Posts

"Permission" Illustration walk-through

Image
"Permission" Illustration walk-through "Permission" Chris Knight 2019   This post is a breakdown of how I approached this illustration and an insight into my general process. Every painting ends up taking it's own course and this was no exception, but many of the steps are common to my process.  THEMES AND IDEAS    "Shrine Guardian" Chris Knight 2018   If you've seen some of my other work you'll know that I love the theme of mysterious creatures in a deep, dense forest doing mysterious and magical things. For my next painting I wanted to continue playing in this world, but with with a different subject matter and slightly different thematic approach. One of my previous illustrations "Shrine Guardian" was the closest thing I've created to Fine Art (as opposed to commercial illustration) in a long time and I wanted to do another piece in that vein. Making a painting with a dryad as the subject matter has b...

2 and a half years ago I quit art. Yesterday I got into Spectrum.

Image
2 and a half years ago I quit art Yesterday I got into Spectrum "Shrine Guardian" - Chris Knight - 2018 May 2016: I just landed an assignment from a company I had been courting for years and was working for an art house doing concept art and illustrating for “dream” companies. One day I was putting the final touches on my final character illustration and my computer crashed, corrupting several files*. My Art Director was a sweetheart and despite missing my deadline by 2 sleepless days, all was cool.  Except I was in terminal burnout. I was at the height of my freelance career at that point but was working constantly alone in the dark. I would regularly peek through the window blinds, preoccupied by the memory of men kicking down my front door a year previous while my girlfriend and I barricaded ourselves in the bedroom. Professionalism was keeping my life together and missing that deadline tore me up. My father had a weird lump in his neck. I finished my assign...