Editorial
Welcome to Issue 034! Our thanks of course go to the Hadron colliding scientists in Geneva for not yet spinning us into a black hole, allowing us to bring you yet another issue filled with digital goodness! Woop! And without any more guff, I’d like to announce – whilst doing a little dance in my chair – that we have an interview this month with the one and only Brom! Hurraaaaay! I have been waiting so long for this, and now it’s finally here! … In all honesty, I actually tend to be a little awestruck when I speak to Brom over email, and probably say really silly things in my eagerness to not seem like a drivelling fool, but he’s been very supportive of this interview for 2DArtist and we salute him, as I’m sure you will also when you check out the fab interview with this icon on page 004. Enjoy! And because one interview is never quite enough, and in the interest of diversity, we bring you yet another this month – this time with Concept Artist, Jesse van Dijk (page 015)! Jesse’s portfolio is simply awe-inspiring, and if you’ve already been lucky enough to see his works on Concept Art.org, then you’ll love this 13-page interview with the very man who causes us to “Wow!” whenever we see one of his artworks! As a special treat we also have an interview with the amazing Sketch Theatre on page 051. We don’t often have studio interviews in 2DArtist, but we’ve been so impressed by what we’ve seen from these guys that we couldn’t resist featuring an article on them. Hope you like!
Our tutorials this month feature Part 4 of Chee Ming Wong’s Space Painting Tutorial Series (page 096), plus our regular Speed Painting Tutorial featuring both Richard Tilbury and Levente Peterffy. Levente teaches us an extraordinary technique which even I can’t wait to try out, so be sure to check out both our speed painting instalments on page 085. A new tutorial feature this month is by Nykolai Aleksander, who brings us part one of a small series on The Human Face. This month she talks us through the process of how to digitally paint eyes and ears, in the truly beautiful way that she has developed in her artworks. I’m always looking forward to Nykolai’s next great artwork, and she certainly impresses us this month with this great little article on page 109 – I hope you’ll get a lot from it! Nick Miles has also put together a fantastic Making Of article for us on the creation of recent gallery image, The Mantis Queen, on page 121, and you’ll find a great Sketchbook feature on the works of WanKok Leong on page 029. As always we have 10 great gallery images, plus the results of our regular Stylised Challenge over on Concept Art.org; which, by the way, I hope to see more of you entering in the coming months as we have lots of great topics coming up! *Winks*
Right, well enjoy October’s Issue, have a happy Halloween, and see you next month for plenty of bonfires and fireworks (you’ve gotta love this time of year, haven’t you?). Cheers! Ed.
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