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!

New feel good playlist to start this new week : https://soundcloud.com/tohad/sets/week-of-inspiration-9

Two weeks ago, I discovered the work of Masayasu Uchida ( 内田 正泰 ), and it's a crush. I had never seen a such beautiful way to express depth and scales just with hard shapes and flat colors : 

Backgrounds from Flavors of Youth ( 肆式青春 / 詩季織々, 2018, Haoliners Animation League / CoMix Wave Films) 

Inspiring Colors schemes in the Australian landscapes of Tom Roberts (1856 - 1931) : 

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

Have a great week folks!

Feel good playlist to start this new week : https://soundcloud.com/tohad/sets/week-of-inspiration-8artstation

The beautiful colors of southwestern France in the painting of Henri Martin (1860-1943). If you go to Toulouse, his sublime frescoes are in "la salle des illustres" at the Captitol.  The entrance is free and the place is amazing :

The work of Hans Wagula (1894-1964) is a good reference for how to play with the negative space in a composition : 

Backgrounds from Lastman by Celine Lorthiois (2016, Je suis bien content) : https://www.celinelorthiois.com/lastman  (and please, watch Lastman)

Territories full of colors,, the painting of Ernest Leonard Blumenschein (1874 – 1960) 

More inspiration and references on my twitter account : https://twitter.com/sylvainsarrailh

Have a great week folks!

Feel good playlist to start this new week : https://soundcloud.com/tohad/sets/week-of-inspiration-7
(electronic rock, synthwave, chillout)

Concept art from Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse by the amazing Peter Chan (2018, Sony Pictures Animation) : https://www.facebook.com/drawpeter/posts/10216122536210104 

The painting of Xiangyuan Jie is an excellent exemple of the use of blue for depth and shadow in pictures composition : 

The colorful work of Paul Lehr (1930-1998), one of the greatest future-fantasist painters : https://www.google.fr/search?q=Paul+Lehr&client=firefox-b&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiEgdPW_bvOAhWCUxoKHQF_DdkQ_AUICCgB&biw=1920&bih=919#q=Paul+Lehr&tbm=isch&tbas=0 

Peaceful backgrounds from Howl's Moving Castle ( ハウルの動く城, 2004, Ghibli Studio) 

More inspiration and references on my twitter account : https://twitter.com/sylvainsarrailh

Have a great week folks!

Sumptuous use of geometric shapes in the compositions of Marie-laure Cruschi (Cruschiform) : http://www.cruschiform.com  

 The power of nature in Andreas Achenbach's paintings (1815 – 1910) : 

  

And his brother, Oswald Achenbach (1827–1905), was also a painter. The two brothers were called "the A and O of Landscapes" (the Alpha and Omega) :

  

I am depressed by the Lion King remake trailer with its cold rendering empty of life and without art direction. I prefer to share with you the sublime backgrounds from the original movie : https://imgur.com/a/ST7Nc  

  

  

More inspiration and references on my twitter account : https://twitter.com/sylvainsarrailh

Have a great week folks!

The russian wildlands in the painting of Yefim Volkov (1844-1920) :

Backgrounds from Samurai Jack by Scott Wills (2001/2017, Cartoon Network Studios / Williams Street) : 

Each illustration of Tadahiro Uesugi is a lesson of composition with lights and drop shadows :

More inspiration and references on my twitter account : https://twitter.com/sylvainsarrailh

Have a great week folks!