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Countdown 3: The Styles of Master Digital Color Part II
Last time you learned about some of the digital color styles included in the projects, tutorials, and homework challenges found within the pages of Master Digital Color. Today we’ll pick-up where we left off and cover a few more of the styles from the book. Sci-Fi illustrator Joe Corroney explains his creative process and the [...]
To be or not to be…. schlubby
So, it’s been raining in Arizona for like a week. Rain is good for the desert, blah, blah, blah–I’m sick of it! As some of you already know I play tennis almost everyday, sometimes twice a day. I play singles, doubles, take lessons, compete in leagues and tournaments, and I do cardio tennis (you run [...]
Countdown 4: The styles of Master Digital Color
What defines an art style? How many artist does it take to define a style? One hundred, ten, only one? What styles of artwork would you most like to learn? If you are a fan of classic animation may wish to learn how to recreate the look and feel of Saturday morning cartoons. Perhaps you [...]
Who do you know?
Now here is an interesting scenario…. my parents were visiting us for a couple weeks, they are from MO and we are in AZ. The second after my mom says hello she hands me an invoice. Yes, my mother works for us as a flatter (actually my dad does too.) After she tells me she [...]
Countdown 5: Digital Artwork vs. Traditional Artwork
In the blue corner we have the all time champion. Hailing from a time before written language and taking the form of cave paintings then becoming the undisputed master during the Renaissance. He has served the art-world well for centuries and packs a one-two punch of widespread art-instruction and art-appreciation… lets hear a big hero’s [...]
Countdown 6: Turning words and pictures into a book
Writing a book is not a solo effort. In the case of Hi-Fi Color for Comics and Master Digital Color Kristy Miller and I divided the authoring work. She who has the multiple degrees and many years of education experience would conceive and write the Homework Challenges while I would create the step-by-step tutorials. In [...]
Countdown #7: The artist of Master Digital Color
Growing up in Kansas City, Missouri I was fortunate to visit The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art at least once or twice each year. I’ve been to other museums and art galleries since but this is the one that started my love affair with art as a young boy. The great thing about Nelson-Atkins is the [...]
NYE Winner
I ended up going with the pink dress on NYE, it was really close in the voting between it and the black one, something like 12 to 11. The black actually won but Brian tipped the scales to the pink. Here are a couple of pictures. Thanks for the help!
2010: Outlook
Now that the new year is here let’s look to the future and see what’s in store for Hi-Fi. January We are currently working to wrap up the World’s Finest series. If you haven’t seen this pick up the 4 issues. It’s really cool. We are also working on a couple top secret DC projects. [...]
NYE 2009
NYE 2009 Ok, this column is going to be a little different…. ok this column isn’t really going to be a column… I need help people! Brian & I, along with two friends who are flying in for the occasion, have decided to go all out for New Year’s Eve this year and attempt to [...]