Matt's Art Blog

MattD 2020-05-22 17:08:24 UTC #61

My last two pictures for the Warhammer commission. The ship was a real challenge for me because that's not the kind of thing that I draw that often. The background for that one was interesting because I used a bunch of different brushes that I don't normally use. For the planet, it was a stained paper and metal texture for the surface and a cloud brush for the atmosphere and the galaxy behind it. The stars was just a brush with a large spread and a small tip, thats way more brushes than I normally use but I liked the way that it came out

MattD 2020-05-26 18:09:32 UTC #62

Another commission, this time of a giant corgi for a DnD group. I don't know much about how they got a giant corgi only that he's a very good boy.

The eyes look a little dead in this version but I'm happy with the rest of the colors

MattD 2020-06-04 19:03:16 UTC #63

Another commission this time of a dragonkin cleric on a temple. The client was happy with this so I'm moving on. I'm going to try to and use Blender to do the background just because I'm a bit rusty in that program.

The giant corgi is finished, I'm really happy with how this came out, particularly the colors.

terjehanssen 2020-06-04 22:36:10 UTC #64

That giant corgi looks DOPE, man! Very nice

MattD 2020-06-08 17:31:59 UTC #65

I used the freeline settings in Blender to get all the linework set up. It was a pain but I can see it being really useful in the future. I feel okay about the colors, I'm glad the next part of ArtSchool has a class about color and light because I could use some help in that department. Overall though I'm happy with how this is moving along

MattD 2020-06-11 19:51:34 UTC #66

For the most part, I like how this came out but I think I went too soft on some of the edges in the background and the lighting feels a bit off. Pretty sure I can adjust the lighting but I think those edges are just going to have to be soft.

Another commission this time of a persons Jedi character. It's more actiony than a lot of the other stuff I've been drawing so that was a very welcome change of pace.

MattD 2020-06-23 17:45:08 UTC #67

I finished this commission. Still not happy with how soft the background is but pretty happy with everything else.

The flat colors for my Jedi image and the final image. Really happy with how this came out.

MattD 2020-06-30 17:17:32 UTC #68

I've been picking at my comic between commissions so here's page 5 all finished and page 6 with the linework finished. I've noticed that I've moved away from trying to give it a very painterly look and moved into a more of a comic style shading. I think that if I painted every page I would have been retired before I finished.

MattD 2020-07-03 18:14:41 UTC #69

The lines and finished tones for page 6. Still kind of playing around with how I want this to look but I think that I'm moving in a direction that I'm happy with and that is something that I can realistically achieve. One of the things that I want to tackle next is my panel composition. I don't think it's bad, it just lacks some sort of punch. I've been looking at a lot of manga for inspiration recently, they do some really great dynamic stuff with panel composition. And of course breaking out Making Comics by Scott McCloud, a book that I've had for over a decade and it shows

Might adjust the panel shape on those bottom two panels but one of the nice things about working digitally is that I can do that after I do the finished line work.

MattD 2020-07-07 16:42:51 UTC #70

A commission for a client based on their character from the game Conan Exiles.

MattD 2020-07-10 16:41:20 UTC #71

A recent commission for a thief/rogue character in a fantasy middle-east setting

cedricgo 2020-07-11 00:57:33 UTC #72

Very nicely drawn!

MattD 2020-07-14 17:06:01 UTC #73

The final for my latest commission. I really wish the client had wanted this in color because the character was really fun to work on and I would have liked to work on it some more.

Another commission, this time a pin-up of a plus-size model. She's the OC of the clients and he's had a bunch of art done of her. In fact, she was one of my first commissions a few years ago and the client found my Instagram ( matthewdulemba if anyone wants to follow me) and requested another piece.

MattD 2020-07-21 17:36:36 UTC #74

Some cleaned up line work and rough colors for the swimsuit model.

I've started to do 30-minute warm-up/studies before I get started with work. I use the prompt from the r/SketchDaily subreddit so that I don't have to think too hard about what I'm going to be doing.

Some Tiger Lilys

A Coral Reef

A study of a painting by Jen Zee, one of my favorite artists

MattD 2020-07-28 18:06:31 UTC #75

The final version of the swimsuit model

Some more warm-up sketches

MattD 2020-08-12 16:50:21 UTC #76

Got a bunch of commissions in the last couple weeks so I've been busy with those and forgot to update here. Here's the first one a halfling/orc cleric

MattD 2020-08-25 16:14:54 UTC #77

Another commission, this time of a slime archer. I really like the way this one turned out, particularly the armor, it's got enough of a texture that you can tell it's used but not so much that it detracts from the rest of the image

MattD 2020-09-08 18:49:11 UTC #78

Another DnD commission. This one of the clients fiances Dnd character for his Birthday. The client and her fiance loved it so that's good, I feel like there are a few things that I could have done better but I might be nitpicking.

MattD 2020-09-11 18:05:55 UTC #79

The cover for a web novel that I did as a commission. Felt okay with this one, but I had a tight deadline so I wasn't able to put as much work into it as I would have liked. The client was happy so I guess that's the important thing.

MattD 2020-09-16 17:15:00 UTC #80

Wasn't familiar with the race of this character (there are so many races in DnD) but she was fun to work on and I got to practice some perspective, and that's always good