the art of Will Terrell

This was a warm up sketch. Trying to get recharged for the next big project. I like when I find new music. Especially when it inspires me to paint. She was inspired. I’m ready to get back to work.

–Will

Quick digital sketch for warm-up.

–Will

I’ve been working a lot lately. Got a little fried today, so I decided to step back and do some fun art. This digital painting was from a photo, took about an hour. I’m really happy with it. I’m starting to get used to adding all the different colors into the skin tone. Also getting used to using larger brushes at low opacity to get a cleaner look. Its so contradictory don’t you think? I used to think it took little brushes to get realism, but nope.

–Will

I love this show!  “Whats Karma?”  “I don’t know… its something Carson Daly came up with.”

I did this as a warm-up this morning.

–Will Terrell

I’ve done tons of art this month. Just haven’t had time to post them. This is no where near all that I’ve done. But these are the highlights.

Fat Unicorn. I’d love to take credit for this, but the credit goes to a brilliant 11th grader at Lubbock High that did this as a sculpture. I wish I’d bought it. I’ve never last so hard in my life. I saw this when I was teaching my digital painting class a few weeks back and had to record it for posterity.

Speaking of the digital painting class. This is the demo I did in class. Took about half an hour. Thanks to everyone that came out to that. I’ll set up another class soon.

This is one of several painting commissions I did last week. My friend closed down his framing shop and gave me a big stack of matte board, they’re coming in really handy for doing these quick painting commissions. This is Animation Cell paint on black matte board. About half an hour.

I did this illo for my clowns. I think its an image for their website. It turns out they’ve got a 22 year old daughter who’s a clown too. And she’s been a clown since she was like 7. That’s super cool. I did a whole bunch of other drawings for them last week, I’ll probably eventually upload those here to show.

This was a quick warm up sketch from last week that I liked. The hands a little jacked, but I like the ambience.

This is a digital painting I did of my friend Corianna when we were hanging out the week before last. I think it turned out pretty good. I’m still learning. The hand is jacked. And the hair doesnt quite look natural. I’ll get it one of these days.

And of course sketches of women. Cant get enough of ‘em.

Ok.. Well I’ll do a better job of updating regularly next month. March was pretty awesome. Getting a lot of work completed these days. Keep smiling!

–Will Terrell

I am teaching at Digital coloring/Digital Illustration workshop at the Garden & Arts Center Tuesday (March 6th) from 6 – 9pm. The workshop is $50 per person. If you are interested please pre-register soon. Call (806)767-3724 or go by the Garden and Arts Center at 46th and University ave.

In this workshop I will show you how to scan and set up lineart to be colored in photoshop. I will demonstrate the coloring process, along with all the tools and short-cuts I use to get professional results.

I will also show how to do a digital painting, how to set up your brushes, textures and pallete to get quality painterly effects.

Hand-outs, brush, texture and color pallete resources will be provided.

If you have little to no experience with photoshop, this class will give you everything you need to get started.

–Will