Artist Resource No 13: Color and Light

If you haven’t already, I encourage you read my post on color theory.

If you are not familiar with James Gurney, you are likely familiar with his works as creator of Dinotopia. James is an exceedingly accomplished artist, with a well established reputation for creating exceedingly realistic renderings even when the material is often fantastical in nature.

Dragons, Dragons and more Dragons!

Awhile back, seemingly almost two years ago, I happened to be sitting at one of my favorite wineries with my iPad in-hand. As I oft due, especially in crowded spaces, I was engrossed in sketching while trying to ignore the cacophony that is, to my ears, humans in a crowded space.

Art Fundamentals No 1: Color Theory

I fully admit I have no formal training in art. I certainly appreciate that this is not some declaration of any innate talent; but, more that it is an acknowledgement that I have a great deficit in knowledge that impairs my ability to improve my skills. Ask any artist and you are likely to get a variety of responses to “the fundamentals” albeit they tend to center around shape, form, values, anatomy, and color theory. And its this latter one, color theory, that I want to spend a bit of time sharing what I’ve learned thus far, along with provide a bunch of resources (mostly online) that I think are worthy of further exploration.

Dragon Die

I have been working with another artist on a cover for a dice box. My contribution is to provide the top box art, which he will then use a laser etcher to add to the precision-cut wood boxes. At present, we’ve landed on a 10″ by 2″ box (5:1 aspect ratio). The current piece is just me going a bit silly on the rendering since ultimately the final piece, minus either of us doing post etch work, will come out black and white. If I was serious about it, I would clean up my lines and coloring. Nevertheless, I thought it a pretty cool design worth sharing.

norwescon 41, day 2

Art Show

Well, I got a lovely surprise this morning when I woke up – someone dropped out of the art show at Norwescon. Well, okay, that’s not lovely news, now is it? Bad Ward! But it did mean that as I was on the waitlist, the show coordinator reached out and asked if I’d like to participate. Huh? Of course I would!