The Thing fx

 An amazing site called outpost31 has everything one would want to know about the making of the John Carpenters The Thing.  This movie has been inspiring artist like myself for a long time.  Great stuff here.
http://www.outpost31.com/movie/specialfx.html

Click the picture to go to Outpost31.com

Artur Sadlos Dead Island concept art

Great concept work 

http://www.artursadlos.blogspot.com/

Understanding Interpolation

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/image-interpolation.htm

This is good to know about digital painting. 

Imagine FX Magazine

http://www.imaginefx.com/home.aspx

If you don't know about Imagine FX check it out.  It is an amazing magazine that has so many free tutorials on their website and the dvd that comes with the magazine is a class in its self. 

Jason Aaron Baca Male Model For Comics, Cover art, and Digital art

Male reference is hard to come by as is, but Jason even offers specific poses for a model fee payable through Paypal.  It is very reasonable.  Check out his work and remember if you use his pictures even as reference for anatomy give him a plug.  All of use creatives are on the same team here. 

http://jasonaaronbaca.deviantart.com/

Monitor colour Calibration

http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/
By no mean is perfect and if one wants a true colour calibration for their monitor they should either by an high end monitor that has built in colour calibration like some Apple monitors.  Or one should buy a colour calibration software.  However if you are like me and cannot afford these tools, then your best bet is to eyeball it.  I have found this website to be the best.

Really Creepy Image size

This has nothing to do with education but it is really creepy, it just happened, and I want to write it down.  So, I am painting a demon for personal work and I have been looking up things about demons.  During this search I decide to re-size my image that I have been working on for some time. I re-sized it with the new crop tool in PS5 which allows you to re-size the canvas without putting in any numbers, you just drag outside your image to the desired size.  After painting for a bit I decided to look at the image size. It is 6666 x 6000.  How creepy is that. I researched about demons on this website if you are interested. 

http://www.pantheon.org/