Category: Digital Painting
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Eye Candy for Today: Arthur Rackham illustration for Götterdämmerung
The ring upon thy hand — / … ah, be implored! / For Wotan fling it away! (from Götterdämmerung) One of the many beautiful and sensitively realized illustrations the brilliant “Golden Age” British illustrator Aurhur Rackham did of the stories from Richard Wagner’s “Ring Cycle” series of operas. From this set on Wikimedia Commons. For…
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Leonardo da Vinci’s Drawing Materials
Leonardo da Vinci’s Drawing Materials is a short (5 minute) video in which a conservator from the Royal Collection Trust describes and demonstrates some of the drawing materials available to Leonardo and other Renaissance artists. It was produced in conjunction with the exhibit “Leonardo da Vinci: Ten Drawings from the Royal Collection” that is on…
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Artem “Rhads” Chebokha
Most of us have at some point enjoyed laying back and watching cloud formations in which it is easy to see shapes that look like ships, dogs, hills, oceans, dragons and more. Artem Chebokha — who also goes by the handle, “Rhads” — is a digital artist based in Omsk, Russian Federation. Chebokha has taken…
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Tang Wei Min (update)
Tang Wei Min is a Chinese painter from YongZhou, Hunan Province. He studied at the Art Department of Hunan Standard College and the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. He has received notice and awards in China, the U.S. and Canada. I first wrote about Tang’s work back in 2008. At the time, I noted that…
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Luigi Marchione
Luigi Marchione is an Italian concept artist, stage set designer and art director who brings to his work a wonderful feeling of Renaissance and Baroque art. Though he sometimes works in traditional media — such as soft pastel, charcoal and graphite powder on prepared paper — the majority of the pieces are digital painting done…
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Florian Aupetit
Florian Aupetit is a French illustrator, concept artist, art director and “3d generalist” based in Paris. Aupetit has an effective minimalist style of digital painting that is best appreciated in large images, though I’ve tried to give a suggestion of his approach to texture and subtle value changes in some of the detail crops above.…