SketchUp tutorial in ImagineFX magazine
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I was commissioned to write a workshop tutorial for the digital art magazine 'ImagineFX' on using SketchUp as a tool when planning 2D concept paintings and illustrations. Since I could choose to paint absolutely anything I wanted, it was pretty good fun!
It's just been published in ImagineFX#47 in the UK - the rest of the world will get it in a few weeks time.
This painting is now out of NDA as well - done for the UK studio 'paintingpractice'. Not that advanced in terms of SketchUp usage, but I thought I'd share anyway...
Take care all
AJ
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Wow!! Alex this is uber cool stuff.
Cannot help wonder what's going through your mind in the first one however
Amazing images.Congrats on the feature, will definately get that issue when it arrives this side of the pond.
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Thanks Solo!
Thanks should go to Chris Phillips for letting me include his 'SketchyFFD' script with the workshop, too.
I tried to give a couple of sites a mention in my article - Sketchucation, smustard and formfonts should all be in there.
AJ
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Wow! How long does something like that take you to paint, and how big are the paintings?
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wow crazy stuff!!!!
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Great stuff!!
Something intrigues me greatly though... is that a real gorilla or a guy on a gorilla suit??
- Fefo
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It's a real gorillia - his name is Jonte...
It's sort of based on a little sketch I did a while ago of a couple of characters for a story:
But the commissioning editor wanted something 'a bit more sci-fi', hence the hover-car.
Took about 4 days to do the illustration in total - 2 days SU, 2 days paint. I'd normally spend a bit less time in SketchUp, and not really care how messy the geometry was - but this was for a step-by-step workshop, so I had to make sure it looked presentable at each stage.
Oh, and they were painted at twice HD - 3840 x 2160 px
Thanks for the comments everyone...
AJ
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Nice bit of well-deserved exposure for you Alex
Great images. Really nice quality of light in the second one.
cheers,
Andy.
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great paintings, Alex. which program do you use for painting? is it all photoshop?
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Very amazing work! I love it.
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Fantastic work! I love it! realy!
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@plot-paris said:
great paintings, Alex. which program do you use for painting? is it all photoshop?
He used Corel Painter for those two images. http://www.aj-concepts.net/Concept_art/conceptart.html .
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wow that website is incredible!!
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Wonderful work. I want to read the book the first one is the cover for.
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