Editorial
Welcome to Issue 030 – meaning a good two and a half years’ run! We’ve had a lot of great feedback about our magazines lately, which is always encouraging for the 2DArtist team, so we’ve gone all out and aimed to please again this month with our 30th issue! First up, I had requests from our lovely readers for an interview with the fantastic Massive Black artist, Jason Chan... So I got it for you *winks*! Flick to page 013 for our in-depth interview with Jason Chan and check out the plethora of images that take his signature! There’s something about his skill for painting life into a character that never fails to impress, and I’m sure you’ll all take some inspiration away from his words and works this month. I also stumbled across the talents of Craig Sellars recently and excitedly e-mailed him for an interview, and here we have it for you today! When I see a really great piece of art I “feel” it. I sit bolt upright in my chair and my heart starts to beat that little bit faster... When I first saw Craig’s work I got that thrill, and I’m sure that when you get to page 006 you’ll see exactly what I mean! You get a real sense of awe and wonderment from Craig’s images; the kind of images that just feel “epic”. Have a look for yourself and let me know if you’ve discovered any other artists’ work lately that sends shivers down your spine, and I’ll see if I can get in touch with them for 2DArtist! We take all requests seriously, so if you’ve always wanted to see something in 2DArtist, then you’ll have nothing to lose by dropping me an email (I promise to reply to all emails – as long as they’re not spam!). Our third interview is with Jan Ditlev Christensen, who has yet another awesome portfolio for our eyes to feast on! Jan is a Concept Artist for Deadline Games and you’ll find out all about him, along with lots of useful insights into the creation of his works, on page 025. Our Speed Painting Challenge this month is also nothing short of amazing – seriously! We asked two top artists, Marc Brunet and Nick Oroc, to each tackle the brief, “It was a long way up but they had no choice but to continue climbing!” Really great results from both artists, but then we expected no less from these guys really! Mike Corriero this month takes us into the construction of the eyes and mouth as he tackles the head design of his Creature Concept (page 098), and we wave farewell to Tiberius Viris as he rounds up the Matte Painting Tutorial series for us with his “tips and tricks” for all our budding matte painters. Robin Olausson also brings us a wonderful tutorial on Perspective, which is great for beginners or those who have been dabbling with digital art but finding their images a little “off”. Take a look and you might just find out where you’ve been going wrong (page 106). We have 4 Making Ofs for you again with great artists such as Chuck Wadey and Marcel Baumann, but finally I’d like to mention our massive sketchbook article from Joel Carlo... We are very pleased to be able to represent a huge spread of Joel’s sketchbook work this month; he kindly sent us this great portfolio of work and we simply couldn’t bear to cut any of it down, so we pretty much put our ‘crazy hats’ on and put together the mega article that you’ll find on page 033. Wow, I’m exhausted... Enjoy! Ed.
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