These paintings are brilliant and each scene is naturally layed out and tells a story and asks questions to the viewer, keep on
These paintings are brilliant and each scene is naturally layed out and tells a story and asks questions to the viewer, keep on
Enchanter
Draw what you see!....not what you think you see!!
My artist friend
We Must each think of ourselves as an endless work in progress ....Harley Brown
Most excellent! Anything ImagineFX is amazing, love that mag.
Nick, this is superb - you are such a great ambassador for Artrage and digital art.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing!
Mac mini (M1, 2020), macOS Sonoma 14.4.1, ArtRage Vitae v7.1.4
Fantastic one as always Nick!
I love the moody lighting and how my mind is drawn in to start to tell the story of this meeting
"I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings."
~Thomas Bailey Aldrich~
These webs, my favorite part haha.
Sorry to have ben so quiet, chaps. Lots of juggling and family stuff going on. Life basically, like we all have to deal with.
I'm always switching between AR and SKB for my drawing and painting, because for me they are both great software with different things to offer. Of necessity I've been using SKB for a book project that has been taking a lot of time, because it happened to suit the requirements better. That work isn't suitable fare for this Ambient forum then, but recently I've been getting a few more ImagineFX magazine projects to do again and those ArtRage is better suited for those.
I'm very lucky that the team there seem to like me and offer me Q&A entries to do a few times a year. Below is a sheet showing some progress stages that won't appear with the article. I won't explain what the question is about, in the hope that you will support the excellent magazine by purchasing the physical or digital edition when it comes out in the next month or so. All I will say is that the hairy thing is supposed to be a bear.
Something I'm even more excited about is that they very kindly asked me to come up with a splash image, heading up an article for their 100th issue celebratory edition. Feel realy honoured. It was fairly short notice a few weeks ago and a tight deadline, so I couldn't ponder and deliberate much. My subscription copy dropped on the doormat yesterday, so it will hit news stands in a couple of days.
Did it all in ArtRage 4, but was worried that the file size might become a problem as the number of layers swelled. Thinking ahead I switched to Painter 12, the big and much vaunted Corel monster, to avoid that and guess what? It crashed losing precious work. Then it crashed again. I reverted to AR and had no problems whatsoever. Brilliant.
Below are some stages that again wil not appear anywhere in the magazine.
Nick Harris Artwork
http://nickillus.com
New system as of April 2011
i5 quad core - Asus P7P55LX
Windows 7 Home Premium
8gig DDR3 RAM
Wacom intuos 3 A5
Radeon 512mb graphics card
Stunning work Nick, and so interesting to see the WIP.
Thanks Copespeak. Best bit about it was that it was fun to do despite the pressure. And ArtRage performed great. Such a super bit of kit.
Nick Harris Artwork
http://nickillus.com
New system as of April 2011
i5 quad core - Asus P7P55LX
Windows 7 Home Premium
8gig DDR3 RAM
Wacom intuos 3 A5
Radeon 512mb graphics card
You are a Master Nick!!! Fantastic work! I am a fan!
Definitely we missed You and Your masterful inventions in this while. Welcome back and thank you very much for sharing some new wonderful illustrations and WIPs by You!
Panta rei (everything flows)!