DaveRapoza

Deku - high res, PSD w/layers + Personal piece WIP

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Hope you're well! Here's a portrait from today - Deku of My Hero Academia - I've had a little time while trying to put my kid to sleep where I've been able to watch a few episodes, I think it's pretty great so far so I wanted to see if I could do a semi-real version of Deku. You can download the PSD attached if you want to see how I went about working through this one - most all of t...

The Basics - Grayscale to Color + Brushes

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Here's the latest video tutorial, in this I walk you through the very basics of how I used this approach to create paintings like the Super Metroid piece. I also included the brushes attached to this post so that you can follow along if you l...

Black Lady - Sailor Moon - high res + PSD

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Hope you're good! Here's the latest thing I've done playing with the grayscale to color approach, similar to the Super Metroid, I just put less time into this one. I'm currently processing the full grayscale to color tutorial featuring a horrible painting of Shrek - should be up tonight - I just had a weird video issue with the latest update to my recording software, so, unfort...

Super Metroid - high res download

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Hope you've been well! Here's the final image for the Super Metroid piece. I spent a good chunk of time fleshing this out and can confidently walk through the process now - it took me some time throughout this patreon to find a style that I think works for high level finish type stuff, but I think this is one of the closest to that goal.

Super Metroid was one of my favorite gam...

Super Metroid Update - Samus & company

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Hope you're well! I wanted to share the latest progress on the Super Metroid piece. At this stage I've done all the drawings/values for the creatures and Samus. From this point on I'll be painting up all the characters as well as rendering the background. I'll likely add more random enemies from the game into this composition. But anyway! I know this is a bit brief for an update, but...

Super Metroid update - Ridley & Draygon + Suikoden II Jowy high res

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Hope you had a good new years! Today I wanted to share the progress of the Super Metroid piece - I'm feeling very confident that this one will come together smoothly, it's been very easy for me so far mixing my old & new process. As far as approaches go with my artwork, this has been my most satisfying to work on. I recorded the process for Draygon and will likely record another ...

Riou of Suikoden II - high res & layered PSD + Super Metroid Update

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Hope you're well! I wanted to share an update on the Super Metroid piece as well as a revised composition to the original I posted(I think this one will be much stronger). For this new update I started on Crocomire, rendering him a bit in grayscale and finishing him up in color. I was postponing my video walkthrough because I found something pretty good with this recent pass on Croco...

Super Metroid - sketch

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Hope you're good! Here's the next project - Super Metroid - one of my favorite games ever. I've been trying to find an approach that uses a bit more realistic lighting for this one, here's the test I did for a style - this isn't emblematic of the final, this is just a 20 minute thing to see how a potential workflow would go - 

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Bulma - High Res

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Been a couple days! Thanks for sticking with me on this, I've been trying to develop out an oil style for my paintings, I'm pretty happy with this one - came together super fast! The entire process for this piece was recorded, I'll be sharing the video soon, explaining how I worked this one out. 

This one is a bit of a departure style wise from the Goku I posted before but...

How I Painted - Morrigan - Full PDF Breakdown

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Hope you're having a good month so far! I wanted to share the current approach I'm using for the Morrigan & Goku paintings - both follow this breakdown. I'm trying to keep my process pretty simple and streamlined so that I can depend on each step working and building off of one another. This is where I am at the moment with it, I'm sure things will continue to evolve, but I'm hap...

Morrigan - high res

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Here's the latest character portrait I've been working on - this isn't really meant to be an amazing composition or anything, the sketch was started just to mess around and I decided I'd try my new brushes and see if I couldn't get a cool finish look from them.

I'm feeling pretty good about how these brushes look for rendering and finishing images, this is the same set from Jus...

Son Goku - high res + layered PSD

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Here's something quicker from today - I wanted to try out some new brushes I bought from Justin Gerard - they're great! These brushes here are from the 'Grund Hund' set. Also, I went ahead and updated my operating system today so that I could upgrade to the latest Photoshop(it's way slo...

Symphony of the Night - high res printable file!

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Hope you're well! Thank you all so much for supporting me throughout this process, things have been moving along on this piece and I've hopefully found something new for my approach - I feel pretty good about where this one ended up!

I think the style here is pretty close to where I was aiming texture-wise. My aim is to continually evolve this approach until it is as close to m...

He-Man & Skeletor - concept art

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Here's somethin a little different than the normal - I wanted to give a go at doing my own take on He-Man & Skeletor - nothin too crazy, but I wanted to see if I could bring some different energy to them. I've actually done quite a bit with the Masters of the Universe characters, I designed the 2020-12-14 05:09:38 +0000 UTC View Post

Making Comics pt.1 - Steve Lichman

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This is a long time coming - I've been getting questions from a lot of you during the Q&A's about how I approach working on my comic stuff, so I wanted to start a series of talking through the process - part 1 being a sort of introduction to my ...

