The Ressurrectionist

A collaboration between myself and Abbas Saleem Khan (bakatron.com). The underwater theme tend to be a bit challenging for me, but I'm very happy with how this one turned out. Thanks for looking :)

Wrath of Medusa

I wanted to paint Medusa for quite some time, but haven't had a chance to until recently. This image was a lot of fun to paint, but also extremely challenging; The statue's 'folds' and texture in particular were very time consuming, as was the strands of grass on the foreground. For those interested, a tutorial on how I painted this image will be available soon on Photoshop Digital Painting Magazine as well.'

Stoned

This image was created for Digital Arts Magazine, as a tutorial on how to create a portrait of a statue. I had a lot of fun creating this one, especially in regards to the lightning as well as the texture work. The tutorial deals with applying both photo textures as well as hand painted textures to create a believable result. Be sure to check out the complete tutorial next month on Digital Arts Magazine!

Digital Artists - Available For Pre Order!

I'm proud to announce that my work will be included in 'Digital Artists'. 'Digital Artists' is a book from ArtSquared.co.uk that will follow 70 of the worlds best digital artists showcasing more than 250 images spread over 172 diverse pages of artwork, including 10 workshops written by some of the best artists in the business.

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Lost From Sea

This image started off very... unplanned. At first, I initially wanted to paint an underwater scene, but I got bored halfway through and decided to do something a bit different. I'm glad I did at the end of the day, as an underwater scene would have probably been too cliche.

Pose referenced from: [link]

EDIT: I altered the lightning a bit to make the second light source more evident.

Joker Was Here

I recently saw The Dark Knight on Blu Ray, and immediately after decided I had to paint the Joker. I wanted to do something a bit more original, however, so I tried to depict the Joker more as a vampire than anything else (hence the black attire as opposed to the classic purple).

This was painted in a period of 3 days, and I did my best to avoid overworking this piece, so I stopped much earlier than I usually do.

Edit: Updated the piece a bit, mostly added some details and reworked the colors quite a bit to bring more life to the image.

Dancing With The Devil

This piece was commissioned over a year ago, and I had much fun, and frustration, in creating it. I don't usually experiment much with a dark theme, so this was a fun change from the norm. I was asked to do something very Tim Burton-ish, whom I'm a huge fan of, and what you see here is the result.

I wanted the composition to be simple, concentrating on atmosphere above all else, so I decided to keep everything pretty much empty. The more elements I tried to add, the more the atmosphere suffered. I learned with this piece, specifically how to create rainy effects and enhancing atmosphere. I kept the color theme simple and generally cool to add to the atmosphere as well.

The Clockwork Man - Available for Pre-Order!

The Clockwork Man, a project I've been working on along with fellow artists for the past year, is finally available for pre-order! I'm very proud with the work I've done for the project, and how the game turned out as well.

At the turn of the century, in an alternate timeline where steam-powered technology has become dominant in almost all walks of life, this Hidden Object Adventure will take you to exotic locales, while you attempt to compile the parts to the world’s greatest invention!

• Explore unique Scrolling & Zoomable multi-layered scenes.
• Find hundreds of hand-painted Victorian items.
• Solve many adventure & logic puzzles.
• Get spoiled only as much as you need thanks to an innovative hint system.
• Enjoy high replay value as hidden items appear in alternate locations on consecutive play sessions.

To learn more about the game, visit the official "The Clockwork Man" website. For a limited time, you can save 50% on the title now should you choose to pre-order it :)

Wonder Woman

Portrait of Woman Woman. I approached this image in a similar way Alex Ross approaches his paintings; Using a photo reference to obtain dynamic lightning information, but not being a complete slave to it. I really wanted to push colors with this one, so I spent a lot of time working on the colors as well as studying color theory in general. A tutorial on how I created this image will be featured in GoMotion magazine soon, so keep an eye out for that :) Figure referenced from: [link]

*Special thanks to Henning, Baka, and CGDude for their input :)

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'Wonder Woman' is property of DC Comics.

Blade of Fire

This piece was a commission at first, but due to problems with the client, it fell through so I decided to make it my own. I put a lot of thought into this one, from the color scheme to the composition, and I think it really paid off. I consider this my best work to date, by far. Thanks for looking, and here's to a great 2009!

Master Copy - Biondina

A Master Copy of Lord Frederick Leighton's "Biondina", done for practice. I always seem to learn a tremendous amount when doing these practice paintings, and this time was no different. I tried to capture the likeness of the original, especially in terms of colors w/o taking any 'shortcuts' (no box gridding, color picking, etc). Original image can be found here: [link]

Approximately 2-3 hours of work.

Save Us

 A Self Portrait of sorts.  I'm quite pleased with the image.  The idea of a statue crying tears of blood was something I always wanted to paint for ages, so I'm glad I finally got around to it.  It's also worth noting that I was at a very dark point in my life while I painted the image, and I feel this image represents that as well.  I'm happy to say that I'm in a much better place right now as well.

Out Of This World - Speedpainting

Yet another speedpainting (I'm on a roll! :). This one was done without any references, which I'm very proud of (my previous portraits were fairly highly referenced). I had a lot of fun with this piece, and I might repaint this as a 'full' painting in the future. 1 hour, Photoshop.

EDIT: Worked on it for 1 more hour, looks much, much better me thinks :)

The Underworld - Speedpainting

Quick speedpainting, approximately 1 hour. Trying to get some more practice in landscape painting :)

Thanks for looking :)

Lady Gaia

This piece took me quite a while to complete; I started this off in early February, with a much more different concept; Eventually I altered the theme for something more darker. All in all, this took around 100 hours of work; The background was especially difficult for me to do.

Special thanks to Melanie Delon (Eskarina), who helped me out a tremendous amount with this piece (especially in terms of the colors).

Reference used for the figure.

Edit: Updated this piece a bit - altered the color scheme a bit, and enhanced the lightning a bit.

Batman Caricature

Caricature of Batman based on the 'Batman Begins' film.  Had a lot of fun with this one, and I think it shows.  The light in particular was a lot of fun to handle.  . Approximately 10 hours of work.

Catwoman

Portrait of Catwoman. This started off as practice, but got a bit out of hand. Angelina Jolie was naturally used as reference :)

Nature Speedpaint

Approximately 2 hours.

Going Under

Portrait done for a fellow artist. Originally, this was gonna be your standard portrait, but I decided to be more brave and adapt a more Fantasy style theme. Overall I'm quite satisfied with the results.

Wedding Gift

A gift for two friends :) Sorry for the lack of updates lately, been busy as hell to be honest. I'll make more of an effort to update my blog constantly from here on out.