Ho-ho!

I think this year needs one last post.
First, here are 2 images from this years Secret Santa on digitalartforum.
The upper one is done by me for Chinasky / Holger Kirste who did some cool fan artworks for "the Song of Fire and Ice" , also known as "Game of Thrones". I illustrated a scene from the first book which I thought was one of the more important scenes and also because it had this christmas feeling to it... but with more blood and dead animals... erm..


In return a received the following image which was made by digitaldecoy/ Daniel Lieske , showing my steampunk Blackbeard as Santa. A great surprise and present.
By the way- you better go check out the first chapter of Daniel's brand new online graphic novel on daniellieske.blogspot.com . There's some magic going on there.




So have some nice holidays and a happy new year, guys!
2011 will be very interesting, so stay tuned.

Pirate Sketch

...formerly known as brush test!

Wiley

The harpoon supplier.

François

This one's for the weekly challenge on digitalartforum.de

Subject is to paint a member for a whaler crew. Florian Biege is the initiator and provides the background. The character François is done by me- he's responsible for filleting the whales.

Jack-o-Lantern

I thought it would be fun to try a jack-o-lantern once. So I went for it today and am quite happy with the result.
I also made a small step by step for the lantern and the soup a made out of his brain. :)

approaching winter

A humble header I made for the digitalartforum.de weekly challenge.

Ugly as a mud fence

Monster Speedy

Executioner Speedy

Birthday Present

I made another little present for my nephew Elias, who yesterday had his first birthday.
It's an measuring block ( I hope this makes sense ) where his parents can mark every step of his growth.



I bought the gecko at an art supply store, colored it and wrapped it in multicolor yarn. Took me quite a while to accomplish that... ^^

Me at GamesCom 2010

Just wanted to post this picture of me at gamescom 2010 in cologne. I was pretty surprised when I came into this hall and saw that one of my recent job artworks was showcased there. :]

Droidsong Cover

Lately I had the chance to do a cover for a droidsong release. A little commission that will be released in november or december, but already can be seen here.

A present for my nephew

Today my nephew Elias ( 11 months young ) was christened. For this event I wanted to do something special and memorable. So I spent the last few days for these 5 little 3D artworks which together form the letters E L i A S. A bit tricky to recognize if you don't know, but I don't mind.
Main thing is that some day he hopefully will enjoy them. : )

Credit goes to Vicky for helping me with the frames!






And an overview with no specific order.

Gunner

A little speedpaint

Study