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Muralists are visual artists who paint large-scale artwork onto walls and buildings. These artworks are often community-focused, political, or just decorative. They’re often commissioned by cities, businesses, schools, nonprofits, or private clients. Responsibilities include: Beint able to develop a concept and keep the client’s ideas in mind Create scaled pre-drawings/sketches Know how to paint on the surface (some materials require priming first) Can work at heights/on scaf

Dominique Ramsey is a digital illustrator and designer from Charlotte, North Carolina. She attended Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts for a year before transferring to the SCAD as an illustration major. Her work mostly features animals, bright colors, detailed patterns, and abstract/unique visual elements. I think her art is a prime example of out-of-the-box thinking. She has an impressive list of clients, including: Delta Airlines, Nike, Microsoft, UMG Records, Penguin Rando

I colored the eagle first because she was the most challenging. I was trying to conceal the fact she was made of several pieces of paper. I also did the rat, since he was made of several materials (vellum for the mechanical wings). All I had left were the less complicated/smaller characters. Colored. Here, as I was starting to add the backgrounds, I realized the elements should be closer together. This was the final product. I think there could’ve been more contrast as it’s a

I began with a sketch. The dolphins got moved around a lot till I decided on the final composition. I then colored everything with a flat and monochrome palette. I drew the milky way, star, lighthouse, and water details. I softly shaded the characters so they’d blend in with their background.

I first sketched the composition digitally. I then co lored it so I knew exactly what colors to use with the goache—this is difficult with saturated lighting/shading. I did not take many process photos because this work was painful to create, but this is it close to being finished.

What is storyboarding? Storyboard artists map out the scenes of a film, show, or other video media before it is actually produced. This allows a better idea of what the camera angles, movement, and composition of each scene is supposed to look like. They work with the director and writers of the film in order to achieve this. Storyboards are most commonly done for animation, but can also be for live action. Responsibilities Can translate a script into a sequence of drawings

I started with a rough sketch of what I thought the composition would be I did another sketch, adding more action between the characters. I basically repainted the whole dune and sky because i previously accidentally used the cheap paint. I am learning that I have horrible fine motor skills because I cannot seem to paint a straight line. Everything you see here was painted at least twice. I still have to add the ghost’s outlines in white (for now they are just glowy smudges

I am still not a pro at this style of figure drawing, but I showed some improvement, at least since last year. The hardest part for me...

For much of my time doing art, I have mostly stayed within the limits of what I thought I was capable of doing a good job at. I wasn’t...

I finally got to adding more details in grisaille, particularly on the piece of driftwood. I also worked on the background a bit,...

Concept art made for the movie Finding Nemo Concept artists design characters, environments, and items for visual media, whether it be...

note: in case he sounds familiar, this is the artist I was planning to blog about last time, but I opted for a more abstract one. ...

This was after 1 day of underpainting. I had most of the basic shades down, but there were still parts to go over. This was the second...

I found it interesting that his spray painting technique is less planned, and he often just begins painting without a sketch beforehand...

Skills Necessary Animators, whether 3d or 2d, create an illusion of movement using image sequences.  While that is the basic foundation,...

Because I initially struggled with Batista’s specific style of shading—part smudging and part hatching—I completed the whole artist copy...

Kevin Chopin was born in Texas and has lived in Arizona, Colorado, and Nevada, the American southwest influencing his artwork. His...

I used white for highlights, and was more careful with the hatching this time. When doing my self-portrait, I’ll need to be sure not to...