Symphony of the Night - work in progress!

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Hope you're well! Here's the latest progress on the Symphony of the Night piece. It's definitely moving along but I am taking my time playing with brushes to hopefully get the oil look goin a bit. I'm feeling good about it so far, things are coming together pretty much how I had them in mind. Shouldn't be much longer before this one is complete!

I'll definitely do a walkthrough...

November Q&A + 1hr PokéQuest timelapse video

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Watch the PokéQuest timelapse here! 

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Hope you're all well! After a little over a week of having my newborn boy in the world I was ab...

Study & Vampire Hunter D notes, Morrigan Sketch, Vampire Hunter D Timelapse + PSDs

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Hope you're well! I wanted to share with you how I prepare for something that is a deviation from my normal style - this is an approach I generally use before diving headfirst into a new type of painting technique or overall step by step change ...

Symphony of the Night - Work in Progress Update - Alucard

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Hope you're well! Here's the latest progress I've made on the Symphony of the Night piece. I'm doing my best to work out Alucard's likeness at the moment - I felt like my initial drawing worked as it's own style, but when you adapt it into this render style it starts too look too cartoony next to how I painted Richter. So, I needed to adapt and shoot for something leaning more toward...

How I Painted - Castlevania - Full PDF Breakdown

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Hope you've been well! Here's the full breakdown of the Castlevania piece I created for Cook and Becker! This PDF(attached to this post, as well as viewable on here) covers everything from how I approach the sketch to compositional shape breakdown and final...

Iron Man - Knullified - video process w/commentary

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I hope you're all doing well! Today I wanted to share with you the process of my Iron Man cover for marvel comics. In this approach I tried something a little bit different where I used mostly Photoshop while relying on clip studio for some rendering and the drawing itself. This approach ...

Symphony of the Night - Work in Progress Update!

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Hope you're well! Here's the latest update to the Symphony of the Night piece. Been working at it a bit - I'm feeling pretty good about the approach on Richter so far, it's a mix of what I've been doing lately and what I used to paint like years and years ago. I wanted it to lean toward a oil-ish look, we'll see how successful that ends up being!

I'm happy with the overall imag...

Symphony of the Night - Work in Progress!

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So, this time around I wanted to use a slightly different approach to the final product - I'm going to be aiming for something more along a oil painting type look. Of course, this is just the rough sketch for the overall composition, but once things start tightening up in the pencils I'm going to hop over into texturing everything and working this piece to look a bit more like a canv...

Princess Zelda - high res file + timelapse video

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This one came together much faster than normal! I've found a process that has kicked things up quite a bit, I'm really happy with it. I'm mostly looking forward to how this will progress into my painting style, I have a lot of ideas for where I'll tak...

November Q&A - leave your questions here!

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Well, I know that this is late, but I wasn't entirely sure when my wife and I were going to have our baby and I think that time is upon us. But! That doesn't mean I won't be able to get to doing the Q&A sooner than later. I may need to do it in small chunks and edit the video together, but it will get done!

Regardless, I have a bunch of stuff lined up so that the posts don'...

Princess Zelda - Work in Progress!

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Hope you're well! Here's the latest in the inked Zelda series, if you missed the previous you can check out Link and Ganon - this time I'm drawing/inking Princess Zelda to round out the series. I p...

PokéQuest - it's done! - high res file

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Well, this one came along pretty quick! If you watched the previous videos where I walk through my process then you probably heard me hating on the fact that these previous illustrations(as in everything on this patreon) was taking me considerably longer than I previously realized. Looks like solving my pressure issues with my tablet/stylus has resulted in a much quicker process! I'm...

PokéQuest - Almost done!

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Hope you're doing good! Here's the current progress on the PokéQuest piece - things are coming along nicely, I feel pretty good about the overall look and the texture quality/traditional look. Squirtle is the furthest along in terms of final rendering, but the others are shaping up quick. Shouldn't be much longer on this one! 

I'll be sharing a timelapse of this piece soo...

Painting Process - PokeQuest & Fatal Fury - video + brush

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Hope you're well! Today I wanted to share how I am currently app...

Fatal Fury - high res file

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Hope you're well! Here's the full high res of the Fatal Fury piece I've been working on. I'm going to be posting up another timelapse of the process as well(as soon as the video is done processing!). I might do some commentary over that one explaining a bit of what I did differently in this vs the last Chun-Li piece. 

The printable file is attached to this post - i...