Fav Artist - Artgerm

I will be featuring favorite artists, for inspiration, motivation, skills, reference… I’m not sure it’s a good idea to do this where I will be putting my work up. Might get a bit intimidating to see so much great work beside my work. In any case I hope it helps me grow.

Today’s fav artist is Artgerm, very talented artist. I found him through this image.

Pepper Robot II by Artgerm

It’s part of an ongoing project called the “Pepper Project”. He has published a beautiful art book recently and this one definitely goes into my Christmas wish list! 

Pepper Standee by Artgerm

Artgerm has a really wide range of skills, from cute manga to photo realistic paintings. Great understanding of anatomy, color, lighting… really shows through his work. Hope to see more beautiful work from him.

Pepper Smile by Artgerm

Check out his deviantART page to find out more about Artgerm. Lots more work in his gallery.

Transmission Atelier

Allegory of the Five Obstinate Monsters

I love the old medical illustrations in their Shop - products page called

Decoratus Absurdum

Extremely Detailed Limited Edition Digital Pigment Prints of Antique Images of Anatomy Illustrations, Religious Allegory, Mythology, Natural History

A little bit about the publisher from their About page

Transmission Atelier is a publisher and a fine art printer specializing in the highest quality art and photography printing.

via: BoingBoing

Full circle

Funny thing happened today. I was just browsing through deviantART after posting my last post about Marta Dahlig. Then I stumbled upon a model I recognized from one of my favorite photos I found online.

Venus by *miss-mosh on deviantART

I’ve always thought it was a great photo and model, but didn’t know where it was from. I was very happy to finally find the photographer and the model. Anyway while looking through the model’s gallery I find that she is quite popular among the deviantART community, and that she had worked with many other artists. After more browsing I find a recognizable image from non-other than MichaelO. From my second post. Funny how these random connections work.

AmalgaMATE II by *MichaelO on deviantART

I draw girls.com

I came across Xia Taptara’s site while looking for tutorials online. Great resource for anyone who wants to draw portraits. Many tutorials, and screen capture videos. I love his digital paintings. If you watch his videos he makes it look so easy. Check out this video.

Check out his Instant Download Featured Video Tutorials, and make sure you buy him some coffee if you like his tutorials.

Trying Colors!

So I’ve tried Colors! an iPhone and NDS drawing app I’ve mentioned a few posts ago. Still missing a few things that I would love to have as features like layers. But from what I’ve seen and tried, this one is my favorite so far. This app has been around for a while as a Nintendo DS application. So it already has a healthy community.

If you check out their site you can see many cool examples.

yet another girl by mr.blonde

Toucan I Am by Boreal Boy

Jinse 2 by kaze-hime

One feature I feel in love with is the gallery. You can browse through other artists work and replay every single stroke. I found it to be a great learning tool. Its very entertaining to see other people drawing. And the best part is that you can download the examples and keep it and re-play it whenever you want.

Same goes with your saved work, you can re-play your work and stop it at any moment and save it as a different file, so you can work on different versions if you want. Because it doesn’t support layers the process is more like oil painting. Took me a while to get used to, but if your already a painter then you’ll pick it up naturally.

Features I like

• tilt control for brush size, or paint opacity - quickly change brush size/opacity just by tilting
• export to bigger image size
• replay every stroke
• download uploaded examples from gallery - a great learning tool
• brush offset -  so you can see what your drawing when using your finger
• flip x,y to flip the canvas to a more comfortable orientation - good way to check your proportions 

Few things that could make this app better…

• layers, even just one more layer please!!!
• more smooth zooming
• more zoom levels
• faster eye dropper color picker

But most of this I think I can get used to. I’m trying to practice and I’ll put up some work when I get better at drawing on my iPhone. I’m very happy that I have all the painting tools I need right in my pocket all the time. All I need now is some motivation and time

MichaelO

Came across these images from “MichaelO“

via: Artskills