PAINT AN ORNATE FLORAL PORTRAIT

Welcome to… NO.1 FOR DIGITAL ARTISTS Imagine FX

It’s no great exaggeration to say that the past few

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PLACE TO SHARE YOUR DIGITAL ART

How to be happy as an artist

Joy division Leading artists tell Tom May how their art makes them happy, and offer their tips for emulating them

Meike Schneider

Cozy corner The German artist gives us a tour of her home studio, which is white, bright and features gold highlights

THE ART OF THE LAST OF US PART II

One Pixel Brush’s Shaddy Safadi reveals what it takes to create art for this year’s most anticipated video game…

Mauro Belfiore

This Italian artist uses graphite and coloured pencils to bring action scenes, character studies and portraits to life in his sketchbook

Letters

YOUR FEEDBACK & OPINIONS

19 WORKFLOW TIPS FOR BLENDER

Brandon Hix and Kjartan Tysdal reveal how to optimise your workflow and boost your skills in Blender, the free tool for sculpting in 3D

PAINT SCI-FI CITIES AND STRUCTURES

Jacek Pilarski reveals how he constructs futuristic cities, filling them with intriguing, complex structures using Mandelbulb 3D

THE LAST OF US ENVIRONMENT ART

See how One Pixel Brush concept artist Balázs Ágoston creates an interior for the video game The Last of Us Part II

DESIGN STYLISED CHARACTERS

Gain insights into Yavae Thomas’s creative process and discover how her shape and colour choices inform her playful character designs

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SHOWCASING THE FINEST TRADITIONAL ARTISTS

UNDERSTANDING THE HUMAN FORM

There’s more to life drawing than recreating the figure in front of you. PHILIP TYLER explores the inner workings of the human body to help inform your sketches

Howard Lyon

This US painter wants to go large with his artworks…