2DArtist Magazine Issue 042 June 2009.pdf

Concept Art, Digital & Matte Painting Magazine

Issue 042 June 2009

Interviews

Raphael Lacoste &

Blaz Porenta

Articles

Sketchbook Of Drazenka Kimpel

Galleries

Jason Seiler, Eric Deschamps

& Alex Popescu , plus more!

Space Colonies

Chee Ming Wong wraps up his

epic 12-part space painting tutorial

series with his final instalment –

Space Colonies

‘Ground Breaking’

Richard Tilbury and Robin

Olausson are this month’s speed

painters tackling the theme, ‘Great

cracks split the earth as the ground

shook beneath them’

Image Breakdowns

From a knife-wielding woman to a

carnivorous plant, we bring you two

in-depth making of articles by

Tony Foti & Geoffrey Cramm

Contents

Editorial

Welcome to Issue 42 – and what

an issue to get your teeth into if

ever there was one! We’ve got

everything from man-eating plants

to earth-chomping diggers, to car-

and people-gobbling earth. We like

our destruction don’t we?! Not only

is this another great issue because

it’s packed with a variety of both

organic and hard-surface painting

tutorials, but this June release is

also quite an emotional one for us

as we are publishing the inal tutorial

of Chee Ming Wong ’s year-long space painting series. We are indebted

to Chee for his continued enthusiasm, dedication and passion to providing

the most thorough and stunningly painted tutorials of the space painting

genre you’ll ind, and we hope that he has not had enough of us yet and

will be back for more tutorial projects in the future. A round of applause for

Chee, please! And that’s not the only end of a chapter this month; we’re also

waving farewell to our vehicle painters, as Hoi Mun Tham brings us the inal

chapter of our 5-part mini-series (p.65). Our two extremely talented vehicle

painters, Dwayne Vance and Mun, are yet more examples of artists in this

industry who take time out of their already busy schedules to bring you high

quality tutorials through these pages; we hope that you have enjoyed their

teachings over the past few issues. And while on the discussion of things

coming to an end, our speed painting tutorials will be taking a 6-month

breather as of August, when we’ll be bringing you a new tutorial series to

keep you all inspired and up to date on your painting techniques! So be sure

to check out our penultimate speed painting tutorials – for the time being that

is – on p.73, by Robin Olausson and in-house artist, Richard Tilbury.

We have none other than world renowned matte painter and concept

artist, Raphael Lacoste who has lent us his awe-inspiring portfolio for the

interview pages of this issue. We irst interviewed Raphael in our sister

magazine, 3DCreative , back in 2006, and we ind out how since then

he decided it was time to switch videogames for ilms, and went from art

director for games to concept artist and matte painter for the movies (p.7).

Our second artist interview this month is with one of our personal favourites

of the moment, Blaz Porenta , who we ind out is not only an awesome

artist, but is also a ninja?! Yep, that’s right; he’s been practising the art of

Ninjutsu for several years – this is one artist with a kick for something more

extreme, and his artwork is a relection of his fantastic personality. Check

out his stunning portfolio on p.17.

I was proud to discover that recent gallery feature, It was a ierce battle by

Geoffrey Cramm was originally inspired by one of our stylised challenges

held on the Threedy and ConceptArt.org forums, so it is with real pleasure

that we bring to you the making of this wonderful image (p.101), which is also

quite deservedly this month’s front cover feature, too. Our second making of

is something a little different, by Tony Foti (p.93). His article is packed with

personality and wit, and we hope you’ll enjoy it as much as we have. And

with these giving you what I hope is a thirst for more making of goodness,

check out Aretha by Jason Seiler on p.39 in the gallery this month, as we’ll

be bringing you the exclusive making of this in next month’s magazine!

Contents

What’s in this month?

001

Raphael Lacoste

Art Director and Matte Painter

007

Blaz Porenta

Art Director and Freelance Artist

Sketchbook

The Sketchbook of Drazenka Kimpel

017

031

The Gallery

10 of the Best 2D Artworks

039

Stylised Characters

This Month’s Finalists & Last Month’s Making Ofs

Vehicle Painting

Tutorial Series: Part 5 – Final Chapter

051

065

Speed Painting

Richard Tilbury & Robin Olausson

Space Painting

Part 12 – Space Colonies

073

083

30 Minutes

Project Overview by Tony Foti

093

It was a fierce battle

Project Overview by Geoffrey Cramm

101

Break Away

Digital Art Masters: V3 Free Chapter Promotion

108

About us

3DTotal.com Ltd Information & Contacts

110

Editor

Lynette Clee

Layout

Layla Khani

Matt Lewis

Content

Lynette Clee

Tom Greenway

Richard Tilbury

Chris Perrins

Jo Hargreaves

Proofing

Jo Hargreaves

Lynette Clee

Lead Designer

Chris Perrins

Marketing

Jo Hargreaves

Free Stuff!

