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Sunday, December 16, 2018
Friday, December 14, 2018
Friday, October 19, 2018
Update!!!!! The Dreams in Gary’s Basement: a Gary Gygax documentary
Any Dungeons and Dragons fans out there? A new documentary called “The Dreams in Gary’s Basement” launched its Kickstarter on Tuesday. It’s about the life of Gary Gygax and the advent of Dungeons and Dragons. I worked on it a little.
It’s already been successfully funded in 12hrs!!!! ...but the more backers, the more goodies!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dorksofyore/the-dreams-in-garys-basement-a-documentary-on-gary
Update! Project is 400% Funded ! Thank you to Everyone for helping back this project!
Saturday, October 6, 2018
Dan Keyless Art for Sale
I did a convention recently...
All the art I didn't sell, I put up on a Etsy.
More will go up soon.
Here's the link and stay posted for updates
Thanks!
Dan Keyless Art for Sale
Monday, October 1, 2018
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Monday, March 26, 2018
Reference Links
Drawing isn't just moving you're hand on the page to make shapes, it's a whole thinking process. Whether it's a tiger's anatomy or the correct body stance of a 1700 sword fight, it helps to "understand" when you're doing art.
There is so many fantastic websites for reference online. I've compiled a huge list of links over the years and in hopes of never losing them to a computer crash or apple update, I'd like to share them with the world. The list is seperated in to a bunch of different categories including (but not limited to) artists, photos, blogs, and books. I'll update the list as I come across more cool sites and keep it expanding.
Anatomy
Anatomy Atlases (an anatomy digital library)
Character Designs (Reference for poses, weapons, monsters, and more)
Human Anatomy for Artists (search by age, body type, hair, gender, race, pose, clothings)
Human Photo References for 3D artists and Game Developers
(Cross fade between drawings and photo reference)
Photo reference for Comic Artists (search by age, body type, race,costumes)
Posemaniacs (anatomy models of humans from 3D pose)
Zygote Body (3D models of the human body)
Architecture
Abandoned Houses
Archi/Maps (architecture and map blog)
Architecture Daily (the world’s most visited architecture website)
Castle picture (castle reddit group)
Contemporist (architecture, interiors, design, art, and travel)
Evil Buildings (super villain architecture reddit group)
https://www.reddit.com/r/evilbuildings/
Glamshops (visual merchandising and store design)
Urban Exploration
Art
Google Art Project (collections and stories from around the world)
Illustration Inspiration:
Illustration Art:
Today’s Inspiration
(celebrating illustration, design, cartoon, and comic art of the mid 20th century)
Web Gallery of Art (44,800 reproductions, 8th-19th centuries)
Artists
Aaron Beck (video game, movie concept artist)
Aaron Westerberg (painter)
Adam Brockbank (movie concept artist)
Ben Mauro (movie concept artist)
Chris Foss (sci-fi concept artist)
Christian Lorenz Scheurer (concept artist)
Elena and Olivia Ceballos (vis dev artists Dreamworks)
Feng Zhu Design (concept art veteran)
Francois Baranger (concept art, visual development)
Hans Bacher (production designer for animation)
Jaime Jones (illustrator, concept designer)
John Bell (movie concept artist)
John Nevarez (vis dev, story artist for animation)
John Park (concept art for film, video games)
Kasra Farahani (production design, concept artist)
Mark Goerner (concept designer)
Matt Jones (story artist for animation)
Maxime Desmettre (vis dev and illustration)
Mike Yamada (vis dev at Dreamworks)
Nate Wragg (art director and illustrator for animation)
Nathan Fowkes (concept artist for animation)
Peter De Seve (illustrator, character designer)
Robh Ruppel
Samuel Michlap (production designer, concept artist)
Sparth (artistic director, concept designer)
Thomas Scholes
Victoria Ying (animation concept artist)
Concept Art Sites
The CG Society (global art community)
The Art Center :
Concept Department
The Gnomon Workshop ( professional training for artists $ )
Muddy Colors (fantasy arts community)
Spaceship sketches and renderings
Robot sketches and renderings
Tank sketches and renderings
Vehicle sketches and renderings
Alien sketches and renderings
Character Design References
Books
Art book reviews (AMAZING!!!!!)
Getty Publications Virtual Library (free digital backlist titles)
Guggenheim (200 free modern art books)
Historical Anatomies on the web (important anatomical books)
Internet Archive (library of millions of free books, movies, music,and more)
Met Publications Metropolitan Museum of Art (publications on art history)
Project Gutenberg (56,000 free ebooks)
Landscape
Earth (amazing pictures from around the planet)
Ice reference
https://www.reddit.com/r/iceporn/
Jungle (pictures of jungles, forests and wooded areas)
Ocean (pictures of the sea)
River reference
Sky (cloud and sky pictures)
Photos
Flickr (billions of shared images)
FreeImages (free images and free stock pictures)
Getty Images (stock photography $)
Image After (28,000 free textures and images)
TwistedSifter (Art, travel, architecture, animals, stories, picture of the day)
Random Reference
1,000 Frames of Hitchcock
Animation Backgrounds
Animals (reddit group)
Animal skulls
Draw A Box (free exercise based approach learning drawing fundamentals)
Environment Textures
Male Fashion Trends
Movie Screencaps
Reference (poses, weapons, monsters, style, and more)
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Aquarium of the Pacific
I visited the Los Angeles aquarium and did some filming as I toured with my phone. It was nothing special but everything sounds epic when the Planet Earth soundtrack is playing behind it.
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| Aquarium of the Pacific |
Thursday, March 8, 2018
Friday, February 23, 2018
Traveling Artist
In 2015, I left New Jersey to move to Los Angeles. Knowing I was about to start a new chapter of my life on the West Coast, I took my time traveling. Philadelphia, Gettysburg, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Indianapolis. I tried to stop in every major city and interesting town along the way. Most days I drove only a few hours. Bridgeton, Crawfordsville, Goodland, Dinosaur, Cedar City. I had been up and down the East Coast throughout my life, but never west of the Mississippi River.
After 3 months of camping across the country, I arrived at my destination with sketches, paintings, and photos.
.....More to come. There's some half finished stuff I'll get back to one day.
Tools:
Watercolor, pastels, markers, pencils, ink, photoshop
After 3 months of camping across the country, I arrived at my destination with sketches, paintings, and photos.
.....More to come. There's some half finished stuff I'll get back to one day.
Tools:
Watercolor, pastels, markers, pencils, ink, photoshop
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Cat Studies
While going thru old Photoshop files I came across these studies I did last year. At the time, I was experimenting with different brushes in Photoshop. I needed to practice drawing a cat for a project I had lined up.
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Sketchbook Faces
I enjoy drawing faces to warm up. After a while, they start to add up.
One of the hardest things for me still, is getting likenesses down. One wrong line and the person begins to look like someone else. Luckily there's an undo button in Photoshop.
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