The joys of freelance – As time goes by
Hello again, time for another blogpost from Studio Colrouphobia.
It has been a while and for that we are sorry. The truth is tat it comes with the territory, being a freelance-company mean that sometimes we are just crammed with work and has little time to do anything else. The past two weeks have been such a time.
First things first: The reaction to the tutorial we last posted has been varrying but in general it was received with thanks and praises.
The main concern voiced as the lack of detail and in-depth description, as well as “tips” on how to paint like this.
The lack of depth an detail to the tutorial comes down to what we earlier explained is in store for the future:
Some free tutorials, and some with a cost to them.
To be able to motivate the tutorials, we need to look at the time it takes to create them. As every hour of work counts in this business, most of the free tutorials will be more like walkthroughs of paintings painted in the studio anyway, mostly portfolio-pieces or commission-work that do not have an NDA or where the NDA no longer keep us from showing the illustration.
These tutorials will be less detailed, with less explanation and not loaded with tips and magic sollutions to become a great illustrator. We do, however, feel that these will be invaluable for the beginner-up-to-intermediate illustrator as it will give you anything in the range of inspiration to tidbits you didn’t know.
The paid tutorials will be more descriptive, most of them will also be in the form of videos with voiceover to guide you through more detailed help. Some of these will still be aimed towards the beginner or the intermediate illustrator, but thse will also suit the intermediate to “almost-pro” crowd to a bigger extent.
Finally, the workshops will be tailored to your needs, they will include individual feedback and help on a level that only face-to-face tutoring could out-do (and we have face-to-face workshops in mind for the future as well).
Wen it comes to “tips on how to paint like you do”, there is only one thing that will help you achieve the level of ability you wish to reach and that is practice.
So we hope you are up for the future tutorials and workshops from us, we certainly are!
And now for some works.
This time it is a little limited, as mentioned earlier, there has been a lot of work and deadlines that had to be met the past two weeks, all of which still is under NDA, but here are some further painting on Arbaal (with details). This painting is still not done, mind you, and has quite a bit left to go.
WiP with detailshots click to zoom
And this is a very quick sketch of a Chaos Terminator.
Next time we will probably have a sketch to show you of a current commission that has the benefit of not being under NDA.
Until then!
Do you want fries with that?
So let us know through the comments what you would like to see. Perhaps you’d like to see your favourite manga-character in our distinct style, or perhaps Transformers are your thing. Or something else.
Now our question is: Would you like to see future posters come at sizes A3 also, at a slight price-increase?
Sheep and wolves in sheep clothing
Most of the things we work at in the studio are under NDA’s (as covered in a previous entry) and therefore not available for you, the public, to see.
In the meanwhile, here are the first colour passes of two of the Primarch portraits David is painting whenever he gets a chance.
On Wednesday there will be an announcement that might be of interest for those who like these portraits.
Until next time!
This little piggy went to the market…
A Friday update!
Last year ended on a good note, the illustration we produced for Music for Life helped raise some money for the grand total of
7.142.716 euro. The personal work of David, The Red Angel, received a lot of positive reactions.
Also the latest released image from our proffessional work has been published by the contractor:
http://projectmabus.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Agent%20M%20Series
“Special and particular thanks goes out to a Mr. David Sondered at Studio Colrouphobia.
If you are looking for a man that embodies the very definition of patience then look no further.
I constantly and consistently badgered him with requests and changes to embody the cover to
what I wanted. And yet… He made a couple of simple suggestions and I have been humbled.
You sir, are a professional and a man of class.”
2012 is looking to be continuing in the same positive way, so until next time!
Tears and Beauty
Welcome back after the holidays, hope you had a great time.
Studio Colrouphobia returns after two weeks of “off time” from the blog.
So lets get right into this weeks Monday Sketches:
First up, a little teaser for the next Primarch to be completed, Fulgrim.
This is just a wip, mind you, and the full poster will be in the same format as the Angron illustration as shown in a previous blogpost.
After Fulgrim, there will be Jagathai Khan, whom we have shown a wip of before, and Sanguinius.
Sanguinius is still in the sketch/blocking in phase so we apologise for this rough and cropped preview:
And finally, some conceptuals for Space Marine helmets. These are intended for a project called Damien, which hopefully will turn into a free Graphic Novel as soon as all the details have been dealt with.
These helmet variations are more placeholders then anything else for how the marines of the Angels Cruentis patch up and modify their helmets for doing boarding raids inside the warp, where the chapter predominately perform their duty to the Emperor and the Primarch of their founding Legion.
Until next time!
Fiery Christmas and a Dragon New Year!
Holidays are over us and regardless on your stance on this, the spreading of happiness is in order.
Next year begins the Chinese Year of the Dragon and what better way to sort thing out then by having Santa being chased out of this year by a dragon?
