Welcome to my sketchbook...
in the last years I worked on several games and projects and hardly had time to finish personal artwork. More and more stuff never made it bejond a draft or an initial color rough and became hidden in the drawers or ended up filing harddrive space.
I started the sketchbook website because I like to show, not only perfectly rendered finished artwork, but also the the crab sketches and doodles from my sketchbooks and give a insight view from my studio.
I also like to share some of my studio secrets with you, show the tools I like, share some brush tips and stuff like that.
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Wednesday, February 2012
W.I.P Savage Queen - Part 2
Sketch revisited |
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After a few days I revisited the initial sketch and instantly noticed that I have to redraw the lion heads and give them more character and expression. The second issue was the empty space below her left leg, to close the gap I raised the lion below to fill the area. Now the space between the two left lions looks to flat and I have to figure out how to balance the composition. |
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Wednesday, February 2012
W.I.P Savage Queen - Part1
new work in progress project |
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Looking at the date of my last post it seems that it was indeed a realy long weekend , but in fact there wasn't much time to be lazy, I been busy working on games in the last couple of month and had not much time left for personal work.
Based on the suggestion of a Facebook fan I started this work in progess project. The suggested theme was a wild amazon warrior queen and her four little lion pets. After watching a lot of lion photos to get a feel for the anatomy I done this first inital sketch in Photoshop with a Wacom Intuos tablet. |
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Thursday, September 2011
Lazy Sunday
yes folks weekend is close,,, |
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Too bad my dog refuse to deliver sunday morning newspapers... I gues I don't even own a dog. Sketch done with Prismacolor Pencils on copy paper and some post in Photoshop to add a scaned water color backdrop and some highlights. |
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Tuesday, September 2011
The Shy and the Spy
gues which is which,,, |
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Last week I noticed that nerds are the most overlooked heroes in illustration and I gues it's time to put them to the limelight. I was listening to some Bond soundtracks during the sketch and maybe "The Nerd with the Golen Gun" might also be a nice title. Prismacolor pencils on copy paper. |
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Friday, September 2011
Elven Maiden
Pointy ears are difficult |
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This weeks sketch is again a fantasy theme with a melancolic elven maiden. I used a Strathmore Bristol smoth paper and colored pencils for the sketch and mostly just two pencils a Purple and Orange Prismacolor. Blue and light Blue for highlights and shadows. |
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Friday, August 2011
There and back again
Sketches from the end of the world |
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After a year of work I enjoyed a few weeks off to discover the world. I didn't made it exactly to the end of the world but in some places it felt quitelike it.
Had not much time to do a lot of sketching because the schedule to see all the spectacular places was tight. The ancient temple ruins and the jungle inspired me to do more fantasy kind stuff.
Moleskine Watercolour Album with orange and purple Prismacolor COL-ERASE pencils. |
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Friday, June 2011
TGIFS
Thank god its's Friday sketch |
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Don’t know what a psychologist might think about my mood when analyzing my choice of color for this… maybe I need some sleep this weekend. Sketch done with a Prismacolor COL-ERASE light gray on photocopy paper, color rough done with Photoshop. |
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Wednesday, May 2011
Free Photoshop cloud brush tips
created some brushes to share |
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I found some old photos of clouds on my harddrive and finaly converted them into a set of cool brush tips. The relative strange looking clouds make some interesting effects as well.. |
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Wednesday, May 2011
Metropolitan Murder
another sketch from last weeks boring weekend |
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I guess the wired colour combination came up after channel zapping last night and get stuck on Austin Powers.. |
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Thuesday, May 2011
Scuba Spy
on a boring weekend travel |
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I had a quite boring weekend night on a hotel room and many time to do some sketches - this is one of it. Light Grey Prismacolor, on the worst paper I could ever find, aditional shading done later in Photoshop. |
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Wednesday, May 2011
Dangerous Turkish bath
spys dont have time for spa and wellness |
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Wonder where she is hideing that gun...
done the Sketch with a blue Prismacolor pencil on photocopy paper, testing some new Photoshop brush tips on the scanned sketch. |
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Monday, April 2011
Spy Girl
spys are always fun to draw |
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| Allways loved the character of Emma Peel in the Avengers maybe that's the reason why I like to draw female spys and James Bond like stuff. The white highlights are painted in Photoshop with a chalk brush. |
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Friday, March 2011
Header Sketch #1
I needed a nice sketch for the website header |
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| I drawn this to have a sketch that fits into the headline of the website but the sketch looks quite nice and maybe it has some potential to become a full colored painting. |
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Friday, February 2011
Free Photoshop brush tips
Have some fun with this...
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| Here are some brush tips I created from photos of pattern taken on my last vacation. Thought it might be nice to share them with you, download the Photoshop brush tips and give them a try maybe you like them. |
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Friday, January 2011
Sexy latex dress
I think this one needs color...
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| Looks cool - but something is missing - maybe it would look better with some color. The zipper on the back ads a nice expressive line and supports the pose but the dress is lacking some aditional finesse. |
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Friday, January 2011
New dress different pose
Exploring a different style and look |
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| Playing around with the Idea of the last sketch with a diffrent pose and dress.. |
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Monday, December 2010
Fashion sketch
Just a sketch on the side |
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| INo special idea or reason just a drawing to have some fun. |
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Wednesday, December 2010
Random Sketch
Just a quick doodle to test some new paper
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One of the first skeches in a new skechbook I bought for little money, the paper quality was awefull.
Pencils: Prismacolor COL-ERASE - Light Grey and Black. |
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