2DArtist Magazine Issue 036 December 2008.pdf

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Concept Art, Digital & Matte Painting Magazine

The talented Nykolai Aleksander concludes her tutorial series on

painting the human face by taking elements of what has been taught

in the previous two chapters to create this stunning female portrait...

Articles

Utherworlds: An interview with Philip Straub

Interviews

Andrée Wallin & Sven Sauer

Galleries

Mario Wibisono, Michael Dashow & Soheil Danesh, plus more!

Making Of’s

Nastya by Alexander Yazynin

Tutorials

Speed Painting by Justin Albers & Emrah Elmasli, plus more!

Image by Nykolai Aleksander

Contents

Editorial

Welcome to the last 2008 issue

of 2DArtist Magazine – Issue 036

(not long till the big 4-0 now). This

month we have an interview with

Andrée Wallin , a Swedish born artist

currently working in little old England

at RealtimeUK. He’s been really

generous and has provided 2DArtist

with some never-before-seen work,

so check out page 007 to ind out

what inspired Andrée to get into

digital painting (or rather, I should

say, who inspired him) and, more

importantly, to view his stunning portfolio of images – all of which have been

created this year. Once Andrée’s got your appetite going, cast your hungry

eyes over another of our interviews with matte-painter, Sven Sauer . We

have a range of his art from works created for 3d-io GmbH to his personal

(stunning) matte-paintings, so lick to page 021 to discover a little about this

fantastic artist, and how he went from dabbling with FX makeup to the more

conceptual side of things for events, ilms and computer games. And in true

2DArtist fashion, we have yet another wonderful interview – this time with

Philip Straub (page 031) . We took some time to speak to Philip about his

brand new project, Utherworlds , which he’s been dying to reveal more about

for many months now. So check out page 031 for the latest from Philip Straub

and his fantastic new book and website project.

Our tutorials this month bring together Justin Albers and Emrah Elmasli in

our latest speed painting tutorial, who tackle the brief “The machine was their

only means of escape” (page 075) . Emrah has gone for a colourful homage

to English sci-i painter, John Harris, whilst Justin has taken his interpretation

on a different course and had some fun with two of his favourite subjects:

machines and robots! For some more sci-i themed tutorial goodness,

turn to Chee Ming Wong ’s latest instalment for the space painting tutorial

series (page 085) . This month he’s started the second phase of the series:

transport. This irst part of the transport section is all about spaceships, and

Chee takes us through a traditional approach to concepting before getting

stuck into the digital fun! And last but by no means least, and as promised

last month, we bring you the inal instalment from Nykolai Aleksander on

painting the human face (page 101) . This month she brings together the

tecniques covered in parts 1 and 2 into a inal character portrait (this month’s

cover image), and not only that but she also takes us through the painting of

a beautiful dragon tattoo as well as looking at painting brocade. I did promise

it would be a good one and it certainly is just that, so do enjoy it!

We have gallery images from Mario Wibisono , Michael Dashow and

Alex Ruiz , and our making of article has been written for us by Alexander

Yazynin , who discusses the creation of a portrait created for a friend as a

birthday present (page 115) . Our challenge also yielded a fantastic number

of entries, and the prizes have already been shipped to the top 3. These

lovely people are now busying themselves away on making of articles for

you, which will be featured next month – along with the results of our current

Butcher challenge (expect blood and sausages!).

That’s all from us this month. We’ll be back with more treats in the New Year.

Happy holidays everyone! Ed.

Contents

What’s in this month?

Andrée Wallin

Matte-Painter/Concept Artist for RealtimeUK

007

Sven Sauer

Visual Developer & Matte-Painter

Utherworlds

Interview with Philip Straub

021

031

The Gallery

10 of the Best 2D Artworks

047

Stylised Characters

This Month’s Finalists/Last Month’s Making Ofs

057

Speed Painting

Justin Albers & Emrah Elmasli

Space Painting

Transport: Part 6 – Spaceships

075

085

The Human Face

Painting Series: Part 3 by Nykolai Aleksander

Nastya

Project Overview by Alexander Yazynin

101

115

Palace Entrance

Digital Art Masters: V3 Free Chapter Promotion

120

About us

3DTotal.com Ltd Information & Contacts

123

Editor

Lynette Clee

Layout

Layla Khani

Matt Lewis

Marketing

Jo Hargreaves

Content

Lynette Clee

Tom Greenway

Richard Tilbury

Chris Perrins

Jo Hargreaves

Proofing

Jo Hargreaves

Lynette Clee

Lead Designer

Chris Perrins

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Contributors

Andree

Wallin

25 years old and currently

working at RealtimeUK as a

matte painter and concept artist.

