Maleficent, Header and creepy dude

23.06.2014:

Study-time! I'm still trying to get the hang of values as well as skin. So here it goes. Angelina Jolie has such a cool nose and sensual lips. It's not from this world :3

photo study (photoshop cc)

Next I started out with a sketch for a header. Did a few versions. Let's see when I will finish it and with what version...

digital sketch (photoshop cc)

digital sketch (photoshop cc)

digital sketch (photoshop cc)

I really really don't wanna show you this. But I promised to document everything here. EVERYTHING! So here it goes. It's really awful. I already was burned out and hungry when I started it and that's exactly how it looks. I still am not good at painting faces from imagination but I'm also not THAT bad^^

digital sketch (photoshop cc)

More work on the commissioned piece

17.05.2013:

Finally found time to do some further work on the commission piece. And also finished the uppercut animation.

W.I.P. commissioned work (photoshop cs6)

uppercut animation (photoshop cs6)

Commissioned work

03.05.2013:

Some commissioned work I'm doing right now for a lovely girl back on deviantart. It's far from finished. But's all the time I have for it right now. More next week!

Oh and I work from reference for this one. Is a portrait commission. =D

commissioned portrait painting (photoshop cs6)

Oh and Javier and I agreed on further work. So now I'm doing two milestone for him. One will be all the buttons for his game and one the menus. Here the initial ideas for the buttons...

button ideas (pen in sketchbook)

Friday nights work

26.10.2012:

Finally I found some time to do a longer study. Primary focus on picking the right colors and secondary to try to get the shape down without an underlying lineart. So far so good. Afterwards I tried to apply this study to an imaginative piece and...well... it was my first try to do something like that. I'm glad that I found the courage to simple try it. But yeah, I have to do a lot more of them 'til they will look kind of good :)

color study (photoshop cs5; with photo reference)

applying the study (photoshop cs5; from imagination)

some doodles from work (pencil)

I'm back!

Oh my gosh, I can't believe it's over three month since I posted here... but fortunately I have a good excuse :3 Since first of july I'm having an internship as a concept artist in a small company here in germany. So I'm drawing and painting eight hours a day. Bad thing is, I'm under NDA so I can't show you any of it. Not now at least. But after two month working there, I think I found my routine and I can go back to continue my studies without falling asleep after 5 minutes^^

PS: I did some sketches during the last month and when I finally found them I will put them to the right dates... I'm such a chaotic...

30.08.2012:

hard & soft shadows photo study (photoshop cs4; lines are traced; only concentrating on shadows)

brush control assignment (photoshop cs5; lines are traced; only concentrating on shadows)

Photo study

15.05.2012:

sketch drawn from photo reference (pencil)

Initial sketch was a little bit wonky. So I corrected it before coloring (look at process piece to see changes)...

colored version (photoshop cs4)

process (pencil; photoshop cs4)

Pencil shading

Really dig the body of the girl in the first one...I'm getting better :D

14.05.2012:

Imaginative work and Loomis' heads (pencil)

Imaginative work and shading studies from photo reference (pencil)

Studies and more character design

22.04.2012:

faces from refs and mind (pencil)

photo study (Photoshop CS4)

more concepts for main character (Photoshop CS4)