Phil McDarby Blog
A Dance of Light - Walkthrough
I haven’t created a Wood Dragon image in nearly three years, and it was great to go back into this world. I knew this would be a fairly involved image, so I wanted to try to document all the stages as I went along. This isn’t so much a tutorial as a walkthrough, but hopefully it will give you an insight into this way of working
Posted by Phil on 26/02 at 01:44 PM in Personal /
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