The blog will take a two week break from posting during this time but before we go there are some things to take up.
Music for life was a blast. The total sum collected was more then 7 million Euro and Studio Colrouphobia are happy to have contributed a small part of that sum. Thank you to all bidders on our painting and congratulations to the lucky winner (who wanted to remain anonymous). The signed and framed poster is in the mail and should arrive within the next two weeks!
And to end this blog with some extras, here is a finished Angron and a WiP of the next Primarch in line, Fulgrim.
We are pondering to make these Primarch portraits into posters, let us know what you think about that.
Enjoy the last days of this year and be sure to check back in 13 days for the next installment of this blog!
Art For Life Done
The artwork is done. As you can see above the poster has been painted to completion. We have also gotten our first bids in… We keep you updated on the amount the bid currently is at by email. We are hoping to get more bids in before the end of the auction by midnight tonight of course, so let us see some bids!
Every day this week you could follow the evolution of this piece of art right here on www.studiocolrouphobia.net
You can place a bid on this painting through info.colrouphobia@gmail.com
Make sure your email has the subject: “Art for Life bid”.
End date of the auction is Friday the 23rd of December at midnight.
Het kunstwerk is afgewerkt zoals boven te zien is. We hebben een antaal aanbiedingen gekregen en brengen je graag op de hoogte van het winnende bod via e-mail.Het kunstwerk werd door de week geschilderd; de voortgang van dit schilderij kon u elke dag hier op www.studiocolrouphobia.net volgen.
Uw bod kan worden doorgestuurd naar: info.colrouphobia@gmail.com
Zeker het onderwerp van de email “Art For Life aanbieding” noemen.
Einddatum voor de veiling is deze Vrijdag, de 23de December om middenacht.
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Studio Colrouphobia is this year partaking in an action from the Red Cross and radio channel Studio Brussels. The action is called Music for Life and this year is all about collecting money to improve water in the world and prevent diarrhea which is the biggest cause of death among children in the world.
We got our official registrationcode from the Red Cross.
What are we doing exactly?
We are auctioning out a piece of art.
Every day the following week you can follow the evolution of this piece of art right here on www.studiocolrouphobia.net
You can place a bid on this painting through info.colrouphobia@gmail.com
Make sure your email has the subject: “Art for Life bid”.
If you live outside of Belgium then we need your payment through paypal, information which will be coming your way the moment you have won the bid. If you live in the Benelux you can pay your winning bid directly to a bankaccount and on the 23d we will send the money over to the redcross, how’s that for a christmas present?
Please note that this painting is digital and that the winner will receive a unique printout of this artwork, signed by the artist.
Studio Colrouphobia doet dit jaar me bij Music For Life.
Wij hebben onze registratiecode gekregen en zijn reeds onderweg naar en kunstwerk.
Wat precies doen we dan?
Wij doen een veiling van en kunstwerk.
Het kunstwerk word door de week geschilderd de voortgang van dit schilderij kan elke dag gevolgd worden hier op www.studiocolrouphobia.net .
Uw bod kan woden doorgestuurd naar: info.colrouphobia@gmail.com
Zeker het onderwerp van de email “Art For Life aanbieding” noemen.
Opgelet, dit kunstwerk word digitaal ontworpen en komt in Een digitale print, ondertekend door de kunstenaar.
Art for Life 3
Every day this week you can follow the evolution of this piece of art right here on www.studiocolrouphobia.net
You can place a bid on this painting through info.colrouphobia@gmail.com
Make sure your email has the subject: “Art for Life bid”.
End date of the auction is Friday the 23rd of December.
Het kunstwerk wordt door de week geschilderd; de voortgang van dit schilderij kan elke dag gevolgd worden hier op www.studiocolrouphobia.net .
Uw bod kan woden doorgestuurd naar: info.colrouphobia@gmail.com
Zeker het onderwerp van de email “Art For Life aanbieding” noemen.
Einddatum voor de veiling is deze Vrijdag, de 23de December
Third work in progress. Almost done!
Studio Colrouphobia is this year partaking in an action from the Red Cross and radio channel Studio Brussels. The action is called Music for Life and this year is all about collecting money to improve water in the world and prevent diarrhea which is the biggest cause of death among children in the world.
We got our official registrationcode from the Red Cross.
What are we doing exactly?
We are auctioning out a piece of art.
Every day the following week you can follow the evolution of this piece of art right here on www.studiocolrouphobia.net
You can place a bid on this painting through info.colrouphobia@gmail.com
Make sure your email has the subject: “Art for Life bid”.
If you live outside of Belgium then we need your payment through paypal, information which will be coming your way the moment you have won the bid. If you live in the Benelux you can pay your winning bid directly to a bankaccount and on the 23d we will send the money over to the redcross, how’s that for a christmas present?
