24 Oct 2020

Drawings For A Book

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.

17 Jan 2019

Graveyard In Winter

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

15 Aug 2018

Ice Canyon

Check out my latest painting. This time it’s a futuristic one. Painting ice helps with the temperatures outside, too.

08 Aug 2018

Tunnel Beast

The heavy armored tunnel squad, commanded by the experienced dragon slayer Broutgrok Redbrew, is fighting an enormous beast in one of their tunnels.

24 Jul 2018

Shrine In The Woods

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.

16 Jul 2018

Goblin Farm

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.

10 Jul 2018

Goblin Blacksmith

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.

03 Jul 2018

Goblin Brewery

“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.

25 Jun 2018

Goblin Observatory

“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.

18 Jun 2018

Cavern Gemstone

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.

22 Mar 2018

Mentorship Testimonial: Tyler Edlin

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.

22 Aug 2017

Back With A New Painting

“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.

31 Mar 2017

Landscape Study: Cherry Tree

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.

11 Dec 2016

WoW Fanart: Orc Painting

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 :-)

18 Nov 2016

Science Fiction Speed Painting

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.

10 Nov 2016

Inktober 2016: Days 12-18

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.

12 Oct 2016

Inktober 2016: Days 1-11

This year for Inktober I chose the theme Dwarftober. My goal is to design and ink 31 fantasy dwarf characters with different jobs.

31 Jul 2016

Animals And Grumpy Guys

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.

29 May 2016

CGMA Homework

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.

15 May 2016

Spring and Monsters

I actually did find some time to draw into my sketchbook this week. The first drawing was done in the park.

17 Apr 2016

Studying Blacksmith Tools

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.

10 Apr 2016

Studying Ships

This week was all about doing some design decisions on the main shapes of my ship for the ArtStation challenge.

31 Mar 2016

ArtStation Challenge: The Journey

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.

23 Mar 2016

Playing with pigmented ink

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.

20 Mar 2016

Hands and monsters

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.

09 Mar 2016

Cute little robot

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.

06 Mar 2016

Goblins, Characters & Mushrooms

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.

28 Feb 2016

More Dragons & Goblins

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?

20 Feb 2016

New Homepage Layout

With the new homepage layout finished, I am starting a new weekly blog series called Sketchbook Sunday.

27 Aug 2015

Music Video Artwork

With the new homepage layout finished, I am starting a new weekly blog series called Sketchbook Sunday.