Fantasy Art & Illustration by Cynthia Sheppard

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New Section!

I'm happy to announce the new Tutorials Section is now live. I only have a couple so far, but I hope to thoroughly expand this section. I think the sharing of artistic knowledge is important and I hope these demos prove useful and fun.

Suggestions?

If you have an idea for a tutorial, or something you'd like to see, send me an email.

Finished Work Demos — The Creation Process

Making Of: Half Her Heart's Duet (PDF 804KB)

Here I’ll discuss the compositional planning process, symbolism, color choices, and digital painting techniques that went into creating the piece “Half Her Heart’s Duet,” for the purpose of demonstrating one style of digital painting start-to-finish.

Length: 5 Pages
Originally published by It's Art Magazine Online

Digital Art - Technique Tutorials

Photo Finish (PDF 928KB)

This tutorial discusses the use of photos as source material and looks at intermediate and advanced techniques for photo-realistic digital painting.

Length: 5 Pages
Software: Photoshop CS or higher
Level: Intermediate/Advanced

Dramatic Figure Lighting (PDF 176KB)

When painting a figure in a fantasy illustration, a single frontal light source usually isn’t the most interesting solution, so here we’ll take a brieflook at some dramatic alternatives to combat ‘flat’ lighting...

Length: 1 Page
Software: Photoshop CS or higher
Level: Intermediate