New concepts and illustrations 2022 #1

 Coloured concepts and illustrations are here, enjoy!

The Arctic Jungle Concept Art

 Hi everyone, here are some early concepts for an environment located on the continent of my story Forlorn Knights. A cold and bizarre looking area, in which plants evolved unusual features. In the Arctic Jungle, the sap of the plants is incredibly hot. Therefore, they survive the cold, grow unusual fruit and much more.

The local people living in these areas have plenty of use for the materials, and partially require the sap themselves to function the way they do. Posting the environments here, I plan to have more sophisticated concept illustrations throughout the next months. Depending on how much work for clients I have, it might be possible for me to do.

 

Enjoy!

Environment concepts

 The Forlorn Plains area of my IP Forlorn Knights is quite large, thus there are plenty of different places to explore. Here are two rough concept pieces to explore the area.

Forlorn Knights - Roughs

Some more roughs of the forlorn knights - character class, it remains to be seen as to what draft will make it to become a more refined character.

Demonic Entities - Succubae (mild nudity)

Something more spicy here - in my IP, a succubus is a rumour among many folks, but there is some truth to it. A succubus depends on belief, comes in various forms depending on how much the belief has shaped them. But there are inherent parts that rarely any of them can hide...
Often tree-themed, the entities that are called succubae try to take on a form of that of a mortal being.

But the truth about these entities in the story isn't that easy.

Here are some rough concepts that as well have been used to train soft forms.

Rough forlorn knight character drafts

 In Forlorn Knights - Darksome Arising, the IP I'm working on besides client work, there are plenty of characters belonging to the character class "forlorn knight".
Hence as to why there are plenty of drafts which I will show frequently if time allows. Hope you like them! Take care meanwhile and have a great weekend.

May Update and June

Hello everyone,

this post shows up a bit delayed due to being busy regarding many different reasons. New artwork that has been created recently (digital colour):

Apart from this there are more images waiting to be completed. I have also a bunch of new sketches and drawings in my sketchbook on Tumblr (as well as some posts without images, so keep flipping through the pages if you want) http://daveart.tumblr.com/

There are also new Photoshop brushes emulating natural media right here: http://food-for-crows.deviantart.com/gallery/


Regarding a new PDF Sketchbook: I have yet to think how to present this, the best thing would be an interactive sketchbook but I have no idea where I should start... I will figure something out though.

As for this month: A new Photoshop Brush set will be revealed if things work out as planned, and new artwork should show up as well. If you want to stay up to date, looking into my sketchbook (Tumblr link above) is the best option, as you can keep track of my work way quicker. I will probably take a few days for following this year's E3 press conference though.


Have a good day and see you next time.

Quick Update

Hello dear visitors, here is a quick update:

New artwork:

And new Brushes have been uploaded to the Deviantart Account that I am running with my best friend:

http://food-for-crows.deviantart.com/


I hope you will have a relaxing weekend. By the way, new drawings and sketches will soon be uploaded to my sketchbook: http://daveart.tumblr.com/

Soon I will write a post explaining more about a new downloadable PDF sketchbook I have in mind, as my very old one that I once created has been created many years ago.


- Dave

Character Designs

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