Making of Page One of GameLad
Rough Sketch and Final Sketch and Inking and Colors Lettering SaveSave
Creating a Square Up Online Art Store
I’ve been sending out invoices to clients using Square for years now. It’s easy to use and they only take 2.75% for online transactions. It’s not great to lose additional revenue, but it’s really efficient. My clients can pay via credit card and I get my payment within 1 to 2 business days. When most […]
Photoshop Fireworks for the Fourth
For the Fourth of July I thought it would be fun to show you how to create some fireworks in Photoshop. There’s a ton of different ways to make fireworks but here’s a few tricks and filters you can use to create some quick digital fireworks. Watch the above video for the entire process of how […]
Process for creating a book cover: Legend of Halloween
In this post I’m going to walk you through my process for creating a book cover. A self-publishing author, Thea Berg, approached me to do a cover in her book series The Magical World of Sebella. The first book cover was illustrated by Wilson Williams, Jr. who sadly passed away last year. So I thought […]
Painting the Legend of Halloween Book cover
Thea Berg, writer of the Magical World of Sebella book series, commission me to illustrate the Book cover for her second book in this series. Thea was gracious enough to allow me to share my process with you. This is a sped up video showing my coloring process for creating the color cover.
Zidane Tribal 2000 vs 2014
For me it’s always great to go back and see how I’ve improved my drawing skills over the years. It’s fun to take old sketches I did a long time ago and redraw the subject matter in the way I draw now. The image below is a side-by-side comparison of an image I drew in […]
Creating a vector graphic from a bitmap image in Adobe Illustrator
In this edition of the Once Upon a Sketch screen cast we show you how to use the live trace tool in Adobe Illustrator. In Adobe Illustrator CS two Adobe added a handy tool called the live trace tool which allows you to convert bitmap images into a vector based image very easily. Check out […]
Character Design 2 with Steven Silver Lesson 2 Homework
It’s week two in my Character Design 2 class and this weeks assignment is to pick an artist style or television show to try to emulate. The artist or show can be from the past or present and the character can be an animal or a person. The task was to design a character that will […]
Character Design 2 With Stephen Silver Lesson 1 Homework
A few weeks ago I started taking an online class, Character Design 2 with Stephen Silver. I took Character Design 1 and got a lot of good information out of it, So here I go with the 2nd class. I’m going to be showing off all the assignments I create as I go through the 9 […]
Using Dropbox to Send large Files to Clients
I’ve been sending a lot of large files to clients. As an illustrator I get my drawings done and the files saved, compressed into a nice, neat package, but in our line of work, we end up with pretty large files that we try to send to our clients. Even if it’s over 5 MB […]
Inking and coloring artwork in Adobe Illustrator
When I first started doing the Once Upon a Sketch Screen Casts I created a series of two videos about how I ink and color my drawings in Adobe Illustrator. Well, it’s been over a year since I created this set of videos so I thought I would share them again for those who haven’t […]
CEDE – 48 hours of Artwork
Over the weekend I did the Portland indie speed run with a few friends. The speed run is where you try to make a video game in 48 hours. Here’s all the artwork we created for our game CEDE.
Game Art Haberdash
Lately, Nic Biondi and I have been working on a few video game ideas. Nic is a programer and has been making these games for a while now. He already had a game that he had been working on for the last 6 months and he wanted me to help out with some new artwork […]
Warming up Digital Figure Drawing with PoseManiacs.com
It’s always nice to start my work day off with some gesture sketching. Unfortunately, I don’t have a live model on call or have a lot of time to go through photo reference sites looking for a pose to sketch. Maybe I could just find a magazine, but my computer is right here and I […]
Project Process – The Best of Us
Recently, I’ve set a goal of trying to get a better grasp on lighting faces. Here is one of my recent studies. I ended up enjoying it so much I took it to a final piece. Hope you enjoy the process images.
Questions to Consider Before Working With a Illustrator on Your Children’s Book
Is this your first Children’s Book? If it is then the illustrator might not only have to be the Illustrator but the teacher and possibly the designer of the book as well. In most instances very few have taken the proper steps to educate themselves about the process and kind of work that goes into […]
My Next Big Thing
The Next Big Thing is a global blog tour, started in Australia, to showcase authors and illustrators and their current work. I was hit up by my partner in crime Wilson Williams, Jr to be a part of this blog tour. I decided to post about the kids comic I’m working on. Then after the question […]
Keyboard Shortcuts for Photoshop Digital Painters
Here are a few handy key board short cuts I like to use when painting in PhotoShop. Some are very basic but still good to know. To download a PDF of this quick guide click here. Type B for the Brush tool, Pencil tool, Color Replacement tool depending on which tool you used last. Increase […]
