TODAY'S FEATURED POST
Concept Process
This time I’d like to talk about my concept art process which is a hybrid process that seems more complicated than it is. I lay that out below but I would like to say that, for the most part, concept iterations/explorations aren't always about finding a better idea...but more about presenting options. If you concept for people it is very likely that what you consider the best idea doesn't land as well as one of…
YESTERDAY’S POST
A Portrait in 5 Layers
February 18, 2025 - After my post in March on Applying Transparent Color in Photoshop, I received a number of messages, emails and threats asking for more detail on the order of layers I prefer to use. As I mentioned in that post, I often end up working in hundreds of layers so a list of this would read like a phone book of seemingly random Photoshop gibberish. And listen, I need my layers! Partly because I love the look it gives, and partly to see my computer slowly going insane. (It's a cutting edge space age device that can speak every language on the planet, can see people fixing mirrors in low earth orbit and can do math at the quantum level; yet all I have it do is look at videos of cats falling in bathtubs.) Back…
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