Mark McDonnell: The Importance of a Good Silhouette

The importance of a good and readable silhouette is of extreme importance no matter in it's simplest basic forms or in the complexity of...

Rad Sechrist: What is drawing?

I'm constantly adapting and learning, but this is how I think about drawing right now. This information goes all the way into rendering...

Sam: Lights and Shadow

Shadow comes in two forms, form shadows and cast shadows.  I talked about form shadowing in my last post, referring to the way light darke...

Octavio Rodriguez: How I do my scribblies...from sketch to final pass in photoshop.

Florian: Thumbnail Drawing

Update : I love playing around with drawings - in this case I added a sort of living vehicle. In the next post I will discuss the clean-up a...

Sam: Lambertian Reflection

A lot of aspiring painters have a hard time with accurate rendering, whether painting from life or just out of their head.  So my first few ...

XAV: Eyes

Brian Wong: Getting Drawings Down Fast

Rad Sechrist: Storyboarding basics

Here are the basics of how I approach storyboards. Story is the key. Everything you do is just to help the audience follow the story.