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Shutter Island Study 3

2011-12-14T23:58:00.003+01:00

Again a quick evening study with a badass rim light!

Shutter Island Study 2

2011-12-13T23:07:00.000+01:00

Again a 'Shutter Island' cinematography study. Oh my..., there are infinite cool shots on Evan Richards Blog that I want to paint!!!

Cinematography Study

2011-12-10T13:34:00.001+01:00

Here's a 1h cinematography study with focus on comp and colors, as always. Christian Alzmann from ILM gave me the wonderful hint to have a look at Evan Richards BLOG from time to time.

Art Deco Grandiosity

2011-11-17T00:51:00.000+01:00

This is a personal artwork again with a focus on architecture.
On a planet far far away...

Massive Black Workshop - San Francisco

2011-11-09T22:54:00.000+01:00

Yeahh! I will be attending the Massive Black Workshop in San Francisco. I'm going to be in SF from November 18-23. If someone is interested in meeting, just let me know!
Cheers

Antagonism

2011-11-07T01:06:00.001+01:00

This is a new personal concept with a bit more of a story behind. I really wanted to polish this one as an establisher shot. But still I wanted to keep the amount of time spent under 2 'usual' working days.

Canyon Base

2011-10-28T22:58:00.002+02:00

Dune du Pyla - Study

2011-09-21T23:56:00.000+02:00

Dune du Pyla near Bordeaux
next quick study! It's not plein-air...sorry, but my time will come!

Refinery Study

2011-09-20T23:30:00.000+02:00

This is a 1-2 hour study of a keyframe from '30 days of night'
I like the lighting a lot

The Art of Games - Gamescom 2011

2011-09-12T12:51:00.000+02:00

Hey,
For those who are interested in printed game concept artworks.
I made some photographs from this years Gamescom with two of my
concepts I've done at Deck13. These artworks are showing two fantasy
creature designs for our current RPG project. Thanks for the organisation,
the brilliant prints and presentation.

In the near future, many prints will be available at:
http://www.the-art-of-games.com/

Next ipad sketch

2011-08-05T22:52:00.003+02:00

The next quick sketch with the ipad. 2 min tweaks in photoshop,

First ipad sketch

2011-08-01T23:52:00.000+02:00

I received the Wacom Bamboo Stylus today for my ipad and I had to paint something on it. This is a study of a Leroy Grannis photography. It shows a depression-era delivery truck turned sixties surf habitat. About 2 hrs with procreate on the ipad and 5 min photoshop

My San Francisco Girl

2011-06-19T15:37:00.001+02:00

After the Anders Zorn studies I decided to make a 'study' of my girl:) It is based on a photo, which was shot in San Fran a while ago, but the light coming from the back looked pretty good.
I used a hard round brush, soft round brush, some texture brushes, the smudge tool, highpass for sharpening the hair, a slight grain on top, and the brushes set to color dodge for the ears, where the light is shining through;) Took me a couple of hours with no color picking or tracing the real photo. Let me know what you think!

Anders Zorn Study 02

2011-06-09T23:59:00.002+02:00

Ok, this one was stress! The skintones in the face were much harder to read. Everytime I had to increase the saturation after a couple of brushstrokes...always too flat and too grey...This one was also started at lunchtime a while ago and now I finished it at home. Took me twice the time of the first study :(

Anders Zorn Study 01

2011-05-31T09:25:00.000+02:00

Started at lunch time 30 min with focus on colors and shapes and I decided to finish the sketch to really 'understand' the skintones. An additional hour of detailing went into it. Of course no color picking or tracing!

