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3DTotal: What are your major influences?
Martin: In my early teens I discovered the Comic Book. In particular, Gen13 When J Scott Campbell
was illustrating it. His beautiful artwork captured my heart and imagination, which pushed me forward
to learn how to draw better, and gave me a personal goal of one day becoming a comic book artist.
Since then my goals have expanded and I work for magazines, drawing pin-up girls... all sorts of illustrations, but recently I am realizing my initial dream of creating comic books.
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3DTotal: What are your chosen tools / programs and how do these affect your working process?
Martin: I use Alias Sketchbook Pro OR the traditional pencil and paper for my initial sketching. Ten bring it into Photoshop 7, drop the opacity and digitally ink my sketch with the hard brush. I use a Wacom Intuos 3 which is just a great tool to use... A life saver for me. Colouring work is all done in Photoshop, with the fill bucket tool and then just draw on the shadows and highlights... airbrush for special effects, It’s all pretty simple really. Nothing too fancy.
3DTotal: And how big is yours? (the Wacom I mean)
Martin: It’s an Intuos 3 A4 9”x12” Just the right size I think, Not too big, not too small ;)
3DTotal: How do you improve your style / finish for each new image?
Martin: Improving my style and quality of artwork, usually comes from learning from the previous illustration. I see what works and doesn’t work.. And what could be a quicker way of doing things. Getting feedback from other artists and the online community in general is a great way to start
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improving your work. Such as getting critiques on Anatomy, Composition, Design and colour. There are plenty of great online art communities such as Deviant art, GFXartist among others. Also trying new techniques and methods/materials is a good way of defining your style. For a short time I dabbled in a digitally painted style using Photoshop, which was great fun but I finally realized I was trying to be something that I was not. I also tried a more ‘sketchy’ style, where I took my rough like pencils and coloured them without any inking. It produced a nice ‘raw’ look but just like the painted style I abandoned it and went back to what really worked |
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for me, which is the clean cell shaded artwork you see in my art today. 3DTotal: Your favourite Number is 355? What is the reason?
Martin: Kind of a long story, but to cut it short someone I vaguely knew alarm clock went off at 3.55am for no apparent reason which created many a discussion on the philosophy of the number 355. One example of many; the 355th day of the year is December 21st. The Mayan calendar ends on December 21, 2012. Will 355 herald the END OF THE WORLD? Who knows...? I just like the number. |
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