Category Archives: Tutorials

Here’s a thumbnail of a painting I spent about 30 minutes on this morning: Looks kind of done, doesn’t it? Nah, it’s nowhere near done. 😀 Here it is closer up:   It’s pretty rough. But everything is there. The light source, the dark parts, the light parts, an understanding of the colors, and the […]

Earlier in my artistic development I would do several speed paintings a week: quick (usually 20 to 180 minutes, tops) paintings from photo reference. My goal was to improve my ability to work from photo reference (which all of my work does, to some extent) and just get a ton of practice. It’s better to do lots […]

9 years ago (!) I created this 3ds max biped rigging tutorial and posted it to DeviantArt. It is still my most-viewed contribution with over 100,000 views. I’m sharing it here, as well, in case anything ever happens to the DeviantArt version. If you’re trying to rig something with 3ds max’s biped system, this step […]