I cannot get enough of progress articles! I love seeing the steps an artist takes to get to the final product. CGSociety had a great one last month from Jonas Persson, a student in Stockholm.

Portrait of a Troll –>

Here’s a neat twist on the lettering process – first the requisite sketch, then creating vectors in Illustrator – and then bringing the artwork into 3ds MAX for a text effect which is then brought back into Illustrator and Live Traced. I’d never have thought to do that, but it looks pretty fantastic.

Ornate Lettering Process –> [via NotCot]

Marta Dahlig is the artist responsible for the cover art of the beautiful Exotique 3 masterpiece I showed you yesterday, called Umbrella Sky. She obligingly takes us through some of the steps she followed to create this work of art over at CGSociety.

Umbrella Sky –>

This is totally amazing. Scroll through all the pages to see the subtle progressions it took Ziv Qual to pull a model through from concept to completion. The texturing work is amazing.

View the Progress of 3D Texturing –>