Author: Shel Kahn
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Paper Test Wizard Adventure #3
Further paper tests allow further wizardry – this time in a more contemplative mode, though. A second test run with the hot press cotton paper let me get more expressive with my brushstrokes and try out more contrasting of the paint approach and the pencil crayon approach This one feels maybe a bit over-rendered for…
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two years of arm stuff? 26 months of arm stuff, more precisely…
So you may have noticed a dearth of arm updates, blogging on the experience, et cetera! I still have a lot to say, but one of the things about recovery is sometimes you hit … a kind of purgatory? limbo? holding state? a miserable stage where you are waiting to find out what’s next. And…
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Paper Test Wizard Adventure #2
Another paper test as an excuse to paint this wizard doing a little treasure hunting in a dark forest. For this one I switched to a hot press, 100% cotton paper and instead of wrestling with lifting, got instead to fight with how aggressively absorbent the paper is! It’s wild how much water it will…
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Paper Test Wizard Adventure #1
I have some new papers to test out and how better to test them than to paint a wizard on a journey? Here’s their first stop, a quiet forest: I want to sort of fine tune my gouache plus pencil crayon/neocolor/pastels etc process into something i can rely on well enough to try flexing in…
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Joining the Arts Market!
Toronto folks, this one’s for you! Long story short, I now have a stall at the Danforth Arts Market, 1856 Danforth Avenue in Toronto. That’s between Woodbine and Coxwell stations if you’re subwaying over. I’m selling my playmap blankets, comics, game zines, art zines, colouring books, two sizes of art prints, and also small framed…
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Early Environment Concepts for Young Suns
I had the pleasure of contributing a couple environments to the early development of Young Suns, from KO_OP Games. Working with art director GP Lackey was great; we went from a broad brief to two specific pieces through a really rewarding process of tossing ideas back and forth. Some process shots for your enjoyment, starting…
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Who’s Filming?
Laura posted recently about watching youtube videos of folks alone in nature, and keeping in her mind the reality that they are responsible for setting up, and taking down, every shot you see in the video – even if that means traveling the same route three times or more to get that effortless-seeming documentary contextual…
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A Colour-Along Visit to the Tower of the Forest Wizard
This fall I took on a project I’ve been meaning to do for a while – I have made a colouring book based on my playmap The Tower of the Forest Wizard! I loved colouring books as a kid and teen, and the more stuff in them the better – one of my most treasured…
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Style Test – fantastic skyscraper reinterpretation
Another style experiment, this time done 95% in Procreate. This one has me using a photo I took in highschool of a courtyard downtown that I have painted from many times before – each time reinterpreting it further and further from the ref. This one only came into Clip Studio when I realized I had…
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Digital Style Exploration – Building Fantasy from a Photo
This was a 100% Clip Studio digital painting, based on a photo of mine from a visit to Hay River in the Northwest Territories; the sun was pretty unbelievable that summer, that far north. For this one, I let myself do my rough with the airbrush, and I feel like it really defined the whole…