So for quite some time now, maybe a few years, I have not
been very excited about doing “digital art”, instead opting to continue with a
more hands on medium, wood cuts. I guess I had been disillusioned with whole
digital painting process and how abstract it felt for me. For many reasons, to numerous
to list here, I did not feel connected to the images I produced on the computer
and so was not inspired.
That being said, due to my history and work, I did keep my
eye on the industry, software and followed some artists work with interest.
One such artist that has inspired me!
Matt Hubel :
http://www.matthubel.com/
He has been
relentless in his pursuit of
“bettering” his skills sets and process. I worked with Matt for almost a year
at a video game company and it’s been a real pleasure to see his skills and
process grow. A couple of days ago he released a simple youtube capture of one
of his drawings that made me look at the medium with fresh eyes again.
I’m not sure why but after watching this video I actually
wanted to sit down, open up photoshop and paint on the computer again. That has
not happened in a long time.
I found a
cool photo of the Onion Knight from
Game of Thrones and used that as my
reference for a grey scale study. It’s been a while and I need to set up more
than one brush so as to get some more diverse texture but I actually had fun
and whilst I’m not proud of the image per say I am “inspired” again to do a
little more digital painting again.
So thanks Matt.
