Chris Oatley’s ArtCast: Episode Archive:

Layer Mask Tutorial :: Digital Painting in Photoshop

The ‘Brush Tips’ Series: Short video tutorials that demonstrate digital painting tips and tricks that can save you time, increase your efficiency and support a smoother, more intuitive workflow.

Part one features two basic layer and group masking techniques that allow the artist to make significant changes to the overall silhouette of a character without erasing or deleting any prior work.

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Steve Umbleby’s Storyboarding Start :: ArtCast #44

IN THIS EPISODE :: Steve Umbleby is a long-time friend of mine and a frequent collaborator. In pursuit of his dream of working as an animation storyboard artist, he moved to Los Angeles and got a job in the industry three weeks later. Steve shares his story and we reflect on the history of our [...]

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Steve Galgas Interview :: ArtCast #43

IN THIS EPISODE :: Steve Galgas is a long-time friend who, like me, is interested in almost everything.  He is a great concept artist and illustrator.  His currently-on-hiatus webcomic “Mr. Grant” is gorgeous. He has worked for Pixar, Liquid! and now he works for a great young social games company known as Playfish. Steve and [...]

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ArtCast #42 :: Digital Painting Tutorial :: Wookie Rage (part 4)

I’ve decided to begin a new series of tutorials to align with the “Wookie Rage” contest that is happening here on the site. All you have to do is enter The Wookie Rage Poll, send me an email telling me that you entered the contest and you will have the chance to win one of [...]

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Start Something You Can Finish :: ArtCast #41

IN THIS EPISODE :: “Projects are the new resumes.”  -Seth Godin I suggest an approach for starting your own do-it-yourself project and challenge you to finish it.  I also provide some practical advice for quit-proofing your project.

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Character Design Challenge: Classic Literature/ Classic Horror Mash-Up Entries

IN THIS EPISODE :: The following character designs were generated by members of the art community at ChrisOatley.com The challenge was to take a character from a classic horror film and one from classic literature and blend them into a single character. Thanks to all of the artists that participated for being so bold. You [...]

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Artists & The Web P3 :: Why You Should Start Your Own Podcast :: ArtCast #40

IN THIS EPISODE :: I build a case for why artists should just embrace the internet and begin blogging, podcasting, live streaming and contributing to online art communities. I also give a brief outline of the simplest method for launching your own podcast.

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Wizard Of Oz Character Design Tutorial :: Cowardly Lion Head Study

IN THIS EPISODE :: I respond to a number of requests that I post more process images for works-in-progress. The episode contains a time-lapse recording of a simple head-study, a really fun and spontaneous stage of my own character design process. Since painting is a strength of my own, I almost always employ that skill [...]

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Searching For Synthesis & Gestural Environments :: ArtCast #38

IN THIS EPISODE :: In 2009, I learned more about art than perhaps any other year of my life. I met and received critiques from most of my living art heroes and I explored and struggled with some very specific stylistic choices, attempting to be as critical of my own work as possible. 2010 will, [...]

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Digital Painting Tutorial :: Hulk Vs. Wolverine (part 6) :: ArtCast #37

IN THIS EPISODE :: I demonstrate how to paint stylized, graphic hair and more naturalistic hair.  I give advice on how to make your art tools work for you by making more sophisticated stylistic and technical decisions. I issue a challenge to comics colorists and illustrators to consider bold, intense color palettes  as one option [...]

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Digital Painting Tutorial :: Hulk Vs. Wolverine (part 5) :: ArtCast #36

IN THIS EPISODE :: I talk about the problems and challenges that I met while creating this illustration, the power of getting a good ‘performance’ out of your illustrated characters and I demonstrate how to paint stylized hair.

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A Look Back At 2009 With Ward Jenkins, Kevin Cross & Josh Kemble :: ArtCast #35

IN THIS EPISODE :: My wife and dog and I traveled to Portland, Oregon for the holidays.  It was awesome. During my trip to that awesome city, I was able to meet my awesome friends Kevin Cross and Josh Kemble (illustrators and hosts of Big Illustration Party Time) and an awesome artist whose work (and blog) [...]

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