Wherever you see

this symbol, click it to

download resources,

extras!

I hope you enjoy this June issue, and be sure to look out for your free

resources throughout the magazine; Drazenka Kimpel has kindly

provided some of her custom brush collection which accompanies her

stunning sketchbook article on p.31, and Richard Tilbury has also

created some custom brushes speciically for his speed painting tutorial on

p.73. Enjoy! Ed.

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Contributors

Contributing Artists

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

2DArtist magazines. Here you can ind out all about them. If you would

like to be a part of 3DCreative or 2DArtist Magazines, please contact:

lynette@3dtotal.com

Richard

Tilbury

Has had a passion for drawing

since being a couple of feet

tall. He studied ine art and was

eventually led into the realm

of computers several years ago. His brushes have

slowly been dissolving in white spirit since the late

90s, and now his graphics tablet has become their

successor. He still sketches regularly and balances

his time between 2D & 3D – although drawing will

always be closest to his heart.

http://www.richardtilburyart.com

ibex80@hotmail.com

Hoi Mun

Tham

The early Star Wars trilogy

really got him into wanting to

become a concept artist. He

graduated from art school in

2006 and has been working in the ield as a concept

artist for almost 3 years. He spent time working for a

production studio and is now a full-time freelancer.

He’s worked on several projects which include

games, commercials, animations and toys, and

would love to teach someday, too.

http://hoimun.blogspot.com/

thamhoimun@gmail.com

Robin

Olausson

24-years old from south

Sweden, currently a student

at the school of future

entertainment in Karlshamn,

and working as a freelance concept artist. He’s

currently looking for an in-house position anywhere

around the globe. He’s been freelancing for 2-3

years for different companies and is also familiar

working with 3D applications, such as Maya and

ZBrush.

http://www.robinolausson.com

tv1000@spray.se

Chee

Ming Wong

Has over 8 years of creative

visualisation and pre-production

experience, having worked

on various independent game

projects, publications and CGI pre-production

artwork. He is currently the CEO of his own digital art

studio, Opus Artz, based in London. Previous work

includes his role as senior concept artist and visual

lead for Ininity: The Quest for Earth MMO 2009 , plus

numerous commercial publications.

http://www.opusartz.com

chee@opusartz.com

Drazenka

Kimpel

Florida-based freelance

illustrator and graphic

designer with over 10 years

of experience in the digital

medium. She has a diverse style and vision which

she loves to incorporate in her images, and she

is always open to commissions in many ields of

illustration and design.

http://www.creativedust.com

picky@creativedust.com

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Contributors

Geoffrey

Cramm

Drew a lot as a little kid and

picked up drawing again during

his media technology studies.

After graduating in 2007 he

worked for a short period as a 2D/3D artist, and

has been full-time freelancing since 2008. He’s

currently doing illustration, graphic design and 2D/3D

animation for various clients in The Netherlands.

Tony

Foti

Freelance illustrator in

California. He has won

several awards and his work

can be found in, on and

around numerous museums, books, newspapers,

magazines, T-shirts, video games – and even a tote

bag that may or may not have been released! He

is currently working as an illustrator for the Warlord

CCG, as well as a character designer and sprite

artist for Amaranth Games.

http://www.anthonyjfoti.com

noteasybeingweez@hotmail.com

http://www.geoffreycramm.nl

geoffrey@geoffreycramm.nl

Aviv

25-year-old artist from Israel:

web designer by day and comic

artist by night (and illustrator

during lunchtimes!). She’s

worked on six comic books that have been published

in Israel, and is currently looking for an awesome

story for her own book. She loves character design,

good storytelling, and ponies.

Felipe

Fernández Morell

Studied art in Montevideo,

Uruguay. He then worked

freelance in Barcelona in

different media – from publicity

to editorial to web. He’s currently working as a

production and concept artist in the games industry.

http://www.avivor.com

avivor@gmail.com

http://www.filustracion.com

contactos@filustracion.com

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