Art Things

Concept artist at Firaxis. This is my personal sketch blog.

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Been watching Cyberpunk Edgerunners, def recommend it! Also following along with a Ryan Lang tutorial and stealing his brushes. Def recommend that as well :)

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Chapter 2.2 of my comic, Easy Money. Check out my Artstation for larger pages, as well as behind the scenes stuff like sketches, color roughs, and 3D! https://www.artstation.com/ryanandrade

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Chapter 2.1 of my comic, Easy Money. Check out my Artstation for larger pages, as well as behind the scenes stuff like sketches, color roughs, and 3D! https://www.artstation.com/ryanandrade

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Chapter 1.2 of my comic, Easy Money. Been working on this since 2017ish, finally have some stuff to show :) Have to divide the chapters into parts, as tumblr has a 10 image limit. Check out my Artstation for larger pages, as well as behind the scenes stuff like sketches, color roughs, and 3D!

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Chapter 1.1 of my comic, Easy Money. Been working on this since 2017ish, finally have some stuff to show :) Have to divide the chapters into parts, as tumblr has a 10 image limit. Check out my Artstation for larger pages, as well as behind the scenes stuff like sketches, color roughs, and 3D!

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/eJegYD

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Crop from panel 40.1. Will post chapter one soon, only a couple of pages left to paint up!

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Father forgive me it has been 3 years (???) since my last live figure drawing. It was fun tho hopefully can go more often.

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WIP of page 38 from my comic. I spent a dumb amount of time modeling Delilah’s car engine, and it appears in exactly one frame ._.

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Pleinair from Lake Roland, having fun with color jitter brushes.

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Midnight Mass fanart, really liked the scene where the Sheriff stands up to leave and the angel is in the doorway. 

I used a Blender plugin called Human Generator for most of the characters, it lets you customize appearances (including clothes), choose from a library of poses, and tweak poses yourself. I’ve been looking for a way to get rid of Daz since I hate moving between programs, and this worked pretty well. Only downside is the file gets huge if you have more than 5 of these guys. 

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View from Maryland Heights, was a pretty tough 4hr hike carrying pleinair equipment, did some rough color blockouts on site and finished up at home.

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Done from a photo I took in Harper’s Ferry, visited just in time to see some yellow trees

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WIP of  some Midnight Mass fan art, honestly the best show I’ve watched in a long time.

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Gouache pleinair from Anacapa Island. Unfortunately was pretty foggy, still a good view though.

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snippet of page 29, it has been 3(4?) years since i started this project and im finally starting to figure out a style/process that lets me work in a quick, reproducible manner, while still looking decent. guess that last part is subjective but for now im happy with it

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quick painting after work. not from a specific panel, just sketching and trying to not over work things. 

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sketch and 3d blockout steps that come before most of my painting. Sometimes if the lighting is predictable, I’ll only do a few real renders to establish consistency for other panels. In this case it’s a bit more complex so I prefer to have renders so I’m not painting completely blind.