Character Concept "Nuzzler"

Here are some of my Concept Arts and 3D previews of the character "Nuzzler". It is the main character of Dominik Saur's and my Bachelor Game "The lost Books of Calon" which will be released in June 2011. I worked a lot on this Character Concepts and I spent many hours for the 3D Model and the Animations (wahh animating is such a hard job^^). I know it doesn't look perfect at the moment but I am satsfied with the result. The only thing I don't like is the texture (which is hand painted). I wanted that it looks like long fluffy fur but I think it looks to smooth (fur is a pain to paint!). But at the moment I am working on the environment and a lot of 3D Assest who can soon be implemented in the game, so I don't have time to make big changes on the model. So my day is full of modeling modeling, and more modeling of caves, barrels and so on^^ In my next Bachelor Entry I will show you some Concept Arts of the Environment :)

Video Walkthrough on YouTube:

Last but not least a funny Picture of the SUMO NUZZLER!^^

Mistress of the Lair

This was a collaboration between Cal and me. So let's go and visit her gallery!^^

It was very fun to do and also a great experience :)

We worked together on this picture for 2 weeks.

Mistress of the Lair by *pika4ever on deviantART

Here you can find the steps:

Walkthrough "Greyson Tales 4 - Lady Sylvanas"

Diesen Monat war ich so fleissig wie schon lange nicht mehr^^ und an diesem Bild hatte ich besonders viel Freude und konnte irgendwie nicht die Finger davon lassen :D

Es ist das neuste Artwork zum erfolgreichen WoW-Hörspiel "Greyson Tales", welches auf Bam!Stevinho gedownloadet werden kann.

 Ausserdem gibt es auch wieder einmal ein Walkthrough Video in HD auf Youtube. Viel Spass dabei :)

Walkthrough "Starcraft: Ghost"

And again a quick Walkthrough of my artwork "starcraft: Ghost" can be found on Youtube :)

Greyson Tales, der geheimnisvolle Fremde - Einige skizzen

Und wieder ist ein Weile um und ich habe letzte Woche mein neustes Greyson Artwork fertiggestellt. Ich muss zugeben dass ich nach meinem letzten Bild durch die negativen Kommentare ein wenig demotiviert war und am liebsten alles in eine Ecke geschmissen hätte. Doch ich habe mich nochmals zusammengerissen und bin eigentlich doch sehr zufrieden wie es am Ende herausgekommen ist :) Auch die meisten Feedbacks die ich bekommen habe, waren durchaus positiv und ich bin wieder motivierter.

Nun ein paar Bilder/Skizzen wie alles seinen Lauf genommen hatte:

Mein erster Entwurf, denn ich auch angefangen habe auszuarbeiten. Doch nach einer Weile erschien mir die Komposition zu langweilig und ich verwarf die ganze Skizze.

Dann nach einem guten Rat von meiner Freundin habe ich mich schlussendlich dazu entschieden, diese neue Skizze anzufertigen und habe mich auch an diese gehalten. Das ganze hat dann 15 Stunden gedauert bis es fertig war :)

Und Tada fertig war es^^!

Wenn ich mir aber das ganze nochmals anschaue und nachdem ich mir das Hörspiel anhören konnte, hätte ich den Worgen bzw. die Verwandlung noch imposanter dargestellt^^

Das Hörspiel dazu kann man auf Bam!Stevinho downloaden.

Walkthrough "Goodbye Azeroth"

Goodbye Azeroth by *pika4ever on deviantART

After some good advices by a few watchers, this week I practised drawing human bodys. I bought a good Fantasy Figures book, downloaded some helpful tutorials and also collected some references with various poses.

I also searched for some tutorials with good color instructions but it is still ver difficult vor me-.- ( beside drawing humans).

And her it is my product on hard training during this week. It was very spontaneous and I never thought I would finish it.

I think the human anatomy on her body isn't as bad as before :S I used a reference to get some security of the "female form":)

I was very unsure with the colors. I don't know but I think specially her skin tone isn't correct blended. The light source comes form right behind the girl and (I am not sure) I think the colors are to bright :S What do you think?

I have also made a walkthrough of my progress which can be watched on YouTube :)

Some different Versions of my picture "Greyson Tales, Der Hüter meines Bruders"

Painting the background in this picture was a pain-.- I finished this picture 5 or 6 weeks ago and it took me a whole weekend just painting the background. The boy and the wolf was easy and fast to paint. I just wanted to show you some different versions of the background I made, I think it is very interesting to see it:)

The picture is a artwork for an audiobook by wowszene.de. You can download it here.

This was my first rough sketch of the whole atmosphere of the picture. I was very confident with the colors and the composition:)

After a time I wasn't satifsfied with my first design and I changed the background colors to blue.

But the blue wasn't really nice. Remembered me too much on a Nightelf Forest-.- So I tried green and brown colors for a usual forest design.

Now I didnt' like the forest scene. It looked to boring-.- so I had the idea of a valley, because the audiobook plays in a valley.

Some color changes again, because I wasn't satisfied...

After this last picture, I tried to overlay different layers with different colors and played with it. And on one point, I get this beautiful color setting *.* which was very pleasent to me. And I have to say I am very satisfied with the end result :) Also the client was really happy with my artwork :D

Some Progress pictures of my newest World of Warcraft Fanart "Frost Nymph" Unfortunately I just made 4 of this picture during my drawing process-.-

1. Step: Made a rough sketch in Photoshop. The most difficult part for me was the hands-.-

2. Step: Here you can see which reference picture I took for my illustration. It was a sxreenshot of World of Warcraft.

3. Step: I put in some rough Background to get some feeling for the colors of the whole image.

Adding also some "special effect" ;)

4. Step: The final result. I was not very satisfied with the background because I didn't exactly know what to draw-.- Aquilia give me a helpful advice (Thank you^^!) and I thought it look better after that. Also did some color correction :)

Walkthrough "Rise of Ayla"

Here are some WIP's of my newest Artwork "Rise of Ayla"

It took me a weekend to finish it :/

1. Step: Rough Sketch and some texture brushes for the background to get a feeling for the whole picture.

Step2: Fill in some basic colors and shading. Now I get the idea for the whole composition^^

Step 3: Making first colors correction! More red and more contrast. Now it looks more intensive.

Step4: Now I painted the Phoenix and some special effects, like glowing and so on^^

Step5: Finished Artwork! I reduced some effects and corrected the phoenix a little bit, so it matched better with the background^^ And DONE *YAY*

Progress pictures of "Splash!"

Just some progress pictures of my newest artwork "Splash!" It was fun to do because I started with a sensless sketch and I had no plan where it will end >.<>