Vexith Gaming - Battlements

Hi everyone! it's been a while since my last update, but here's another illustration for your enjoyment.

This was done for Vexith Gaming, I've been having a blast with the assignments for this project, and it was done completely with acrylics, with veeeery little tinkering in Photoshop, all thanks to my brand new Epson Perfection v500 Photo scanner, which has saved me a lot of headached since I learned to use it properly.

I'm very happy to be working with acrylics now and then, I still want to try more stuff, but so far I've been enjoying the process a lot.

The original acrylic piece is for sale

fgaona@felipegaona.com
felipegaona.com

Dark Corridor

Another illustration for Vexith Gaming, this is another one of my experiments with acrylics, I think I'm getting the hang of it more and more, still, I had to fix a lot of things digitally for this illustration, yeah, I'm still learning.

fgaona@felipegaona.com
felipegaona.com

Enchanted Glade - Part 4

This is the final version of the Enchanted Glade illustration

It does look a lot different from the color rough, I painted over some of the smaller details and the trees don't look exactly the same, I thought the overall "feel" of the scene was more important, something otherwordly, if that's a word

I hope you enjoyed this walkthrough my process, I'll make another similar post in the future with more steps in the painting stage, I couldn't take pictures of this one.

Thanks a lot to Steve Prescott for all the help!

fgaona@felipegaona.com
felipegaona.com

Enchanted Glade - Part 3

Even though I liked the dragon sketch I did, it needed a few changes, the first thing I did was to use my very basic 3D knowledge to create a proper base for the statue.

I also decided to turn the statue the other way, I was surprised I didn't think of it before, this way the statue doesn't "escape" from the view. I also did the drawing again and it turned out much better. Well, the other one was just the sketch.

Finally I made a color rough just to show the basic values and color I'm going to use to my client, I heard an Art Director say that you should give an idea of what colors you're going to use to your AD, so I made this quick version, it was also a good reference for when I started painting the final.

The next part of the series is the last one, and I'll show the final version of the illustration.

fgaona@felipegaona.com
felipegaona.com

Enchanted Glade - Part 2

As I mentioned in the previous post, I thought that the fountains were looking too similar, besides that, I like the direction the process was going, so I thought I could include some different fountain designs too add more variety.

I started with some abstract fountain designs, but I didn't really like the result, then I thought that a dragon / serpent could be a good idea.

I also gave the trees different shapes, some are more twisted and weird while others are just straight, this way the client had a lot to choose from.

The client picked up the dragon sketch, next time I'll show the final drawing with the corrections I made and the color rough for the painting.

fgaona@felipegaona.com
felipegaona.com

The Wasting of Duny Slough Cover

I haven't made any posts in a while, it happens when you're extremely busy

This is my newest piece so far, it's the first of many covers that I plan to do for Headless Hydra Games

There's something special about this piece and it's that it was done with acrylics, even though it doesn't look like it, and that's because scanning the piece was a real pain. In the end I never could scan the thing and make it look as good as the original, so I had to go over the piece digitally in ArtRage, I was able to fix some issues too, and I think it looks much better than the original now, but well, that really wasn't the point of doing an acrylic piece.

Someday I'll get a better scanner or a super camera, A3 scanners are way too expensive.

fgaona@felipegaona.com
felipegaona.com

Transported - Governor

A new illustration I did for an upcoming RPG.

This is one of my attempts at acrylic painting, I've done a few before but this is maybe the first one that I really like, it didn't require much photoshoping besides messing with the contrast and removing some particles. All in all, a very good experience.

I followed Jesper's method too.

fgaona@felipegaona.com
felipegaona.com