Wylie Beckert

On Series

Posted by Wylie Beckert | Monday, December 26th, 2022

Creating artwork for a series is inherently more fraught than creating a one-off...

Creating a Targeted Illustration Sample

Posted by Wylie Beckert | Monday, November 28th, 2022

This piece was motivated by a recent Q&A question that I felt needed to be illustrated with a...

Prayer of Binding

Posted by Wylie Beckert | Monday, October 31st, 2022

As a Magic artist (but not a Magic player), I’m sometimes unsure of how the images I’m...

Castle Full of Blackbirds #2

Posted by Wylie Beckert | Monday, October 3rd, 2022

Continuing my work on the Hellboy-universe Castle Full of Blackbirds series, here’s my cover...

HATE YOUR ART

Posted by Wylie Beckert | Monday, September 5th, 2022

I’m here today to tell you that it’s okay if you don’t like your own art....

Castle Full of Blackbirds #1

Posted by Wylie Beckert | Monday, August 8th, 2022

I’m super excited to finally share one of the projects I’ve been working on behind the...

Harnessing Chaos

Posted by Wylie Beckert | Monday, July 11th, 2022

Here’s an experiment in marbling that evolved into a depiction of the Spotted Lava Marmot...

From the Archives: Pan

Posted by Wylie Beckert | Monday, June 13th, 2022

Since most of what I’ve been busy with lately is either under NDA (awesome secrets!) or...

The Best Pencils Ever (Are Going Away)

Posted by Wylie Beckert | Monday, May 16th, 2022

Let me tell you about my favorite pencil… now that it’s almost too late for you to get...

Tiny Art Intermission

Posted by Wylie Beckert | Monday, April 18th, 2022

Attempts to collect the latest Muddy Colors post from Wylie Beckert — or indeed, locate her person...

Own It

Posted by Wylie Beckert | Monday, March 21st, 2022

Regular Muddy Colors readers may recall that, a few months ago, I did an illustration for a major...

The Power of Hindsight

Posted by Wylie Beckert | Monday, February 21st, 2022

If you’ve been following my art for any length of time, you’ve probably noticed that...

A quick trick for scanning textured surfaces

Posted by Wylie Beckert | Monday, January 24th, 2022

One of the things I love about traditional media is its built-in texture. While digital artists...

Fill your eyes with beauty

Posted by Wylie Beckert | Monday, December 27th, 2021

I’m a believer in stepping away from the flat world of screens and easels as...

GI JOE: Snake Eyes

Posted by Wylie Beckert | Monday, November 1st, 2021

And now, for something completely different: I created this image of Snake Eyes and Timber for GI...

John Jude Palencar on The 2024 Society of Illustrators Hall of FameCongratulations Greg.... well deserved!! JJP
Brian Cleary on The 2024 Society of Illustrators Hall of FameCongratulations to Gregory Manchess, always inspiring and encouraging with his amazing art and words of wisdom! :)
David Palumbo on Glaze 2.0This new version claims to have less artifacts, which I'm interested to try out. The program is slow if you run it from the cpu, but if you download t…
David Palumbo on Glaze 2.0not exactly. It alters the image in a way that doesn't look very different to us, but is very confusing for training models. To say it adds static imp…
Robert Cosgrove on The 2024 Society of Illustrators Hall of FameVery pleased to learn of Greg Manchess's induction into the Hall of Fame. Still lusting for a high production retrospective collection of his work, ho…

Author: Wylie Beckert

On Series

Creating a Targeted Illustration Sample

Prayer of Binding

Castle Full of Blackbirds #2

HATE YOUR ART

Castle Full of Blackbirds #1

Harnessing Chaos

From the Archives: Pan

The Best Pencils Ever (Are Going Away)

Tiny Art Intermission

Own It

The Power of Hindsight

A quick trick for scanning textured surfaces

Fill your eyes with beauty

GI JOE: Snake Eyes

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