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ImagineFX is the only magazine for fantasy and sci-fi digital artists. Each issue contains an eclectic mixture of in-depth workshops from the world's best artists, plus galleries and interviews, community news and product reviews. ***Please note: From September 2012 onwards our digital version feature links to download video tutorials and Q&A workshop resource files. Issues prior to September 2012 do not feature this additional content.***

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Berkan Özkan • After working as a civil engineer, Berkan chose to study art. “Since then I’ve been working as a freelance illustrator on comics, children’s books and games.”

Harry Rowland • Harry is a student who’s currently studying game art at UCA (University for the Creative Arts). “I’m inspired by the human form and take a keen interest in anatomy as well as classical artists,” he tells us.

Stella Spente • Stella loves art and storytelling related to horror, history and fantasy, and reveals that, “My biggest inspirations are biomechanics, Old Norse folklore, and the mysterious things that go bump in the night.”

Katerina Poliakova • Katerina is a freelance artist who also holds a biology degree. “I love games and I enjoy creating art for them,” she explains. “My deepest dream is to work on Magic: The Gathering art.”

Dan Watson • “I studied and worked as a mechanical design engineer before becoming a full-time illustrator,” says Dan. Now he enjoys painting and drawing dreams and nightmares inspired by mythology and folklore.

Olivier Bolduc • “I work as a 2D artist in an indie video game studio in Montreal,” says Olivier. “When I draw, I seek inspiration in nature and animals we’re not used to seeing. For me, the weirder the better!”

Stay fit and healthy: how to look after yourself • Body guards Artists rely on their bodies as much as their tools. Dom Carter hears how creators should look after them

IMPROVE YOUR WORK SPACE • An ergonomic studio makes for a healthy, happy artist…

How to get a job at ILM • Tom May speaks to ILM and discovers what skills you need to join the studio’s concept art team

Kerby Rosanes • Figuratively speaking The Manila-based illustrator’s creative den is a fine balance of objects for both work and play

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Letters YOUR FEEDBACK & OPINIONS

FRESH PAINT • New works that have grabbed our attention

ARTIST PORTFOLIO TRAN NGUYEN • Beren Neale discovers that this illustrator, like her work, exhibits calmness, certainty, poise and power even during times of crisis

THRIVING ONLINE • Here Tran details how social media self-promotion has had a positive knock-on effect for all of her work

CLIMB THE MOUNTAIN, DON’T PLATEAU! • According to Tran, it’s good to push yourself with experimentation, and strive to learn new skills

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Sketchbook MOON • Colourful sketches of melancholic characters populate this graffiti artist-turned-professional illustrator’s sketchbook

PAINT A PORTRAIT IN LIMITED COLOURS • Tran Nguyen shares her creative process behind The Mauve Girl and elaborates on the steps involved in capturing a female character

USE LIGHTING TO ENHANCE A STORY • Max Ulichney takes a simple idea of a boy listening to music, and uses Procreate’s brush, colour and lighting tools to ramp up the storytelling

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