Iceage rampages

"Iceage" is one of my antagonists in one of my personal projects.

Thanks for looking at my image.


Tools: PS CS5.1 + Wacom Intuos3 A3

New images

- Image Title: A Dragon Approaches

- Image Title: A Knight's Cold Journey

 

- Image Title: Confronting the Unknown

The last image was done by using a reference-image out of a bigger collection I got from Jade Macalla due to a started collaboration.
Right now I want to thank you, Jade, again for your great reference-images.

Anyone who doesn't know Jade Macalla, please visit his Deviantart-Site and have a look at his work. He provides references (per example action poses) for artists.

To look at his work, please visit: jademacalla.deviantart.com .

Approaching Boss Battle

When you travel a lot, be sure to collect every magical and non-magical stuff you can... because you never know when an epic Boss Battle might approach - per example if you enter an abandoned kingdom...

This is my touched up image version from this one [link] - and now our hero is holding a sword he collected during his adventures.


Tried myself in more texturing and conceptart-techniques - this Illustration shows one of my places of my own project.


Tools: Wacom Intuos3 A3 + PS CS5.1


My reference for the architecture was [link] from Aquarior.

Hero Versus Villain

Dardracon (person in front) is fighting his villain "Firegold".

Firegold says in this scene:
"Now look at you, so weak... I crushed your helmet, you little jumping jack. You call yourself Dardracon? Then I will show everyone your true identity, and you won't be able to be Dardracon again."

The unmasked hero answers while standing up:
"No... you're wrong. I am always Dardracon!"

Thanks for taking your time to have a look at my images and gallery.

Tools: Wacom Intuos3 A3 + PS CS5.1

My own Photoshop Brushes are coming soon and some more

Since I started to experiment in Photoshop, I created (and I always create some Brushes spontaneously, as well as trying to explore new settings to get interesting Brushes) Brushes which are looking like pastels, acrylic colors, oils, pens and markers and much more.

What I want to do is not only to show my work and (hopefully) improvements, I want to give something to everyone visiting or maybe following my blog. Soon I open a new page with links to my self created Photoshop-Brushsets. There will be some rules, but I can tell: You will be allowed to use them for personal AND commercial work. I also want to share my color-swatches and if you're interested, I may start some video-tutorials as well.

Please comment or send me an E-Mail if you have some thoughts and I might think about your ideas.

Have a nice weekend and stay tuned.

Aeon Chronicles - Final Battle

The Knight Of Atlantis Drakoe Lander fights against the evil Gandrakko. They fight for aeons, a never ending battle between good and evil.
This image is based on a one year old drawing, I had to modify both characters a bit. I mostly worked on this one for practicing coloration. I took my time and didn't rush - I needed 3 days (and worked 5-6 hours per day on it).

In this scene, the final battle between both of my characters has started. In every end of an aeon, they fought a desperate duell against each other. At the year "5000", it will finally end in the story named "The Wanderer 2 - Knight of Oblivion". But Drakoe will learn, that neither good nor evil can be defeated completely...


I wasn't sure if I would like this image after it's done. After comparing it with my older ones, I think, I got the best result out of my one year old drawing. I started an underpainting in Triplex mode and coloured it afterwards.

I still see much I could work out, but I will keep this energy to work on a new drawing/painting. But just colouring older drawings can be a great practice as well. And, to be honest, I wanted to do this image one year ago and never got beyond the drawing-step.
After all I am glad I didn't finish it earlier, as I improved a lot compared to last year.

I will keep on practicing, more relaxed for the rest of this year, but next year I'm going to free my inner beast. I am near the key to do so....


Tools: Wacom Intuos3 A3 + PS CS5.1