Thursday 17 November 2011

Coop-Artwork: The Heroes of the Valley


Florian and Simon (links in the side bar) and me did this painting over a couple of weeks together. Step by step it was passed from one to another without a plan, so it shaped up almost by itself.


Here you can see how it developed from an abstract thing to this artwork:

Wednesday 26 October 2011

Friday 16 September 2011

Hideout

Another image for a personal project I'm working on and off in my spare time.




Wednesday 3 August 2011

Pirates of Black Cove ingame video

Here is a clip from the demo which shows some graphics I did for the game.
For example the menue background, UI icons and the first cutscene at the beginning, which was a beast ... I finished it in 2 working days. There are more of them in the game. I'm curious to see how all turned out, as I didn't animate them, just provided the layered images.


Tuesday 2 August 2011

Pirates of Black Cove was released today!

Yeah it's out now and I'm happy to finally get this game started and see what happend to the many hours and days which rushed by so fast in the last few months. My fellows at Nitrogames did a great job from what I saw in trailers and screenshots and the first few reviews are quite positive too.
If you're interested check out this website which refers you to all downloading plattforms which provide the digital copy of the game. Have fun! >>>LINK<<<

And here's the cover artwork with the pirate whom all pirates fear.


Pirates of Black Cove- main character 3: Long Shot Jack

And here comes the last of the three main characters called Long Shot Jack!



Hope you like these guys!

Tuesday 26 July 2011

Wednesday 20 July 2011

Book Cover

Before I post the next pirate character, I'm gonna post a little commission first I finished today. It's for the novel 'Subject 47' by Chris Kramer.




There is also a facebook page for news and updates around the book, which was launched recently.

Monday 18 July 2011

Pirates of Black Cove- main character 1: Walker de Planc

Hey folks, long time no see!
I was pretty busy with moving house and ... not having internet... but now I'm back online and want to share some of artworks for the upcoming PC game "Pirates of Black Cove" which will be released August 2nd.
I showed you some concept art several weeks ago. This time I'll show you ingame artworks which have been used for ingame graphics for UI, loading screens, etc.

It's the first of the 3 main characters called Walker de Planc:



Next one will be Jolie Rogers!

Friday 15 April 2011

Swamp Bird

I uploaded a horrible doodle yesterday night, which I just had to delete again this morning. But I gave it another chance and invested more time in the doodle bird. Now it's a speedy bird.

Tuesday 12 April 2011

3D Version of Mastema


Maybe you remember my artwork for the Dominance War 4 in 2009 which is showcased on my main website. Well, some weeks ago Jit Chun Khiew from Malaysia asked for permission to take my concept further and make a 3D model from it for his reel .
Now it's finished and turned out pretty cool. Check it out!

Mastema Modeling Reel 2011 By JcCreation from Jccreation on Vimeo.


Link to my concept art on yakonusuke.com

Sunday 10 April 2011

Artbattle 2011

Once again I will participate in the artbattle on digitalartforum.de.

The basic rules are:
-Design a character
-Paint a picture how your character beats the character of another artist
-The community votes for it's favorite fight
-The best artist wins.

Well and here comes my little fighter. Kushi. She's from Mongolia and is pretty good in training birds!

Tuesday 8 March 2011

Siedler 7 / Settlers 7 Cover


I haven't much spare time for private paintings, but I recently found something maybe worth to post here.
This Cover for the Gold Edition of Settlers 7 was a commission I did in fall 2009 for Bluebyte/Ubisoft, though with a landscape as background. So only the characters and the stuff on the ground is painted by me.

Monday 14 February 2011

Pirates of Black Cove

The upcoming game "Pirates of Black Cove" from Nitro Games has be announced recently at the Paradox Event in New York. I had the pleasure to define the visual style and do concept art for it. Some of which I may showcase here now.

The next 3 images depic the captains of 3 of 4 different pirate factions:






Some of the sketches for the pirate units and buldings in the game:



Hope you like 'em. More to come.


© 2011 Nitro Games Alpha Ltd. “Pirates of Black Cove” is a trademark of Nitro Games Alpha Ltd. All rights reserved.

Wednesday 9 February 2011

Today's Output

I got here 2 little paintings. For the first one there is only Tron to blame, which I finally saw today. Fantastic art and design. So I wanted to do some shining stuff as well.



And the secound one just happend, while I didn't know what to paint.

Sunday 23 January 2011

The Collector

On digitalartforum.de Daniel Lieske offered the chance to publish fanarts on his blog and also a favorite of these in the credits of the first chapter of his webcomic Wormworld Saga. So I made the following artwork. Check out his blog for the other great entries by some fellow artists!




Sunday 2 January 2011

Stevie


This is a little teaser for a private project I'm working on in my sparetime.