out all about them. If you would
like to be a part of 3DCreative or 2DArtist Magazines, please contact:
Nicholas
Miles
Working as a concept artist in
the games industry, and has
been for roughly four years
now, whilst developing his
digital painting skills in his own time, focusing on
sci-i and fantasy and his personal projects, ‘The
Insect Dynasty’ and ‘Exula’. He also likes to write and
sculpt, to add a little variation to the mix!
Richard
Tilbury
Has had a passion for drawing
since being a couple of feet
tall. He studied ine art and was
eventually led into the realm
of computers several years ago. His brushes have
slowly been dissolving in white spirit since the late
90s, and now his graphics tablet has become their
successor. He still sketches regularly and balances
his time between 2D & 3D – although drawing will
always be closest to his heart.
Darren
Yeow
27-year old self-taught
illustrator, originally hailing
from Adelaide, has worked as
a concept artist, user interface
designer and art director in video game companies
for the past four years, and currently lives in
Melbourne. Outside his full-time role as an in-house
concept artist working on next-gen games, he tutors
hopeful young artists, works on commissioned
freelance projects, and is writing a book for those
wishing to pursue a career in concept art.
Alex
Heath
22-year old artist from England,
Alex has been fascinated with
all things sci-i since he irst
saw Aliens as a child. Since
then he has been working hard to improve his skills
to get into the concept art industry, so he can create
his own monsters, characters and environments for
gamers to enjoy. Currently freelance, Alex is looking
for work experience within the industry.
Jason
Seiler
Has had the pleasure of
painting for many magazines,
such as TIME and MAD.
He’s also worked on ilms for
Universal Pictures, and more. He teaches a course
on caricature illustration for Schoolism.com, and
last year his irst book came out, called “Caricature,
the Art of Jason Seiler”. His second book, “Seiler
2008-2009” will be available this July, as well as a
two-hour instructional DVD, “Sketching with Jason
Seiler”.
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Contributors
Alex “Rhino”
Voroshev
Works in the videogames
industry as a concept artist,
currently senior artist at
Astrum Online specialising
in characters, environment and monsters (he has
a particular liking for the latter). In his work he
uses Photoshop and Painter, as well as traditional
materials. He enjoys creating new worlds and
populating them with unique creatures.
Nykolai
Aleksander
Born in Germany in 1978, she
moved to England in 1999,
and currently lives in South
Africa with her husband. She’s
been painting digitally since 2002, and works as
a freelance illustrator for both private clients and
companies.
Robin
Yang
Xueguo
From China, Yang always liked
painting as a young boy and
is now an art teacher working
with 3D animation and digital
painting. Surreal art and digital painting in his city
is an unusual thing, but he loves it very much and
always does it for himself. Most of his ideas come
from life and feelings; he uses different things to
express the world that he lives in. He simply wants to
touch people’s hearts with his honest art.
Olausson
24-years old from south
Sweden, currently a student
at the school of future
entertainment in Karlshamn,
and working as a freelance concept artist. He’s
currently looking for an in-house position anywhere
around the globe. He’s been freelancing for 2-3 years
for different companies and is also familiar working
with 3D applications, such as Maya and ZBrush.
Rosa
Hughes
Can peel mandarins really fast,
kick a hackysack 32 times,
and animates for a living. She
currently lives in Brisbane,
Australia where she works for a pokies company,
leaving little bits of her soul behind in a shower of
sparkling gold and glittering teeth. One day she
hopes to inish all of the projects she’s started over
her 23 years.
Would You Like To Contribute To
3DCreative Or 2DArtist Magazines?
We are always looking for tutorial artists, gallery submissions, potential
interviewees, ‘making of’ writers, and more. For more information, please
send a link to your work to: lynette@3dtotal.com
www.2dartistmag.com
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