DVD versions of the Female Hunter and The Final Charge tutorials are now available for purchase through my store. There are only 20 copies of each tutorial available, so get them while they last! Female Hunter DVD – $25 Length – 124 minutes 1 Disc Bonus Material – Layered PSD, High-Res JPGs, Portfolio Gallery The [...]

Well, yesterday I had the idea that it might be cool to make some DVDs of my video tutorials. The Magic: The Gathering US National Championships in Minneapolis is coming up, so I wanted to have some available for the show. I have this little portable Sony DVD player that I could setup at my [...]

Wooo! I finally finished making my new video tutorial, The Final Charge. I had recorded this video earlier this year and started on the audio a few months ago. The other day I was able to squeeze in some time to finish the audio and complete the video. It ended up taking an entire day [...]

Last week ImagineFX #58 came out which features my first workshop for the magazine. I am very excited to finally have something in the magazine. I have been a fan for a long time, so it is great to finally join the ranks of great artists that have already graced the pages. The workshop features [...]

I was actually able to squeeze in some time to work on my new tutorial. I am officially 33% finished with the audio! Now that I have several tutorials under my belt, recording the audio has gone a lot smoother. I actually didn’t have to redo any of the audio yet. Usually I don’t know [...]

Howdy doods and doodettes. I am working on a new tutorial in my spare time (lol) and I wanted to take a page from Cryptcrawler’s (Brad Rigney) tutorial and open it up to questions from the public. I have done several tutorials now and I feel like I keep repeating the same things. There are [...]

Hey howdy. It has been awhile since I last updated, my apologies. Things have been kinda crazy around here lately…by crazy I mean my normal work schedule. Actually no, so far this year freelance has been pretty slow, which means I can work on more personal stuff. Three weeks ago I launched my first purchasable [...]

The trailer for the Female Hunter tutorial is up on my YouTube site. The store will launch on February 10th, so stop by on Wednesday! The url for the store will be daarken.com/store.  I just wanted to remind people that this video tutorial is not available as a physical DVD, but is only available as [...]

Woooo, I finally finished recording my new video tutorial, let the clouds part and angels rejoice. My days of recording in the closet are over…until the next time I start recording a new tutorial that is. The video is approximately 128 minutes of real time video. There are two versions available, one in 1280×800 for [...]

As many of you know I have been releasing free video tutorials for the past 5 months on my YouTube site. In addition to those I have released several written tutorials over the past few years. I have always genuinely believed in giving back to the artistic community in any way that I can. I [...]