CAUL - Short Film - Piotr Vampire Concept

2011-05-03T19:38:00.000+02:00

This is another concept for the upcoming short film 'Caul'.I focused on the film look, and
the terrifying expression of Piotr.
More information about the film and fund raising at http://www.indiegogo.com/caul
You can help to make this project happen!
Join the Facebook page www.facebook.com/caulfilm

CAUL - Short Film - Jozef Concept

2011-05-01T11:38:00.000+02:00

This is another concept for the short film called 'Caul'. It shows the sad father Jozef on the birthday of his son after the hunt. I tried to give him clothes typical for 17th century lower and mid class polish people. More information about the film at www.indiegogo.com/caul

CAUL - Short Film - Priest Concept

2011-04-27T13:30:00.000+02:00

This is a priest concept I did besides my job for award winning director Azhur Saleem for his next ambitious short film called 'Caul'. More information about the film at http://www.indiegogo.com/caul
You can also help to make this project happen! More concepts to come!
Join the Facebook page www.facebook.com/caulfilm

Pokerstars Advertisement

2011-04-27T13:23:00.001+02:00

Here is something different I have done freelance a few months ago for PIXOMONDO. I was asked to do Printstill Compositing/Retouching for 3 stills included in the pokerstars.de campaign. The job was to bring together all the different pieces (photo, 3d, background etc.), which were delivered by different agencies, and to polish it.

MODFA Exhibition

2011-04-10T20:14:00.000+02:00

The MUSEUM OF DIGITAL FINEART is showcasing my artwork 'At the Dam' in their April Exhibition.
Thank you Solomon!

Discarded Characters

2011-04-09T14:23:00.000+02:00

These are discarded characters that I have done at Deck13 more than a year ago. Now, I am allowed to show these illus before they get dusty in the drawer:)

So sad

2011-03-23T00:15:00.001+01:00

This is a personal artwork. Started with a black and white sketch as before and detailed it a couple of hours. I used some post effects like color grain etc. to make it more 'realistically'
This is heavily influenced by the characters of curiousart over at cghub. Same topic of a space knight.

Bad girl

2011-03-17T00:09:00.003+01:00

And a-nother quick one for tonight. No ref used.

Bad guys

2011-03-16T00:28:00.000+01:00

More quick sketches to come down in same style.

Space Vagabond

2011-03-14T23:37:00.000+01:00

Here's a quick one. Just doodlin around tonight to relax. I love those space vagabond characters, maybe Han Solo inspired...I don't know. Thanks for stopping by. Cheers

Under Fire

2011-03-12T15:44:00.002+01:00

This is a personal mood sketch. For me it is important to stay flexible, versatile and quick in what I'm doing as a concept artist. That's why I don't want to focus too much in one direction, like characters, environments, tech etc...Concept Art / Illustration is already very focused in the game industry. Therefore I want to show my diversity in styles and topics. And I'm working hard to be good in all disciplines HAHA. It took me about 8 hours including the compositional sketches. Hope you like it!

Beer in the sun - Study

2011-02-28T00:52:00.000+01:00

This is my attempt to make a digital still life as a study. I used a reference photo HERE but of course there was no tracing and no color picking. Otherwise the study is useless. Global illumination was freaking out with the red aluminum buds. I mainly used a simple round brush with soft and hard edge and the lasso tool.

Story: Two special edition buds standing in front of the window in my working room at home. Bought in Las Vegas for 10 bucks each I think. And our cats left many marks of their noses everywhere on the window.

Yours Truly - Y.T. from Snow Crash

2011-01-31T23:45:00.002+01:00

This is my interpretation of the skateboard courier 'YT' from the book Snow Crash. The preliminiary black and white sketch can be seen below in an older post.

Gangster Couple

2011-01-31T23:42:00.000+01:00

This was a commissioned illustration by a friend of mine. It is ready to print in A1...and yes, I used parts of photos for this one to achieve a mixture between realistic and painted parts :)

breakdown

2010-12-13T23:59:00.000+01:00

This is a personal afterwork sketch I finished at home over the evening:) She is driving that monster truck in a near future LA and is having a breakdown.

Vulture

2010-12-12T18:55:00.000+01:00

I thought it was time to make a hard surface concept again. So I picked a crappy sketch I made months ago and tuned it heavily. I was playing with the shapes and the look to get a cinematic feeling for this picture.

Look what I've found

2010-11-28T00:50:00.003+01:00

I've been pretty busy with freelance jobs the last couple of months. So there was no time for personal drawings. But these illustrations were done by me at Deck13 last year for different projects and I can show them here. Comments welcome!

