I found a great way to convert my charcoal drawings into anaglyph
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How to create Pre rendered Backgrounds with Unreal Engine
in 3D, Unreal Engine, Video Game, Tutorial
A quick tutorial on how I have created pre rendered backgrounds in my game with Unreal Engine.
Read MoreMiddle eartth Collectible Card Game (MECCG) Unofficial new card
I have made artworks for the unofficial Dream cards expansions of Middle Earth Collectible Card Game this summer and I will illustrate some more in the near future.
If you don't know this amazing card game and love the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien I suggest you to take a look here.
If you know the game and have played or still play, you can take a look at the dream cards created by Thorsten the Traveller and Vastor Peredhil
The man in the interview below is one of the creators of MECCG, Rolemaster, MERP (MIddle-Earth Role Playing), and a co-founder of Iron Crown Enterprises.
Planes of the face based on the Andrew Loomis method
in Anatomy
The lack of angles in Andrew Loomis' books doesn't help people who like to draw understand better. So I decided to buy 3D models inspired by his explanatory drawings and I traced the renderings by hand.
If you draw and struggle with head shots, feel free to save these images and share them on the internet. I hope they help you as much as they help me draw the lights and shadows of the human head better.
Enjoy!
Artworks made especially for the game Imagine Role Playing.
These are some of the best creatures I did for the tabletop RPG Imagine: I started illustrating just with cross-hatching but after a few creatures I started to paint them digitally to add more life to them.
I would like to remake some of the The first ones I did but they are sent and approved as it so I’ll accept their flaws and move on.
Artworks made for HARP Beyond The Veil by ICE
OYEZ! OYEZ!
I can finally show the five artworks I did in 2020 for the new book Beyond The Veil of the Roleplaying game HARP From Iron Crown Enterprises.
My girlfriend and I opened an Etsy Shop!
in Art
As a couple who love fantasy, we opened our Etsy shop as a lovers project.
Here you enter our magical world and will find artworks created from our dreaming mind.
Read MoreRigor Mortis - Self-Portrait
My mother passed away at the beginning of February 2021 during the pandemic. A big void is in my mind since that moment.
Read MoreHALL OF SHAME OF MY MIDDLE-EARTH ROLEPLAYING CHARACTERS
This is the records of the deads and alives of my characters that I played and STILL play in MERP.
Crumblepot: Scout (THIEF), Hobbit - lvl 3 (R.I.P)
When Frodo, Sam, Merry & Pippin arrived at The Shire after the ring was destroyed, Crumblepot and others hobbits tried to stop them to enter and ruins the plan of Saruman. While fighting Frodo, Crumblepot was killed tramped by a pony ridden by a fellow hobbit who was going toward Frodo to crush him.
Simonak: Warrior, Dwarf - lvl 1 (R.I.P)
Simonak was brutally killed by orcs up the stairs of a wine cellar. Also before the combat, He was cursed by the Valar Ulmo because after exploring the wine cellar, he discovered a secret sacred place behind a big fake barrel and destroyed a statue of the altar for Ulmo.
Aphadon: Ranger, Half Elf - Lvl 1
Currently alive and don’t want to die.
“Life in Middle-Earth is not restful when you soak in the blood and sweat of orcs all days....”
Oliphant Morn -Morë olori i Palantìr
Last week I finished the Artwork & the logo for the first album of Oliphant Morn; A great new Dungeon Synth project.
I inked for 4 hours if not more, little dots around the Palantir but in the final it was worth it. After all the inking done, I used digital screen tones for the light and shadows. Also, I would like to thanks my girlfriend for the help for making the illustration more good and beautiful.
Now my champions, put youself into bed and take some time to listen this beautiful dreaming music and enjoy your travel.
Come, travelers. And gaze trough the sinister and hypnotizing Palantír of Saruman. To see battles of uncertain fate and
desolate landscapes forgotten by time.
Final result!
An Owl Oil painting - WORK IN PROGRESS
in Writing
For only the third oil painting, I am really happy with the result so far.
This beautiful owl is my third oil painting. It is in work in progress until an unknown time. this week I will continue the wing.
So far I have painted 28 hours on the canvas. Each time I paint something new, I want to push it to the maximum that my skills can handle.
Each picture is a 3 hours session of painting.
