Crimson King - Sketches - 2011

Between 2010-11 while working at Blur Studio I would study photos of Steve Wang's painted VFX creature sculptures to get a better sense of a 'Final' Painted look in my 2D art. Early on everything I painted in Photoshop was generally too soft. This was before I started using photo textures for live action and photo real projects. Using photos is what really accelerated the improvement my hand painted work.. I held out using photos until I was 31.. In the past couple of years I feel like I've reached a healthy balance, but now do more hand painted work.