2DArtist Magazine | Issue 041 May 2009

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Editorial
Welcome to our issue of beauties and
beasts. Within the pages of this month’s
magazine, you’re going to stumble
across the devilishly handsome and the
beastliest beauties, as we have packed
2DArtist with stunning content across
the board, with contributions from Don
Seegmiller, Kekai Kotaki, Nykolai
Aleksander and many, many more. And
to illustrate the theme of “beauties and
beasts” for us quite perfectly this month,
we have our first artist interview with 2D artist veteran, Don Seegmiller
(p.7), whose portfolio demonstrates a range of stunning realistic character
portraits, to weird and wonderful cartoon illustrations. We’ve also interviewed
cover artist, ArenaNet concept art lead Kekai Kotaki (p.23), who continues
the theme exceptionally with his inspiring character concepts that will, quite
simply, blow your mind. So there you go: 28 pages of stunning art by two of
the industry’s greats – enjoy!
This May issue also presents the penultimate parts of not one, but two of our
fantastic tutorial series: Vehicle Painting by Dwayne Vance and Hoi Mun
Tham, and Space Painting by Chee Ming Wong. But do not fret, for we’re
on the case and we have lined up for you some real treats for July. And
because I’m not really one to keep a secrets (oops), I’ll let you in on what’s
to come … First up, we have a series that we’re all really excited about here
at 2DArtist: Dynamic Characters – Enhancing your Character Concepts. We
have some great names working on this series already, with more to come!
And for all those budding artists out there who follow 2DArtist but have not
quite got the hang of painting in Photoshop just yet, we’ll be bringing you a
Beginners Guide to Digital Painting in Photoshop in July, with another top
artist signed up to teach you all they know and how to get started. So no
excuses! I think we’ll even find some twitching Wacom tablets in the office
here once the series kicks off, as we can’t wait to learn some tips from this
pro. But back to this issue, we are of course sad to see the last but one of
two of our series, but what great chapters they are! Chee Ming Wong is
mining the asteroid fields (p.95), whilst Dwayne Vance is driving his sleek,
futuristic vehicle into the desert sands in the final rendering of his awesome
car concept (p.75). Not only this, but we have the talents of Nick Oroc and
Nathaniel West in the Speed Painting tutorial section this month, where
they both fight out the theme, “The sleepy village never saw the horror
approaching” (p.85). And, as an extra special treat for you all, we have a
bonus article from Nykolai Aleksander where she discusses the anatomy
of a painting, using a new painting created especially for this article to
demonstrate, so do check that out and get yourself inspired (p.109)!
What else? Well, we’re talking centaurs and cyclopses in the Stylised
Challenge section; our centaur entries blew us away – one of the best
challenges yet (p.61)! Follow those beasts with another two stunning
beauties in our Making Of section, by Sara Biddle (p.119) and Dmitry
Grebenkov (p.125) – one a realistic character portrait, the other a stylised
beauty. And wrap up this month’s ever-so-chocker issue by checking out
Ivan Kash’s sketchbook on p.39, and discovering some real treats from
Loic Zimmermann and Cynthia Sheppard (plus more) in the Gallery.



Contents
What’s in this month?
Don Seegmiller
Freelance Illustrator
Kekai Kotaki
Concept Art Lead for ArenaNet
Sketchbook
The Sketchbook Of Ivan Kash
The Gallery
10 of the Best 2D Artworks
Stylised Characters
This Month’s Finalists & Last Month’s Making Ofs
Vehicle Painting
Tutorial Series: Part 4
Speed Painting
Nick Oroc & Nathaniel West
Space Painting
Part 11: Mining the Asteroid Fields
Anatomy of a Painting
Different Means to one End
What a Shame
Project Overview by Sara Biddle
Black
Project Overview by Dmitry Grebenkov
Fallen Beauty
Digital Art Masters: V3 Free Chapter Promotion
About us
3DTotal.com Ltd Information & Contacts


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