If you are curious to know how I built my artworks, you can see in this short tutorial the big steps of my workflow to give organic matter and volumes to the image “The wrong town”. You’ll see that I use basic 3D blockouts and then traditional painted textures that help to quickly give depth of field and Ghibli style to my sceneries.   

This image was done in 6 hours using Oculus Medium, Photoshop and the traditional painting pack “Grunge Wall Textures” that you can find on my Artstation store : https://tohad.artstation.com/store/2lkb/grunge-wall-textures-traditional-painting-pack-12-jpg-1-bonus-psd

The pack contains 12 HD hand-painted textures and the layered and commented PSD of this artwork! 

If you are interested by that sort of assets I invite you to follow the PIXELREF feed on Instagram. It's a Photo and Painting packs ressource for artists made by my partner Johanna Capelle and me : https://www.instagram.com/pixelref/

New feel good playlist to start the week : https://soundcloud.com/tohad/sets/week-of-inspiration-17 

Backgrounds from The Princess and the Frog (2009, Walt Disney Animation Studios) : 

Monument Valley 2 is pure lesson of color scheme and shape language. Each level is a masterpiece and a definition of the concept of "eye candy" :

The rocky landscapes of Eugen Bracht (1842-1921) 

More inspiration and references on my twitter and FB account : https://twitter.com/sylvainsarrailh& https://www.facebook.com/TohadChaos

Have a great week folks!

New feel good playlist to start the week :  https://soundcloud.com/tohad/sets/week-of-inspiration-16

Backgrounds from Ciclope Festival 2019 opening short animation by Tiago Calliari : https://tiagocalliari.tumblr.com 

Backgrounds from Dorohedoro ( 2020, Studio Mappa, Art Director Shinji Kimura ) 

Concept art from Onward by Huy Nguyen (2020, Pixar) 

More inspiration and references on my twitter and FB account : https://twitter.com/sylvainsarrailh& https://www.facebook.com/TohadChaos

Have a great week folks!

New feel good playlist to start the week : https://soundcloud.com/tohad/sets/week-of-inspiration-15 

The vivid colours of Seth Armstrong : http://setharmstrong.com/paintings 

Backgrounds from Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989, Tokyo Movie Shinsha, art director : Nizo Yamamoto)

  

Winslow Homer' seascapes (1836 – 1910)

  

  

  

More inspiration and references on my twitter and FB account : https://twitter.com/sylvainsarrailh & https://www.facebook.com/TohadChaos

Have a great week folks!

New feel good playlist to start the week : https://soundcloud.com/tohad/sets/week-of-inspiration-14 

The unique colors of Bohumir Jaronek (1866-1933) : 

Backgrounds from Children of the Sea ( Kaijū no Kodomo, 海獣の子供, 2019, Studio 4°C) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LOseDi1j8c

"Mindhunter - Animated Series", nice exercice of stylization by Niclas Treinen : https://www.behance.net/gallery/79554979/Mindhunter-Animated-Series 

Posters for the Chinese theatrical release of Spirited Away this week : 

More inspiration and references on my twitter and FB account : https://twitter.com/sylvainsarrailh& https://www.facebook.com/TohadChaos

Have a great week folks!

Samples of life drawing session on Procreate. Around 30 sec, 1, 2, 5 and 10 minutes per pose. 

New feel good playlist to start this new week : https://soundcloud.com/tohad/sets/week-of-inspiration-13 

Concept art from Moana by James Finch (2016, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures) : http://www.jamesfinchart.com/moana/58c3k81optjpaxf1cmwbad7rrpctlw 

The colorful territories of David Griffin : https://davidgriffinstudio.com/works  

Influenced by Hiroshige and Hokusai, the work of Henri Rivière is timeless (1864-1951). The color scheme is so modern, it could come from a contemporary animated movie or webcomic. 

More inspiration and references on my twitter and FB account : https://twitter.com/sylvainsarrailh& https://www.facebook.com/TohadChaos

Have a great week folks!

New feel good playlist to start this new week : https://soundcloud.com/tohad/sets/week-of-inspiration-12

Colors, lightening, shape language, everything is unique in the painting of Alfred Joseph Casson (1898-1992) 

Backgrounds from Is It love: Fallen Road by Jessica Rossier & Bastien Grivet  (2019, 1492 Studio/Ubisoft) :

 https://www.artstation.com/jessica-rossier 

https://www.artstation.com/grivetart 

The amazing way to paint draperies in the painting of Jules Pierre van Biesbroeck (1873-1965) 

More inspiration and references on my twitter and FB account : https://twitter.com/sylvainsarrailh& https://www.facebook.com/TohadChaos

Have a great week folks!

New feel good playlist to start this new week : https://soundcloud.com/tohad/sets/week-of-inspiration-11

The poetic compositions of Thomas Blackshear : http://www.thomasblackshearart.com/western-art/4594227367 

Big Hero 6 visual development by Scott Watanabe : https://scottwatanabe.tumblr.com/post/103583162840/at-one-point-more-scenes-took-place-in-an  (I can not help but feel a little taste of Tekkonkinkreet/GitS/Jin-Roh and I love it ) 

A mixture of vegetation and clouds, the painting of Jean-Honoré Nicolas Fragonard (1732-1806, french) :

  Backgrounds from Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003, DreamWorks Animation) :

More inspiration and references on my twitter and FB account : https://twitter.com/sylvainsarrailh& https://www.facebook.com/TohadChaos

Have a great week folks!

New feel good playlist to start this new week : https://soundcloud.com/tohad/sets/week-of-inspiration-10 

Visual Development from Mulan by Hans Bacher (1998 Walt Disney Pictures) : 

The amazing details in the orientalist scenes of Ludwig Deutsch (1855 - 1935) 

I'm in love with the original Dragon Ball chapter covers by Akira Toriyama. The shapes, the designs, everything is like toys in his universe. There is something so spontaneous in Toriyama's shape language, even in 100 years, it will still be so fresh. 

Majestic concept art from Love, Death & Robots : ZIMA BLUE by Robh Ruppel : https://www.artstation.com/robh_ruppel_design 

More inspiration and references on my twitter and FB account : https://twitter.com/sylvainsarrailh & https://www.facebook.com/TohadChaos

Have a great week folks!