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Char Aznable WIP + PokéQuest progress

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Hope you're well! I wanted to share with you a couple progress shots for the current pieces I'm working on - the first is something I've been playing around with doing for quite some time - Char Aznable from Mobile Suit Gundam - I was m...

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Sketches + WIP - monster guys & pokémon

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Hope you're well! I wanted to share a small batch of ideas I've been playing with - firstly, I want to start sharing more of my sketchbook work and try and explore some new concept ideas(feeling the Halloween coming!), I got a wip of a ...

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My Book Collection - part 2 - video

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September Q&A - leave your questions here!

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Hope you're well! Please feel free to leave your questions for this month's Q&A here - my wife and I will be doing a long form Q&A video at the end of the month addressing whatever you'd like to ask - personal, professional, con...

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Discord Challenge - F-Zero Inspired Character Racer

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Hope you're well! Today marks the first day of the Discord Challenge, the channels for the challenge will be up in just a moment! So,...

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CONCEPT ART - F-Zero inspired character racer

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Hope you're well! I wanted to share with you my concepts for the F-Zero inspired racer topic for the challenge we're currently doing through discord. This is just to toss out some initial ideas on where you can go with style and charact...

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The Old Hunters - High Res + Discounted Print Early Access

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Hope you're well! It's finally done! After tablet failures, complete redos and general painting approach - we're finally here at the end of this one! I'm so happy to have completed this, it really does feel like my nightmare is over, th...

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Painting Process - Kirby Demo - (same process I used for Cowboy Bebop)

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Hope you're doing well! Here is the step by step process video showing what I did to create the Cowboy Bebop illustr...

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August Q&A - part 2!

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Hope you're well! Here's the follow up, part 2 of the August Q&A - this was a lot of fun, thank you al...

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Cowboy Bebop - High Res File

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Hope you're well! Here's the final high res file for the Cowboy Bebop piece, feel free to download the attached file and print it how you like for personal use! If you'd rather outright purchase a print, 2021-09-02 03:07:16 +0000 UTC View Post

Cowboy Bebop - Faye - progress!

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Hope you're well! Here's the latest process on the Cowboy Bebop illustration - I'm going to be adding Ed and Ein followed by the ship and some details to the background. So far I'm pretty happy with the progress, can't wait to wrap this...

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August Q&A - pt.1 - video

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Hope you're well! We recorded the first part of the August Q&A last night, the second part should be up either tonight or tomorrow morni...

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Cowboy Bebop - Jet Black(w/short process) + Laurence(Bloodborne)

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Hope you're well! Things are coming along nicely with the Cowboy Bebop piece, I've rendered up Jet and have sketched in Faye, Edward and Ein. Also, I included the current progress on Bloodborne - Laurence is basically completed, I now j...

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Introducing my wife, Kim! (the person helping run this patreon)

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Hope you're doing well! My wife and I wanted to take a minute to say hello and let you all know...

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Cowboy Bebop - work in progress!

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Hope you've been well! Here's something I've been working up - I wanted to try and revisit my approach to rendering more anime/cartoon aesthetics into some type of realism. Once I started working in this particular process I found that ...

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Kid Buu + Process & Bloodborne Progress!

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Hope you're well! Here's the latest update to the Bloodborne piece - finished Ludwig, Maria, Living Failures and am currently working up Laurence's body for the final. Orphan of Kos is the next after that followed by final render on the...

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August Q&A - Leave Your Questions Here!

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Hope you're well! I can't believe we are already in August, it's nice to be back on Patreon getting everything done.  From here on out, things may look a little different as I've enlisted my wife in helping me run things smoothly. ...

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Bloodborne Update!

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Hope you're well! I wanted to share with you an update to the Bloodborne piece - the frame is completed and I've started the final paint over for all the characters, feeling positive about this after not feeling positive about it for a ...

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Goku high res + process + brushes!

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Hope you're well! This is gonna be a pretty quick post, I painted a realistic Goku, he unfortunately looks a bit like Dr. Oz, but I wanted to share my process! Also, I attached the brushes used and the high res if you want to take a loo...

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Comic project start - StarVeil short story

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Hope you're well! Here's something I've been meaning to do since 2018, this is the start(well, this is the 2nd page) of a short story I wrote/designed/thumbnailed and never got around to finishing. Back then I had some hesitancy about w...

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Kamen Rider/Guyver inspired designs + gif process

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Hope you're well! Been playing with a lot of style ideas for these concepts, I'm really enjoying the process and I think this approach has yielded some decent results - I'm aiming for a homage to the classic retro design books I've seen...

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Hello! (& General New Process Breakdown)

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Hope you're well! I just wanted to stop in and say hey to you all - but also share a little insight into what I got planned and adjustments to my process.

Thanks as always for your support!

Dave

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Rogue - Painting/Sketch - and hello!

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Hope you're well! Been a long time - but thankfully life has circled back to being a bit more normal and I can get to my regular posts again. I feel like it's been at least 3 months since I've been as consistent as I'd like to be - it's...

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Cammy - High Res file

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Hope you're well! This is something I was working out last night/today to try and experiment with my grayscale approach - I'll do another post with a step by step showing exactly how I got here, but I basically got carried away with a s...

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Blackbirds RPG Cover - Rendering in Grayscale (progress pictures + brushes used)

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Hope you're well! I wanted to share some progress on a new an approach I'm trying for my latest cove...

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The Basics - How I Use Reference

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Hope you're doing well! Today I wanted to share with you my process of using reference in my illustrations - specifically how I would...

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April Q&A - pt.1

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Hope you're well! Here's the first part of the Q&A, I had to split it up in order to not lose too much steam answering your questions - lots of new questions in this Q&A, I greatly appreciate it and also thanks for asking me som...

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My Book Collection - part 1 - video

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Hope you're well! Super glad to finally be able to share the first part of my Book Collection videos - I'm going to walk you through a bunch of books that have influenced me through the years and talk through how they've helped me and w...

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Piccolo - High Res + Layered PSD

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Here's the completed Piccolo painting - I did the entire painting with the brush attached to this post - really enjoyed this process! I found now that my pressure sensitivity is fixed with my new tablet that a lot of my previous issues ...

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Drider Concept - video process + talk on Concept Art (also, Piccolo wip)

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Hope you're well! In this video I walkthrough my process of thinking through concepts as well as how I approac...

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