Tutorials, Art and Website Design

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Portraits can be one of the hardest pieces of artwork to get ‘right’.

This is because we all spend a lot of time looking at other people’s faces. We are familiar with the array of shapes and proportions, but is seems to be difficult to put them accurately onto paper without preconceptions.

Follow this portrait tutorial at my new site drawing-tutorials.com

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Braid is an XBLA (Xbox Live Arcade) puzzle platform adventure game, official release date 6th August 2008 on Xbox Live Arcade.

At first, and from the screen-shot below, Braid appears to be similar to any other platform game, with no apparent difference other than the look of the graphics.

However, the game revolves around puzzle-solving largely by using the innovative ability of the player to rewind time at any point - even after dying. In fact, for reasons initially unexplained, the first world which the player encounters, is World 2. Read more »

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This is a recent double portrait drawing I created from an old wedding photograph for my grandparent’s 60th (Diamond) wedding anniversary.

The focus is on the faces and expressions, with a much rougher, sketchy style blending into the clothing and flowers in the shoulder region of the picture.

The mix of texture (in terms of the pencil strokes used) is intended to give a more interesting range of marks on the paper from a purely abstract point of view.

The techniques demonstrated specifically in my fundamental portrait drawing tutorial were used to create this drawing.

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Street painting is an experience I recommend to anyone and everyone.

It is good exercise, most certainly gives you good practice at taking criticism.

It is also a great opportunity to work quickly, at a large scale and under pressure, because you have to wash and scub it all away before midnight (or you turn into a pumpkin… only kidding).

Below you can see the first of my street paintings on the road. I was of course doing it all legally, with an official “Madonnari” license in the centre of Florence on via Calimala, just off Della Republica.

For my first street painting I decided to rely more on my creativity than getting bogged-down with the technicalities of replicating famous portaits as precisely as possible.

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Webcanvas is a large online digital painting project.

A large ‘artwork’ that is purportedly the largest collaborative painting in the world.

It is free to look at and you have to register (for free) to add your own graffiti to it - because that is essentially what it is - a giant digital graffiti wall.

You are given a couple of levels of zoom to get a broader overview of a segment of the wall, but the facility to look at the wall as a whole is not yet possible.

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Fez is an upcoming 2D and 3D PC Platform-Adventure game with a post-modern 8-bit style. The game is developed by independent game developer Kokoromi.

The unbelievably cute and cool character, Gomez, is 2D and the environment which you have to navigate can be twisted between 2D and 3D.

If all this doesn’t make complete sense to you, read on and then watch the Fez gameplay footage video from GDC 2008, and all will become clear. It may seem like any other platform game, but keep watching it to see the surprise innovation. Read more »

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Zbrush is for artists who don’t like getting bogged down with all the technical faff of 3D Computer Software, but do want to try their hand at creating 3D art, sculptures, illustration or animation by using digital methods in artistic ways.

With no prior knowledge of more technical 3D Software like Maya, XSI or 3DSMAX, you can be up and running creating and texturing 3D sculptures within hours.

All you need is a free (trial) copy of Zbrush, which you can download here. It is also extremely beneficial to use a Wacom Pad or some kind of pressure-sensitive digital tablet, as you will find out by following the tutorials on this site.

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