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To Green Angel Tower – cover art

Donato Giancola

Periodically I make the choice to lean in heavily on a commission, dramatically increasing the amount of labor, focus, and intent I wish to bring to a painting.  This bar is raised by myself, never by my client, as the desire is to create a portfolio piece I can leverage for broader use, benefiting my client, and hopefully my career. This is one such instance. When Shawn Speakman of Grim Oak Press asked if I…

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Cinematic Lighting for Outdoor Concepts

Christian Alzmann

February 5, 2025 - Here are a couple of lighting methods I use to help my outdoor concepts work better. These work well on interiors also but interiors will probably be a later post. I’m sure there might be a name for this already but I’ve been calling it Broken Lighting in my head so I’ll do so here. Here is a plane with the sunlight at high noon. There might be a project where this is what the scene calls for but for now let’s change this and use light to create depth and space. In this image I added a cucoloris, sometimes called a kook, to simulate cloud cover. It’s that ugly looking thing I’d have to probably paint out in the sky at the top of frame. In film they use kooks on sets to break…

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