Beard Clippings

[Patrick Gaumond]

@construccion Haha, thanks!

So I started playing age of empires 2 again in the last few weeks, and then moved onto number 3. I sat down, loaded it up and what do you know, pretty much all the splash art is done by craig mullins! The last time I played this game was 10 years ago when it came out, long before I was interested in art and so I really didn't give a shit about the splash screens. It's funny how I play games to forget about art for a few hours and then get hit with the mullins bomb anyways lol

All that to say, it put me back in a mullins/jones kind of mood again. I spent a lot of time looking at their work and trying to think about how they work and why they do things certain ways, and I've tried some of their workflows in the past and they've always given me personally great results. Much better than any other workflow I've tried (shaddy, dave rapoza, dan luvisi, eytan zana, just to name a few), and while they were all effective in doing what they set out to do, they never gave me the quality (or qualities) of work that I wanted, nor a look that I actually liked


I found some brushes that actually feel like pencil, been having fun doing warmups with them



15-20 mins master studies




Experimenting with things


Spent a good bit of time on one of my weaknesses last week for the CROW 2 challenge, thumbnails!





refined thumbs


The quick lines on the thumb I chose


The colour palette, and the study I did to learn about them




And the final


More time on the chicken warrior


More time on the foo dog and did a first colour pass. Still need to fix a lot of things. I think greyscale to colour is good for simpler pictures, but the more details and variations in colour the easier it is to go straight to colour imo. Im basically going to have to go over everything again!