Snake, my bad guy. In our RP, he was imprisoned on another planet for six months. Nobody gave him a razor or hair spray, thus the new look.
But when he was freed, he was given a laser weapon. He loves it! :D

This is from the same RP. A fellow player’s character (twofold_psyche) considered it a good idea to blow up a library. The guy is supposed to look like Jeremy Irons. Well, on this picture, he doesn’t, but the man is incredibly hard to draw. A larger version of the image can be found here.

Also from the same RP. Two characters got married, and one of them wanted his best men and women to wear clothes in different colors. I loved the idea of such a colorful wedding!

And this is from a District 9 RP where Wikus laid an egg. We called it Turtle, and this is what Turtle could look like after he has hatched. :D

Kai with a new haircut.

Kai with new haircut and waving.

Kai with new haircut and kittie.

Kei-Oz’ charakter Inu (when he was alive). Alex, version 2.0.

Ciri, one of the three baby kitties that visited us every night while drawing. They were so cute … and we were even offered two of them :(

Drawing practice:  25 different facial expressions for one character – these are the first five.

And last but not least … uhm, I have to explain this one. A short while ago I visited CSD (a German gay parade which takes place in several larger cities). It was quite cool, the parades, the people … well, yes, and the usual idiot with sign on which were things like “Homosexuality is sin” and more bullshit like this. And as I couldn’t tell him right there what I thought of it, I had to do a picture to let off steam:

And this is my very first and likely very last slash pic ever. :D

One of my New Years’s resolutions was to be creative every day – writing, drawing, whatever.

I’ve been drawing nearly every day and while I still have to scan the pencil art I can show some of the digital ones.

I drew this for Charloft where I’m writing and roleplaying with Julian. The prompt was to show the character’s best friends.

Jul has got a sister most recently, and now she’s got a face. Her name is Gwynnie.

Happy End of the Year and a good start into the next one!

Especially the artwork!
In the first volume there was a mini tutorial. I decided to try the technique on an old sketch:

The first and most important step: Create clean lineart!
Since I normally don’t do this, it took me a rather long time. But spending time and effort on this will make life easier in the following steps.

Next I worked on the background. I had reference material for the flames which helped a lot when it came to picking the appropriate colors. The fire was painted with different standard brushes and a low value for “Flow”.

According to the tutorial, I picked the darkest color from the background and filled my lineart with it:

Not bad, but this led to the next problem: How much color could/should be visible on the characters?
This time I tried something I learned in the digitalartforum: Treat coloring and shading as different problems.
So I did the shading with only one color on one layer. On top of it I had another layer on which I only painted the colors without any shading.
The color layer got the blending mode “Color dodge” and 50 % opacity. Now it looked like this:

Almost there! Some work on the metal parts and some highlights and I call it done:

I’m quite satisfied with the result. Having such a structured work flow was very helpful for me.
Maybe it is for you, too :)

Snake’s getting ready for a night out.

And I’m not yet done with the duck theme:

Mighty Ducks rock! And I haven’t even watched the show very often when I was younger.

Speedpainting which is supposed to become a detailed picture.

I saw many beautiful and tattoed people during my holidays. This girl is composed of at least three of them.

Nothing new.

Incomplete band picture of Jul’s old band. I used a reference for the girl to the left. The reference wasn’t as deformed as she is now :(

Snake is posing again.

Drawing was therapy.

Jul again.

Do you know who he is (without looking at the file name)?

Mortis. He’s stuck in my head. Arrogant bastard.

Uhm … well. Kei_oz and me were watching some episodes of Mighty Ducks … which led to … this.

Since about the same time I possess a bunch of acrylic colors and some cardboard and canvases. I just had no idea how to combine the two to something nice (which also is not too complicated because I’m not very skilled in acrylic painting).

However, I found something inspiring, a couple of pictures of the band Schandmaul. They show the band members in front of a reddish wall, for example? like this. So I thought I could do the same with my vampires. Two or three portraits on 65 X 50 cm cardboard.

The first one started with a digital color sketch:

It looks pretty different in acrylics – I found it hard to pick the background colors. Now they are way more saturated than on the sketch but I think it’s not too bad.

I used masking fluid to keep the sketch of Jul clean from colour. While this technique worked fine on canvas I had to learn that cardboard behaves different: After the fluid had dried it could hardly be removed again from the surface. Part of it is still there so I will simply paint on top of it. Lesson learned …

The next portrait is supposed to sport Kai. But I’d like to finish this one first.