Walking down illustration road

Hello visitor, welcome to my domains. I’m a computer science student who wants to draw for a living. Here you can find regular and not so regular updates on what I’m currently doing, drawing and painting. That includes sketches, concepts, storyboards, caricatures, illustrations, fantasy illustrations, science fiction illustrations.. you’ve got the idea. So, make yourself at home, click here to check out my portfolio and leave me a comment. Or, if you want me to draw for you, I’d be glad to answer any questions through the email form in the contact page.

By the way, I’m taking commissions, so feel free to contact me about that. Cya.

Hi everyone. There are quite a few artists out there that use some kind of perspective brush to sort of speed things up when concepting or just starting a sketch, El Coro and Dave Rapoza for example. In the ConceptArt.Org there’s also a demand for this type of brush. You can set your VP (vanishing points) anywhere you like, even outside of the canvas (which is optimal for a realistic, non deformed perspective).

So, to start things out, you are going to need Illustrator and, obviously, Photoshop. I had Adobe Illustrator CS 3 and Photoshop CS 5 for this tutorial. Fire up Illustrator, create a new document, select the line tool and draw a straight line (hold shift). Click the images to view them bigger.

Go to the Window menu and open the Transform palette.

Select the line you created, hit Ctrl + C to copy it and Ctrl + F to paste exactly on top of it. With the new line selected go to the Transform palette and type 6 in the rotation field. This will rotate the new line 6 degrees :D

Now hit Ctrl + C and Ctrl + F again to paste a new line on top of that one. Now hit Ctrl + D to repeat the transformation (rotation by 6 degrees). Keep copying, pasting and repeating the transformation until you have the full circle (:

Nice, isn’t it? The beauty of it is that, being a group of vector elements, you can scale it up and down without loosing quality. Select all those lines and group them.

Now copy it and open up Photoshop.

In Photoshop, hit Ctrl + N to open up the Create File window. In the preset dropdown, select Clipboard so that the size of the new file is the same size of the element in the clipboard (our vanishing point with all its lines).

Here I created a new layer (Ctrl + Shift + N shows the dialog for creating a new layer, the nifty Ctrl + Shift + Alt + N creates a new layer without any bureaucracy) and pasted the vanishing point, but it turns out I didn’t need a new layer. I choose to paste it as pixels, since we will create a new brush from it and my guess is that we can’t do it from a smart object, shape or path layer.

With the vanishing point pasted and its layer selected, hide the background layer, hit Ctrl + A to select everything and go to Edit > Define Brush Preset…

Give a nice name to your brush and be happy (: Hope you enjoyed this little tutorial and feel free to leave any comments, questions or feedback below! Thanks!

Happy first of setember. Quickie before work.

Quickie. Trying to get back into drawing faces everyday.

Watch this video. Really, do it.

There’s part two, check that one out on youtube. After watching it I realized I haven’t been studying regularly and if I want to be a badass artist, I got to cut the distractions and make some sacrifices. So, got a nice Bouguereau (the man has some amazing colors) and started studying.

So I decided to try traditional for a change and bought watercolors and nu pastels. My experiments with the former were a complete failure, rendering some brushes really ugly, some paper really wet and some shirt really stained. But the latter was more forgiving, and having watched Mark English draw the figure I decided to try his way. Below are the quick drawings done.