Sunday, August 31, 2008

Space girl - final chicka

Not really how I wanted, but I say its finished for now... might be going back to sort out the background and add more definition to the character later...

Saturday, August 30, 2008

Space girl - wip 03

next step, i think one more round with defining the textures / materials more and its gonna be ready... uploading tomorrow probably.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Space girl

another week - another chow! :-)
speedpainting / first composition idea - about 1h...

Pencil sketches

I finally managed to scan my last sketchbook (thanks Csanad!) and I decided t start a sketch section on my website. Soooooo, if you are like these doodles below, you can find a lot more HERE.





































Sunday, August 24, 2008

Blood Moon Monk - final

changed some parts and added some details. it could be more nailed out, but I think I just leave it like this...

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Male nude

another thursday - another life drawing session. there was a real pro model this time...

1 min / pose


















10 mins / pose


















10 mins / pose


















5 mins

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Monk concept art - wip 02



















pushed further a bit - now I am quiet satisfied with the tones and colors. it still needs lots of more details though, like some cool tattoos or something...

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Monk concept art



















a start for this week`s character of the week concept at ca.org.
work in progress...

Monday, August 18, 2008

Jungle river











environment speedpaint - mainly just testing some new custom brushes...
usual CS3 + intuos3 combo, about 40 mins.

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Dragon hunter



















Usually I don`t really like painting environments in my freetime, because I am working as an environment concept artist... Actually I just started to doodle around and I quiet liked those spike-like rocks, so I started to detail it further. Then I needed a character to add a scale... but what the hell that knight doing on this unfriendly landscape? he is chasing a dragon of course! :-)

Done in about 2,5 hours in Photoshop and - what is a bit unusual from me - I just used one (!!!) layer and only a basic square brush.

Afternoon sleep











My girlfriend had a pretty nasty migrenic headache this afternoon, so she had a sleep.
I just started to play around with Painter and decided to make a life drawing exercise about her. It was mainly about capturing the different colors and try out the acrylic tool. I am more a Photoshop guy, so it didn`t really turned out how I wanted... I made the final touches in CS3 - the whole process was about an hour.

Friday, August 15, 2008

Mermaid queen - final



















Here is the final image... I am thinking about making some color tinting, but I will leave it for now... About 30 hours of work in cs3, original size is about 5000 x 2500 px.
(I will put together some tutorial about this one as well somewhere next week...)

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Dark girl



















Portrait doodle sketch - limited the time for 30 mins as I wanted to keep it loose...

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Mermaid queen - wip 02



















Still loads of things to do - adding more life / details / atmosphere / ambient lighting / etc., but it`s getting closer...
Hope you like it!

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Burlesque sketches






















































































Just were at an alternative (not a good word, but don`t really know better heh) sketching group event. The whole thing was mainly about having a couple of drinks and drawing girls in costumes in a pub. It was just awesome! Thanks Dr. Sketch! Thanks Whammy Bar! :-)

Life drawing 02





































































another thursday life drawing session - unfortunatelly with the same model again.
I used 0.3 black marker and different gray brush-tip markers this time. 3-15 mins / each.

Friday, August 8, 2008

Hey pal... ar ya talkin` to me



















Black and white sketch just to have fun and to do some tone exercise....
About 25 mins with just playing around with some custom brushes as always...

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Mermaid queen - wip



















A more detailed illustration after the first phase of the work... still loads of things to do on this one, but I thought I will post it...
Take care!

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Mongol assassin



















Really quick speedpainting portrait as a bit of refresh after work.
Just playing around with different brushes for about one hour and this is the result...

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Lake in the cave











speedpainting about a futuristic cave city for a personal project - might continue tomorrow as I quiet like the colors. needs more details and could be a bit more scary in mood somehow...

Saturday, August 2, 2008

Life drawing













































































































I went to a life drawing course to Devonport with some friends from work this Thursday.
I haven`t done life drawing since my first year on the uni, so its quiet fun to start it again... working in huge scale on an easel - hell yeah! :-)
Here is the result of the first session. 3-20 mins / pose with chalk and/or pencil.