ImagineFX 102 - Be Clever With Your Colors tutorial

Want to learn ALL my secrets? Want to see how I go about making a painting from start to finish? Want to hear me rant for an hour and a half like a crazy person as I narrate and discuss my painting process? Then you NEED to pick up the December issue of ImageFX (#102)! That's right, in issue 102 of ImageFX I have a 4 page tutorial focusing the creation of a battling pair of monsters... did I say monster?! Yes I did, and here they are...

Be Clever With Your Colors - Tutorial

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My copy of ImagineFX #102 arrived recently and it was definitely an unexpected surprise. I am not sure this issue is even out in the US yet. To give you a sneak peek of what you can expect from me in issue 102 here are some poor scans of my article...

Be Clever With Your Colors - Tutorial pages 1-2

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Be Clever With Your Colors - Tutorial pages 3-4

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To get the entire experience as well as the rest of the magazine full of other GREAT article and information I strongly suggest you picking up a copy as soon as possible. For those who just can't wait to experience me ranting and raving, here is the accompanying youtube video that goes along with this tutorial, now you too will know all my secrets...

Deep One and Chimera

I recent made some time to try my hand again at working traditionally. I had some ups and downs earlier this year with my first attempts at working with real live paint and had been hesitant to do do again. With Illuxcon fast approaching in November, I knew I had better step up to the plate of bow out completely... in the end I had two new piece to share at Illuxcon. Here are the pieces, the Deep One and the Chimera...

Deep One

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Chimera

© 2012 Christopher Burdett

The Deep One is my third traditional piece and the Chimera is my fourth.  The Deep One was painted as a gift for a friend and fellow artist that was also attending Illuxcon. The Chimera is part of the huge and long term personal project I am working on whenever I can. Here are some process photos of the paintings coming together, I tried to take a photo once an hour as I worked...

Deep One steps 1 - 4

 

Deep One steps 5 - 8

Deep One steps 9 - 12

Chimera steps 1 - 6

Chimera steps 7 - 12

Slowly but surely this whole crazy thing of working traditionally is becoming less scary and maybe just might be something I do more often... maybe. Had a lot of fun with these and I think I learned a thing or two... or three. When I complete some more traditional pieces I will be sure to share them here! Here are some last looks at the piece, funny how putting a frame on them really finishes them off...

The Deep One is getting ready to head off it its new home.

The Chimera rests up after an exciting trip to Illuxcon. Maybe if it is good it will go find a nice home with someone.

RAWR!

Sahrvin Demon drawing time lapse test

A friend and fellow artist of mine recent produced a time lapse video of himself drawing. I was instantly captivated and wanted to produce my own. Over the weekend I did a test to see just how complicated it will be and what limitation my equipment will create. I was really pleased to discover it will be fairly easy! This is how that first test turned out...

I hope to do more of these once I am done preparing for and going to Gen Con. It has been really interesting to be able to objectively review how I draw and it has shown me a thing or two about how I approach an image.