For having only 3 courses for painting this hippocampus , I am really happy with the final result.
Hippocampus oil painting; A fast painting done for an exposition
hippocampus oil painting
Read MoreFor my first oil painting, I am really happy with the final result. Off course I could correct and add a lot of tones but I signed it, so be it.
My first oil painting - A grim mountain
I started my first oil painting course in september 2019 with the great painter Richard Morin
Before trying the oil painting, I would sometimes draw and ink a finishing illustration in black and white in 9x12 format. Oil painting cannot be rushed if you want something beautiful; It takes time ... Lots of time!
At first, I was not happy to have to touch up part of the painting in a week. I wanted something good, quickly. After a few lessons, I discovered that this "meditation" was good for me and my art in general.
Focusing on what I do and not wanting everything to be finished quickly adds quality to my creations. I see it with drawing, 3D and even in other areas of my life.
Oil painting, i love you.
Mathieu V.
Call Of Cthulhu: When fear of blood and murderous frenzy coexist.
Mi-go, a creature from the Cthulhu Mythos
My last game of Call of Cthulhu as a keeper was really fun. I initiated two of my old friends to play this wonderful game by Chaosium Inc.
For one of them, tabletop RPGs were a new thing. We had a great time together. It was a challenge to create a story really scary with people who are accustomed to horror & gore theme since young years.
One of the strong parts of the session was when my players saw a cultist very badly mutilated in a corner of a room, they loosed enough sanity points at the same time and had a bout of madness. The first player, Trevor by his character name, exploded in a spree of uncontrolled violence and destruction directed at the cultist, butchering him with a knife.
Marc, the second character, developed a fear of blood for 8 hours... When he saw the cultist mutilated, he started to run in terror and screaming while Trevor continued stabbing the remains of the poor cultist.
Zoog, a creature from the Cthulhu Mythos
After the insane violence fury that Trevor went through, he went after his terrorized friend Marc to try to calm him down, covered in blood head to toes and ignoring that his friend had developed a phobia of seeing bloodfor 8 hours! This scene was memorable and really special. My players and I really liked it.
Will their character die or become insane next time? We will find out next session.
Thank you Howard Phillip Lovecraft for creating an amazing mythos and thank you Chaosium Inc.
New home with a studio
in Writing
Since the beginning of summer, my girlfriend has moved with me and we have installed our studio in a room. We can create each of our own art and thus inspire, encourage, ask and give criticism on our works.
When the magic happen…
Being both artists, we have arranged our studio with compartments for our artistic material, a metal wire on the wall to pin references and projects in progress. There is also a tripod for the camera if we want to record when we draw and paint. We may also add decorations on walls in the futur.
Some of my art tools
Principally I am an illustrator and I use most of the time black ink but recently I brought my first kit of watercolor and I am learning to mix color. My kit is really small so I can paint everywhere I want. last week I went to a museum and I painted old human skulls, and instincted birds. It was really fun and I will do this again soon, it is a great way to improve watercolor and study the models.
Also, in setember to october, I will start my oil painting courses in Montreal. I have brought a French Style Easel for painting outside landscapes and tweek them with a Fantasy flavor after in my studio. I can not wait to start learning how to paint with oil!
Imagines my black & white creatures painted with oil, they will become real nightmare.
The cultist, made with watercolor.
Call of Cthulhu the RPG and some new artistic goals
In early February with friends, I played the tabletop RPG Call of Cthulhu by Chaosium for the first time. A year to flip through this amazing book of rules, to look at the illustrations, to immerse myself in this macabre and unforgivable world.
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Story behind ‘‘Ånden som Gjorde Opprør’’
Only the sound of guttural songs carried by the wind that seem to come from a distant creature.
Read MoreLovecraftuary 2018
in Art
I created the illustrations below for the Lovecraftuary Challenge of 2018. Everyday of february I had to draw a specific creature from the Cthulhu mythos.
Read MoreInterview for Artichaut Magazine March 18, 2018
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Ink and creatures. Incursion in the dark art of Mathieu Vaillancourt by Krystel Bertrand
Read MoreWhat is my main inspiration for my style?
in Writing
Maybe when you saw most of my art you already figured out what I am going to tell you. My main inspiration for my style, mostly in my inking, is the old engravings.
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