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Published: 2009-11-08 16:55:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 1816; Favourites: 27; Downloads: 75
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Description This is one of the sketches I did for the Q&A in ImagineFX magazine. It was a guide to painting lichen. I thought I'd post it since it was published a couple of months ago.
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Comments: 36

megcowley [2011-05-17 11:32:30 +0000 UTC]

Wow, this looks amazing! Concinving stonework is completely beyond me, as yet! Do you know which episode this got published in? I have not subscribed for long so I think I have must have missed it. Lovely convincing touches with the lichen and I like the mysterious fellow peeking out of that hole!

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BillCorbett In reply to megcowley [2011-05-18 17:56:56 +0000 UTC]

Cheers, I did this one for issue 49

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megcowley In reply to BillCorbett [2011-05-18 18:08:59 +0000 UTC]

Ah, darn! First one I got was 56!

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Nyrak [2009-11-29 16:36:43 +0000 UTC]

Hmm, I missed this one somehow. Glad I came round to check up on you. I love the textured, 3D effect you achieved!

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BillCorbett In reply to Nyrak [2009-12-01 22:20:35 +0000 UTC]

Thanks Karyn, I surprised myself with this Q&A. I didn't expect it to come out as well as did for the wall texture.

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Natushi12 [2009-11-18 12:34:51 +0000 UTC]

awesome work as always

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BillCorbett In reply to Natushi12 [2009-11-24 12:00:04 +0000 UTC]

Thankyou

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Boggleboy [2009-11-14 03:48:02 +0000 UTC]

Oooooh! Wonderful piece! Lovely example and yet very illustrative- that face peering out is terrific!

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BillCorbett In reply to Boggleboy [2009-11-16 13:56:13 +0000 UTC]

Thanks Kevin

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Boggleboy In reply to BillCorbett [2009-11-16 17:09:02 +0000 UTC]

My pleasure Bill! Thanks- as ever- for sharing with us all.

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AlMaNeGrA [2009-11-12 21:34:24 +0000 UTC]

oh god! i love the textures!

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BillCorbett In reply to AlMaNeGrA [2009-11-13 10:07:13 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! and thanks for the fave too my friend

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joyfulmusic [2009-11-09 17:09:05 +0000 UTC]

t first glance the preview looks like a photo! Great job!

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BillCorbett In reply to joyfulmusic [2009-11-10 15:51:19 +0000 UTC]

Thanks very much!

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tivar [2009-11-09 16:59:21 +0000 UTC]

it smiles...

...greetings tivar

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BillCorbett In reply to tivar [2009-11-10 15:51:01 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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fakkii2000 [2009-11-09 00:14:21 +0000 UTC]

Too cool, I thought it was a picture taken with a camera. I love your work

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BillCorbett In reply to fakkii2000 [2009-11-09 10:13:44 +0000 UTC]

Thanks very much. I painted it greyscale first to give it a more photo-real look. It gave me more control over the colour layers I added too. The steps for this one are IFX as well (issue 50)

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solomon-russell [2009-11-08 20:19:51 +0000 UTC]

Nice. I like all the little subtle details in the stone.

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BillCorbett In reply to solomon-russell [2009-11-09 10:11:37 +0000 UTC]

Thanks Solomon. It's mostly custom brush work built up in greyscale that gives those nice little details

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solomon-russell In reply to BillCorbett [2009-11-11 00:36:56 +0000 UTC]

Looks like it took a lot of patience. 0_o

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BillCorbett In reply to solomon-russell [2009-11-12 20:30:53 +0000 UTC]

A little bit, the custom brushes did most of the work

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solomon-russell In reply to BillCorbett [2009-11-13 08:33:21 +0000 UTC]

Alas, my version of Photoshop doesn't have that feature.

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BillCorbett In reply to solomon-russell [2009-11-13 10:06:41 +0000 UTC]

I use paintshop pro 9 or Artrage - I have photoshop but I don't use it much (does not perform well on my pc because I like to work really quick).

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solomon-russell In reply to BillCorbett [2009-11-14 04:13:04 +0000 UTC]

Really, Photoshop works really fast on my machine.
Painter for me lags big time. Some of the brush strokes take ten minutes or something. Yow! can't work like that!

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MetalSnail [2009-11-08 19:03:20 +0000 UTC]

Thats amazing, I've always said you were the master of doing rocks and this proves it

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BillCorbett In reply to MetalSnail [2009-11-09 10:09:30 +0000 UTC]

Thanks Andreas. I think I need to master some new things now I always get complimented on my rocks

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MetalSnail In reply to BillCorbett [2009-11-09 19:01:02 +0000 UTC]

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AndyFairhurst [2009-11-08 18:19:26 +0000 UTC]

bloody marvellous

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BillCorbett In reply to AndyFairhurst [2009-11-09 10:08:47 +0000 UTC]

Thanks mate all praise the dude! (Some sort of dude religion thing right?)

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AndyFairhurst In reply to BillCorbett [2009-11-09 12:53:26 +0000 UTC]

yeah I hate the word so I over use it

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Symetarygates [2009-11-08 18:19:11 +0000 UTC]

Congrats on IFX!Cool textures!Is that Artrage?You know I finally went and bought it about a month ago and still have not used it yet...Cheers mate!

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BillCorbett In reply to Symetarygates [2009-11-09 10:08:05 +0000 UTC]

Thanks Sean, I got three Q&A slots over three months so I can't complain I did this one in paintshop pro because I needed to demonstrate custom brushes for the texture. It's a bit tricky doing it with the custom stencils in artrage. You've got to use it Sean it's just so much more fun than the others

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GAVade [2009-11-08 17:23:12 +0000 UTC]

You and your rocks

Congrats on the gig dude....

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BillCorbett In reply to GAVade [2009-11-09 10:05:27 +0000 UTC]

lol you make it sound like an obsession mate

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GAVade In reply to BillCorbett [2009-11-09 17:12:08 +0000 UTC]

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