Cold Days Illustration

This is an illustration that I am doing off the Dresden book "Cold Days"by Jim Butcher. I am taking an excerpt from the book and creating an illustration for it. This is my process of the illustration about painting .

You can look at the drawing playlist at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLweGUGLadxC3GR97kU2cFp1cEvEE1HhSH

The context of the illustration is from the very end of chapter 52,

"The serpent of Winter cold plunged into her chest, shattering her veil as it struck, and my apprentice's expression was twisted in startled horror. She didn't even have time to flinch. It struck, and she fell back against the side of the cottage, her legs buckling as if the muscles in them had forgotten how to move." -Cold Days by Jim Butcher

Even though there are a ton of the characters gathered in the book I narrowed it down to about three for the sake of sanity.

Reference Used:

Self (Richard Blumenstein) personal photo

Wife (Rebecca Justiniano ) personal Photo

Cracked Ground 02 from WingsOFAHero http://wingsofahero.deviantart.com/

http://wingsofahero.deviantart.com/art/Cracked-Ground-02-125418464

 Stonington Harbor Light http://twogirlstakenewengland.com/2013/05/

Scary Tree from http://www.deviantart.com/art/Scary-Tree-82953260

Time of the Dark K-4 from Mjranum-stock http://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/art/Time-of-the-Dark-K-4-125909173

Danielle 2 Poses in Blue Jeans by Fantasy Stock http://fantasystock.deviantart.com/art/Danielle-2-Poses-in-Blue-Jeans-28738342

Powerful light by gsdark-stock http://gsdark-stock.deviantart.com/art/Powerful-light-104613756

Raylan Givens from http://www.virginmedia.com/tvradio/cult-tv/trivia/justified-raylan-givens.php?ssid=10

Alejandro Corzo from http://fashionablymale.net/2014/04/16/model-and-actor-alejandro-corzo-will-perform-in-star-trek/

BLADE RUNNER artist Syd Mead (BBtv interview)



Something interesting I found with Syd Mead

3ds Max Intro tutorials (playlist)



I have a couple of students who need to know the basics so I created this set of tutorials for them.