Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

A quick demonstration of the new Actions feature in ArtRage. In this video I have demonstrated the use of Actions to create a quick shortcut to all the blend modes for the selected layer!

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

Feathers and more feathers! Started in InfinitePainter on a black background initially as I really wanted the parrot to be bold although in the end I decided against it, but it took me a while to get a background that would fit. I got a little lazy with the feathers too where I really should have spent more time on them.

Using InfinitePainter on an iPad and ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

A simple rendering of a spaceman reference, it is not often that I attempt something that is more mechanical. Started in InfinitePainter to get the basic shapes and composition quickly constructed. Added an extra thick oil brush so the paints topology could reflect the creases of the suit. If you look very closely you can see that in fact I have overlaid a photo of my garden as a reflection in the visor. This piece of art was picked for the inclusion in a book called Teeny Tiny stories.

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

This is pretty typically of the style of portrait I usually produce, chunky colours, plenty of texture, saturation, simple background and a little twist.

This painting caused me quite a few problems, the main one being the yawn, it took me a very long time to define the correct shape and I was struggling to figure out how to apply a tweak to the reference, in the end I just added some extra texture.

Something very different, I started in InfinitePainter and spent quite a while drawing lines, I wanted almost a Blade Runner type vibe but with my own design and it is not often that I involve a sense of perspective in any of my paintings.

Another superhero, this time I wanted to be very original, my initial reference was a creepy clown doll which I tweaked to look like the joker. It was interesting to do a profile portrait for a change and the background was rendered separately and then brought in with the batman sneakily in the background. So this painting turned out to be more of a story to it and I had to focus more on the composition.

My own spin on the ubiquitous superhero genre

I thought of a simple concept, to draw a cute cat!. This turned out to be very close to the reference and actually I ended up completing most of it in Infinite Painter.

More GOT art!

I really liked how this one turned out in the end it has quite a nice old fashioned painterly vibe. This was from a simple reference, but tree frogs tend to have some very interesting colours to them. This one I started in Infinite Painter and managed to get quite a realistic look quite quickly.

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

I had the same idea for this as I did for my previous yoda painting to focus mainly on the light sabre and have the lighting set up springing from mainly this single source of light. I had to work very hard to make the portrait as bright as possible without actually making it too bold.

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

Yes sadly he is no longer with us :(

I twist on Darth Vader I almost wanted to try out my own design and have his face emerging from the gloom, maybe a future Darth with some upgrades.

Taking some old pieces of Alien art and combining them into something new. Trying to stay faithful to my original pen drawing that I did a very long time ago by layering my previous alien paintings over the top. In the end I was quite happy that I achieved the correct texture balance and gave the alien I slightly different hue.

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!