Kurt Michael Russell - comic book colorist, digital artist, and art instructor

Apollo pinup

K. Michael Russell January 3, 2014

Line-art by Valentin Ramon Menendez. Colors by K. Michael Russell.

This is for the Imaginary Drugs anthology: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1562823940/imaginary-drugs

I've been studying a lot of digital painting techniques, light and shadow exercises, atmospheric perspective; I think it really came through here.

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I've also started using Procreate on the iPad Pro recently. You can check it out here:

PC Setup

I get questions about my PC hardware often. My setup is completely overkill for coloring, but I do a lot of video editing, so keep that in mind! Here's my current setup:

Tablet

I am currently using a Wacom Intuos Art (Medium) & an iPad Pro 12.9 (2017)

I manage my YouTube channel with Tubebuddy. Great product for bulk copy editing and bulk annotation and card updating.

Kurt Michael Russell🎨

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