SketchUp tutorial in ImagineFX magazine

Alex Jenyon · 25 Jul 2009, 13:33

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

solo · 25 Jul 2009, 13:37

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.

Alex Jenyon · 25 Jul 2009, 13:50

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

smokinbakin · 26 Jul 2009, 01:03

Wow! How long does something like that take you to paint, and how big are the paintings?

olishea · 26 Jul 2009, 16:39

wow crazy stuff!!!!

fefillo · 26 Jul 2009, 20:40

Great stuff!!

Something intrigues me greatly though... is that a real gorilla or a guy on a gorilla suit??

Fefo

Alex Jenyon · 27 Jul 2009, 07:19

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

andyc · 27 Jul 2009, 11:06

Nice bit of well-deserved exposure for you Alex

Great images. Really nice quality of light in the second one.

cheers,

Andy.

plot-paris · 28 Jul 2009, 13:34

great paintings, Alex. which program do you use for painting? is it all photoshop?

JHuman · 28 Jul 2009, 14:03

Very amazing work! I love it.

andeciuala · 28 Jul 2009, 23:20

Fantastic work! I love it! realy!

johnsenior1973 · 29 Jul 2009, 00:00

@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 .

olishea · 29 Jul 2009, 15:17

wow that website is incredible!!

pbacot · 29 Jul 2009, 16:14

Wonderful work. I want to read the book the first one is the cover for.