ART-ICKLES

A collection of art-ickles, where I look at various articles from art books, ImagineFX issues, and Character Design Quarterly magazines :)

  • 89 – GRAPHITE MAGAZINE ARTICLE ‘ETHEREAL PORTRAITS, WITH SARA TEPES’

    An Article in Graphite Magazine issue 9, entitled ‘Ethereal Portraits, with Sara Tepes’, is the topic of this weeks episode; I study how Sara Tepes walks through the process of drawing a Traditional Pencil Portrait from her Imagination.

    The entire process, from Sketch to final Detailing is covered, including stuff like :

    Art Tools,
    Facial Feature Relationships,
    Portrait Drawing Process,
    Lee Hammond,
    Art Paradoxes,
    Realistic Pencil Drawing Skills,
    Spirituality,
    How Less is More,
    and the Beautiful Portrait Drawings of Sara Tepes :)

    Really hope you enjoy this one

  • 83 – CDQ ARTICLE ‘CHARACTERFUL CREATURES, WITH HALEY JUSTICE’

    An Article in Issue 7 of the Character Design Quarterly Magazine, entitled ‘Characterful Creatures, with Haley Justice’, is the topic of this episode, where Peter the Penguin and I talk about tings like:

    Silhouettes,
    Basic Shapes,
    Capturing Movement,
    Lines,
    Shapes,
    Finding Balance,
    and Haley Justice’s Characterful Creatures :)

    Really hope you enjoy this one, please let me know what you think in the comments :)

  • 81 – CDQ ARTICLE ‘CAPTURING A CHARATER’S ESSENCE, WITH SIMONE GRÜNEWALD’

    Something a bit different for this one, as I go through an Article in Issue 1 of the Character Design Quarterly Magazine, entitled ‘Capturing a Character’s Essence, with Simone Grünewald’.

    I talk about stuff like

    Thumbnails,
    Gathering Reference,
    Studying Characters,
    Sketching,
    Iterating,
    and Simone Grünewald’s lovely Characters.

    Really hope you like this one; please let me know what you think.

    It will evolve overtime, but I’m hoping to do more of these as it was a lot of fun :)