Yeah lineart is a really tough gig; fortunately I'm a painter so I never have to worry about having clean lineart   The best way I know how to do it is to take an opacity brush at 75% hardness in photoshop and clean it up by hand; vector paths always makes it look way too perfect, and you can't do much about line thickness (at least as far as I know) so I try to avoid it, unless I really gotta use it.  I think I'd go crazy having to clean up lineart, it's such a time-consuming process, but for those who can go through with it, the results look really nice; some artists are incredible at lineart.

I'm very happy you like it

Very nice work. I bookmarked it as well.

Really nice and original art, i enjoyed watching every painting. Who inspires you to make paintings like "dog soup"? Is it your original idea? If your are not doing any order what kind of themes you draw the most? Thanks.

That would be pretty cool, I'd watch it

Sorry guys!  I neglected to check this thread for a little while


Thanks so much!


It depends on the subject matter; I charge roughly $10 per working hour, so really simple stuff is relatively inexpensive and really intricate works such as book covers can run up to $100.  The average painting will typically be around $45, but I give my clients a concrete estimate of what the painting will cost from the start so there are no surprises.  I do all my work digitally but you're free to have the original .psd file for printing purposes.


Thank you for your kind words.  Dog Soup was actually commissioned by Matthew N. Wright, who was unfortunately banned some time ago.  He'd given me a whole BTC out of charity so I insisted I paint something for him in return  The idea of there being a dog in a soup bowl was possibly a funny on his part considering he lived in SK at the time of this.  For personal art, I usually do sketches of my own character designs; I have aspirations to become a video game artist and so spend much of my free time doing mock concept art.  I have a very ambivalent view on art for art's sake, so it's rare to catch me doing any sort of art that doesn't serve some ulterior purpose, if not for my own improvement.  But I believe I tend for "darker" themes when left to my own devices, i.e. Nightmare Before Christmas sort of designs or demons and such


I've always wanted to do something like this, I certainly do love to teach.  I'll see about recording my paintings for you guys.  The tools I use are: a Wacom Intuos4L with old drivers because the new ones are messed up (), and Photoshop CS6 with a small set of custom brushes I've made tailored for drawing and painting.  I use an image size of A4 when painting and shrink down to post on the nets.  I'll update the thread with a video whenever I get the chance

Thank you kindly

Really nice to see you're still going with this Mike (and that you're still using my logo  :p)

Unfortunately I had stopped for a while. Back for good now though and raring to go.  

Looks interesting