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12.2.12

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21.1.12

Heart of the Swarm

I can't wait for the new Starcraft expansion Heart of the Swarm.

8.1.12

4.1.12

Blue Bounce Bust GIF

Another 1 hour bust study. Click to watch the progress.

1.1.12

Diablo 2012

Hey everyone. I wanted to start the new year off right with a tribute to Diablo. He's finally coming this year. It's been too long a wait. :)

30.12.11

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19.12.11

The eighth in a series of the 22 tarot major arcana.

Also for those interested in the my latest brushes (the ones featured in my recent livestream please visit here:

http://www.artofty.com/TylerJames_BrushEssentials.zip

Happy Holidays everyone!

16.12.11

Doom 4 Busts

Having fun with some cyber demons. The middle one is from my recent live stream. Each head took from 2 to 3 hours.

7.12.11

Livestream Event

3.12.11

Mecha Suits

23.11.11

Lady Oni

6.11.11

Major Arcana X

The seventh in a series of the tarot major arcana.

5.11.11

Hot Pink Doodles

26.10.11

Space Port

24.10.11

Purple Rubber

15.10.11

The Deathstone

I was cleaning out my hard drive and stumbled on these forgotten sketches from Hunted The Demon's Forge. These were done very late in production as an effort to improve the design of the artifact the heros use to communicate with the dead. They were scrapped because we had already created too many cut scenes with the original design.

14.10.11

Mumm-Ra the Ever-Living

13.10.11

Tiny Bots!

10.10.11

Jody & Scruffy

26.9.11

Nosferatu

Treasure the apotropaics.

17.9.11

Loremaster Scrag

Then I add my background and any finishing touches. =)

Once all the colors are glazed in I begin bouncing them around so that the yellow skin bounces into the blue leather and vise versa.

I then glaze my colors in using blend modes. Experiment with Color,Overlay,Vivid Light and Soft Light.

This is one of the more time consuming steps. Blend your values and squint your eyes to check that things are reading well.

Next I block in the main lighting direction and spot the darkest and lightest parts of my image.

The next step is to sketch over the woodcut and get most of the shapes defined.

In this step I stay really rough and just explore silhouette and basic shapes.

22.8.11

Mew

11.8.11

Gathering Droids

6.8.11

Dragonspawn

My original take on Blizzard's Dragonspawn creatures.

18.7.11

Major Arcana II

17.6.11

Hunted The Demon's Forge

Here are some things from the game that came out recently.

19.5.11

Rift

I start next month as a concept artist on Rift over at Trion Redwood Shores! It was really awesome meeting the team and I really look forward to this new adventure! Thank you guys for being such an awesome host. /hugs