In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Imagine FX

• Editor’s letter
  Welcome to… NO.1 FOR DIGITAL ARTISTS ImagineFX
• MARVEL-OUS MISCHIEF!
  Paint with personality, using expert advice from Marvel Snap artist Léo Chiola
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• FXPosé
  THE PLACE TO SHARE YOUR DIGITAL ART
• Ilker Serdar Yildiz
  Ilker’s favourite illustration subjects revolve around fantasy and medieval themes. Inspired by the likes of Leyendecker and Sergio Toppi, he’s worked on projects for Magic: The Gathering, Gwent, and Mount & Blade: Bannerlord.
• Feng Wei
  Feng Wei is a concept artist and external lecturer at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He’s inspired by classical literature and combines this with current art trends to create strong contrast in his work.
• Ulysse Verhasselt
  Ulysse’s biggest artistic inspirations have always been nature and light. He aims to create environments where he can imagine himself living in them. “I’m obsessed with stylisation and brushstroke efficiency,” Ulysse reveals.
• Patrycja Wójcik
  Patrycja is an illustrator and concept artist whose greatest inspirations have always been fantasy worlds, fairy tales and recently the Slavic atmosphere. She focuses primarily on colour and the depiction of female characters.
• How to create an effective home studio
  WFH wonders Setting up a creative space requires time, money and consideration. Dominic Carter discovers what artists need to keep in mind when creating one
• CHUCK GRIEB
  Chuck reveals how he carefully constructed his own home studio
• Enter the world of CROW
  Passion project After eight years spent drawing, world-building and storytelling, Liang Mark’s art book CROW is ready to take flight
• Petra ‘Tofusenshi’ Zemánková
  Multi-tasker Digital artist, traditional artist, convention artist and a streamer?! That calls for a big room and a whole lot of equipment
• Letters
  YOUR FEEDBACK & OPINIONS
• THE ART OF MATT FERGUSON
  The artist discusses his career journey and shares his creative process for illustrating movie posters with James Clarke
• OF SITH AND A STRIKING DESIGN
  Matt Ferguson recalls his initial difficulties in coming up with a poster to celebrate The Empire Strikes Back’s 40th anniversary
• PICTURING THE TRUE SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE
  Matt discusses his creative choices for the Predator: Badlands poster, which included giving the angry alien a heroic stance
• PROJECT TITLE: FANATICAL CYBORG
  Character artist Zhang Huang takes us through the creative process behind Zod, an unpleasant mix of man and machine working in perfect harmony to try and ruin your day
• Wynton Redmond
  Mecha racing art jostles for room with character and composition explorations in this US artist’s sketchbook
• USE 3D MODELS IN YOUR CONCEPT ART
  Misa Steinmetz explains how she incorporates 3D techniques into her 2D workflow, creating this month’s cover painting
• TAKE A FIGURE DESIGN INTO 3D
  Yohan Houel adapts a character from Arcane, making it suitable for a video game pipeline
• PAINTING A SCENE OF GREEK DRAMA
  Alexander Leskinen creates a stormy environment featuring harpies, the winged messengers of Zeus
• MIX INSPIRATION
  All aboard! Xie Xufeng’s retrofuturistic urban scene has its roots in insect behaviour and daily human life
• RIFF ON YOUR PASSIONS
  Max Froer draws on a range of influences when rendering a beast that’s part machine
• ADD LIGHT TO YOUR CHARACTER DESIGN
  Jiunn Kuo reveals how and why he uses striking lighting, glow effects and atmosphere in his character-focused illustrations
• WORK SMARTER WITH COLOURS
  Álvaro Jiménez reveals the workflow process he follows to summon an armoured demon
• The Gallery
  SHOWCASING THE FINEST TRADITIONAL ARTISTS
• Fran S Cano
  Fran works across painting, drawing and sculpture to build an artistic system where various disciplines nourish each other. His work explores the body as a mutable threshold, where identity, gesture and memory meet.
• Reviews
  The latest digital art resources are put to the test by the ImagineFX team…
• HP Omnibook X Flip 16
  DOUBLING UP HP’s latest Omnibook 2-in-1 is a decent-enough productivity laptop, but it truly shines when it’s transformed into tablet mode
• DXRacer Master
  SITTING PRETTY The Master is a gaming chair for grown-ups
• Anker SOLIX C1000
  BOX OF DELIGHTS The chonkiest power bank around is powerful, portable (after a fashion) and boy is it well built
• Acer Predator Triton 14 AI
  MIXED BAG The Predator Triton 14 AI offers cutting-edge kit in a slender metal shell, but there are a few design compromises that might put off potential buyers
• Painting in Procreate: Reimagine Your Surroundings
  VISIONARY WORK Across 20 lessons, Mikko Eerola reveals how he brings his ideas to life on the iPad using Procreate
• Brushing up…
  We put three packs through their paces to find out whether they’re worth downloading
• 3D Artist Showcase
  BE INSPIRED BY THE BEST DIGITAL ART AROUND
• Marnix Rekkers
  Marnix discovered digital art while studying graphic design in college. After graduating he studied game development, which led to an internship at Opus Artz. Now a freelance concept artist, he specialises in vehicle design.
• BRING A FANTASY CRITTER TO LIFE
  Matthieu Sarazin draws on a range of creative disciplines – both traditional and digital – to create his creature concept
• FASTER LIGHTING USING TEXTURES
  Discover how Erik R. Ramalho uses a HDRI texture to speed up his 3D workflow
• HOW DO I COLOUR A 3D OBJECT?
  The process of colouring a 3D image has a lot of layers, so let’s start at the surface. Mike Griggs weighs up the material requirements
• HOW SURFACE NORMALS IMPROVE YOUR 3D ART
  Ant Ward explains how to quickly change the way a polygon model looks by adjusting its normals
• FIVE MINUTES WITH PAT IMRIE
  Big-screen blockbusters and a certain 3D art magazine helped set this creative on his career path