Again a quick evening study with a badass rim light!

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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/

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

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

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 :(

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!

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

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

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:)

 

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.

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

 

More quick sketches to come down in same style.

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

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!

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.

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.