The year 2013 ends...

Hello everyone!

Finally I can do this post I wanted to do a long time ago. The year 2013 will end soon. I had to take a break from all my work so far. Next year, some things will change. I cannot do as much work as I did. Many of my drawings and stuff were not published so far. I simply have no time to scan and upload them all.

However. In this post I want to show every other image I might not have shown so far.

As far as I can tell, there will be more dragon-images and work for indie author Craig Halloran, as well as portfolio work and more for other clients.

But for now I want to say: Thank you, every visitor, for watching my blog and being interested in my work. I hope you will have great weeks that are left of 2013 and a happy new year.

We will see each other again, in 2014.

The rest of this post are images that I created so far. Enjoy.

- Dave

 

Update: Last september week

Hello everyone, I want to inform you shortly about some new images I uploaded into my Characters and Creatures, as well as the Drawing and Sketches section of my blog.

I am very busy so I have to make it short, for now. But to give you a little preview, here is my newest dragon-image:

I hope you enjoy my new illustrations. Recently I am more active on Deviantart, you are able to visit my Deviantart Page by clicking right here.

The reason I am more active on Deviantart is that I use it to link my images to this mainblog, which will get a whole update-post with every new image I uploaded so far soon.

Thanks for visiting my blog!

New image - Syennara

Syennara attacks, and she is very angry - I try to practice some more facial expression here. Finally done.

Tools: Wacom Intuos3 A3 + PS CS5.1.1

New images

New images, done with traditional tools. Acrylic colors and inks. It is actually very relaxing for me to work with traditional tools. And due to years of painting digital I was able to take that knowledge, so my traditional images could be worked out as I would do with digital ones.
To practice more, I will work more with traditional tools than I did before.


And here an image I worked out digital:

Soon I have more drawings and sketches to show in my sketchbook, as well as more colored work. Have a good week!

- Dave

New images

 

Lythena, one of my female warriors. She is at her hometown, a village-guardian.

 

Not finished, but ready to be shown: Syennara, a female magician. She will get involved into quite dangerous adventures...

New sketches (already posted on my Tumblr) are included into this blog. One of these:

More sketches can be found here: http://daveart.tumblr.com/

Or several ones I picked for this blog on my Drawings and Sketches section: Here


More will come soon.

New illustrations and sketches

A new cover for Craig Halloran's story "Chronicles of Dragon", showing Nath Dragon (the hero) at the front.

A portfolio-piece and personal work showing an army of magicians fighting against a "Fireworm".


And more sketches, rough works and drawings are uploaded daily into my new Sketchbook on Tumblr:

http://daveart.tumblr.com/


Meanwhile I draw a lot with pencils and other traditional tools. My eyes got tired after half a year of working digital the whole day, every week, every month. In case you want to follow my traditional work you can visit (and follow if you like) my blog on Tumblr. But I will upload my sketches soon and post a bunch of them in this blog too (right here, so you don't have to follow two blogs). I hope I will have my energy back very soon, as digital work is of course very important nowadays. And I have new colored works in progress, as well as drawings prepared to be colored and textured the next days.

Stay tuned and thanks for visiting my blogs.

A Fantasy Map for Craig Halloran

Recently I had an interesting commission: I illustrated the world of author Craig Halloran. His world named Nalzambor is where his new book-series takes place.

This is my very first map I ever worked on, it was interesting for me to create the different locations.

To learn more about Craig Halloran's world and stories, have a look at his Facebook-page:

Click right here

Tools I used to create the map: Wacom Intuos3 A3 + Photoshop CS5.1.1

New Sketchbook-Blog and a completed image

Recently I am drawing a lot with traditional tools, rather than drawing digital, as it is still the most natural way of creating texture and vivid pencil strokes just with the raw media. The raw feel of paper and graphite, or the random texture created by markers or acrylics.

Of course I go on to draw and paint digital. For any digital or traditional sketch or drawing, I use my old Tumblr blog: You can follow me there if you are interested in my sketches and drawings.

My Tumblr Sketchbook is right here: click

And a recently finished artwork, showing "Sir Drakenschwing" and his Wyvern:

There is also a fantasy-map I might be able to upload soon, stay tuned.