RJ Palmer AKA: Arvalis is a professional concept artist and illustrator living and working in the USA. Arvalis is a generalist artist and is able to design pretty much anything he puts his mind to, though he is partial to dinosaur art.
I think the first thing that attracted me to Arvalis was his "Realistic Pokemon" series, in which he redrew the original pokemon creatures into a more realistic and anatomically accurate version of themselves. His initial artwork is very heavily thumbnail based and he spends a lot of his time making many little passes and shapes for his initial creature shapes to get the proper feel of the creature that he is designing which I found very interesting and important, its something that I've started to do more often with my own creature designs.
Another thing that attracted me to his artwork was that he is quite heavily line art based in his initial planning and spends hours on end creating hundreds of individual details on the creature that he is designing and this is something that I do, however when I do it it seems to come out more messy and crowded than anything.
However, he has recently opened a skillshare site to teach people who to do the creatures that he makes, the one above is the feature design for the skillshare that his students can aspire to create.
His class is only $19 so it really is a steal to have someone so skilled teaching you and giving you one to one advice when you need it.
Anyone aiming for a more realistic approach to their creature art should definitely check Arvalis out, you can find his profile HERE
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