i did this for a "diablo 3 contest", the price is a brand new digital collectors edition key. task was to draw in ms paint what diablo means to you - personally. this one is called "the basic concept" and took me about two hours to finish (hello paint, long time no see). i used the diablo 2 cover-artwork as a reference to get that evil grin as accurately as possible. i know that the cards are stacked against me, hopefully because of the truth inside that image but i had to contribute... hope you like. ;)

edit: win? WIN!... upon my soul, SPARE ME! :D

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finally had time to finish my contribution for the A/V jam "in the key of #sworcery" happening right now online. this one is called "the all feeling eye" and took some time...
many small details to discover i guess (yes, it's the "grizzled boor" on top of the mountain). i kinda like the result, especially the authentic scythian decoration stuff and the forest detail.
"Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP" is now available for the pc via steam. enjoyed the game alot, even if it's one of the most occult games i've played in years...
glad they released it apart from ipad, phone and pod - the atmosphere and the soundtrack is just outstanding.



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so happy that especially one specific person is very pleased with my jam contribution. i am not very good at using twitter and don't have an account, but getting a twitter message like this plus a comment on my blog from the official and very talented artist liaison at SUPERBROTHERS, jori baldwin aka "aurorajorealis" just made my day - period. thank you :)

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back with some study from the nude. i finally had the time to transfer almost every study sketch i did in the last months into my pc. there are some more, but i failed to take good photographs or they did not suit my scanner... damn - so i hope these give a good taste of what the final outcome was like. the first mashup was kinda hard to do, there was a brief span of only 2-5 minutes per posture to get a feel for some natural motion sequences. the other pictures was created in the time interval of 15-20 minutes each, so much more time to finsih a sketch and start with aquarelle or acrylic nasty stuff. it was a portfolio for the univerity (if you remember i also did some nude study years ago -> here), hope you like.

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first "private" aquarelle / watercolour picture since... years. i did the last one back when i was in school. i am also doing some watercolour pictures in act class right now - i'll post some more analog works after i have more ready. hope you like her ;)

water colours on rough watercolour paper (size ca. 11cm x 17cm) no edits, only one tone and no white colour used!

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"gemini rue" is a game created by only one person and it's a blast! i had no time to finish the game yet because there was so much distraction in 2011 (told ya), but i will! i started working on that fan art piece months ago, beginning with just the idea to do a "hd version" for one of the main character portraits. then i started to expand the image, ending up with a complete hd version of a scene of the game (see the first image above for the original source). if you have a passion for noir style science fiction, stuff like blade runner, conspiracies, atmospheric music, old school graphics and especially point and click adventures from the past, go for it - seriously! i hope you like it (at least) as much as i do.

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naughty little lillits! welcome to another "late 2011 update", slowly but surely nearing the end with those. actually i am pretty glad how this character eventually turned out. if you remember the concepts i posted earlier (this, this or this), here's how those critters look in 3d. i also did a lot of texture testing here, the 2 final retopo-meshs have clean uv maps, diffuse-, displacement- and normal-maps. looks badass in-game. i'll share in-game shots and more renders when the time is right...

the owl underneath is a super heavy ultra wip sculpt of another concept i did, but i kinda liked that state. hope you do as well.

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my second z-brush sculpt "the head" was done by starting with a simple sphere inside z-brush. it was sort of a "from time to time" project... i learned many working steps and routines while i was freestyling - that's why his appearance changed so often i guess... learning. all the pores, veins, sinews, folds and scars are manually sculpted with selfmade brushes (no texture used, except for the eyes and the last two images). these are untouched rendershots, i just changed the overall colour and the contrasts here and there manually in ps (even eye reflections are real, the eye was build in zbrush too, it's a solid textured ball inside another translucent, reflecting ball). hope you like him.

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