This barbarian above is painted over the ingame 3D model by Gregor Weiß

The following characters are from the other project with the near future setting.

You can find environment artworks in older posts below, too.

Y.T. - Snow Crash - First Iteration

2010-09-14T21:32:00.000+02:00

I recently read Snow Crash from Neal Stephenson and I wanted to do some concepts for the world and characters. This is Y.T. - I know she's originally 15 in the book but I wanted to keep the upcoming concepts and world sketches very loose, not caring too much about the descriptions that are in the book but more about the pictures I had in mind. The sketch is just the first step for the colored illustration.

Interior Concept - Black Sails

2010-09-08T10:10:00.000+02:00

This interior scene is one of the concepts I made for the adventure game 'Black Sails' in 2009. It shows the dark heart of a ship in the 19th century with some invented elements. Our intention was to let the core look like a mixture of a distillery, an oven and a monster face:) The game was developed by Deck13 and published by Astragon in early 2010.

Environment Sketches - New IP - ...and Bob

2010-09-02T21:54:00.000+02:00

Heya, here are 3 of those artworks shown at 'the art of games' at GC... I posted them before. They are from a new IP we worked on at Deck13 a while ago. I can show them here officially, so have fun watching them...(sigh)...It would have been fun to do more concepts in a near future setting.

Ohhh, and here is 'BoB' in an individual performance:)

Classical Fantasy Theme

2010-08-30T22:54:00.001+02:00

Here is a commissioned work by a friend of mine. She is integrated in this classical fantasy artwork riding her horse. I tried to take this topic into a modern realistic look. It was ready to print in A2. Hope you enjoy

Gamescom 2010 - The Art of Games

2010-08-30T22:34:00.000+02:00

I made pictures of the art exhibition 'The Art of Games' at GC 2010. Many cool artworks from different games could be seen there. I was featured with 6 artworks which I created at Deck13. Thanks to the organizer for printing these on canvas in superb quality. If you are interested in buying one, check out the website.

Jade Rousseau

2010-08-30T21:53:00.000+02:00

'Jade Rousseau' - a hidden object game/ interactive episodic novel - is out quite a while. I had the pleasure to be Art Director at this project and also made some background graphics. These three are the screens I created and they can be officially seen at www.jaderousseau.com. So I decided to share them here, too. We all had the aim to create photorealistic graphics and handled them like matte paintings. If you like these kind of games be sure to check out the game.

Life Drawing in Frankfurt and Other Sketches

2010-04-28T22:31:00.006+02:00

It was fun to do some life sketches in downtown Frankfurt last Sunday with Markus, Patrick, Andreas and Michael. I'm sure we're gonna do this more often this summer.
And these are some recent sketches.

hangar char17

2010-04-17T00:01:00.003+02:00

about 2 hrs of character doodlin'.
based on a sketch I did during a drawing session at deck13.

Cyberpunk Pirate

2010-04-14T23:37:00.002+02:00

Portrait of a pirate

Hurried Soldiers

2010-03-28T16:04:00.003+02:00

This is a new sketch. More and more sci-fi elements came to the composition during the process.
Hope you like it!

2010-03-22T09:31:00.001+01:00

This is my first 'real' matte painting I did on a couple of evenings over the last weeks. It is a slightly futuristic setting but I heavily used elements from the present.
Crits and comments welcome!

EDIT: for those who are interested in the steps for this matte painting. Here they are!

Deck13 || Drawing Session

2010-03-18T09:31:00.009+01:00

We had a drawing session at Deck13 yesterday evening again. A bunch of weird characters, but it was cool to stay loose with the black pen. I'm not showing the first crappy sketches;) I hope you don't mind. Here's what came out.

At last a quick one

2010-03-16T01:18:00.002+01:00

Finally I made it to do a qick concept for fun again. It is an experiment with the grain and the film-like color shifts. Took me about 2 hours this night. I hope you enjoy this one.

Larissa

2010-02-11T12:42:00.006+01:00

This is a portrait of Larissa I've done at 'Städel Abendschule'. I used a black pencil on paper again.
-Collection of Larissa-

FAKE

2010-01-23T01:21:00.002+01:00

This one is grabbed from the magazine STW2D. Nothing special, few creative output, just finger and eye exercise.

