This has been out for a while now so I think it’s safe to post about it. I was asked to feature the latest version of a program I use quite a bit ,(ArtRage) in issue 178 of ImagineFX magazine. This was and will always be a real honor for me because I remember when I first got into digital art I’d pick up an issue of ImagineFX and admired the talent that was inside. So to go from that to actually being featured inside and on the back cover is something of a milestone for my art career.
The fun part was I picked my own subject matter, so I decided to go with a theme that would give a nod to my Asian background with a Vietnamese style dragon and warrior. They did a 6 page article with two videos of a time lapse of the entire creation of the painting members could download. The video process was pretty new to me so I tried not to fill the entire time lapse with a bunch of chatter. I just touched on important areas here and there, maybe this wasn’t the norm on how to do these but to be honest when I watch video tutorials I don’t like all the extra chatter. I wanted to extend the same courtesy to potential viewers.
I tried to show the power of ArtRage without any additional textures or filters so it was truly just a grab some paint brushes and go. I hope to do more of these in the future and the videos I created for the magazine really pushed me to do more personal tutorials here on my site. I’m in the middle of a couple of projects at the moment but my goal is to start on this when I finish things up.
A big shout out and thank you to the people behind ImagineFX and Ambient Design for such an honor.
You can pick up Issue 178 here:
https://www.myfavouritemagazines.co.uk/design/imaginefx-magazine-back-issues/
And the latest version of ArtRage 6 here:
https://www.artrage.com/artrage/