Philip Byers - Artist & Illustratorさんのイラストまとめ

What do clouds make you feel?

I love clouds. I just absolutely love them. There's so much symbolism wrapped up in them for me: transcendence, ethereality, freedom, unattainability. They are like imagination itself, more vivid than life, yet mere gossamer when touched.

I tried to capture something of the biomorphic quality of his architecture in the design of the tower, juxtaposing it with the symmetry and geometry of stained glass. Don't ask me where these ideas come from!

Darkspire was inspired by the works of Zdzislaw Beksinski and the architecture of Gothic cathedrals. Beksinski himself painted cathedrals, though made of unsettling materials: bone and flesh, pockmarked and riddled with decay.

Turns out painting things from the front and ignoring nasty things like perspective is way easier and lots of fun! I'll mix it up again here soon, but doing these symmetrical, frontal designs has been really fun.

Cracked stairs and strange, totemic rocks...what could it be? This is the bottom third of a new piece on progress!

Another old one! I painted Lustration of the Fallen soon after reading James Gurney's Color & Light and was thinking about the section on moonlight, where he dispels the misconception that moonlight is blue. This was an attempt to depict moonlight as having a reddish character.

Another one from the vault! A Sharp Intake of Breath was a study in temperature contrasts. Placing a warmly colored, glowing object in a cold landscape (both literally and coloristically) was just the kind of striking juxtaposition I love. What do you think this sphere is?

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I'll be streaming again today at 1PM EST! Join me to watch me work on a painting, ask questions, or just chat! I'll post the link to the stream closer to the start time.

Worlds Adrift combined many of my favorite things to paint: towers, portals, open landscapes and far horizons. The main conceit of this piece was depicting parallel dimensions in a way that resulted in an interesting silhouette, a strange portal ship voyaging between worlds.