2DArtist Magazine Issue 061 January 2011.pdf

Concept Art, Digital &

Matte Painting Magazine

Issue 061 January 2011

Interview

Nicolas Ferrand

Articles

Sketchbook of Marta Nael

The Gallery

Songnan Li , Steve Jung and

Branko Bistrovic, plus more!

Portraiture

Nykolai Aleksander will be continuing our portraiture series showing us

how to paint a portrait of a female.

NEW!!! Art Fundamentals

Ioan Dumitrescu kicks off our new Art Fundamentals Tutorial Series

looking into Composition.

NEW!!! Photoreal Fantasy

Darren Yeow this month brings us chapter 1 of our new Photoreal

Fantasy Tutorial Series with his Griffin image creation.

Contents

Editorial

Hello and welcome to 2011! I hope you all

had a great Christmas and New Year. I hope

2011 is a successful and creative year for

all of you. I look forward to seeing all of your

images throughout this year. If you haven’t

submitted work for the 2dartist galleries before

please do so by emailing your images to me

at simon@3dtotal.com . You never know, this could be your lucky year.

Contents

What’s in this month?

Nicolas Ferrand

Interview

Sketchbook

The Sketchbook of Marta Nael

The Gallery

10 of the Best 2D Artworks

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NEW!!! Art Fundamentals

Composition by Ioan Dumitrescu

Portraiture

Female by Nykolai Aleksander

Creatures From Folklore

Troll by Simon Dominic Brewer

Photoreal Fantasy

Grifin by Darren Yeow

“Closet Monster”

Project Overview by Rafael Nascimento

“Baba Yaga”

Digital Art Masters: Volume 5 – Free Chapter

About us

3DTotal.com Ltd Information & Contacts

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Ok, so on to the good stuff. You thought the season for being treated

was over, but you were mistaken, we have a huge amount in store for

you this month so let’s start with the tutorials. There are some things

that just can’t be ignored and cheated when creating great art work, and

we call these the art fundamentals. This month see’s the birth of our

new series which covers the vital subjects that when mastered can turn

you into a great artist. Our new series Art Fundamentals will be handled

by seasoned pro’s starting with Ioan Dumitrescu who will be teaching us

about composition in this issue.

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There isn’t just one new series starting this month though as Darren

Yeow will be kicking off our new set of tutorials about painting real

looking fantasy creatures. In our new series named Photoreal Fantasy

the artists will be trying to show how to design and paint fantasy

creatures to look real using any method they choose. This month Darren

will be showing us how to paint a Grifin.

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Portrait pro Nykolai Aleksander will be continuing our portraiture series

showing us how to paint a portrait of a female. If anyone knows about

painting portraits it’s Nykolai and she doesn’t disappoint in this tutorial.

Also continuing this month is our fantastic Painting Creatures form

Folklore series, and again we call upon a master in the subject as

Simon Dominic Brewer fantasy king shows us how to design and paint

a Troll. I was lucky enough to spend the day with Nykolai and Simon

recently as they helped out with judging for Digital Art Masters, and I

can tell you these are super talented!

Editor

Simon Morse

Layout

Layla Khani

Matt Lewis

Content

Simon Morse

Tom Greenway

Richard Tilbury

Chris Perrins

Jo Hargreaves

Sub-Editors

Simon Morse

Jo Hargreaves

Lead Designer

Chris Perrins

Marketing

Jo Hargreaves

Nicolas Ferrand is the subject of this month’s interview. Nicolas uses

some really interesting methods to create his images, including some

heavy usage of 3D. Nicolas has a style that stands out and I know that

you will love browsing the images he has sent us to accompany his text.

Every now and again it is nice to see some light hearted cartoon digital

art, and we have that for you in our Making Of this month. Rafael

Nascimento shows us how he painted his outstanding image Closet

Monster.

This month’s Sketchbook is a more classical affair. Marta Nael shares

her sketches with us and tells us how important it is to have knowledge

of anatomy and form. Marta also shows us some of her fantastic digital

work and shows how she combines the classical impressionist style with

modern digital tools.

Finally there is the gallery which as always gives us a glimpse into the

abundance of skill out there today, and in this issue we have work from

Alex Popescu , Branko Bistrovic , Steve Jung , Andreas Rocha and many

more.

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Contributors

Nicolas

Ferrand

Nicolas Ferrand (viag) has been

an active concept designer in

the gaming industry since 1999.

Born in France in 1975, he now

lives in Montreal Canada. He has contributed to the

development of several AAA released games: Like

Assassins Creed, Splinter Cell and Prince of Persia.

Currently he’s working on THIEF 4 at Eidos/square

Enix Montreal.

Contributing Artists

Every month many artists around the world contribute to 3DCreative and

2DArtist magazines. Here you can ind out a bit more about them!

If you would like to be a part of 3DCreative or 2DArtist magazine, please

contact: simon@3dtotal.com

http://www.redwhirlpool.com/

viag@msn.com

Marta

Nael

From a young age Marta

showed extraordinary aptitudes

regarding drawing and painting.

It soon became apparent to her

what she wanted to become. Marta has a love for all

artistic disciplines but after completing her Fine Arts

degree she discovered her passion: matte painting

and concept art. Digital art has enabled Marta to

be self-employed and embark herself in a variety of

projects.

http://martanael.daportfolio.com

martanael@gmail.com

Ioan

Dumitrescu

Ioan Dumitrescu is a

architecture student and a

self-taught concept designer.

He loves drawing the things he

imagines in his head and trying to convey a story

to the viewer through them. He is currently working

freelance.

http://jonone.cgsociety.org/gallery

jononespo@yahoo.com

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Contributors

Nykolai

Aleksander

A UK-based freelance character

illustrator and portrait painter,

she’s been working in the CG

ield for the past eight years,

with publications in several Ballistic Publishing books

and 3Dtotal’s ‘Digital Art Masters’ series, as well as

numerous magazines around the world.

Simon

Dominic Brewer

Simon is a freelance illustrator

specializing in fantasy, sci-i,

horror and the generally bizarre.

He paints digitally, applying

traditional techniques through use of digital tools. He

has worked on game art, book covers, editorial and

magazine workshops since going pro in 2009.

http://www.admemento.com

x@admemento.com

http://www.painterly.co.uk

si@painterly.co.uk

Darren

Yeow

A 28-year old self-taught

illustrator, originally hailing from

Adelaide, who has worked as

a concept artist, user interface

designer and art director in video game companies

for the past 5 years, and currently lives in Melbourne.

He now runs his own studio ‘Stylus Monkey Design’

outsourcing concept art to the games industry,

undertaking freelancer illustration projects.

http://stylusmonkey.carbonmade.com

darren@stylus-monkey.com

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3DCreative Or 2DArtist Magazines?

We are always looking for tutorial artists, gallery submissions, potential

interviewees, ‘making of’ writers, and more. For more information, please

send a link to your work to: simon@3dtotal.com

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