I was commissioned to digitally paint a portrait for a gift for a UK client. I love painting portraits. Aside from fantasy art, it’s probably my favourite thing. I went for slightly warmer colours in the image than the photo that was used for reference as I felt it made
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Often I look through older pieces of work and am pleased with the progress I’ve made. There’s nothing worse than standing still and not improving. However in rare cases, there are some pieces of work that I really enjoy rediscovering. They were moments in my learning which felt like breakthroughs,
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Dystopian Futures One of my favourite genres, but one I’ve rarely worked in. I’ve always loved videogames, films and books in the “post-apocalyptic” or dystopian future. There’s something morbidly fascinating about the idea of man being back to basics. The book, and film The Road (Cormac McCarthy) had me gripped
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Part 2 of the Custom Brushes tutorial This is part two of our custom brush tutorial. In this segment we use the brush menu to add shape dynamics and opacity variation using our pressure sensitive tablet. This is really important and something I struggled to work out until someone told
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Introducing Digital Art Tutorials Welcome to another new section at The Noble Artist, Digital Art Tutorials. This time I’ll be looking into some of the techniques I use in digital painting to help achieve the right finish and cut down on the time it takes. This is part one of a
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