Naming conventions
I might have to rethink my naming convention for my personal files.
Skizzen, Illustration & übrigens
I might have to rethink my naming convention for my personal files.
This morning i bought 1200gr of Red Band “Saure Zungen”. It’s interesting how i can feel the sweat starting to pour from my forehead when i eat more than one. I wonder why that is.
Or whatever.
Idle painting wile thinking about about totally other stuff.
The GREY has Hamburg in its grip. Again.
Some relaxing drawings i did despite increased sleepyness due to heavy antibiotics which should finally rid out the cold/nasty virus-infection that i’ve been carrying for weeks now.
This depicts one of my earliest memories of me drawing. I not just remember standing in front of the TV drawing as fast as i could, but also how i prepared myself for the event.How i assembled the tools, got the paper ready and sharpened some pens – because when the show was on, there was no time for sharpening!
a little something i did yesterday for the slideshow of my art-rep.
Another one of the illustrations i did for Bigpoint. Its one of two character artworks that had to be done. Since it is in use on a variety of banners i can show it now.
I’m still quite happy with the result also considering how fast it was done.
aus aktuellem Anlass.
Fullres
I mentioned in my feb-march-recap that i did some illustrations for my former employer Bigpoint. I had lunch with some of the artists there today again and they told me that one of the visuals has been put to use and i can therefore show it to you know.
It’s the second of two visuals, a battle between two ships out of the Pirate Storm universe. This image took me quite a while (i think i did the first visual in half the time and it still looks and works better) and only came to a “succesfull” end through hard, forceful labour. I was “in the zone” with visual 1 when i was ordered to stop with that and instead start working on this one. If you’re an artist you know how hard it can be to switch from one image to another in the middle of things. Especially when things are just flowing and you’re trying to follow a vision.
So hard it was with this one. I spent many hours trying to figure out how to “fix” it, trying to create a somewhat cool visual while having the feedback of the client in mind and of course the future use of the piece to consider.
This visual will basically never be shown on its own. You will get to see bits and pieces on banners, on landingpages, in newsletters and so on.. but only pieces. Therefore the image had to be painted in parts and layers, lots of reusable layers.
I also added some examples of how it has been used. As you can tell this visual actually isn’t ideally set up to be used like that, the landingpages are quite crowded and hard to read. But those two examples also are the first two of many many many more to come landing pages. And experience shows that the first ones are the crappiest, because it’s a new visual and the landingpage artist has to get a feel on how to use the new material first. But it just shows so well that adding more and more explosions and other stuff doesn’t really help – at least in my opinion.
The numbers though seem to indicate that the visual doesn’t do too bad and helped to increase the view2reg-activity. Which is great, because even if i’m not all too happy with the result, it would only be really bad if the client was dissatisfied. Which fortunately for me, he isn’t.
The design of the ships wasn’t done by me, but provided by Bigpoint. They exist as actual in game assets. I don’t own credit for those.
While waiting for feedback on a small book illustration today, i dug out a sheet with seamonster-sketches i did last year at Bigpoint. I rushed out a bunch of sketches because the concept artist on monster duty suffered a bit from brain drain and i wanted to provide them with a few new ideas.
Some of my sketches were actually fleshed out into full concept artwork and converted into a 3D-model. But i don’t know for sure which ones are now actually in game.
Interesting thing though, i really like working with quick rough sketches on ever growing sheets. Doesn’t matter if its prop concept art, monsters or medieval armor pieces… i start with one row and then the sheet just keeps growing. I really enjoy working like that. Spending my time on exploration instead of polishing.
Friday night, after 10pm, what a great timing to launch an experiment shop.
I just launched a society6-Shop, right now it only features one motif, but there will come more. I promise.
Here’s the first image that i’ve created and uploaded to society6.
I’m also looking into/hoping to find somebody to help me make some Shirts out of this/and other motifs.
And there’s another blueberry muffin illustration.
A few hours of doodeling went into this one. The ship depicted is one that i had to paint for the Pirate Storm marketing images that i mentioned earlier this day. It’s called “Fullmoon event ship”, so i painted it in a night scene instead of the caribbean daylight scenes that i had to paint for the visuals.
I actually painted it a bit brighter and with a range of vibrating colors in the water, but desaturated the piece at the end because it looked better.
#17 Just some random doodles.
I spent the weekend in Berlin, spending my birthday at the Dr.Sketchy-Exhibition, doing some research in the ethnological museum, drawing a lot, enjoying the nice weather etc.
freelancing would look more like this!
#14
#13
I’d love to share some insight on what’s going on with this one. If i had any myself.
There’s number 12, even though i enjoyed the Immortal Iron Fist Comics by Brubaker/Fraction/Aja i never really could take the guy serious.
#11
I still struggle with simplistic stuff like this. But i enjoy it so much. Have to take out the Charley Harper book once more.
I’m so bad at doing regular things besides work. Sorry. I have to force myself to not just work but take time to sketch. Here’s another one.
#9:
Daily Sketch #8
Who ever said that dragons had to be creatures of flesh and blood?
Daily Sketch #6
