hatton_slayden

steak tartar

whew! been a hugely busy day and tomorrow is just a busy

kitty it up

oh wow here is an old one from some of my first forte into mixing advance renders with painting. i am not sure i posted this anywhere before

hidden in the forest

since i have a lot to do in terms of commissions today there will be a lot of sketch posts for breaks

mare whisper 3

coming along nicely "pun intended" she may not be able to "hear" him but he has her undivided attention

wild mare finds a carrot

numnumnum

sitting gentle my lady

she is a lot bigger then he is so i hope she is sitting gentle

lucari OH my goodness

ok a day of rest and a few good sleeps and i am ready to head back into everything. now you may wonder why there is a sword and chocolate in this image, well aside form providing visual interest there is a bit of a story behind it for those of you heavy into the game lore of the franchise (and if you are on this site you already know where i am going) there was a legend of a time when humans and...

mare-y and Clyde 3

after a color fix i would say they are looking much better

the white queen of lovers falls 2

and the start of the redo. more like corrections

the white queen of lovers falls

another older post that i will update to make better

mare-y and Clyde 2

this one i am particularly proud of how the mans body is turning out

behind the barn 2

there are parts of this i am really happy about right now

mare whisper 2

how can some one be doing it wrong AND right at the same time?

spouse communion redo WIP

and here is the start of the rework. i decided to use my water color method on it because i wanted a lighter more dream like quality for it

spouse communion

aside from Mar and Shesheik these two, Aurther and Liu Sheeah are my second 'official' human/arthropod couple. they are a married couple and quite young (by Dyson standards) as i post old folio pieces i will also post the redos on the same tear

the love of lady no horns

going through my old folios to find what i want to repost (right now) i found the Lady no horns folio and aside from minor things there is not much i would want to change in it because i like the style and the overall look of the design i WILL however rework some other folios in this style because i like it so much

Clydesdale Pegasus part 4

ok here is were things go differently. first you bring the opacity back to full on the render layer and you paint right on top of it. blending and repainting colors and shapes as needed but you have the sketch on top as a guide so you don't lose important information. at this point it is all rendering and repainting, blending and color correction and a LOT of Perspiration

Clydesdale Pegasus part 3

as you can see this is the render without the 3d model. as you are sketching turn the under layer on AND off periodically as you check to make sure your gesture is working right. at this point you can throw away the 3d layer as you have all the necessary structural information you need. i however am color blind in certian reds and greens so i keep the render for a color and a light base refrence

Clydesdale Pegasus part 2

ok now that you have your render it is time to make corrections and add the "flair" as you can see i just lowered the opasity of the render layer and sketched right on top with a new layer. treat the render as if it were a previous sketch and you are just refining another sketch on top of it. the goal here is that the above sketch should look BETTER than the render in terms of gesture, and emoti...

Clydesdale Pegasus part 1

ok as promised i am posting the process of the pervious post here and explaining why i do what i do and holy heck! never again will i set up a render to have lights on the epic wings from DAZ... good grief it DOES look good but with OVER AN HOUR render...no... just no. with this particular (and the previous one) i only used 3 distant lights in DAZ and no Uber environment (had i not used wings) th...

insert Amish mechanic pun here

well some things just come along much faster than others. i will be discussing the slight change in process shortly

wild mare finds a carrot

well carrot or sausage what ever she wants really

mare whisper

umm maybe some one should tell him that is not how she hears.....but she'll probably pay attention to him

behind the barn

another sketch to be made into a finished

mare-y and Clyde

yep i know bad pun but such as it is i will get a rythm going here of posting every day multiple times to give everyone their moooneeys worth

new Mare textures

allrighty then i have found my recording software but i am having a few issues with recording videos and tutorials for you all so for now they will just be in blog format. that being said i will also be guiding you through step by step on my process to making illustrations, both 3d and 2d methods . for those on the 3rd tear you can expect access not only to the tutorials themselves but to the 3d...

the files where too big for one post

the files where too big for one post

PSD does

Wooo Hooo! we've made the first goal! now i will start uploading the psd files on the 3rd tear here are the first two

riding doe

so close to completing the first goal and this file has many more layers that i usually merge together so that when i post the psd you can see the layers i use