Dardracon (person in front) is fighting his villain “Firegold”.Firegold says in this scene:“Now look at you, so weak… I crushed your helmet, you little jumping jack. You call yourself Dardracon? Then I will show everyone your true identity, and you won’t be able to be Dardracon again.”The unmasked hero answers while standing up:“No… you’re wrong. I am always Dardracon!”Thanks for taking your time to have a look at my images and gallery.Tools: Wacom Intuos3 A3 + PS CS5.1 View high resolution

Dardracon (person in front) is fighting his villain “Firegold”.

Firegold says in this scene:
“Now look at you, so weak… I crushed your helmet, you little jumping jack. You call yourself Dardracon? Then I will show everyone your true identity, and you won’t be able to be Dardracon again.”

The unmasked hero answers while standing up:
“No… you’re wrong. I am always Dardracon!”

Thanks for taking your time to have a look at my images and gallery.

Tools: Wacom Intuos3 A3 + PS CS5.1

Dragon Illustration 2 Another one, had much fun with this dragon. I tried to get a color-palette I normally don’t use often.Tools: Scanned Pencil Drawing, Photoshop CS5.1 + Wacom Intuos3 A3 View high resolution

Dragon Illustration 2

Another one, had much fun with this dragon. I tried to get a color-palette I normally don’t use often.


Tools: Scanned Pencil Drawing, Photoshop CS5.1 + Wacom Intuos3 A3

My dragon related artwork-collection

Over time I painted many works which have something to do with dragons. My personal favourites are collected in my Dropbox-Gallery-Folder I named “Dragons”. If some of my followers actually didn’t stumble upon my older images, here is your chance to have a look. Just click on the title of my post.

You are allowed to download images for looking at them offline, however, if you want to show them to others just reblog this blog-entry or copy the link to the gallery - very important is that you please mention my name and website when you show my work to the public. Thank you very much.

Gotcha! Finally I am able to do some first scenery-concepts for my comic-story “The Legend of Dardracon”.In this image, one of my maincharacters named “Davis Snake” is a member of the “Sicherheit” (something like a flying/security squad). Penta City is terrorized by crime, even the Penta-Police can’t do anyting. If the Penta Police needs help they call the “Sicherheit”.In this scene, Davis Snake (besides his best friends who are also members of the squad) is sneaking inside a building which is taken by hostage takers.One of those gangsters tries to attack Davis from behind (by aiming with a gun at his back) but Davis is turning around, already knowing that someone is there - ready to shoot his enemy.This scene is a collaboration with Jade Macalla, who did reference-shots of himself. There are many more which will be very helpful for me when drawing similar scenes (those are coming soon.I am amazed at Jade’s talent to “become the character” while doing the reference images.If you want to learn more about Jade’s work, please visit his gallery link and homepage [link] . When it comes to references I think he is the right person to ask for a collaboration.Tools for this image: PS CS5.1 + Wacom Intuos3 A3Many thanks to you, Jade. View high resolution

Gotcha!


Finally I am able to do some first scenery-concepts for my comic-story “The Legend of Dardracon”.

In this image, one of my maincharacters named “Davis Snake” is a member of the “Sicherheit” (something like a flying/security squad). Penta City is terrorized by crime, even the Penta-Police can’t do anyting. If the Penta Police needs help they call the “Sicherheit”.

In this scene, Davis Snake (besides his best friends who are also members of the squad) is sneaking inside a building which is taken by hostage takers.

One of those gangsters tries to attack Davis from behind (by aiming with a gun at his back) but Davis is turning around, already knowing that someone is there - ready to shoot his enemy.

This scene is a collaboration with Jade Macalla, who did reference-shots of himself. There are many more which will be very helpful for me when drawing similar scenes (those are coming soon.
I am amazed at Jade’s talent to “become the character” while doing the reference images.

If you want to learn more about Jade’s work, please visit his gallery link and homepage [link] . When it comes to references I think he is the right person to ask for a collaboration.


Tools for this image: PS CS5.1 + Wacom Intuos3 A3

Many thanks to you, Jade.

Dragon Illustration I took one of my pencil-drawings and worked it out. A dragon enjoying a sunny day in Arayon (kingdom in my comic-universe) .Thanks for taking the time to look at my work.Tools: Wacom Intuos3 A3 + PS CS5.1 View high resolution

Dragon Illustration

I took one of my pencil-drawings and worked it out. A dragon enjoying a sunny day in Arayon (kingdom in my comic-universe) .

Thanks for taking the time to look at my work.


