Art

I’m looking for my mummy.

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Started with a quick sketch in pen and ink. Was hard to come up with a character design for the mummy which was different than my previous designs. On to Corel painter, where I fleshed out the rest.

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Falling Star

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Catching a falling star. Completed with Corel Painter. Used mostly to cover pencil to design, and flat colors to fill.

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Drawing by the river

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Part of a larger picture, this was an experiment with line weight and texture as well as a little pencil shading. All of this was digital and, as usual, I bounced between Corel Painter and Procreate. Linework was done in Painter and coloring in Procreate.

Just keep drawing

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The First Artist article by National Geographic

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National Geographic

 

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/01/first-artists/walter-text

Fascinating article in National Geographic about the origins of art and the first people that were its’ creators.

What I find most amazing, is that this art is as close to permanent as we are capable. In our current world, most of the art we create is fleeting, unable to survive only a few decades, but we are looking at art from the dawn of mankind.