Digital Painting

This week, my colleague shared some interesting artwork he had made with MidJourney on one of our Slack channels. I have played around with the Deep Dream Generator, but this is a whole other level. …

Detail of the second cover image for a series of Darklaw Stories. — The Darklaw Saga is a linked story collection published at Tantalizing Tales. The Darklaw Saga can be found here… I mostly paint with the standard airbrush and use filters on most layers. The painting took about 40 hours. It’s the textures and lighting that take the most time. It’s never really done because I find things to improve every time I look at it. But a deadline forces a stop — this is why a publisher can be better than self-published.

Detail of the first cover image for a series of Darklaw Stories. — I have a series of Darklaw stories posting in the next few months over at Tantalizing Tales. Darklaw is epic fantasy lesbian erotic fiction. With a little bi thrown in. I painted this digitally in Procreate on a very old iPad Pro. I have to do significant editing in Photoshop on my desktop because the iPad’s screen is so dark. One day, when my kids are done with college, I’ll have money again and can get a new iPad Pro.

I’ve been experimenting with another normal map and digital painting related tool over the last few weeks which you can find in G’MIC (a full-featured open-source framework for digital image processing). Luckily G’MIC is incorporated into the latest version(s) of Krita and can be used in other software as plugins…

Chefs4Farmers INSTA 8/9/2019, 6/27/2022 https://www.chefs4farmers.com/ This nonprofit was a delight to work with. I learned a lot and made some great rebranding work for them. …

Are you an artist who seems to have lost his skills but yearns to paint again? Presenting my “digital painting” method putting to use an old photo software. It has always been my desire to use a digital program as an effective painting tool. To put it bluntly, that actual…

Week of May 9, 2022 — For full context, see the description of my Art Home School Curriculum. Retrospective I decided to do one more week of digital painting because starting next week I’ll be spending all my time on Brainstorm School homework, which is all drawing fundamentals. I’m taking Foundation Sketching, a ten week course where…

Week of May 2, 2022 — For full context, see the description of my Art Home School Curriculum. Retrospective Continuation of trying to recreate FZD School of Design by scouring facebook for example homework posted by former students. The assignments below represent digital painting (renamed “forms and materials” at some point) week 7–8. I’ll continue this for…

Week of April 25, 2022 — Retrospective I had a vacation this week, so my hours were a bit reduced. It’s good to rest a little anyway before my intense summer class schedule starts on May 9th. Log