SiDEBAR interview with Michael Kaluta

Once again, the guys at SiDEBAR have added yet another stellar artist to their Barchives.Click here to hear their interview with legendary comic artist and illustrator, Michael William Kaluta:http://www.sidebarnation.com/my_weblog/2012/08/podcast-episode-196-michael-wm-kaluta.h...

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2012 Hugo Award Winners

Congratulations to John Picacio for winning this year's Hugo for Best Professional Artist!Having been nominated for years, this is John's first time winning, and deservedly so. This was a particularly stellar year for John, having created 12 new pieces for George R. R. Martin's official 'A Song of Ice and Fire' calendar.'A Song of Ice and Fire' art by John PicacioThe complete list of 2012 Hugo winners is as follows:BEST NOVELAmong Others by Jo Walton...

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Painting Spider-Man

By Paolo RiveraMythos: Spider-Man, Page 22. 2007. Gouache and acrylic on bristol board, 11 × 17″.Just a quick post today (but with lots of artwork).  By this point in my career (2007) I had settled into what would become my standard painting technique: a monochromatic underpainting in gouache, followed by a thin layer of Acryla Gouache for color, all on top of 11 × 17″ bristol board (standard size for comic book art).  I use mostly...

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Sergio Toppi 1932-2012

The great Italian comics artist and illustrator Sergio Toppi passed away several weeks ago. Posting the following artworks is a way to remember h...

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Digital Skin

-By Serge BiraultI think I have to speak about skin because I had a lot of questions about this. Here's a list of tricks to do paint more "realistic" skin with your computer ...I. Skin TonesAvoid simple gradients. You cannot obtain convincing skin if you only add black and white to a basic skin tone. It's more complex than that.Of course, all skins are different but you can try this :- A little bit of olive green on the shadow.- A little bit of blue...

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Sketchbook 2012 Shipping Out!

by Justin GerardSketchbook 2012: Ents & Orcs ships out today!   The first 50 are individually numbered and have a personal drawing in them.  #1 this year went to Dave from Kalamazoo, who managed to order in the first 15 seconds of it being live somehow. I believe that aliens were somehow involved. Dave isn't saying anything.  Either way, he will be getting a dragon. The sketches this year feature a lot of wizards,...

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Touching Up

by Donato This past week found me on vacation with the family (thus excuse the brevity of this post), but before that happened, I had four uninterrupted days in the studio.  Time which allowed me to put finishing touches on a major commission and luckily find rare hours with which I could revisit a handful of paintings which had been lying around the studio begging for a little love and care.  Why are there unfinished works around the studio?...

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