Sam Fontaine Studios

So in the last few weeks I've been trying to get better at drawing believable scifi technology. For a long time I've felt like the technology I come up with is a little too... blocky and doesn't quite mirror real life technology the way I would like for it to. So I've been studying and sketching machinery and gadgets from various scifi series and also using real life machines, like car engines and those new military robots. I think it's been helping quite a bit and I've been

The next illustration for the scifi novel, "A Chronicle Volume II" by EAE Gerber is done! This one is a spaceport that is a mall that customers and pilots can browse while their ship gets serviced by a series of technicians. I really enjoyed realizing this piece for the book. It was fun to create a museum like structure to show off various types of ships and alien technicians. I also had fun drawing the mall scene, I don't usually draw crowds of characters but this one was fu

I recently had a lot of commissions to work on all within a short amount of time and when they all reached completion I was faced with a terrible amount of artistic burn out and lack of inspiration that I found to be rather depressing. I went online and did some research on techniques that other professional artists use in order to combat burn out. What I found was an interesting meditative technique called "Automatic Drawing" which was used by one of my favorite artists of a

I recently got myself an Ipad and the drawing app Procreate (highly recommend)! So I've been experimenting with this new software and there was a bit of learning curve, nothing too steep and I recently got myself into the groove of it and I decided to use it to create a full colored drawing out of an old drawing from my sketchbook from earlier this year. The drawing was a detailed sketch of a dystopian cityscape controlled by a mushroom shaped central AI tower. The Procreate

Hi all! I've been super busy recently with some commissions recently which I'm super grateful for. Over this Labor Day weekend I took some time to play around with another digital and traditional media mix. This piece is called "Exploring the Past" since the robot is looking through a laptop from a past civilization. The background was inspired by the art of Roger Dean and Moebius. I started this piece with a fountain pen since it operates much smoother than regular pens and

Along with the series of Dungeons and Dragons character illustrations I was working on, I was also simultaneously working on a scifi city landscape illustration. I call it the "Citadel" and it is one of my favorite scifi illustrations I've done. I learned from a fellow digital painter that sometimes if you want to make a believable texture in your painting, that you should find the actual texture. By that I mean go online and look for a photo that has the texture you want to