Christmas 2018 Images
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Here are a couple images I sketched for the 2018 Christmas season.
Hope you have had a wonderful Christmas and New Years!
“Then one Christmas Eve, right before they started, the Grinch fed the reindeer so all night they super farted.”
“Remember: Santa’s still watching you! (And listening to all you say too)”
Just had to create a new version of this Santa I did back in 12/2016. You can see both here
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The Animoodles Have Arrived!
Oh what joy! The Animoodles have arrived! Thank you Marissa Louie & Team. They are really quite wonderful, and I am honored to have been able to support your Kickstarter campaign! Congratulations on all the great work. You deserve every accolade!
Learn more about Animoodles:
- TheAnimoodles.com
- Instagram.com/Animoodles
- Twitter.com/Animoodles
- Facebook.com/TheAnimoodles
- YouTube
- Kickstarter : Animoodles Collection 1
- Kickstarter : Animoodles Collection 2
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Procreate Play & Learn (The First Month)
After years of waiting for it, I finally got an iPadPro2 when it was released last month and have been playing with Procreate.
I definitely enjoy the program and am becoming more comfortable with using it.
I don’t feel like I can do quite what I can in Photoshop on my laptop, but actually, I think that’s a good thing as it is prompting different approaches & results.
Also not sure quite how it’ll fit into my workflow just yet. I’d love to hear how others here switch between Procreate & Photoshop. What determines the work you do via each platform? Do you start on one and finish on another? etc. Feel free to send an email or share on one of my social media accounts: http://quietyell.com/contact/
So far, I think the included brushes are more than adequate (I use the HB Pencil & Acrylic Brushes the most so far); however, I do find some of the brushes by Max Ulichney to be quite useful (particularly some of the Comics ones for line work). Put links to his sites here:
http://quietyell.com/2018/11/23/procreate-brushes-by-max-ulichney/
Thought I’d share here what I’ve been playing with on Procreate in my very limited free time this past month.
Learn More About Procreate:
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It’s Empty Without You
Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of the Nickelodeon cartoon series “SpongeBob SquarePants,” died on 11/26/18 following a battle with the neurodegenerative disease ALS. He was 57.
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Procreate Brushes by Max Ulichney
I’ve been enjoying using Procreate on my new iPad Pro 2. Thought I’d kick it up a notch with some additional brushes. Bought some great Procreate Brushes via Gumroad on Thanksgiving morning by a great illustrator, Max Ulichney.
Go check them out!
Brush Info Site : Maxpacks.art
Brush eCom Site : Gumroad.com/maxulichney
Max Ulichney :
- MaxUlichney.com
- Maxpacks.art
- Gumroad.com/maxulichney
- Etsy.com/shop/MaxUlichneyArt
- Instagram.com/MaxUlichney
- Twitter.com/MaxUlichney
- Youtube.com/user/MaxUlichney
- Vimeo.com/MaxUlichney
- Linkedin.com/in/maxulichney
Procreate App :
- Procreate.art
- Instagram.com/Procreate
- Twitter.com/Procreate
- Facebook.com/Procreate
- Procreate on Youtube
* Note: All samples below are by Max Ulichney
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Arrival of SkyHeart by Jake Parker
Oh what joy! I have received the long awaited book from Jake Parker “SkyHeart Book I: The Search for the Star Seed”!!! It is a very merry Inktober indeed!
Learn more about SkyHeart at www.MrJakeParker.com and at www.SVSLearn.com.
See my original post about this with additional links to Jake & SVSLearn:
http://quietyell.com/2018/06/10/skyheart-by-jake-parker/
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Arrival of the Kickstarter Books of Lorenzo Etherington
I got this most delightful package today!!!
Here’s my blog post from March 11th about backing the Kickstarter:
http://quietyell.com/2018/03/11/backed-kickstarter-of-lorenzo-etherington/
Here’s text from my Instagram.com/QuietYellSketches post on March 11th :
https://www.instagram.com/p/BgMLkZilh-4/ : Delighted to have backed the @Kickstarter by @EtheringtonBrothers : How to THINK when you DRAW BOOK + SKETCHBOOK 3 + STRANSKI: A 200 PAGE HARDBACK BOOK of Lorenzo Etherington’s HOW TO THINK WHEN YOU DRAW tutorials + a NEW 600 PAGE sketchbook + STRANSKI reprint : [KICKSTARTER LINK] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1378058646/how-to-think-when-you-draw-book-sketchbook-3-stran
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SkyHeart by Jake Parker
Excited to support & pre-order the new book, SkyHeart, by Jake Parker of SVSLearn — Congratulations Jake on the exceptional work and labor of love! I look forward to enjoying it!
Pre-order your copy here: shop.mrjakeparker.com
Learn More:
Jake Parker : MrJakeParker.com
- Instagram : @jakeparker
- Instagram : @jakeparkertools
- Twitter : @mrjakeparker
- Facebook : @jakeparkerart
- Pinterest : @mrjakeparker
- YouTube : @jakeparker44
Inktober : Inktober.com
SVSLearn : SVSLearn.com
- SVSLearn Forum : forum.svslearn.com
- Instagram : @svslearn
- Twitter : @SVSLearn
- Facebook : @schoolofvisualstorytelling
- Facebook (Closed Group): @595547637134211
- Pinterest : @societyofvisual
- YouTube : @SVSLearn
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Alienware = Fun
These past months I’ve had the great pleasure of illustrating assets & re-skinning loyalty rewards games (LRG) with Cataboom for Alienware Arena (The community site for Alienware, Dell’s gaming computer division).
In addition to creating assets & skins for “generic” Alienware LRG, I’ve also gotten to skin LRG for branded games’ promotions with many more to come (I may update the list below later). These include:
- State of Decay 2 : Site | Steam (SOD 1)
- Warhammer: Vermintide 2 : Site | Steam
- Hellblade: Sensua’s Sacrifice : Site | Steam
- Dead By Daylight : Site | Steam
- This War of Mine : Site | Steam
- My Time At Portia : Site (Pathea Games) | Steam
- Mr. Shifty : Site (TinyBuild) | Steam
- Kingdom New Lands : Site | Steam
- Where the Water Tastes Like Wine : Site | Steam

I have not posted the game screenshots yet (other than the branded ones in this article), nor the tons of other assets developed, not to mention work done with Cataboom for other brands (e.g. NTT DATA). Maybe someday…
But until then, below is a sampling with more that can be seen in a new “Assets” section of this site which will contain Characters, Props, Environments/Backgrounds, GUI, and other assets for games, apps, & video/animation:
QuietYell.com/portfolio/assets/
Also, be sure to check out the Concept Art section which has pre-production assets: Concept Art and the sketches sections which have a lot of characters in them: Sketches (Select) & Sketches (Archive)
Learn more about Cataboom & AlienwareArena:
Cataboom : Cataboom.com
Alienware : AlienwareArena.com
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