Author: Shel Kahn
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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…
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Style Explorations – Landscape with Figures Study
Another photo study, but I took this one into Clip Studio after doing the first pass in procreate, which let me use the smarter selection tools to grab large areas and push-and-pull them more precisely. This piece is a return to the softer, chalky line and using it to add colour as well as clarity,…
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Style Exploration – Digital Paint with Dark Inked Lines
This was reffing a photo on pinterest; I wanted to refocus on how I want to handle stylizing figures. I am slowly starting to nail down a process – there’s a rough sketch, a rough colour, inks, and then selection-based painting. For this piece I did it 100% in procreate, which means using their slightly…
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Style Test – Lineless Film Study
Another film still study, this one from Snow White and the Huntsman. This piece was done in Clip Studio, with a selection tool approach and no lines, and a fair amount of smudging brushes to get those tile and brick lines to feel distinct but integrated. Clip Studio’s reference layer tools is so powerful for…
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Style exploration – reffing a film still
Playing around with painting with the selection tool as well as relying more on chunky colourful linework. Screenshot from Space Sweepers.