Phil McDarby Blog
Article in Digital Times magazine
Article in Digital Times magazine
Posted by Phil on 26/04 at 11:21 AM in
Accepted into Exposé 7
Paul Hellard, Daniel Wade, Phil Straub and the fantastic folks at Ballistic Media chose my ‘Wood Dragon and the Ladybird’ image for Exposé 7 - I can’t thank them enough!
Posted by Phil on 17/09 at 02:48 PM in
Cover of Galactica Magazine
Istvan Burger, the Editor of the Hungarian sci-fi magazine, was good enough to give me the cover earlier this year, with Fathom. Thanks Istvan!
Posted by Phil on 17/09 at 02:37 PM in
Cover of Animation Today
Ranjith, the wonderful chap from Animation Today in India, honoured me with the cover in May - thanks Ranjith!
Posted by Phil on 17/09 at 02:28 PM in
Interview in CG World China
Alex Yuan, a very friendly chap from CGWorld Magazine in China, conducted an extensive interview with me while back - thanks Alex!
Will post the English copy when I get a chance.
Posted by Phil on 17/09 at 02:17 PM in
Accepted into the Illustrator’s Guild of Ireland
Last week I was accepted into the Illustrator’s Guild of Ireland, something I have long dreamed about. Check out the site, chock-full of incredible work from some truly wonderful artists. Thanks to everyone on the panel who approved my application!
Posted by Phil on 29/04 at 09:05 AM in
The Green Man Awakens - a Walkthrough
Not so much a tutorial as a Work in Progress, showing the evolution of an image from initial idea to final scene. This image took about 6 weeks, all told, so there are many, many hours of work between all these steps. The image ended up being around 10000px wide, and was around a Gig per save, so I had to save over a lot of increments to conserve space. These are the key steps.
Posted by Phil on 20/04 at 09:52 PM in
Workshop in Advanced Photoshop 54
A workshop on the Moss Dragon for Advanced Photoshop.
Posted by Phil McDarby on 03/03 at 02:07 PM in
Exhibition in Edinburgh
I’m taking part in a 3 week exhibition in Edinburgh, beginning March 9th 2009. A wonderful fellow by the name of Colin Knight got in touch a few weeks back about an exhibition in Edinburgh, called “Fantasy Art”. There are 6 artists taking part, all of us submitting 12 pieces. I won’t start gushing about the other artists here for fear of embarassing myself - suffice to say, they are all phenomenal.
Posted by Phil on 04/02 at 05:58 PM in
Exhibition In Amsterdam
Harald Seiwert, a great guy and fellow artist, contacted me last year to take part in a month-long exhibition in the ABC Treehouse Gallery in Amsterdam, from Nov 1st to 30th 08. It was called ‘The Art of Pushing Pixels’.
Posted by Phil on 15/01 at 12:24 PM in
The Infinite Oz wins Gold
I had the pleasure of working on a promotional ‘zoomquilt’ for the Sci-Fi Channel mini-series ‘Tinman’, called the Infinite Oz Experience. I worked on the piece with some amazing artists in the summer of 07, and we just heard recently that it won a Gold Medal at the London International Awards 08 - in the Entertainment Category of Digital Media.
Posted by Phil on 07/01 at 08:55 PM in
The Library Bus
In early 2008, I was contacted by a Swedish designer, Martin Willers, about a project called the Library Bus, or Bokbuss. There were four artists involved; myself, Linda Bergkvist, Sven Nordqvist and Matt Gaser. Our work was used in combination to cover the bus from top to bottom. The idea behind this project was to give kids in more remote areas of rural Sweden access to books. It was a really special project to be involved in!
Posted by Phil on 07/01 at 04:37 PM in Work /