Bird merchant

Just some random character.
Something's still bugging me, but I've spent too much time on it already and I'm sick of it. So here he is. ;)

Gear Up

Wohoo, personal work, who saw that coming!
One of the few times I had an lineart to work with, cause originally I didn't planned on coloring it. ;)

Die Siedler 7 / The Settler 7 Campaign characters

"Die Siedler 7" / "The Settlers 7" by Bluebyte/Ubisoft finally hit the stands some days ago.

The portraits below are actually the last characters I did for "The Settlers 7". Did them in October 2009 - I think I already started doing some work for Marvel then.
They are portrait-only characters. Some of these were used in 2D like you can see them here and some (the bit more rough looking ones) were used as concepts for 3D models.

I had a lot of fun with these - less restrictions and more time for rendering.




And these characters are different from the ones I posted in my last blog post. These are Campaign Characters - they were used in rendered cut scenes.
So these concepts had to be more detailed and rendered more carefully than the in-game characters.

Die Siedler 7 / The Settlers 7

"Die Siedler 7" / "The Settlers 7" by Bluebyte/Ubisoft finally hit the stands some days ago.

I did most of the character designs for the game and a big bunch of 'em you can see here.


The kind of style and the bodytypes were already defined when I came to the project, so it's all a bit of a mix of my style and a style the guys at Bluebyte had in mind.

The biggest challenge was to keep the design simple and readable. Even zoomed out the characters had to be easily recognizable. I got a lot of input from my A.D Michael Filipowski about this.
Considering stuff like this, or the limitations of the 3D-realization and animations was completely new to me. But I grew into it after while I think. :)


I started working on "The Settlers 7" in mid 2008, so some of the characters below aren't actually the freshest anymore. ;)

inking practice

Bought a Pentel brush pen and practiced inking a bit.
Great tool. :)
I'm not completely satisfied with the results, but anyway, thats why I'm practicing, right?






got carried away for some minutes and did these "colors" but decided it overlayed the inks too much, so I stopped working on it. Okay enough to post though I think.

wanna coffee?

just a random character I've drawn today for inking-practice.
little changes 'n stuff with Photoshop.

Bull

character for a fictional beat m up!
based on old designs I did some years ago: http://manarama.deviantart.com/art/beat-m-up-charas-29559004

random concepts

Date at the beach

PopGun concepts

I'm currently doing a 10 pages comic for the PopGun vol. 2 anthology(Image).

here are some chara concepts I did for it.