Azaraen – Handpainter's Guild

Happy 4th Year Anniversary!

Every year I am so happy and proud to see how much this community has grown. We’ve had members get hired for their dream jobs, place in Blizzard’s Student Art Competition, improve in skill/technique, participate Bi-Weekly in the Show and Tell with Nickelbeer, and forged new friendships here in the guild.

Your accomplishments, dreams, and determination to learn gives this community life. You make this guild the wonderful place that it is. Thank you… Thank you so very much!

And thank you to the Guild Associates who keep the guild in order and help provide direction to members who seek it out.

The Guild Associates and I wish you all continued growth and productivity in your endevours. We can’t wait to see what you all will make in the coming year.

To celebrate the Anniversary, we’ve created a new logo! Special thanks to Traggey for helping me create the logo!

Sincerely,
Azaraen

Show and Tell February Schedule

We’ll be hosting Show and Tell on Sunday, February 10th and Sunday, February 24th. Show and Tell participation starts at 7pm GMT (11am PST) and usually has a soft cut off at 2 hours (depending on participation).

Show and Tell is a moderated live session which gives the opportunity to give and receive constructive criticism with your fellow guild mates on hand painted WiP as well as finished pieces. Participation is open to all members across all skill levels. We meet in the #tavern-room channel for posting work, paintovers, etc. We also take advantage of the Tavern voice channel to be able to give direct feedback. Voice chat is not required, but it is heavily encouraged (as it keeps the pace moving)

If you have any questions, feel free to tag or message a @Guild Associate or me directly @Nickelbeer (Michael). We look forward to seeing you there.

Workshop: Love

February workshop time! For this month the topic will be “Love”

It’s February and we’re working our way towards Valentine’s day. Maybe it’s time to make some chocolates, a silly stuffed animal, a flower bouquet, or a run down kissing booth run by smarmy goblins.

Starting today feel free to post your progress in #the-workshop where you can give and receive focused critiques. There aren’t any specific limits to triangles or texture size, but keeping a target in mind to work towards is still a good idea.

Pick a target to work towards and gather reference. We’d like to see reference from so that we can more accurately critique your work. That being said, your reference can be from anything from a game to a traditional painting. Just something to help establish your goals.

Lastly, have fun, good luck!

Workshop: Frozen

January workshop time! For this month the topic will be “Frozen”

Warm wishes for the new year but alas, winter has come to the workshop. Hone your skills crafting a barren landscape or perhaps a 3d portrait of hearty warriors of Northern lands. Whether you create a character, prop, weapon, or environment it should embody the icy grip of winter. Or maybe it’s just a hot pocket that hasn’t gone in the microwave yet? I don’t know.

Starting today feel free to post your progress in #the-workshop where you can give and receive focused critiques. There aren’t any specific limits to triangles or texture size, but keeping a target in mind to work towards is still a good idea.

Pick a target to work towards and gather reference. We’d like to see reference from so that we can more accurately critique your work. That being said, your reference can be from anything from a game to a traditional painting. Just something to help establish your goals.

Lastly, have fun, good luck!

Happy New Year!

I hope you all had a wonderful break, some time to yourself, time with family, and a renewed drive to be a better you in the year 2019!

It’s always a pleasure to see new and familiar faces in the guild. And as of today we’ve grown to 896 members! Our resources have also grown, but they are kinda all over the internet. So I’m working on updating our guild site! Current version – https://handpaintersguild.com/

And I need some thing from you guys, if you can help!

If you have done an interview or process article, ping me with a link in the #lounge! @Azaraen I want to gather all that awesome information for people to find in a convenient hub page! It will link out to where those things are hosted.

I am excited to show you the site someday! I’m sure it will be a great place for artists interested in advancing their experience with handpainting, with room for scaling to other related subjects! For now, stay patient and keep up the great work everybody! Thank you!!

Workshop: Get Spooky!

October workshop time! For this month the topic will be “GET SPOOKY”.

I mean, honestly? How could I choose anything different? This month we’re going to focus on Fall, Halloween, spooky stuff. Will you choose a monster mash? Perhaps a graveyard smash? Whatever you choose as long as it aligns with creepy, crawly, bump in the night creations.

Starting today feel free to post your progress in #the-workshop where you can give and receive focused critiques. There aren’t any specific limits to triangles or texture size, but keeping a target in mind to work towards is still a good idea.

Pick a target to work towards and gather reference. We’d like to see reference from so that we can more accurately critique your work. That being said, your reference can be from anything from a game to a traditional painting. Just something to help establish your goals.

Lastly, have fun, good luck!

Changes to the Realistic Realm Channel

We’ve changed its name to #non-handpainted-room!

So now all things realistic and PBR will go into this room; as they both use somewhat similar lighting/rendering techniques. The handpainted style involves different techniques where you paint/bake all the lighting information into the diffuse with little to no scene lighting/rendering.

So with those differences in mind, we wanted to give them each other own places for people to use and get more appropriate feedback on their work.

Thanks for reading! Have a great weekend everyone!

New Guild Associate!

Join me in welcoming @YBourykina (Katia) as a Guild Associate!!

She has been a great inspiration for us as artists, but also a very welcoming guild member! She is an amazing artist who has shared tons of her knowledge online (https://www.artstation.com/ybourykina/blog as one of those places), and has been a voice of support here in the guild.

We are happy to have her join us and continue to be a positive influence in the community!

Thanks Katia!!!

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE

This Friday is the start of my sales for Black Friday and the 3d world is no different.

Starting on Friday, 3DCoat will be $100 off on Pro and Floating licenses. If you were looking to take advantage of this software it may be a good time to dive in.

Happy 3rd Year Anniversary!

Hey everybody! Time has gone by quickly, and we have reached our 3rd year as a guild together! Can you believe it!? We started as a tiny guild on Slack with only a small group. I’m so honored to be in this community with all you wonderful people. Thank you so much for being here and sharing your passion.

Notable Guild Events:

We have had a total of 2 IRL meetups at GDC and BlizzCon (which we will be doing again this year).
We had MANY workshops to help guild members level up!
We have grown to 750 members & 5 Reil Bots!

Check out all the finished 3d art that our members made on Sketchfab (link)!

And if you are interested in these workshops, you can head over to #the-workshop channel and participate in this month’s challenge.

“Get Spooky!”

Or click here to view the workshop details here on the website.

BlizzCon 2018

This year, I’ll be at BlizzCon again, so as of today we have a new temporary channel called #blizzcon, and if anybody wants to have a meetup there, then lets do it!

Are you new?

We provide many resources that would help new and veteran artists on their path of learning.

List of Handpainted Tutorials: link
List of Handpainted/Stylized Studios: link
Handpainted Material References: link
Guild Twitter (so that you can get reposted): Use @hpguild or #hpguild https://twitter.com/HPGuild

Share your memories!

If you have any special memories or art made in the guild, please share on twitter by replying https://twitter.com/HPGuild/status/1051866810629255171 and/or posting in the #lounge .