Hi again magilla gorillaz!

Here is this months enviro tutorial prepared for Wizards of the Coast. Hope you find it useful! :)

Saturday was a great success! We had almost 100 people crammed into the warehouse, with amazing demos from Kim Taylor (Sketchling), Archipelago, Interceptor, Evan Shipard amongst others. This was an experiment for things to come and I learned alot about how to run an event like this (and how importance large-canvas-falling insurance can be). Can’t wait to announce event #2 and 3 and 4 and…

But for now a few photos and the demo artists’ paintings. And massive thanks to Nick Belshaw for the music which was impeccable - have recieved many compliments from attendees on that.

Awesome local painter Vlad lets rip with vine charcoal.

Couple of the locals hit the books

Ev at the very beginning of his amazing alla prima

French import Pierre Lorenzt with a gorgeous drawering.

Kim Taylor’s wicked digi paint (projected up)

Archipelago gets all conceptual and freaks out the old people in the audience. Sweeeet.

Thanks to everyone who made it possible and to Loren (interceptor) for kickin’ it with me at the pad and helping me organise :)

Hey everyone :) What a busy week! Loren (interceptor) has been staying here and we are cooking up a storm for tomorrow night. If anyone in SYDNEY is reading this, you NEED to be here::

And here are a few really quick digi sketches iv done on my new laptop this week… being able to paint outside the studio is nothing short of life changing!!

i even miss-spelt my own name. how arty! :)

Hey guys - epic work. Great to have you posting here Christine, I love those sketches.

Here is the latest enviro for Wizards of the Coast, which was Spotlighted on the ArtOrder blog. It is a gothic Githyanki city built atop the husk of a dead god.

I have a set of 7 more enviros in the pipe this month, can’t wait to get stuck into them!

Hey everyone, AMAZING updating going on. You are the guardians of art who stave off mediocrity! And Loren - can’t wait to see you here in person mate! URRY UP!

Im stoked to be able to show the first tip of the iceberg that has been my new freelance position with Wizards of the Coast. I had the pleasure of working with Jon Schindehette, the AD over at wizards who also runs the ArtOrder blog, on a series of illustrations. Jon and I decided it would be cool to do a write up on the piece’s progress and then share it with the readers here and at artorder. So below is my step-by-step for my first ever WOTC illustration! I hope it is helpful to you — and expect to see more of these in the very near future ;) Can’t wait to show my other paintings also, as they are published…

Hey rillaz.

Been a crazy fun week in the studio! Lots of paintings under my belt this week and lots of news to come… but for now just a few sketchy things.

Also I got spotlighted over at Art Order, the blog of Wizards of the Coast Lead AD Jon Schindehette.  Its a great blog so check it, and my little 15 minutes of fame, HERE. (Old post).

Stay well!

Hey everyone :) Amazing work as usual…

I just updated MY BLOG with 33 new sketchbook pages and studies - but for once chose not to clutter GA with a big post :)

Please take a look!

The new studio //

Hey guys, here is some stuff from last week and some sketchbook scans. Im finding it sooooo sllooooowwww to make progress with human figure stuff! I’m very envious of some of you *glares at posts below*

Hope you like :)

The objective of this sketch was to conserve my value range and play with subtle shifts of tone, using contrast only in the focal pt.

Here are a few rush illustrations for the guys at Empty Room. Tight but fun deadline and made me more resourceful than usual! I have a lot more stuff to show but this was sitting easily right on my desktop and im gaddam hungover :D

hope you like them.

On thursday Oh Really gallery hosted their 6th Culture Jam and I was privelaged to be their guest artist. Hermitude and Rumpunch played live on the night, and the crowd was the largest we had seen (around 100 in the small venue). Was the most fun I have had in a long time!

Sorry for the sucky video quality. This is the first time iv uploaded a vid so ill try to redo it and get rid of the letterboxing. And people have been bitching at me for the crazy music so I guess ill change it to something ‘mellow’…or whatever :P

Hope you enjoy!