"Start often, finish well"

Some more spot-on art philosophy from concept artist Noah Bradley.  Enjoy!:

Link

Extreme Balloon Jousting

Remember, your sketch doesn't have to be complicated or beautiful as long as it's fun for you to get the idea out.

Developing a "Style"

Aloha Sketchmonkeys!  I just stumbled across this succinct but profound blog post by professional concept artist Noah Bradley.  It's really short, and well worth the read.  I feel it applies to sketching just as much as painting:

Link!

don't forget to check out his other concept art, there's some pretty slick stuff in his portfolio!

Alsoplus, a sketch from a roadtrip to Wyoming a while ago, I just posted it on my blog, but I thought it would be good to post it here too. He's an old biker I saw outside of Devils Tower in Northeastern Wyoming.

Digital Painting Links

Aloha Sketchmonkies, this is Josh.  As per request at the meeting today, here are some of rad-tastic digital painting tutorials!  These guys all have different techniques, each of them useful in different and mix-matchable able ways:

Nebezial–

CG Society Tutorial – AMAZING intro to digital painting.  It's in a forum format, so it might be some work to navigate, but well worth it

Nebezial's Deviantart– Nebezial is somewhat of a force of nature in the DA community.  Beautiful stuff, but be warned, on occasion he does the "pinup" buxom lady thing . . . yech.  His dragons are much cooler.

Feng Zhu– Amazing environmental/mechanical concept artist from the more recent Star Wars Movies, more than 50 tutorial videos

Sam Nielsen–  BYU Digital Painting Professor/ Concept Artist at Disney Interactive.  BOSS.

"A Portrait of My Friend"– A great tutorial not only on caricature and painting skin, but also on how a few very basic brushes can interact to create astounding realism


 Again, none of these techniques is an end-all, each artist has a different style and you will find your own.  Just like sketchbooking, the biggest secret is mileage.  Draw every day, paint every day, and one day young grasshopper you will become a butterfly!  Except grasshoppers don't turn into butterflies . . . but you will become a beastly artist.  Like seriously.  Hard work . . . who knew? lol

 Stay classy!

And I lost the game.

Geeking out!!!!

Ok, I'm feeling totally inspired right now:

http://chromasketch.blogspot.com/

In a rut?

Hi guys, someone recently reminded me about this blog, I thought I'd pass it along.  It's called "today's inspiration" and has articles about old illustrators and illustration styles that can be just the thing for creative block.  Or procrastination lol.  Either way, here goes:

http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/

Have a great day!

Some great resources

Hi guys, I just stumbled across a great sketch-booking resource page on Brett Bean's blog. Check it out here :)