Concept Art . Visinbale's Wall WIP

Have kept working on another piece for the Dawn RPG game, Visinbale's Wall:

Visinbale's Wall WIP, digital 2011

Finished Digital Painting - Belemar Mountains (2011)

Finally my concept art for the Dawn-project, Belemar Mountains is finished. Here's the final version:

Belemar Mountains, digital 2011

Work In Progress - Digital Fantasy Art

Sorry for not posting for a while. I'm currently writing a "Draw and paint fantasy" art course in Swedish. Here is the latest WIP of the painting I'm working on for this course:

WIP - Color sketch, addition of dark values

Work In Progress - Orc Concept Art WIP

Have begun coloring my pencil sketch of an orc. Here is the latest version:

Work In Progress - Silver Forest Concept Art WIP

Just realized that I haven't posted the latest WIP of my Silver Forest concept art for the Dawn RPG project. Here it is: (ArtRage3)

Silver Forest Concept Art - WIP, 2010

Finished Digital Painting - Last Command

Today I finally finished this month's challenge entry for the ImagineFX monthly challenge. Entitled "Last Command", here's what it ended up like: (ArtRage3 with post adjustments in Photoshop)

Finished Digital Painting - It Came From the Sewer

Yesterday I finished my latest online challenge piece. The theme was "Movie Monster" and i invented this creature for my piece (ArtRage3 and Photoshop):

It came from the sewer (2010)

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Finished Digital Painting - Cybernetic Fae

Yesterday I finished my latest image for the ImagineFX March challenge, "Cybernetic Fae":

Cybernetic Fae (2010)

Finished Digital Painting - When Harpies Attack

Yesterday I finished another digital fantasy art painting, "When Harpies Attack". Hope you like it:

Finished Digital Painting - Eyes in The Deep

My latest challenge entry for the "An Illustration for a Role-Playing Game" challenge. Call it "Eyes in the deep" and went for a traditional fantasy dungeon crawl setting:

Eyes in The Deep (2010)

Finished Digital Painting - Battle Tide

Here's the finished version of the project "Battle Tide":

 

Battle Tide (2010)

Work In Progress - Battle Tide (WiP2)

An update on the piece from the previous post:

Work In Progress - Battle Tide

Yesterday I joined another online art challenge. The theme is "Battle Tide" and here's a first draft:

Work In Progress - Sunrise Kata (WiP3)

Here's the next WiP for the "Far East"-challenge at ImagineFX:

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Work In Progress - Kata

Yesterday I joined another online art challenge. Here is one of the first WiPs. Theme "The far east":

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Work In Progress - Naiad, (Wip 8)

WiP 8 of the Naiad I'm working on:

(Nudity) From the Sketchbook - Female Life Painting

(Post contains artistic nudity)

Here is the start of a practice in painting the human figure from life. Done in ArtRage3 from photo reference:

Work In Progress - Naiad, (Minitutorial part 2, WiP 4 and 5)

Have kept working on my Naiad and will continue the little tutorial I published along with WiP 1 to 3 in a recent post. First I tried to apply roughly the general shape and feel of water, that I would later spread out using the palette knife. This led to a chaotic stage of the process:

Then I changed my mind and decided that the water would follow the oval shapes of the underlying structure. This meant that it would be painted more like ripples. Here is the latest version:

 

Since this I've been thinking whether I should change the direction of the water. Since the nymph is supposed to be a part of the element, maybe it would be better to have the water flowing in the direction of the flow and planes of the figure? It probably would.

To paint an image like this is a process taking part subconsciously and in the mind as well as on the canvas. It's a process of solving one visual problem after another, an internal journey and exploration of ideas, concepts and designs. This is what makes it so endlessly fascinating and inspiring.

Work in Progress - Naiad (mini-tutorial, WiP 1-3)

Thus it became a new decade. New decade means new year. New year means new month and new month...means a new MyFX Monthly Challenge over at the ImagineFX forum! The theme for January is "Hiding in plain sight".

Posting the first three WiPs, this post is a very brief tutorial on the workflow I've used in the beginning phase of painting this image.

Since I really enjoy figurative painting and need to continually practice this challenging but oh so fascinating subject, I decided to paint a Naiad (water nymph). The idea is for her to be almost one with her related element (water). For this I used ArtRage3 and the oil paint tool.

Working from a photo reference of a female in a dress, I began by very roughly applying midtone to a colored background, as well as a dark and a light tone. Doing this I tried to capture the flow of the figure and her dress.

I also started to think about the underlying structure of the composition, as taught in the ArtTrek series  on design and composition by Charles Bernard The dominating shape of this image will be the circle or oval.

Naiad - 1st WiP

I then began working on improving the basic outline and form of the shade. Mostly in the face and on the upper right arm. For this I used the palette knife tool. I just love to first block in the colour roughly and then moving it around to its proper places using the palette knife.

Naiad - 2nd WiP

I kept defining the outline and basic tones of the figure working in much the same way. Also decided that some parts of the figure should "float" and mix with the surrounding water. I also decided to change one of the underlying shapes somewhat.

In order to apply more detail I zoom in on the painting. Since I plan for the final version to be 600x800, I'm working with a 1200x1600 sized canvas. I then know that if a detail seems alright when working at 75% of the canvas size, it will also work when I finally make the finished image half as big.

Naiad - WiP3

So far I think this piece is off to a rather good start. The next important decision is whether to stick to purely monochromatic or if I should introduce other colors, perhaps moving in a more expressive direction. We'll see where I'll take it from here.

Another Free Graphic Design - Eagle

Finally I'm ready to consider it finished, the eagle design I've been working on has reached it final version.

I hope this design can be useful or inspirational to you. It is done in ArtRage3

As always, I am very grateful for any feedback on my designs. Let me know what kind of designs you would like me to draw. Tell me if you would need any of my designs posted in a different size or color than I've posted them.

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Eagle (2010)