Eagle Painting by Hua Tunan

I wanted to share this, because I thought it was a very well done and awesome looking painting created by Hua Tunan.

Skull Paintings by Tom French

JKB Fletcher Painting Video Process

Here is a video showing the whole process of JKB Fletcher's 4ft x 4ft painting "Tit for tat." Unlike other previous videos, you do not see him painting, but instead pictures of the whole process. The painting looks so easy to do, but only if painting really was easy.

More of JKB Fletcher's work here

Inspiration: Grayson Castro

Grayson Castro has some nicely illustrated pieces, which a good portion focus his subjects being zombies. His Obama/McCain illustration and the President George W. Bush being torn apart are the pieces that intrigue me the most and wonder if they have a political message behind it.

View more of his work here

 

 

 

New Donatello piece from David Rapoza

As some of you may know, I posted digital paintings by David Rapoza last month and here is his latest creation, Donatello. He really does some great work. If you're interested in obtaining his Ninja Turtles paintings as prints, you can pre-order them here It includes Metalhead, the Ninja from the footclan, Slash, and more. You don't have to be a fan of the Ninja Turtles to respect and appreciate David Rapoza's work.

VanTino Print

This is a cool pop culture design-VanTino by Gigart If you don't understand the reference, it's a picture of director Quentin Taratino and a reference to Reservoir Dogs which shares it's similarities with Van Gogh. As a fan of his movies and Van Gogh's art, this is a win-win. This was features at the Bold Hype Gallery in NYC as part of "The Quentin vs. Coen Show". The print will be available soon and will be an eight color silk screen poster sized at 18" x 24". There are other prints available, but you'll have to wait or maybe you could ask when this will be available. Go here to see prints by Gigart.

The Blue Lady by Richard Davies

Richard Davies is a Welsh graphic designer. The Blue Lady is a personal piece that he painted entirely digitally using a graphics tablet. It forced Davies to go back to his old strengths of drawing and painting. The image is loosely based on Vladimir Tretchikoff’s "The Green Lady".

Adam Spizak's "The Devil's Advocate"

Adam Spizak is a designer that I recently came across and really like what he has done. He creates some great looking digital illustrations. This particular piece is on actress Charlize Theron. He has a whole case study of the step by step process of his design. It is quite cool, because he did not use a photo of Charlize. To view this in further detail click here

Below is some of the step by step process.

 

 

iPad Finger Painting by David Kassan

I have recently acquired an iPad and trying to find the usefulness that people say it is. This particular video by David Kassan( http://davidkassan.com) makes me think there is a creative app that can be used on it. Although, he makes it easy to do, it is certainly not. This is very very good and I didn't think it was possible for the iPad. He states that the model sat in place for 3 hours while he worked this digital painting. Check this time lapse video out.

365 Days of Creativity- First 2011 illustration

Happy New Year, Everyone! I hope you had a fun holiday. This is the first post of the new year. Resolutions are silly, but goals are not. You can start a goal anytime, but the one I have in mind seems right to start on January 1st. I want to create a new sketch,design, or illustration everyday and post it. I want to put some work into it, because I could create a bunch of terrible sketches. It will be fun and difficult, but let's see how close I can come with 365 days of work. Below is the first. I wanted to create a geisha, so I drew one. All of the work was done in Photoshop, but the vector art was taken from an illustrator file. I hope you like it.
 You can view a close up on my deviant art page here: http://joebarondesign.deviantart.com/art/Geisha-191806520

Recent Works in 2010

Here were some stuff that I was working on or worked. Here are some sketching, logo work, and various art pieces, whether they are completed or not. The one above is a sketch that I'm brought into the computer and will be touching it up in Photoshop.

Hungry Andy's was a logo design for this new sandwich shop down in Baltimore, Maryland. This is only the black and white version.

This was a fun pinup sketch, that I would like to continue working on.

Woman paint like sketch.

Playing around with the wacom pen with this woman laying down sketch.

Negative Woman

This one wasn't, but I just wasn't satisfied with the outcome. It says "Champion" in Spanish.

Inspiration: Florian Nicolle w/ Step By Step Process

I was browsing on Behance and came across some of the illustrations by Florian Nicolle. I must say there is  pretty cool stuff. The blending of traditional media and digital media is always fun, but the majority of the legwork is traditional. Nicolle adds some texture in Photoshop of course to help make an amazing illustration shine even more. This is the artist statement on these illustrations:

I try to create an image that retains its freshness of the first paint stroke, the expressions of the line have to be very free and spontaneous. While keeping a rigorous drawing. So i use fast techniques like a bic, large brush, watercolor and chines ink then I add texture and details on Ps.

i use much texture of text, because it adds a presence of hand. I draw a picture as if I wrote a text, with the same tool, the same freedom, with erasures, lines, scribbles etc

You can view more work from this French Graphic Designer here: http://www.behance.net/neo_innov  or http://www.neo-innov.fr/

Here is the step by step process:

1. Background

2. White Splash

3. Pencil

4. Black stroke with chinese ink

5. Water Color ink

6. Details in Photoshop

7. Integration of "Billie Jean" lyrics on forehead in Photoshop

Wolverine Digital Painting Video

This is a cool video of a Wolverine digital painting by Kenneth Kristensen. I always enjoyed watching the process from the beginning to end of videos like these. This time you'll see the whole digital painting, which looks like two paintings with the final outcome being merged. You'll have to enjoy and appreciate what is done.