Patrick Bryant Art Gallery

LoL Fan Art-Ryze

2012-01-10T08:13:00.000-08:00

Ryze is one of my favorite champions from League of Legends so I decided to put my spin on him as a witch doctor. New skin maybe? *wink

The Beast w/Process and Video

2011-12-16T07:28:00.000-08:00

Concept Sketches: Sword Masters

2011-12-15T08:55:00.000-08:00

Sea Creature w/Process and Video

2011-12-08T10:31:00.001-08:00

LiL Big Heads

2011-12-08T10:24:00.000-08:00

They're little but they kick A$$!!

Knight Concept Painting

2011-12-08T10:22:00.000-08:00

New Creature Concepts with Video

2011-11-11T10:44:00.000-08:00

Here are some quick speed paintings of some cyclops type creatures.

Sea Creature Video

2011-11-10T10:34:00.000-08:00

I'm Back!

2011-10-13T07:40:00.000-07:00

Was'up guys! I've been a little busy this summer working with some independent game developers designing characters, creatures, and in-game art assets for their game that will be coming out this winter. Once the game is available I'll be able to show you guys some new art. In the mean time I've made a quick video for you guys that are just getting started with Photoshop. Enjoy.

Photoshop Default Brush

2011-10-03T07:33:00.000-07:00

News and Notes

2011-07-20T08:57:00.000-07:00

I'm working on a couple of big projects right now so, sadly, I won't be posting anything for a little while. Come back every now and then and check the speed painting and/or process sections because I may still randomly upload some stuff there from time to time.

Character Dev. and Concepts

2011-06-27T21:05:00.000-07:00

Some quick thumbnails and sketch paintings.

Portfolio Samples

2011-06-13T16:28:00.001-07:00

Here is a collection of various art samples from my gallery. Be sure to click the individual pages above to view more.

Concept Sketches: Warriors and Weapons

2011-06-06T13:43:00.001-07:00

The Blind Artist is on Twitter

2011-05-30T11:33:00.001-07:00

Follow the_BlindArtist on Twitter! The tough, insightful, funny, and mean teacher will give you one quote a day of knowledge.

Swamp Creature Tutorial

2011-05-25T12:04:00.000-07:00

As promised. Enjoy.

Swamp Creatures!

2011-05-23T15:46:00.000-07:00

Some quick concepts I did this morning in about 45min. or so. A video for this will be coming out in a couple of days.

Big Nogginz is open for biz!

2011-05-10T14:36:00.000-07:00

Go to www.bignogginz.blogspot.com to purchase your personalized caricature today!

Recent Commissions

2011-04-28T11:13:00.000-07:00

Here are a few Personalized Caricatures I've done recently for clients. If you'd like one for yourself or a loved one click here.

Speed Painting Video

2011-04-18T15:46:00.000-07:00

A quick video explaining my process.

The Enlightened One

2011-04-06T08:56:00.000-07:00

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Swamp Creatures Video

2011-04-02T11:53:00.000-07:00

20 Minute Speed Paintings

2011-03-30T10:57:00.000-07:00

I'll be adding some of these fairly regularly so be sure to check out the Sub-Category in the right side bar anytime you stop by.

Speed Painting Process

2011-03-10T15:57:00.000-08:00

King of Blades!

2011-03-09T06:02:00.000-08:00

A little Zerg inspired fun.
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Character Concepts

2011-02-10T12:17:00.001-08:00

New Video

2011-01-17T15:09:00.000-08:00

My first painting of the new year. Click here to watch the video of my step by step process.

New Changes

2010-12-27T19:10:00.000-08:00

My galleries have been divided up into their own separate pages and I've updated each of them with new images so check 'em out. The Tutorials page now includes videos with commentary. I hope everyone had a Merry X-Mas and a safe holiday season. Happy New Year!

Skeletor and Evil Lynn

2010-11-20T09:59:00.000-08:00

Another fun "He-Man" design. Process included.

New Concept Art and He-Man

2010-11-06T08:41:00.001-07:00

Character concepts for games.

A fun side project of re-designing some of the characters from "He-Man". More to come soon!

Rune Golem

2010-10-04T15:00:00.000-07:00

Feel free to add comments below the videos.

