Lunatique's Sketchbook

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Really skillfully masterful and beautiful work here. I love all that have going on here. You've really done an amazing job at making the digital medium look very naturally analog.

Thanks! It was always my intent to push digital to look more like natural media, and it wasn't really possible early in the development of digital art--not even when Craig Mullins revolutionized digital painting with his traditional approach, because the brush engines always had those telltale signs of digital appearance, no matter how painterly the brushwork was. It's really been in that last several years that digital painting software has reached the point of getting so close that even some artists can't tell anymore, unless they were familiar with that specific art software and know its brush engine's telltale signs.

BTW, here's the timeplapse video of the painting process:
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A few of the steps:

Absolutely incredible and thank you so much for sharing the video and the process pics. I'm not gonna lie, when I first started browsing your sketchbook I really was thinking that these were photo paint overs in software like Corel Painter with the cloning, or something, but seeing your works and progress, and especially the video really seal the deal that it is indeed all real. You should be very proud and happy about your accomplishments with what you are able to produce in the visual arts, and you are by far the best that I have seen when it comes to really merging painterly and realism. Thank you again for the great advice on my sketchbook again. I create mostly from imagination but am getting into light studies and using reference more.