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Howdy, it's years since I've last been here to post any work, though I still call past occasionally to keep up with the speedpainting thread and some of the great illustration posted here.

Anyway, ...

hi - thanks for your kind comments.

As for brush settings, with this picture I used a hard edge brush and had either opacity or size varied by wacom pressure to get the sensitivity I was after. I t ...

Hmm, I've painted in some shoulders to get rid of the floating-head look. I dunno, do you think this version is better than the original?

http://www.inksplat.net/netpix/face_paintingb.jpg

Thanks guys - it felt great to get my hand in on this sort of work again. I should do some more if I get the time.

Wow - after a long period of concentrating on fairly boring illustration and graphic design
I discovered to my horror that I'd lost the knack of doing real painting in Photoshop.
This was done as ...

Man, it's been a while since I posted here!

Anyway, I was asked a question about perspective and was wondering if anyone had any links to step-by-step 2 point perspective tutorials? (like Spooge's ...

Thanks for your replies.

Christian: That's fair enough, thank you for being honest. The truth is that the style of a lot of the work shown has been requested by the particular job's client or art ...

Hi all, I thought that I'd let you know that I've finally managed to get my new portfolio site online, with over 100 new works in the illustration and retouching sections.

If you get the time, have ...

HoodZ: Well, most of my heavy work has up untill now come from advertising avenues, where $100/hour is a fair average. To give you an idea, the agency I was working for paid freelance layout artists a ...

That's a damn nice image Don!
The sparce harsh highlight on the water really makes it kick.

If you're happy to share the cloud brushes you created, I know there's some Painter users who will be ve ...

Wow, thank you Frog! Very Happy

You have no idea how useful that example contract is.

I've never been happy with supplied contracts. If you actually read any of them, there are countless clauses ...

How do the artists on this board tend to receive payment for their freelance work? It's something I've got to work out now, as I no longer have a finance department to take care of all my billing issu ...

Hey, I'm working on it Very Happy

Now that I've got most of my portfolio together and my business cards are off at the printer I should have some time to devote to it - I may have to leave out some of th ...

Thanks Socar, I appreciate the info.

- It took me a while to look in Discussions and see the post, but it's much better off here, as now everyone can benefit from the post, so i wouldn't worry abou ...

Thanks all, I'm glad you like it.
(I'm always hesitant about posting photographic retouching on an illustration-based forum - I'm always expecting some fool to flame me because he thinks I'm trying t ...

http://www.inksplat.net/endangered_gum_panda.jpg

detail:
http://www.inksplat.net/endangered_gum_panda_d.jpg

Here is another retouching job of late, created for a billboard, magazine and press c ...

Hi all,

I'm having some problems updating my profile with my new email address. It's saying that my new email address is already being used by a member and is not letting me enter it.

- now, it' ...

Well, after over 5 years working on staff for a large advertising agency the time has come for me to move on to new things. I've thrown away my safety zone, made the leap, and from here on in I'm comp ...

JFreak:

You can do an instant screengrab from a Mac at any time by pressing (Cmd+Shift+3) - it makes a little camera sound and places an image file in your main hard drive directory. (And I have no ...

The advertising agency I work for charges clients $150 per hour for work.
Rates from outsources the agency uses are more like $125/hour for retouching, $100/hour for finished art, and around $100-$15 ...

If anyone's looking at purchasing a new monitor I have to say that after working on an Apple LCD for a year or so, they're actually not all that bad - once properly calibrated they are about as close ...

After seeing how usefull the listing of comic artist industry rates are (see [url=http://forums.sijun.com/viewtopic.php?t=15435]this thread.) I thought it might be beneficial for the professional arti ...

Ian: Thanks for that. I think it may have been the November issue that I was talking about. I've had a hunt around the office and it still hasn't turned up so I think it may have dissapeared for good ...

merlyns: Thanks - I'm kind of partial to how the colour turned out myself - the whole comic looks good with most of the frames in various subdued hues, punctuated with colourful bright action frames l ...

[666]Flat: I'd love to tell you more about the story, but as the game isn't due for release untill April 2003 I'd better purse my lips. Look for it in stores when it comes out though, I was also prive ...

120 Layers isn't that rediculous guys - for one of my recent World Wildlife Fund billboards I had a school of about 120 or so individual fish and had to have each and every one of them on a seperate l ...

Thanks for all of your support.

Yes, many appologies for the popups - I've bought real webspace now and once I manage to upload the site, there'll be a simple domain name and no more nasty pop-up-t ...

Thanks

. As you can probably tell, it's all very expressive, and not meant to be overly realistic at all. I decided that the energy of the illustration was more important than technical accuracy in ...

Well, I've finally finished the introduction comic to the Haven: City Of Violence core rulebook by Louis Porter, Jr. Design. It's so good to see a project all come together in the end. Very Happy

Anyway, ...

Very nice!

I'm going to have to have a good browse through when I get the time. BTW, I didn't say it when I first say the image, but the plane crash illustration is amazing! Very well done.