Horror book covers I’m very lucky to have been asked by my friends at Popcorn Horror to write an article about designing a horror book cover. I’ve always enjoyed the format used in ImagineFX for designing artwork so I wrote it with a similar level of detail in mind. I
Read moreDigital Art Tutorials: Using tablet pressure sensitivity
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
Read moreIn the Spotlight: Horror book covers
In the Spotlight Here’s a new feature (we’re trying to give them all regular names like ‘Industry Interviews’). When The Noble Artist is interviewed or mentioned significantly elsewhere, I’ll be writing an ‘In the Spotlight’ blog about it. Horror book covers This time I was interviewed by horror magazine Popcorn Horror.
Read moreIndustry interviews #2: Mark Lawrence fantasy author
Recap and introduction: If you read the post for Industry interview #1 you’ll know that I have started to arrange some Q&A sessions with some of the people I’ve met in the creative industries in an attempt to answer some questions you might have if you are in the industry yourself or
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