Kindle Fire is perfect for comics and art book

Kindle Fire is perfect for comics and art book.  Finally, something that will be a great fit for comic book, Manga, and art book on digital format.  I have ipad and I love it but it doesn't fit for reading comics.  Somehow it is heavy and not so comfortable to just laid back and read something for hours.  Unlike my kindle, I can spend hours reading without feeling I am holding some heavy

Re design character from the old version

Re design character from the old version.  As you see it before on my previous post on a tutorial, how to paint feathers.  This one is a character design that I re-design from the old version I quickly designed on May 2007.  And surprisingly it is one of the images on my very first post on this blog.  You can see the first blog post of idrawgirls.com here drawing and sketch collection from May

Paint simple background with your character design

How to paint simple background with your character design.  In step by step how to create a background for your character tutorial, I will show you how to paint and create a very basic simple background along with your character without having to spend much time on the painting.  Backdrop of the scene often very important when you are designing a character.  It can express to the viewers

How to paint feathers

How to paint feathers quick step by step method for concept art.  This tutorial is not a refine or finish illustration of painting crisp and realistic feather by any mean.  I am trying to show you a quick way of convey a specific material, feathers.  It is very similar to how I paint fur from the previous tutorial, how to paint fur on a Mongol warrior armor.  But fur is a bit more refine and

Cool animated optical illusion

Wow, I just saw this video from this guy, Brusspup on Youtube.  It's the same guy that made the video about illusion of value, light and shadow create illusion of value.  His videos are really impressive.  Now he made another video about Animated Optical Illusion. Static images on aa piece of paper and ipad (on second video) are brought to life by passing a transparent sheet with black lines

Using smudge tool in Photoshop

Photoshop painting tutorial smudge tool for digital painters and artists.  This post I am going to show you guys some trick and tip on smudge tool.  A lot of artists love it, but I only use it from time to time.  Mostly if I want to soften the edge or blend value, I reply on soft brush (default round in Photoshop).  It can create effective enough result for me and it is fast.  Since I don't

Game art Environmental artist interview and insight.

This post is all about environmental artist, especially for those of you who are interested in getting a job in video game industry.  This article should be very informative and I try my best to actually explain what the environmental artist is.
Environmental is basically all the elements, except characters and creatures, you see in a video game is what we create. So we come up with the sky,

Paint different ethnicity woman portrait for character design

How to paint different ethnicity woman portrait for character design.  Paint portrait character design technique for concept artist.  In this article, I will show you a tutorial, tips and technique of how do we paint face or portrait of multi ethnicity for any video game.  Many who have never involve in game or movie production often wonder why do we use digital tool instead of traditional

Mass Effect 2 Concept Artist interview, Matt Rhodes

Mass Effect 2 lead Concept Artist interview, Matt Rhodes.  BioWare, Mass Effect 2, lead concept artist Matt Rhodes unveils his process of concept art for the game and tons of sketches created during the development of the game.  Watch the process of  how the original Mass Effect evolves into Mass Effect 2 and very informative artistic process from idea to paper then eventually translated into a

Drawing Creature design Asura from Guild Wars 2

How to draw Asura from Guild Wars 2 with Concept Artist Matthew Barrett.
I just received some goodies from ArenaNet.  This is a video drawing tutorial demo of how a concept artist draw and paint a creature design from behind the scene making of Guild Wars 2
Concept art is basically a pre production stage in game development.  Characters and creatures need to have a clear concept, design, visual

Zombie MMO game sneak peek from Undead Labs

Zombies survival MMO game sneak peek from Undead Labs.  These are part the core people who started Guild Wars.  Undead Labs is a newly formed game studio, headed by my old boss Jeff Strain.  Jeff is the best boss ever, FYI!  He came from Blizzard before forming ArenaNet, and it was his idea that has a lot to do with the most successful MMORPG up to date World of Warcraft.
Anyway, Doug Williams,

How to paint master chief Halo

How to paint master chief Halo digital painting tutorial.  Here is another how to draw and paint character from video games. A lot of people ask me if Wacom tablet Intuo series with Photoshop is good for drawing on a computer.  To me, naturally drawing is still better with pencil and paper.  Wacom tablet and Photoshop or Painter is a great tool but still lack of the precision compare to sharp

Wacom pen Inkling draw on paper.

Wacom pen Inkling draw on paper.  I actually just saw this product from Wacom, I know I am a little behind.  It came out a while ago. When it comes to tools for integrating freehand art into the digital workflow, Wacom remains the leader.It is certainly aren't cheap, but it's hard to find any brand that can match the quality of Wacom professional standard hardware. The Inkling is a "digital

Superman Man of Steel first look

Superman, Man of Steel first look.
Henry Cavill plays Superman in director Zack Snyder's "Man of Steel." The film also stars Amy Adams as Daily Planet journalist Lois Lane, and Laurence Fishburne as her editor-in-chief, Perry White. Starring as Clark Kent's adoptive parents, Martha and Jonathan Kent, are Diane Lane and Kevin Costner.

I am personally excited about this new Superman which will be

How to draw Superman

How to draw Superman step by step video tutorial.  Man of Steel or Superman sketching and drawing.


Learn from basic sketching to finish drawing quick concept to finish rendering of Superman for comics cartoon illustration, manga, anime. Drawing and sketching step by step, learn how to draw and sketch super hero from basic sketching out construction lines to finish drawing and rendering

Monster in Paris movie trailer

Monster in Paris movie trailer.  When I saw this animation trailer, I said to myself  'WOW, this is really super duper awesome.  I love it already!  I'm sold'
The new English-language version trailer for Bibo Bergeron’s 3-D, CG-animated feature A Monster In Paris (Un Monstre a Paris) has arrived on YouTube. The pic, which will be released on October 12 in France, is set in Paris, circa 1910 and

Character design different ethnicity male hero tutorial

Character design different ethnicity male heroes tutorial.  This post is my attempt to sketch and paint a character concept of male hero archetype with different ethnicities or nationality.  So far I art about four hero characters and I mainly paint focusing on just facial features.  If you paint a lot of portrait with variety of ethnicity, then you will probably know that the facial feature