2009-12-13T13:05:00.002+01:00

Portrait from life again. It was the first time I used a black pencil to draw. I like the boldness of the black but I'm not really happy with the shading in her face but let's see what's coming next when I make the whole portrait larger.

Work in Progress - Ape Steps

2009-12-06T18:13:00.007+01:00

Back from Egypt, and here's a WIP of my human ape. It is not finished yet but I decided to show some progress steps. At Deck13 we're doing some drawing sessions at lunch time and had monkeys as a topic. Now I'm pushing the sketch to a finished painting.

Servant

2009-11-24T23:23:00.003+01:00

It was time to make a robot. At first it was a sketch of a monster crab but it turned out as a robot.
Crits and comments are welcome.
Hope you like it!

2009-11-21T11:11:00.004+01:00

Here's another portrait from life. Done in 2 1/2 hours with mechanical pencil. But this time with B lead and a rougher shading. The last one was a bit classical/clean. Hope you like it!

2009-11-14T12:57:00.002+01:00

Portrait drawing from life at 'Städel Abendschule'.
About 2 1/2 hours with mechanical pencil. She had crazy hair, impossible to draw:)

2009-11-11T21:20:00.003+01:00

This is a creature concept I did for the RPG 'Venetica' back in 2008.
It shows the raging ghost which glows from the inside.
The ghost has some voodoo like elements attached.
It is only a sneak peak for the major update on my Online Portfolio

Concept (C) DECK13 Interactive GmbH. Taken from Venetica,
published 2009 by dtp entertainment AG.
Be sure to check out--> www.venetica-game.com

Monument

2009-11-01T18:08:00.004+01:00

Originally this piece should be a landscape study. But I thought that something remarkable could be going on...

Machines - Touch ups

2009-10-26T22:41:00.002+01:00

I wasn't really satisfied with the first version. So, here is a new one with some touch ups

Strange Machines

2009-10-24T00:23:00.005+02:00

Photoshop speedpainting. I tried to achieve a "realistic" feeling.

Bunch of Life Drawing

2009-07-05T18:48:00.014+02:00

'Städel Abendschule' Friday evening drawing sessions.
Poses reach from 5 to 20 mins

sketches

2009-07-01T09:35:00.000+02:00

M! Games Magazine

2009-07-01T09:26:00.002+02:00

M! Games (german gaming magazine) is making a series on how a computergame is developed (Deck13 as an example).
The focus in the last issue was on concept art. There was also a box with some lines about my person.
Cheers

Bat

2009-06-14T01:45:00.003+02:00

another study turned out to be a small illustration

Flower

2009-06-09T22:55:00.002+02:00

Deck13 featured in Computerarts Projects Magazine issue 121

2009-06-07T17:58:00.010+02:00

They made an interview with some guys of Deck13. Including head of art Timm Schwank, lead artist Maxime van der Kloet and me, the concept artist.
It is an eight sided spread about our daily work and experience in creating fantastic new worlds.
I am very happy that many of my artworks are featured in the article!

The bare article can be read here:
Computerarts Projects Deck13 interview

Our two games 'Venetica' and 'Haunted' will be realeased in the next months. So stay tuned!

Photography by Joby Sessions

Life Drawing Sessions Every Friday Evening!

2009-04-26T17:28:00.005+02:00

Here are drawings from the first and second figure drawing session at "Städel Abendschule" in Frankfurt. Poses reach from 5 to 15 mins

Sketches

2009-03-20T08:55:00.005+01:00

I decided to post some rougher sketches here...why not?

L.A. Boogie

2009-02-08T21:54:00.004+01:00

boogie speedy for fun. greetz

Great Leap

2008-10-19T18:19:00.001+02:00

YEAH!
I made a speedy directly after reactivating the blog. Enjoy...more to come

Mr Loverbot 3000

2008-10-19T14:25:00.003+02:00

First post with a sketch!
here is the phenomenal Mr Loverbot 3000 when he is not in use.
Maybe I'm going to colorize the doodle. Some other characters are following soon.