Celebrity Fridays - Ragnar Lodbrok (Vikings)

Today I will show you something very special I made for someone special. This is Ragnar Lodbrok from a TV series called Vikings which I just started to watch! You should have a look it's worth a try!

Harry Potter - Hagrids Cabin

Hello my friends :)

I'm sorry for a long time of silence - but now I'm back with a very nice illustration of a cabin you all know! It's Hagrids cabin I illustrated with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop!

Lonely Giant

Just a quick and random artwork.

Celebrity Fridays - Michonne - The Walking Dead

A friend said he wants me to illustrate Michonne from The Walking Dead. And here she is!

Basecap girl

Today I was inspired by some really nice comic sketches. I tried to give one of my characters some more comic details, too! This is the result!

Celebrity Mondays - Sleeping Beauty

Today I want to show you one of my favourite fables - Sleeping Beauty. But not the way everyone thinks she looks like - in my illustration she's just a natural woman. Sleeping.

How to create an autumn atmosphere

Today it is a really dismal Saturday. Perfect to create a beautiful illustration with the positive sides of autumn. 

Prepare yourself for gaussian blurs. And gaussian blurs. And gaussian blurs...

This is the image which will get an autumn atmosphere.

 

Duplicate this image in photoshop and use filter>blur>gaussian blur. Set this layers settings to soft light. 

Create a colored layer - for example #f2cc8a - and erase the objects in the shadow. In my image it's the tree, the ground and the bench. This layer should have an opacity about 40%.

 

Add a nice vignette with a dark autumn brown color like #381706 and set the opacity to 63%.

 

For more drama I darkened the bottom of my image again.
My next step was to brighten the objects a little bit where the sun brightens them. Take a soft brush and color the edges white. Make sure that this is really smooth with another gaussian blur effect!
To get more red colors in my picture I added an adjustment layer with the option selective color. Check out the settings in the following image.

Now we have to generate atmosphere. COLORS!!! Add another adjustment layer with the option color balance. Settings are shown in the next image.

 

It looks lovely now but we want more! Group all what we've done and merge this group to one layer.
Duplicate this one and use another gaussian blur. Deselect the objects which have to me sharp with a mask like the child oder the bench oder the tree.
Create another adjustment layer which depends on your gaussian layer with the option hue/saturation and use the following settings.

 

Last but not least add another adjustment layer with the option exposure to get a bit more light.

 

That's it, have a look at my final image. I love it :)

Jeff's Adventures #6

Lion King inspired tree

I just found this drawing where I tried out my Bamboo Pen & Touch some time ago.

The Wall - Brick landscape

Just another brick landscape because I love it!

African brick landscape

I had some fun while building another brick landscape!

Friday the 13th Photoshop Experiments

Here you can see some photoshop experiments of my Friday the 13th and Fullmoon artwork. Which one do you like most?

Jeff's Adventures #5

Brick Landscape Tutorial - Minecraft style

In this tutorial I'll show you how to create a brick landscape fast and easy.

First step: Create the bricks.

1. Draw a square and rotate it to 45 degrees. 
2. Scale it to the half size of the original square. Don't scale it evenly - compress it like in the images. 
3. Duplicate it to get the basement and pull it to the lower angle of your first square.
4. Create some rectangles for the side walls.

This is your brick which will be your initial object for everything else you create. 

Second Step: Make the bricks unique.

1. Add some details like little stones or grass.
2. Create 3-4 different bricks of a kind to make your final landscape look random.
3. Add some shadows. Your final image will look more 3-dimensional.

That's it! Now you can start to build your landscape. My landscape will be a snowy mountain with a vale full of fir trees. 

It will take a time until you can copy a group of bricks to another place to go on faster. It's a bit like building with lego bricks or building in Minecraft - I like it!

Here you can see my final landscape. I did some photoshop actions later to get some more atmosphere!

El Don Fail mit Hintergrund

"Gib deinen Figuren mal etwas Hintergrund, das würde sicher viel ausmachen!" - Et voilà! :)