Month: July 2021
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Blood of the Paladin
Blood of the Paladin is a graphic novel memoir written by Jonathan Hill about his life living with hemophilia, and the way that Dungeons and Dragons helped him find the strength to fight. I contributed my art to the D&D sequences, which interspersed the memoir sequences drawn by Allison Conway. You can learn more and…
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Adin and the Dead Man’s Sword
This short story was written for a followup Weald Comics anthology, set in the same world as Orin and the Dead Man’s Sword. You can read the whole thing on Stories alongside Orin’s accompanying adventure.
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Procreate Timelapse Videos:
I’ve been continuing doing studies in Procreate, and have been saving process videos more and more – it’s really neat to see how paintings change over the course of me working on them.
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Gouache Studies
I try and break out the gouache regularly for photo studies; it keeps my hand painterly and reminds me to think about values and simplifying the planes and shapes and also it is always a real challenge! I got some new gouache paints this past year, a Himi/Miya jelly gouache set suitable for painting a…
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Watercolour Maps
I’m a huge fan of the strangeness of satellite imagery of earth, and how it intersects with how we draw maps for navigational or other uses. I also love watching pigment flow around on a surface, and I’ve been thinking about how liquid dynamics of watercolour can mimic liquid dynamics of water tables, geologically. Which…
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Digital Studies
I’ve been using Procreate and a selection of MaxPacks chalk and gouache brushes to do some looser, more painterly digital studies from photo ref. Here’s a selection of recent ones: