SKETCHBLOG

2012-01-26T14:19:00.001-08:00

B/W playing

2012-01-24T10:22:00.001-08:00

Some tryouts, I thought about Boba Fett from Star Wars while painting this.... ;-)

had some time to paint

2012-01-22T12:56:00.000-08:00

Womans face, from imagination only used some reference for the lips....

Return of the JD

2011-12-30T14:18:00.000-08:00

Hey guysn gals, SORRY!!!!!!! 4 not poting so long!

Ive been busy working and playing magic and not drawing..... a SHAME!

AND I m going to be daddy hehe.. so all thi is taking time..... I really do believe that Ill be back drawing soon!

Until next time, have a good last day in 2011.

Cheers

2011-09-30T14:28:00.000-07:00

2011-09-30T11:47:00.001-07:00

ROFL

2011-09-28T12:44:00.000-07:00

So the last post, was supposed to be an archangel??????? A JOKE!!!!!!!!

SPrry people I sometimes really dont get what I am painting. This is a demon.... quite nice, but I really missed my goal by painting the wrong stuff....

So here the hopefully angel redesign...

Comment and critics would be helpfull...

UPDATE ARCHANGEL

2011-09-22T12:44:00.001-07:00

Archangel

2011-09-22T06:19:00.001-07:00

Over at CgHub.com theres a character challenge... themes "Archangel"

Heres what Ive got so far....

Attempt to matte painting

2011-09-21T11:37:00.000-07:00

Another update!

This is a attempt to create a "matte painting"

This is a parole used in movies or games or generally effects in any digital medium..

Matte P. are supposed to look photoreal, but are in fact non existant locations...

So here you are.

2011-09-20T22:54:00.001-07:00

Added soe colors to enhance the moodiness....
Well I guess its finished... dometing is missing... and I cant point the finger to it... weird....

2011-09-20T12:47:00.000-07:00

Hey there!
This is a piece that I just did... Im not happy with the composition at the moment. In my opinion, theres something missing in the foreground....
I was inspired by jamie jones and a piece that he did.

2011-09-18T13:33:00.000-07:00

Couldnt resist, some more character thumbnails....

I dont know, if Ill develop them into a more refined concept...

Regards
JD

colorsssssssss

2011-09-18T11:53:00.001-07:00

Teacher Mentor character design

2011-09-18T10:57:00.000-07:00

Heres a new character design that I just drew... pheww this was lot of effort...

It wasnt easy for me to come up with the right shape language, also the pose and the mimic were hard to find....

I guess the colors will be next...

Next piece will be some environmental work I guess...

Hope you like some of it....

Schurke / Rougue Concept

2011-09-13T13:41:00.001-07:00

Ill give you a little insight how I developped this character concept....
I hope the end result is acceptable....

2011-09-10T03:43:00.001-07:00

character design, hate the colors...

Ghostly spirit

2011-09-09T13:04:00.000-07:00

A quick portrait done from imagination...

Final concept of the werewolf

2011-09-09T10:49:00.000-07:00

Head design

2011-09-08T06:18:00.001-07:00

Werewolf concept

2011-09-08T03:29:00.000-07:00

Well I finally got a new graphic tablet, I had to try it out asap, its a cintiq, a tablet with an integrated led screen.
Did this werwolf concept, and I guess theres is a huge diffrence in the line quality...
:-)

2011-09-07T08:47:00.001-07:00

2011-09-07T08:41:00.001-07:00

Leviathan in color!

2011-09-05T11:50:00.000-07:00

Here my take on the colored version!
Tell me what you think.... theres twitter, facebook, or email or evan the comment funktion on this site!
I can only advance if you tell me what you like or what you dont like!!!!

I am talking to you, yes!!!

Cheerio

Leviathan

2011-09-04T14:06:00.001-07:00

This is a work in progress... so far about 2 hours... this is a work clearly inspired by the ancien magic the gathering card "Leviathan"....
I like how th edramatic light is coming... I guess Ill also do a colored version of this one...

C u

Black&White

2011-09-03T03:19:00.001-07:00

Knight and Troll

Done for a imaginativ boardgame.... as monster cards...

Spider design

2011-09-02T09:21:00.001-07:00

I did today this design of a spider creature.
I tried to give it a bit of character... try to decide for yourself if I succeded..
C&C are welcome.

Another Speedie

2011-08-29T12:32:00.000-07:00

Heres an other speedpainting, Ive done today for fun.... I tried to reproduce a strong mood....
Critiques and thoughts would be helpfull....

Lightscape

2011-08-23T12:14:00.001-07:00

Hey there

Iam working so much, unfortunately my creativity hasnt had the time to escape from my memory to the screen or paper....
Well its all about disciplin... will post more!

Cheers

Bye bye

2011-07-30T00:25:00.000-07:00

Im on holiday for a week from tomorrow on....
Well I post again when I ve created something new....

C u

;-)

steve Mcqueen

2011-07-28T06:02:00.001-07:00

Arghhhhhh so BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Photostudie

2011-07-28T02:30:00.000-07:00

Star wars hommage

2011-07-26T00:25:00.000-07:00

Jabba the hutt

Eventhorizon study

2011-07-25T10:24:00.001-07:00

Portrait studies

2011-07-25T03:10:00.000-07:00

Been on holidays

2011-07-18T02:31:00.000-07:00

The theme here was:

"Carnivorous witch planning a murder."

The sentence was generated by a little inspirational help that I created. It randomly generates sentences with some specially chosen words....

Critics are most welcome....

2011-07-03T05:20:00.001-07:00

My dear friend Thomas had its birthday yesterday.... I made him a present...

2011-06-29T12:44:00.001-07:00

colored piece

2011-06-29T11:05:00.000-07:00

Hey, this is my interpretation of SLaine Macroth..

http://britishcomics.wikia.com/wiki/Slaine_MacRoth

Ratie

2011-05-29T14:13:00.001-07:00

Did this rat as an exercise...

Itwas quite a fast pace... long time no digital... have to do some more...

2011-05-25T01:08:00.000-07:00

Sorry for not posting! I have tins to do with work and university.... Life can be stressfull arghh....

I miss the creative sources and the process painting cool stuff with pixels...

Hope my timemangement will get better soon!

2011-05-25T01:05:00.001-07:00

...

2011-04-28T11:33:00.000-07:00

Master studie

Final

About 4 hours....

Learned a ton!

Will do more!

Master Studie

2011-04-27T01:36:00.001-07:00

Velázquez!
Innocent X
One of the most accomplished portraits in the 17century.
The original and my copy... which i still in progress...!!!!

2011-04-26T06:18:00.000-07:00

I did this "copy" from this paiting:

http://cghub.com/images/view/59489/

Good exercise!!!!

Figures

2011-04-25T12:44:00.000-07:00

Some figures all done without reference, and from the mind.... I did them from left to the right....I must say it is evident,that when focusing on something it is indeed worth doing a couple of sketches and tryouts....

2011-04-22T13:07:00.001-07:00

Inspired by an other artist called Andrew Jones....

It was really fun, to be so loose with the brush....

Transformator Speedie

2011-04-20T04:22:00.001-07:00

2011-04-19T00:29:00.000-07:00

Kekai Kotaki hommage, and practice

Speedpainting about 45 minutes....

2011-04-11T06:00:00.000-07:00

Some tryout with photo reference and so on...

2011-04-04T13:43:00.000-07:00

Some warm up tryouts.....

Big thing

2011-03-16T09:13:00.000-07:00

Hey there long time no update... heres some speed fun stuff....

2011-03-02T13:19:00.000-08:00

Gosh....for soooo long no new posts....
Dont worry I am not dead, but working a lot and being a bit lazy too....

School is taking a toll on me and my ,otivation to create new pieces. Ill have to work on my attitude!

Well Ill be on my way again and Ill be back....

FORM

2011-01-22T01:50:00.000-08:00

Some diffrent tryouts, tryinf to capture forms only useing diffrent values....

Priestress

2011-01-18T05:21:00.001-08:00

Charactersheet for the priestress character...
Now the final one, I am still not sure what class to choose....

Amazon, Assasine, Valkyrie???!!!! Any ideas???

Regards

2011-01-15T09:05:00.000-08:00

finel witcher board

Whitcher

2011-01-14T06:28:00.001-08:00

Heres the characterboard for the whicher...

upDATE

2011-01-11T06:25:00.001-08:00

Boardgame

2011-01-10T14:42:00.000-08:00

Im designing a boardgame. The idea is from me, and Ill be working on it for some time now...
Ill be posting more infos when I am ready.
This is a first sketch for the character sheet. It will be a RPG, that can be played alone or up to 4 people.

2011-01-09T14:12:00.000-08:00

Hey people!
I am working on some stuff atm, sorry for not yet posting!
I abandoned the riders for now... I have painted all of em, but for now I let it be.

I had some days ago an Idea for a boardgame, and I am concepting it....

Will be updating on it l8ter...

Cheerio!

Riders of the apocalypse

2010-12-30T16:38:00.000-08:00

Hey guys, I am really inspired by all the work from you guys, it really keeps pushing me into new levels!

Right now I am trying a new approach to my "image creation process".
I didnt like the idea that I started digitally and finished it up digitally... means all is done in the computer. I love the smell, feel of real pencils colors aso.... so I tried to blend the medias....

This is still a WIP, I havent done anything in PS yet, this is all watercolors except the BG.... Conquest/Pestilence is still missing.... I am working on it..

C&C are very welcome!

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Happy X-MAS

2010-12-24T07:17:00.000-08:00

Happy X-MAS to you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is for you!

cute action!

2010-12-23T05:38:00.001-08:00

Started working on a new workflow of the generation of a piece... I want to do more traditional stuff, so I start up traditionally and develop the piece as far as possible....then I scan it in, and refine it in PS

2010-12-22T07:49:00.000-08:00

2010-12-12T13:49:00.001-08:00

Landscape speedpaintings.... tried to do 3 very diffrent enviros.... about 1 hour...

2010-12-11T03:59:00.001-08:00

Final

Viking berserker

2010-12-09T22:09:00.000-08:00

I know, again the screaming archetype, lol but what does a berserker do? Like going wild and screaming and threashing around, hes a maniac who drinks the blood of his foes... so hes drinking and not screaming ;-)

BTW I am still working on it... its done for the character of the week ( CHOW ) over at Conceptart.org

Dark Alcove

2010-12-07T22:50:00.001-08:00

Did this for Environment of the week over at CA.org

Snowman

2010-12-07T06:05:00.000-08:00

Here my own personal snowman ;-)

2010-12-01T23:06:00.001-08:00

tweaked it a bit more...

Ill call that one done!

2010-11-28T11:00:00.000-08:00

2010-11-27T05:33:00.001-08:00

So I guess heres my final version of the picture...

I am working now on the charavter sheets for both character...

Heres a WIp for the general...

2010-11-25T05:51:00.000-08:00

....

2010-11-24T05:33:00.001-08:00

Final concept piece and some experimants with colors!

Progress

2010-11-21T12:43:00.000-08:00

Changed the general, didnt like the concept.... will see if ill keep that one...

DWV

2010-11-17T04:40:00.000-08:00

I ve been struggling woth my General a lot in the middle of it I noticed I find it a bit too ordinary, and this is DWV, man this has to be epic... well well I thought about throwing over board the whole thing.... nay I want to render it out to the end, and see what happens... I can only learn from this... can I ?

The second one is my take on the corrupt... I intend to do a big crature that is spilling forth its guts filled with eggs... from these its hatchlings hatch... they are the actual force of the corrupted... they overrun and rush its enemies.... to strike down the main body of the corrupted is nealry impossible beacause it is so hard to get there....

update

2010-11-14T12:32:00.001-08:00

Hey guys, really great entries so far heres my take on it.... I ve been asking much around and pretty everyone told me to go with number 2....
So although I am not absolutely sure with it Ill go with it....

Which ओने?

2010-11-12T23:31:00.000-08:00

Which one should I chose?

DOMINANCE WAR V

2010-11-11T01:04:00.000-08:00

YEA!!!!

DW V is up, Ill be joining for sure! Here are more infos:

http://www.dominancewar.com/2010/preliminary/en_rules.php

My first char will be the War General

Heres some pose designs and armor tryouts:

I HATE THE ARMY!

2010-11-10T12:51:00.000-08:00

BUT!!!! I still have time to draw! yay, and that is a good thing!

Some speedies:

The red, black one, no offense my religious friends, this was a test...

War torn

2010-11-04T11:47:00.000-07:00

War torn

2010-11-02T04:47:00.001-07:00

Speed of the week, theme: Wartorn.... design a destruction and death bringing "thing".... it wrecs havoc where it is.... etc...

Finally the final :-)

2010-10-30T08:26:00.000-07:00

Heres the finished one... couldnt let the stuff that was bothering me...

Final

2010-10-28T12:00:00.000-07:00

So here goes my Satans Gatekeeper. It was a lot of fun, and in the end I had a real struggle with those chains... but I wanted to do something with chains! I quite like it, how it turned out.... also wanted to use strong colors....

Update

2010-10-27T12:10:00.001-07:00

Satans Gatekeeper

2010-10-25T13:44:00.000-07:00

I am working on a picture for a contest over at Cghub.com

Theme is: Satans Gatekeeper

Heres my try on it

Halloween hommage

2010-10-25T08:24:00.000-07:00

Heres my Halloween speedie, not as gory as I thought it would be ;-)

Big daddy pumpkin has done it yet again, his little treasure called pumpkin boy is angry and has just proved that he is even more thick headed than his old man himself.
Angrily he marches away from his now stupefied big daddy.....

BTW: I tried a new technique with this one, and I muat say wow! I took a photograph and started to paint over it until it was gone and my own image was there....
REally great to try out a diffrent color palette by using real ones.... what do you think, is this cheating??? I guess there are lots of artits that use a similar approach... arent there?

Kitchen FUN

2010-10-24T11:32:00.000-07:00

My kitchen

2010-10-22T16:50:00.001-07:00

Some really short and usefull and really enjoyable kitchen exercise!

Speedpainting

2010-10-18T13:17:00.001-07:00

Sme speedies, again to practice mood and colors specifically....
I am trying to be bold and use thick strokes and rather sculpt with the strokes than build up like a machine... and it feels nice. :-)

Colorfull speedpainting tryout

2010-10-17T08:02:00.001-07:00

Every picture should tell a story. I try to think of that in every single piece unless its a study. Meantime here I tried to experiment with some colors.. got to get more crazy with those....

Dark giant

2010-10-12T07:39:00.000-07:00

Heres an other MONSTER!!!!

Desert Titan

2010-10-10T14:35:00.000-07:00

Speed of the Week entry

speedpainting

2010-10-10T05:39:00.001-07:00

The power of color

2010-10-06T14:38:00.000-07:00

Heres the piece in color!

hope you like some!!!

2010-10-06T13:10:00.000-07:00

Som I did work on it a bit longer... added the knight in the foreground to enhance the story element... hope you like some!!!

Update time

2010-10-04T02:22:00.000-07:00

The black and whote version is quite finished.... still thinking about adding some more corpses...lol

Zombie nation

2010-10-03T23:44:00.001-07:00

This time I ve had some fun with our beloved undead.... ZOMBIES!

Still in progress--

Update

2010-09-24T12:53:00.001-07:00

Insect armor

2010-09-24T12:50:00.000-07:00

Heres a character concept for an insect armor. Was fun!