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Art Express's Monthly Report


Texturer of the Month

Rott


Seriously who the hell else? Rott has been an underground artists for a while time for him to get some spotlight, he totally deserves this award, if you dont feel so please feel free to PM me with your complaint, congrats to Rott.

Shop of the Month

Skura's Avatar/Signature Shop


Perfectly executed art and taking avatar/sig making out of the box skura totally deserves this months award for shop of the month, with thread interface art that makes him different from all the rest, you can check him out by clicking his image.
Coolest Idea of the Month

Qc3 with the layout of his shop

Qc3 wins the idea of the month award, he was actually supposed to be texturer of the month but I thought this would be better suited, with his layout of his shop which is strictly organized and flows smoothly you can check him out by clicking the picture above.


This Months Tip Section : Pen tooling

Pen tooling is a quite complex yet simple form of texturing what makes this form complex is the fact that there are curve weights that can effect the angle that you want to take. The first impression of a texturer starting the pen tool is one of "Holy shit, why doesn't it go where I want it to go!". Well you can easily fix this reaction by using a simple command, hold alt and click the weight square of your current path point, this will then delete the second curve weight and let you start a new direction, what I have just said can be better illustrated through this tutorial.
Also you can make more intricate shapes by pulling your path whatever direction you want it, adding more discrete curves and angles, As shown below, so here is a basic tutorial on the pen tool.


Video of the Month

This months VIDEOS of the month are brought to you by the OLDA video competition entries including Warcry,skulfuk,Deady, and Rutz


Warcry

Rutzor

Deady

Skulfuk

And that concludes this months edition of Art Express hope you guys enjoyed it,
If you have any information of an artist that deserves the spotlight please PM Mrama , with a link and description of the artist.