https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/craigpaton/hardcode The Kickstarter campaign for my new cyberpunk themed artbook, Hardcode, is now live and funded. Check out the link for more details, art and how to get your copy. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/craigpaton/hardcode -Craig The post Hardcode appeared first on Craig Paton Illustration ..read more

Is this the best job ever? @CraigPaton // @TheGeekyFox pic.twitter.com/nxvzIjDB4b — BBC The Social (@bbcthesocial) March 4, 2020 The post Interview with BBC The Social appeared first on Craig Paton Illustration ..read more

Killtopia Kickstarter     Been very busy these past few months working away on the artwork for Killtopia. Pretty overwhelmed by how well things have been going with the project ever since we launched the project back in February. As well as the phenomenal success of the Kickstarter (making over 400% of its original goal) Killtopia has since been picked up by publishers BHP Comics for UK wide distribution. Issues of Killtopia will be going out to backers and in stores to buy in October. The following is from an article I wrote as a Kickstarter update sharing some of the concept art ..read more

Discovering the thriving Scottish online art community. Life as a professional artist/illustrator can often be a solitary one. Weeks at a time sat at your desk or screen working into the wee hours drawing monsters to pay the bills. Eventually stumbling, blinking, into the daylight with only limited social skills, trying to fit in like an alien in disguise blending in with human society. Fortunately for us, there is a thriving online community of artists and illustrators worldwide operating as a mutual support and encouragement network, helping us all to remain sane and motivated in our work ..read more

Some quick and easy Photoshop time savers you might not be aware of. Working with Adobe Photoshop is essentially a major part of my day-to-day work. I’ll spend at least a few hours every day doing some work in Photoshop (drawing, painting, editing, photomanip, etc), so over time I’ve built up my own quick and dirty shortcuts, and ways of doing things that’ll save me a lot of time and effort. I use these so often, that I’ll forget that a lot of people (especially beginners and intermediates) might be completely unaware that some of these sneaky methods exist. So, I’ve put together a list of th ..read more

Looking to work with an illustrator on your project? Here’s a guide to the whole process, so you can know what to expect.   I must have worked on hundreds of illustration projects, from start to finish, by now. So, it’s sometimes easy for me to forget that not everyone is familiar with how an illustrator works and what the whole process of an illustration project involves. In order to shed light on that, this will be my guide to the illustration process, or at least it will be an explanation of how a typical project goes for me and the stages it goes through, from initial contact to end ..read more

Happy new year! Hello. Welcome to the first blog entry of my new website. I had hoped to launch this site a little earlier in the year, but it turns out building a website is a little more work than I had anticipated. So, a belated happy new year to you. I imagine by now you’ll have had a peruse of my latest artwork on my new portfolio section. I hope you have been suitably impressed. This section of the site is where I intend to bring you interesting blogs, features and articles on the subject of art and professional illustration. As well as updates on my work and shameless self-promotion of ..read more

Is this the best job ever? @CraigPaton // @TheGeekyFox pic.twitter.com/nxvzIjDB4b — BBC The Social (@bbcthesocial) March 4, 2020 The post Interview with BBC The Social appeared first on Craig Paton Illustration ..read more