And here’s the video, so you can hear the worms raving!
Song excerpt from beautiful synergy by DJ SHARPNEL
May I introduce to you Devil-May-Cry’s Vergil.
- Materials: acrylics + oils on illustration board (250 g, rough)
- Size: 12 x 17 cm / 5 x 7 inch
This is obviously a personal fanart piece. Although I enjoyed last years DMC 5 a lot, I couldn’t quite agree with “Neo” Vergil’s style… Reminiscence and gold-acrylics pressured me into painting the portrait you see before you and destiny led me to the decadent picture-frame. Thanks to a good friend (with a nice cam) I was able to take a picture with a 100-times higher quality than my crappy old mobile-phone. YES!
Behind the scenes:
Technically I finished this painting December last year but I was very cautious when it came to the oils, which as you probably know need a while to dry. You see, while I was painting a friend accidently wiped away his right eye and I couldn’t cope with the loss 😉
Here’s the painting, full-frontal, without the frame for you to enjoy:
A week ago I took some time to paint with acrylics and I have to say it’s a whole different experience than painting digitally. While working on “Coming Home” I developed a somehow stronger relationship to the piece than I would with a fully digital one. The finished artwork is a physically existing original. It was a lot of fun to paint!
But enough talk. Time for you to see some steps in the creation process of “Coming Home”, an illustration for a teenager’s horror anthology project at university.
Just click on any image to open the images in the lightbox:
I did a basics course in etching at university! A friend of mine is planning on doing a tutorial. I’ll make sure to link it here for you 😉
Nevertheless I can share with you some progress steps from my first etching. It’s nothing fancy but I was really excited to see how it’ll turn out in the end:
And I tried something else I’ve never did before. I’ll show you what in the next post 😉
It’s decided! I’ll be concentrating on 3D and storybook illustrations this semester.
The 3D seminar:
This seminar is focusing on the basics of working with 3D applications. This includes planning, modeling, texturing, lighting, animating and rendering the three-dimensional objects. This semester’s main topic is Sci-Fi… I couldn’t resist! So except for all the technical aspects we also read books (Stanislav Lem – “The Futurological Congress“, Asimov’s robot stories and Strugatzky’s “Roadside Picnic“) and analyze movies of the sci-fi genre. For now we haven’t created anything too exciting, but we only had a 4 or 5 meetings. I uploaded 2 picas I did as homework so far (I’m still very new to 3D modeling though so don’t expect too much):
The storybook illustration seminar:
In this seminar we are working on a real to-be-published adolescent’s horror-storybook. Logically we have to stick to the page format and other rules (all illustrations have to be in grayscale for example). At the end of the semester the publisher’s editors will pick the illustrations they see fit in their concept. I’ll be experimenting again 😀 And again I’ll give you a few examples of what I have painted so far:
Well that’s it for now. I’ll be uploading more later on 😉
The new semester started last week and again I can’t decide which projects I should pick. There are just too many interesting ones! But before discussing how my 5th semester will look like I still need to upload some traditional paintings from last semester’s seminar in Painting Classes:
Of course there are more paintings but I only wished to share my personal favorites 😉 You might recognize some of the techniques as I actually used them for some of my Illustration course’s final exam artwork.
Summer semester 2012 was full of landscape painting for me! I tried out traditional media and digital painting as well as all shades of mixed in-betweens.
For our final exam in Illustration we had to work on the theme “Weather, climate, environment” and I decided to keep the concept simple while searching for interesting artistic output at the same time! I wanted to see how far I can mix traditional and digital paintings – using both media’s advantages in combination. Some images are almost purely digitally while others are almost hand-painted only. More on the conceptual idea under the following paintings: