Jonathan Ball

Blender & Cycles

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SAI - SpeedPaint - sketch to colours

Easy Paint Tool Saï Coloring process / tutorial

Still one of my faves.

Girl -process (+playlist)

Ilya Repin

Super badass artist that I just found out about today.

Ilya Yefimovich Repin (5 August [O.S. 24 July] 1844 – 29 September 1930) was a Russian realist painter. He was the most renowned Russian artist of the 19th century, when his position in the world of art was comparable to that of Leo Tolstoy in literature. He played a major role in bringing Russian art into the mainstream of European culture. His major works include Barge Haulers on the Volga (1873), Religious Procession in Kursk Province (1883) and Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks (1880–91).

George Dawe

George Dawe (6 February 1781, St James's, Westminster – 15 October 1829, Kentish Town) was an English portraitist who painted 329 portraits of Russian generals active during Napoleon's invasion of Russia for the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace. He relocated to Saint Petersburg in 1819, where he won acclaim for his work from the artistic establishment and complimentary verses by Pushkin.

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Beulah

Gold & Dragon

Symbols.

Painting Dragons

THIS guy is amazing enough! But then he shows you how to make BADASS custom PSD brushes!!!?!!

'Brave' digital painting

This woman is A-freakin-MAZING!!

DAZ

granted....initial tests are crude - only because of me. But my first test with Daz3D will become a blossoming relationship.

Fire Circle

Made with flame brushes from Deviant Art.   Had to dork around A LOT with layer settings.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Le Deuxieme Souffle 1966

PT Barnum

Again, just dorking around with a sketch I've had lying around for years. Do I dare (gasp) try "painting" on Ol' PT?

Traditional 2D Animation Is Thriving In Europe

Sean Galloway - in 3D

THIS is the 3D style that I like!! Sean Galloway is a FANTASTIC illustrator, character designer, comix guy, etc. He kills.

EDIT: Looks like this is the image the model is based upon.

the feet are a bit different

Maneki Neko definitions

Maneki-neko can be found with either the right or left paw raised (and sometimes both). The significance of the right and left raised paw differs with time and place. A common belief is that the left paw raised brings in customers, while a right paw brings good luck and wealth, although some believe the opposite, or that one paw is for luck and the other for wealth. Another interpretation says that a raised left paw attracts money, while a raised right paw protects it. Still others say that a left paw raised is best for drinking establishments, the right paw for other stores (those who hold their liquor well are called "left-handed" (hidari-kiki) in Japanese). Yet another interpretation is that right is for home and left for business.

It is commonly believed the higher the raised paw, the greater the luck. Consequently, over the years maneki-neko's paw has tended to appear ever higher. Some use the paw height as a crude method of gauging the relative age of a figure. Another common belief is that the higher the paw, the greater the distance good fortune will come from.

Yogi's First Xmas

"Yogi's First Christmas"

"The artwork is by Sylvia and Burnett Mattinson and the story by Stuart Quentin Hyatt. There was a Burnett Mattinson who played with the American Institute Symphony in the mid-20s and drummed in the Horace Heidt band in the ‘40s. He was found dead, under suspicious circumstances, in his Sherman Oaks, California home in 1970. "

Prison Guard Mustache Club

Anomasa, Iowa State Prison guards, 1903

The guy in the far upper-right looks like he has the least to lose.

P.M.

Best stage name EVAR!!