Please note that this painting is digital and that the winner will receive a unique printout of this artwork, signed by the artist.
Studio Colrouphobia doet dit jaar me bij Music For Life.
Wij hebben onze registratiecode gekregen en zijn reeds onderweg naar en kunstwerk.
Wat precies doen we dan?
Wij doen een veiling van en kunstwerk.
Het kunstwerk word door de week geschilderd de voortgang van dit schilderij kan elke dag gevolgd worden hier op www.studiocolrouphobia.net .
Uw bod kan woden doorgestuurd naar: info.colrouphobia@gmail.com
Zeker het onderwerp van de email “Art For Life aanbieding” noemen.
Opgelet, dit kunstwerk word digitaal ontworpen en komt in Een digitale print, ondertekend door de kunstenaar.
Art for Life 2
Every day this week you can follow the evolution of this piece of art right here on www.studiocolrouphobia.net
You can place a bid on this painting through info.colrouphobia@gmail.com
Make sure your email has the subject: “Art for Life bid”.
End date of the auction is Friday the 23rd of December.
Het kunstwerk word door de week geschilderd de voortgang van dit schilderij kan elke dag gevolgd worden hier op www.studiocolrouphobia.net .
Uw bod kan woden doorgestuurd naar: info.colrouphobia@gmail.com
Zeker het onderwerp van de email “Art For Life aanbieding” noemen.
Einde datum voor de veiling is deze Vrijdag, de 23de December
Second work in progress, second colour-pass.
Studio Colrouphobia is this year partaking in an action from the Red Cross and radio channel Studio Brussels. The action is called Music for Life and this year is all about collecting money to improve water in the world and prevent diarrhea which is the biggest cause of death among children in the world.
We just got our official registrationcode from the Red Cross and tomorrow we begin proper.
What are we doing exactly?
We are auctioning out a piece of art.
Every day the following week you can follow the evolution of this piece of art right here on www.studiocolrouphobia.net
You can place a bid on this painting through info.colrouphobia@gmail.com
Make sure your email has the subject: “Art for Life bid”.
If you live outside of Belgium then we need your payment through paypal, information which will be coming your way the moment you have won the bid. If you live in the Benelux you can pay your winning bid directly to a bankaccount and on the 23d we will send the money over to the redcross, how’s that for a christmas present?
Please note that this painting is digital and that the winner will receive a unique printout of this artwork, signed by the artist.
Studio Colrouphobia doet dit jaar me bij Music For Life.
Wij hebben onze registratiecode gekregen en zijn reeds onderweg naar en kunstwerk.
Wat precies doen we dan?
Wij doen een veiling van en kunstwerk.
Het kunstwerk word door de week geschilderd de voortgang van dit schilderij kan elke dag gevolgd worden hier op www.studiocolrouphobia.net .
Uw bod kan woden doorgestuurd naar: info.colrouphobia@gmail.com
Zeker het onderwerp van de email “Art For Life aanbieding” noemen.
Opgelet, dit kunstwerk word digitaal ontworpen en komt in Een digitale print, ondertekend door de kunstenaar.
Art for Life
(In Nederlands onder de Engelse text)
Studio Colrouphobia is this year partaking in an action from the Red Cross and radio channel Studio Brussels. The action is called Music for Life and this year is all about collecting money to improve water in the world and prevent diarrhea which is the biggest cause of death among children in the world.
We just got our official registrationcode from the Red Cross and tomorrow we begin proper.
What are we doing exactly?
We are auctioning out a piece of art.
Every day the following week you can follow the evolution of this piece of art right here on www.studiocolrouphobia.net
You can place a bid on this painting through info.colrouphobia@gmail.com
Make sure your email has the subject: “Art for Life bid”.
If you live outside of Belgium then we need your payment through paypal, information which will be coming your way the moment you have won the bid. If you live in the Benelux you can pay your winning bid directly to a bankaccount and on the 23d we will send the money over to the redcross, how’s that for a christmas present?
Please note that this painting is digital and that the winner will receive a unique printout of this artwork, signed by the artist.
Studio Colrouphobia doet dit jaar me bij Music For Life.
Wij hebben onze registratiecode gekregen en zijn reeds onderweg naar en kunstwerk.
Wat precies doen we dan?
Wij doen een veiling van en kunstwerk.
Het kunstwerk word door de week geschilderd de voortgang van dit schilderij kan elke dag gevolgd worden hier op www.studiocolrouphobia.net .
Uw bod kan woden doorgestuurd naar: info.colrouphobia@gmail.com
Zeker het onderwerp van de email “Art For Life aanbieding” noemen.
Opgelet, dit kunstwerk word digitaal ontworpen en komt in Een digitale print, ondertekend door de kunstenaar.
First work in progress, the Sketch and the first colour-pass
