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Painting Process Breakdown

Robert Hunt

This month I thought I would share a little painting process. This is a painting of Arctic Explorer Frank Worsley* that I did as preliminary work as part of a project I'm working on. I start by doing a very loose sketch to lay out the composition I do the same to rough in the position of the facial features I start adding some transitional passing values and modulate the colors in the drawing. most…

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BUILDING WORLDS

Greg Ruth

August 1, 2025 - [caption id="attachment_81366" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Unused spread from THE MONKEY by Osgood Perkins/NEON[/caption] World Building is one of the most underrated essentials of storytelling, and if you do it right,  one of the most invisible. In my personal opinion, the holy trinity of storytelling World Building and Character Development are top tier with Plot as the tiny lagging puppy running keep up. Character and World Building are what draws you in to a story, and want to revisit it again later. When a story is working, Plot is merely the tick-tock of events in the service of those two. But, we've been in a two-decades long cycle of high concept/plot narratives that have crowded out the other two, leading us a seemingly endless raft of spectacular, and saccharine stories that fill seats in movie theaters for…

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