Questions for the Artists

Jokolytic said:

I am an aspiring digital artist, and I have a couple of questions on the art of these games:

• Who does the art for the promos, loading screens, covers etc.? Is it one person or many?

• How are these painted? What programs are used (Photoshop? SAI?)? Is it done from scratch, based upon a traditional scanned paper sketch, or are references used?

• Can we PLEASE see some kind of speedpaint of a painting of a loading screen or cover by an artist? I'm so curious to see how these are made. It could be put on ParadoxExtra on Youtube!

Please answer these, I am dying to know!

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Jokolytic said:

Um, are these able to be answered or secret?

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You asked these questions rather late on a Friday evening (here in Sweden, at least). If you wait until Monday there might be better answers from a 2D-artist than from me as I am not an artist myself. Anyways:
* As you are asking in the PDS' part of the forum, you get to know that we have four 2D-artists (at least, that's how many there were last time I checked...) that all paint loading screens and other stuff. Covers might be outsourced to a third party, but some has been made in-house, such as the cover for March of the Eagles which was painted by Adrenaline. It all depends on how much work the 2D-artists have to do. That is especially true for promos, which might be painted in-house or outsourced. Sometimes it is cheaper to use a freelancer for stuff like that.
* I think that all our 2D-artists use Photoshop and have some kind of pen tablet like a Wacom or similar. How they produce things depends on the project and what we need. The rest of the question I think I'll let a real 2D-artist answer
* Nice idea, have you suggested that here? http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?801303-Paradox-Extra-wants-YOU!

Will Steel said:

Sorry to barge in the thread, but also being an aspiring digital artist (as well as being a real-life hobby artist, sketcher, painter and pianist) I always wondered what you guys used to paint these artworks. Digital pen/stylus with a pad probably? Or a touch monitor with a stylus?

I doubt the artist teams create these great works by clicking around with their mouse in MS Paint.

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I think most of them use a Wacom or similar:

SolSara said:

* I think that all our 2D-artists use Photoshop and have some kind of pen tablet like a Wacom or similar.

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