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Among The Leaves Video

Among The Leaves Video

James Dyer
This was created from an initial brief. I tweaked my style slightly generally to be more of an illustrative look and had to focus more on a playful theme rather than the dark edge I usually employ. Using ArtRage and Infinite Painter on various drawing tablets
Best Friends Video

Best Friends Video

James Dyer
Part of a big multipart commission I completed. This was created from an initial brief. Firstly I produced some sketches to make sure I was going in the right direction with comments and modifications along the way. I tweaked my style slightly generally to be more of an illustrative look and had to focus more on a playful theme rather than the dark edge I usually employ.
Doodle 2023-03-31

Doodle 2023-03-31

James Dyer
More doodles this time using InfinitePainter and Krita and also I added a little colour!
Doodle 2023-02-27

Doodle 2023-02-27

James Dyer
More doodles this time using InfinitePainter and Krita and also I added a little colour!
Colour Doodling Video

Colour Doodling Video

James Dyer
Using Krita and InfinitePainter on various drawing tablets and this time some doodling from my warped imagination!
Animated Buffy Video

Animated Buffy Video

James Dyer
Animating everyone’s favourite Slayer! Using ArtRage and InfinitePainter on various drawing tablets
Animated Porg Video

Animated Porg Video

James Dyer
Using ArtRage and InfinitePainter on various drawing tablets Animating one of those very cute creatures from the Star Wars universe!
Fruit Bowl Video

Fruit Bowl Video

James Dyer
Just a simple fruit bowl, but with a bit of a twist! Using ArtRage and InfinitePainter on various drawing tablets
Art Assets

Art Assets

James Dyer
Downloads of digital art assets that I have created over the years (Download Link) — TOC BrushBitmaps Patterns Textures BrushBitmaps Patterns Textures
FruitBowl

FruitBowl

James Dyer
I started this quite a few months back and thought I would revisit now I am catching up on all my unfinished art. Strangely I quite enjoy still art but this time I thought I would play around a little and put in a bit of a sinister twist.
Doodles Video

Doodles Video

James Dyer
Some more doodles, taking jottings from a notepad and importing the image into Krita and InfinitePainter to tidy up
Jabba

Jabba

James Dyer
Started in Infinite Painter and I wanted to apply a lot of texture in ArtRage mainly utilising the depth of the Oil Brush to define Jabbas skin. I added a tongue from the original reference and subtly introduced Yoda and Luke into the background. The main enhancement from the reference was adding more of a spotlight on the face and enhancing the saturation.
Bits_012

Bits_012

James Dyer
A portrait of a recently passed cat of my girlfriends parents. This took quite a while to get the proportions and the colouring correct. The final touch of a vignette blur worked pretty well which gave the depth of view and brought the focus to the face. I enhanced the eyes with a sparkle which didn’t exist in the original reference and of course needed to remember to add in the whiskers.
KirstyCat_Finished

KirstyCat_Finished

James Dyer
A commission I did for a friend of my girlfriends of their quirky cat, I very much focussed on trying to bring through the personality and enhanced the eyes with a little colour dodge and added some rim light. I decided not to over render this one as I thought the unfinished look worked quite well.
XmasTreeFinishedb

XmasTreeFinishedb

James Dyer
This took me a loooooong time, probably because the subject matter is bother complicated and potentially a bit stale meaning that I had to work extra hard on it. I applied texture layer after texture layer and eventually got to a point I was moderately happy with.
AnotherRobinFinished

AnotherRobinFinished

James Dyer
It was Christmas so what better way to celebrate than producing a robin. The idea behind this was to make the style like a christmas card. This one was one of those that came together very quickly in a couple of hours and I quickly decided that it was completed.
ChaletFinished

ChaletFinished

James Dyer
Started in InfinitePainter over christmas, the main focus being a warm complimentary colour and the focus of the detail being the chalet, and just popped in a snowman for a bit of fun. The balance between a vignette contrast was key here.
JamJarFinished

JamJarFinished

James Dyer
Another started in InfinitePainter, I always quite enjoy the still life art and embellished a little with the writing on the side and tried to make the jar really pop out. It is not always easy to add life to an inanimate object, I think that is probably why I generally prefer portraits.
WintersFinished

WintersFinished

James Dyer
I don’t often do a full body piece as I prefer to focus on the face so I get a bit caught up in not putting enough detail into the face itself. I overlaid a texture file created from playing around with GIMP to give the effect of rain and changed up the background from the original reference.
SandersonMary

SandersonMary

James Dyer
This was actually the second Sanderson sister I completed but set the tone for all three of them. I went for a more comic book graphical look rather than get too realistic and I think the flatter look of the face worked quite well for this, I then went and retrospectively tweaked the Winnifred portrait to align better with this style as I over sharpened / saturated / contrasted and impastoed the original.
BethHarmon

BethHarmon

James Dyer
After watching the Queens Gambit, I was inspired, just a straighforward head on shot, which is quite unusual for me and really tried to push the colours and highlights. I found that softening the edges much enhanced the portrait and gave it a little more of a painterly look. I am still not quite happy with the hands and also some parts of the face are a little too blurry, but I might sneakily retrospectively come back and amend at some stage.
BunnyFinished

BunnyFinished

James Dyer
I wanted a bunny with a bit of an edge, I modified the reference a little to add hair on the head and a slightly scary eye. A lot of texture in this one and spent quite a while getting the background to fit in to the overall feel. As always almost forgot to put on the whiskers at the end!
FrogFinished

FrogFinished

James Dyer
Completed pretty much entirely on my Samsung Galaxy Note 8, with just a little tidy up using ArtRage. I think the desaturated nature of this worked well as did the overlaying of textures in InfinitePainter, it was one of those that came together pretty quickly.