Portfolio Update
I updated my main portfolio with a few new illustrations. Have a look!
I updated my main portfolio with a few new illustrations. Have a look!
I recently worked on drawing illustrations for a website. As they feature a somewhat different style from what I usually post, I am uploading them here now.
After getting my hands on Procreate 4.2, I stumbled upon a great tutorial by Nikolai Lockertsen. He has a nice way to explain his workflow and gives many tricks on how to do certain things fast and efficient
Check out my latest painting. This time it’s a futuristic one. Painting ice helps with the temperatures outside, too.
The heavy armored tunnel squad, commanded by the experienced dragon slayer Broutgrok Redbrew, is fighting an enormous beast in one of their tunnels.
Ehrendil enjoyed the light chill that the rain had left behind. It didn’t rain much here in the woods, just enough to bring out the heavy forest air that he loved more than anything.
Gligtel looked around. The destruction was all around them. The whole farm building was burned down, and the fields were completely destroyed. Only the silo tower was left.
Gavif let the hammer crush onto the red hot piece of metal. Although she and Clobs were taking turns in this task, it was still very exhausting.
“Why do we have to guard this place?”, Jenva muttered to Wak, who was standing next to him in front of the massive iron door in the hills. Places like this were common here in Ikix, as the vast hill land offered plenty of opportunities for hidden cellars and catacombs.
“What’s he still doing up there?”, Gyrd asked, looking up to the slim platform where master Vanik was sitting for hours now, staring through the huge telescope and scribbling some notes every now and then.
I did this painting in a color-first approach, skipping the grayscale painting that I usually would do first to get my values right. It’s fun to try out different techniques.
So, in September 2017 I started 8 weeks of mentorship with Tyler Edlin. My goal was to further my skills in environment design and to build on past foundation classes @CGMA.
“Why do we have to guard this place?”, Jenva muttered to Wak, who was standing next to him in front of the massive iron door in the hills. Places like this were common here in Ikix, as the vast hill land offered plenty of opportunities for hidden cellars and catacombs.
Another one of my digital landscape studies. Small, gloomy town in a valley.
I am doing a set of landscape studies at the moment. While these should be quick studies, I really liked this one and spent a little more time on it to bring it to a higher level of finish.
In my last post I showed you some of the skull studies that I did recently.
Doing some skull studies.
With this painting of an owl I wish you all a Merry Christmas and happy holidays :-)
As I don’t have any time left to play World of Warcraft, one of my all-time favourite games, I took the time to practice my digital painting skills with a bit of fan art :-)
I recently got the book Master the Art of Speed Painting: Digital Painting Techniques. It is a really good read with great examples and resources.
After a good 18 days of Inktober drawings I had to stop early due to my CGMA class starting again. It was really fun and I can’t wait for next year.
This year for Inktober I chose the theme Dwarftober. My goal is to design and ink 31 fantasy dwarf characters with different jobs.
The last few weeks have been really busy with drawings, working on my homepage backend, and life. Unfortunately, I can’t show most of the drawings I did over the last few weeks just yet.
It was a very busy week, so my sketchbook didn’t see me at all. I can show you some plant sketches that I did for my CGMA class though. Those were done in Photoshop.
I actually did find some time to draw into my sketchbook this week. The first drawing was done in the park.
Yesterday I submitted the final version of my painting for the ArtStation challenge. I am quite happy with how it turned out.
This will be the final progress report on my ship painting for the ArtStation challenge, as the challenge ends in 8 days.
After some weeks of on-off work on my ArtStation challenge submission, I can now show you the progress I made.
This week was very heavy with drawing / designing digitally, so my sketchbook didn’t see me very often. I did some shape studies of old blacksmith tools though.
This week was all about doing some design decisions on the main shapes of my ship for the ArtStation challenge.
Spring has finally arrived in Munich, and with it a whole new season of outdoor sketching.
Last week, I decided to join the ArtStation challenge “The Journey”. I was already drawing a concept of a ship that I am now going to develop even further for this challenge.
First and foremost, I wish you all a Happy Easter!
Last weekend I got myself some pigmented ink. I just bought a small bottle of Cyan Blue Pigmented Ink by Rohrer & Klingner to try it out.
This week was really stuffed with homework from my CGMA class. Because most of this is done digitally, there is not a lot in my sketchbook this week.
Another week is coming to an end, and here you can see a mix of the projects I am currently working on.
As a follow-up on my last Sketchbook Sunday post, I am now showing you the design that I came up with for the little robot character that I sketched last week.
We are reaching week 3 of Sketchbook Sunday. This week was really stuffed with different projects, so you will find a healthy mess of sketches below.
This is my second Sketchbook Sunday post. It continues the dragon drawings from last week, but also has some new stuff with goblins and… telescopes?
With the new homepage layout finished, I am starting a new weekly blog series called Sketchbook Sunday.
With the new homepage layout finished, I am starting a new weekly blog series called Sketchbook Sunday.
Instead of leaving all my inktober posts online on their own, I am now putting them here as a whole gallery.
With the new homepage layout finished, I am starting a new weekly blog series called Sketchbook Sunday.
Today I am happy to announce that my personal portfolio homepage is online.