Neil Blevins

Yup, it’s exactly the same thing, just different names

2 new written tutorials uploaded. I promise new videos in the new year once I finish teaching, but until then, hope you find these interesting. The difference between additive and subtractive color www.neilblevins.com/art_lessons/... and painting metal materials www.neilblevins.com/art_lessons/...

Sorry you missed out on longque’s book. I got Eddie’s larger book last year and it is indeed awesome, glad you managed to grab a copy and are enjoying it.

While at #lightboxexpo2025 picked up 2 books, the pen and ink sketches of Longque Chen, and Eddie Smith's (Halo OG) first sketchbook. Awesome stuff, if you see Longque at another con, pick up his book, or you can get Eddie's here: www.edsmith-visualatrium.com

The most important staple of scifi :)

Just got back from #LightboxExpo2025 and I noticed my hotel had some wallpaper that looked suspiciously like one of my megastructure paintings (or is it the other way around?) :D Hexagons are fun!

Finally arrived at Lightbox expo after 2 cancelled flights and an aborted landing at Burbank. The talk on making art books went well, second photo is the talk, got lots of positive feedback and good questions. Rest of the show will be checking out art and other panels #lightbox2025 #LBX2025

4th StarTrek Making Of book from Titan, this time Search For #Spock. Not my favorite of the Star Trek films, but the story of how it came to be is compelling, plus lots of gorgeous artwork. #Startrek

Got a chance to do some still life painting last week. No worry about commercial viability or the impending AI doom, just us pushing digital paint around in Procreate trying to match the lighting on a bust. Not a perfect replica, but feel I captured the vibe. So refreshing. #painting #illustration

Happy Anniversary!

Love how it turned out!

US politicians did. At least half the country is still very happy to be a part of the planet :)

God that blows, they won't ship to the US :(

I grabbed a copy, so should you :)

Looks like another #PortfolioDay Showing off some personal favorites and maybe a couple of portfolio pieces that are a bit more obscure

Yup, the next book I do will have to be more expensive even if the tariffs go away.

So assuming a $40 cover price that's $10 per book to pay the writers, layout artist, royalties, etc. Now with the tariffs on china, I'm sure the whole economic model is thrown on its head. I suspect making these books is not as profitable as one would think.

I don't know profit margins, but I do know a little about sales numbers, artbooks for major films sell on average 20-50k copies. Only a few top movies inch past the 100k mark. You can print these books for approx $10 each (at these volumes). Book store gets half...

Hopefully. The Avatar art books have always been a bit of a mixed bag. That first book was anemicly thin, like a total after thought. The second book was great. Would love a more regular schedule and 250+ pages every time :)

I’m actually quite surprised they haven’t mentioned an art book yet. Of course there’s the Dylan Cole book and there seems to be an art /making of book with bits from all 3 films, but no dedicated avatar 3 book announced yet

"we basically sold Disney a film that we had no way to make" kinda feel that's how all films work these days :) Although now it's about how to get that many fx for such a low budget :D

So awesome. More, more!!!!

Come see me at #LightBoxExpo for my talk on how to Create, Finance and Publish your own Artbook. If this has always been your dream but you don't know where to start, this talk will go through all the self publishing steps in detail! lightboxexpo.com/schedule/lis... #lightbox #lightbox2025 #LBX2025

Today for #ThrowbackThursday we're doing #PurpleArt Considering my love of the color purple, I'm surprised I don't have a ton of purple artwork. Something to fix in the future #scifi #art #painting

I do not. May look into it, have some other books I want to pick up first though.

Seems Bungie, at least in the past was more hands on. But maybe they can outsource it to the publisher this time around.

Prefer the slightly more desaturated one you have on artstation personally.

Ya, not to mention with a smaller company now, they likely have fewer people to work on a book. Game first, see how it fares, then I suspect a book after that.

Even in a world with a billion youtube videos, I still get many questions on what books do I recommend for learning how to make art. So here's a list of some of my favs and why you should consider getting them: www.neilblevins.com/art_lessons/... #arttip #artressources #artlessons #arteducation

Artist draws spaceships inspired by household items Artist Eric Geusz only needed some art supplies and a quick rummage through his kitchen drawers to create these interstellar artworks.

I assume you've seen this guy's work? www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/46...