Adding Color to Gray Scale

2010-10-03T18:38:00.000-07:00

Creature Design Parts 1-3

2010-10-02T18:27:00.000-07:00

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Quick Paintings

2010-08-13T11:56:00.000-07:00

I didn't spend too much time on these. Just basically staying busy and continuing to practice. Enjoy! Comments are welcomed.

Sketch Book Update

2010-08-03T21:29:00.000-07:00

Here's a few old and new sketches I just added. There are more in the sketch book gallery.

Collab Work

2010-07-14T09:46:00.001-07:00

My buddy James Koenig did the pencil work for these guys and I painted in the colors. Each painting took about 6-8 hours and they were lots of fun. James is really good at coming up with some wacky characters.

New Pics!

2010-06-01T18:02:00.001-07:00

Building a Foundation

2010-04-01T08:53:00.000-07:00

Equipment needed: pencil and paper
Tutorial Level: beginner - intermediate

Every finished painting or drawing starts with a strong foundation. When I was first teaching myself to draw I would copy my favorite comic book characters over and over. More often than not, my image would appear flat and stiff looking. Why? I didn't understand how the "structure" was built. I was trying to build a skyscraper from the outside in rather than from the inside out. This tutorial covers the the sketch phase using line and basic shapes in order to build up a solid foundation underneath all of the final details and rendering. Please feel free to leave any questions/comments below at the end of the post.

Basic Shapes
When I was first learning about basic shapes, the most important thing that I realized was to NOT use circles,squares,and rectangles. But rather spheres, cubes, and cylinders. The difference? Spheres and cubes are 3D objects. I noticed a huge difference immediately when I built my character using 3D objects. My image was no longer flat. When we draw on a flat 2D surface, visualizing our character as a 3D object provides the illusion of space and proper structure.

Lets Sketch
The first thing to establish is a line of action to suggest movement. More often than not, this is done by drawing the spine of our character. Follow that up with drawing an egg shape for the head with a line to suggest where the eyes will go. Then another line for the shoulder line.

Next up is to give the character some volume by drawing the torso with a tube type shape. Some artists prefer to use cubes. I sort of combine a cylinder and a cube. As long as its a 3D shape you're fine.

Now lets take a look at our first 2 steps pieced together.

Our torso and head suggest any movement and mood of our character. That's important. Now lets add some limbs by sketching in some quick lines.

Notice I'm not getting detailed at all. Just keep things loose and be patient. All of the detail will come but they meant nothing without these important stages. Now I add some more 3D shapes on top of the lines I just sketched in.

Lets erase some unnecessary lines and have a look.

Side by side comparison.

You can do this next step for practice if you wish. Since I'm doing this sketch in Photoshop, I make a layer beneath my drawing, fill it with grey, and quickly add some shading and highlights to it. You can see that our sketch has some volume and it isn't flat. Sweet!

Adding Detail
Up until this point you've conquered the most important part of the sketch phase. It's loose, simple, and has depth. Now you can take a piece of tracing paper, lay it on top of your sketch and start playing around with some detail using your basic shapes as a guideline. Or you could just keep drawing on your same piece of paper.

When I remove the underlying model that we built you can still see how a lot of the anatomy that was added is very influenced by the basic shapes that helped build this up to this point.

Whether you are using a piece of tracing paper or drawing on a separate layer in Photoshop, just keep adding as much detail as you would like until you're happy.

No matter how much detail you add, stay true to the original, loose, simple sketch model that started it all.

Painting W.I.P.'s
Since I knew I was going to paint this image I didn't bother tightening up the sketch any further because I had all the information that I needed. These are just a collection of some of my steps. How I actually paint is covered in the next tutorial Getting Started. I hope you guys found this tutorial helpful. If you have any questions or comments please leave them below. Have a great day and happy drawing!

Personalized Caricatures

2010-03-29T07:42:00.000-07:00

How it works: Contact me (pbry23@yahoo.com) to discuss your caricature and then send me at least 2-3 pictures of yourself or loved one. You will receive a sketch of your caricature within 48 hrs and the final image will be emailed to you as a 8x10 300 dpi jpeg image within 4 days of the start of your project. All you pay is $50 (due up front) in order to start the project. Transactions are handled via PayPal. You only need my email address to pay through PayPal (no account required). If you have any questions before we begin please don't hesitate to contact me first.

Here are a few examples from satisfied customers:

Actual high resolution size of the image that you will receive:

all pics

2009-02-18T13:51:00.000-08:00