He’s addicted to Photoshop,

drums, sleeping and travelling; he started studying

3D last year, got a job offer as a 2D artist at Realtime

UK and has been working professionally now for

about 6 months.

Contributing Artists

Every month, many creatives and artists around the world contribut to

3DCreative & 2DArtist Magazine. Here you can read all about them. If you

would like to be a part of 3DCreative or 2DArtist Magazines,

please contact lynette@zoopublishing

http://www.andreewallin.com

andree.wallin@gmail.com

Sven

Emrah

Sauer

A CG artist from Wiesbaden,

Germany. He was an art

director at an advertising

agency before getting into the

ilm and game business. Since 2006, he’s been

working as a visual developer and matte painting

artist, creating styles for feature ilms.

Elmasli

A Turkish concept artist based

in London, UK. He’s working at

Lionhead Studios as a full-time

senior concept artist. Before

coming to the UK, he was a freelance artist living in

Istanbul, Turkey and was working for various clients

like Crystal Dynamics, Irrational Games, CGToolkit

and Fantasy Flight Games, as well as ad agencies.

He then found himself in the UK where he draws

everyday and enjoys the city in his spare time.

http://www.partycule.com

emrah@partycule.com

http://www.mattepainting-studio.com

s.sauer@ambivalenz-ltd.com

Justin

Nykolai

Albers

A graduate of the Art Institute of

Dallas and currently working as

a concept artist at Vigil Games

on the Warhammer 40,000

MMO in Austin, Texas. His previous companies

include TKO Software and NCsoft.

Aleksander

Born in 1978, Nykolai spent

the irst 17 years of her life

in Germany, then moved to

England to study A-Level

Theatre and Music. She returned to Germany for a

short while after, working on ilm as a set assistant,

and in 1999 moved to the UK for good. In 2000

Nykolai started drawing. With the discovery of a

Wacom tablet in 2002, her work suddenly took off on

a path she hadn’t quite expected…

http://www.admemento.com

x@admemento.com

http://www.justinalbers.com/

albers.justin@gmail.com

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Contributors

Dr CM.

Patri

Wong

Has over 8 years of creative

visualisation and pre-production

experience, having worked

on various independent game

projects, publications and CGI pre-production

artwork. He is currently the CEO of his own digital art

studio, Opus Artz, based in London. Previous work

includes his role as Senior Concept Artist and Visual

Lead for Ininity: The Quest for Earth MMO 2009 ,

plus numerous commercial publications.

http://www.opusartz.com

hee@opusartz.com

Balanovsky

Production/Concept Artist from

Tel-Aviv, in Israel. He’s been

drawing & painting since he can

remember; creating characters,

creatures & fantastic scenes has always been a

passion of his. Telling a whole story through a single

image can be quite a challenge, but he’s always up

for it! Keeping his work fresh & versatile, he explores

all sorts of genres, styles & attitudes.

http://chuckmate.blogspot.com

pat2005b@hotmail.com

Pawel

Rosa

Somogyi

An electronics engineer

currently working for a

telecommunications company,

designing circuit boards. To

escape from the technical boredom he spends time

digital painting and 3D modelling in his free time, and

says he currently really needs to inish redesigning

the web page he created with his friend.

(He also loves cooking.)

Hughes

Can peel mandarins really fast,

kick a hackysack 32 times,

and animates for a living. She

currently lives in Brisbane,

Australia where she works for a pokies company,

leaving little bits of her soul behind in a shower of

sparkling gold and glittering teeth. One day she

hopes to inish all of the projects she’s started over

her 23 years.

pawelsomogyi@gmail.com

http://www.rosatron.com/

rosatron@gmail.com

Alexander

Yazynin

Graduated Vladivostok

College of Art, then the Far

Eastern State Academy of Art.

He always wanted to make

computer games, and became Elemental Games’

company co-founder, which has since developed

the Space Rangers & Space Rangers: Dominators

games. The company name was later changed to

“Katauri Interactive”, where he also worked on the

recently released Kings Bounty: The Legend game

as the art director for three years.

artist@katauri.com

Would You Like To Contribute To

3DCreative Or 2DArtist Magazines?

We are always looking for tutorial artists, gallery submissions, potential

interviewees, Making Of writers, and more. For more information, please

send a link to your work here: lynette@zoopublishing.com

www.2dartistmag.com

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