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YOUR FEEDBACK & OPINIONS

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THE PLACE TO SHARE YOUR DIGITAL ART

The Rookies

R THE ROOKIES Discover your potential with The

Working as a concept artist in film

Screen break Tanya Combrinck finds out that creative talent alone won’t open doors to the movie industry

Jason Shawn Alexander

Multiple choice A range of workstations and stacks of art and books make up this LA artist’s long-occupied space

THE ART OF YIGIT KOROGLU

Dominic Carter talks to the interior architect-turned-artist about creating characters with personality and working on Magic: the Gathering

Development sheet

PROJECT TITLE: SIESTA (NAP TIME)

Michaela Nienaber

Creature features and devilishly good art appear in the personal work of this artist

GRASP THE BASICS OF FIGURATIVE ART

Anatomy, gesture and line quality are key aspects of figure drawing. Joshua Black ’ s advice will enhance your character work

DEFINE YOUR COMPOSITION WITH COLOUR

Germán Reina creates detailed isometric art to help celebrate Supercell’s 15th year

How I create… CHARACTER-FILLED ART WITH CLARITY

1 Lay down a sketch I focus

USE LIGHT & SHADE TO BEST EFFECT

Renowned illustrator Chris Legaspi reveals how he establishes the composition and brings his figurative art to life using light and shadow

DEVELOP A NEW PAINTING STYLE

Alexander “Minze” Thümler develops a fresh workflow for his upcoming graphic novel project

SKETCH AND PAINT A SCI-FI MARKET

ZiYuan Wang demonstrates his creative process when working up an environment concept for the video game industry

FIND THE STORY

Moritz Cremer gives his character concept a strong backstory, which informs his ideation stages

A WELL-DEFINED SCI-FI CONCEPT

1 Generate thumbnail sketches Quick sketches enable

Xencelabs Pen Display 24+

DREAM SCREEN Squaring up to Wacom on both price point and features, this is a pro-level tablet that delivers accurate colour and a tactile drawing experience

HP Omen Transcend 32 OLED

MULTI-PURPOSE SCREEN HP’s latest display positions itself as straddling the worlds of busy creatives and demanding gamers. Does it make the grade on both fronts?

Corsair EX400U

ATTRACTIVE FEATURE A portable SSD built with the iPhone in mind

Huion Kamvas Slate 13

OFF-TARGET This large-format Android sketchpad scores points for its design, but falls short when it comes to creating pro-level art

Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus

PLUS POINT Lenovo wants its high-end Android tablet package to become a creative and entertainment replacement for your laptop. We discover if it achieves this goal

Manga Comics for Beginners

PAGE TURNER Established Swedish artist Natalia Batista takes viewers through the creation of a complete manga comic

Brushing up…

We put three packs through their paces to find out whether they’re worth downloading

Gabriela Niko

SHOWCASING THE FINEST TRADITIONAL ARTISTS

Kevin Antoine

Kevin (aka ANTOINE) is a freelance artist, director and consultant in 2D animation. He draws with ink on paper without sketches. “Each line is intentional, each mistake is part of the story.” By using minimal tools, he keeps his work spontaneous.

BRING A FANTASY CHARACTER TO LIFE

Illustrator MAX DUNBAR reveals how he draws an original fantasy figure using pencil, pens and grey tone markers