Tools: Wacom Intuos3 A3 + PS CS5.1

Mutebolt - The Dragonrunner Every morning, the masked man “Mutebolt” is running through the huge park of “Crossed Dawn City”. As some dragons are crossing the city every day, Mutebolt once challenged one of them: He loves running and loves challenges, so he wanted to run against a dragon (he wants to run faster then a flying dragon). He never won, however he enjoys the daily race as much as the dragon does.Crossed Dawn City is a huge vibrant town with lots of unique and “crazy” personalities (per example lots of superheroes, crazy firemen, funny security units, somehow not quite secret agents, and of course antiheroes and villains)Mutebolt’s true identity is unknown, sometimes the “Sicherheit” (secret units which are doing jobs like the police) tries to catch him - on the other side they appreciate his help if someone is in danger. Maybe it’s just another challenge for him to escape the security units, maybe they accepted his challenge.Because many people see him every morning running against the same dragon, they also call him “The Dragonrunner”.Mutebolt is a free runner (parkour) but his skills are beyond a normal human, he can run pretty fast, jumb, climb, and almost never gets tired so easily. But at the end of the day, even Mutebolt needs some time to rest…(Once I drew this character almost 3 or 4 years ago. At this time he had another name and a different design)Tools: Wacom Intuos3 A3 + PS CS5.1Thanks for visiting my gallery. View high resolution

Mutebolt - The Dragonrunner

Every morning, the masked man “Mutebolt” is running through the huge park of “Crossed Dawn City”. As some dragons are crossing the city every day, Mutebolt once challenged one of them: He loves running and loves challenges, so he wanted to run against a dragon (he wants to run faster then a flying dragon). He never won, however he enjoys the daily race as much as the dragon does.

Crossed Dawn City is a huge vibrant town with lots of unique and “crazy” personalities (per example lots of superheroes, crazy firemen, funny security units, somehow not quite secret agents, and of course antiheroes and villains)

Mutebolt’s true identity is unknown, sometimes the “Sicherheit” (secret units which are doing jobs like the police) tries to catch him - on the other side they appreciate his help if someone is in danger. Maybe it’s just another challenge for him to escape the security units, maybe they accepted his challenge.
Because many people see him every morning running against the same dragon, they also call him “The Dragonrunner”.

Mutebolt is a free runner (parkour) but his skills are beyond a normal human, he can run pretty fast, jumb, climb, and almost never gets tired so easily. But at the end of the day, even Mutebolt needs some time to rest…


(Once I drew this character almost 3 or 4 years ago. At this time he had another name and a different design)

Tools: Wacom Intuos3 A3 + PS CS5.1

Thanks for visiting my gallery.

I rise, you fall! My character Marvel “Bullseye” Snake. His catchphrase is “I rise, you fall!” before defeating an opponent.Tools: PS CS4 + Wacom Intuos3 A3Thanks for visiting my blog. View high resolution

I rise, you fall!

My character Marvel “Bullseye” Snake. His catchphrase is “I rise, you fall!” before defeating an opponent.


Tools: PS CS4 + Wacom Intuos3 A3

Thanks for visiting my blog.

Heroes Of Arayon III 2012 The maincharacters of my story Heroes of Arayon III: Draco Vagrants (third story). In the third story they are adults, the knight Davorhyn and his dragon. Draco Vagrants are knights living together with a dragon.I made a very rough Sculptris-sketch of a dragonhead (but the form changed a lot during the painting-process) and I looked at photos of my own face while painting the knight.The work is to 5% done in Sculptris and to 95% in Photoshop.Tools: Wacom Intuos3 A3 + PS CS5.1Thanks for visiting my blog. View high resolution

Heroes Of Arayon III 2012

The maincharacters of my story Heroes of Arayon III: Draco Vagrants (third story). In the third story they are adults, the knight Davorhyn and his dragon. Draco Vagrants are knights living together with a dragon.

I made a very rough Sculptris-sketch of a dragonhead (but the form changed a lot during the painting-process) and I looked at photos of my own face while painting the knight.

The work is to 5% done in Sculptris and to 95% in Photoshop.


Tools: Wacom Intuos3 A3 + PS CS5.1

Thanks for visiting my blog.

Nameless Entity This is a 2,5D illustration. As I don’t have any 3D program which would work on my pc properly, I just tried another technique - I made a greyscale picture of my own face and then I just began to “tear myself apart”. (I saw a similar technique at Gnomonworkshop) I love to experiment with new techniques to create something new. I want to try something like this more often, per example to change myself into a non-human creature. Because of that I began to understand some forms much better.Anyway this entity is something like my inner demon. It has hair made of thunderbolts because I love thunderstorms, it is a part of my own personality. Sometimes it’s like it is trying to “destroy” my comic-universe in many ways. So I have to to find heroes and something good which is fighting against it.You could say this nameless entity is “evil destiny”.Tools: PS CS5.1 + Wacom Intuos3 A3 View high resolution

Nameless Entity

This is a 2,5D illustration. As I don’t have any 3D program which would work on my pc properly, I just tried another technique - I made a greyscale picture of my own face and then I just began to “tear myself apart”. (I saw a similar technique at Gnomonworkshop) I love to experiment with new techniques to create something new. I want to try something like this more often, per example to change myself into a non-human creature. Because of that I began to understand some forms much better.

Anyway this entity is something like my inner demon. It has hair made of thunderbolts because I love thunderstorms, it is a part of my own personality. Sometimes it’s like it is trying to “destroy” my comic-universe in many ways. So I have to to find heroes and something good which is fighting against it.

You could say this nameless entity is “evil destiny”.

Tools: PS CS5.1 + Wacom Intuos3 A3

MagicPicker Color Wheel for Photoshop

Hello everybody!

Since almost a year, or a bit longer, I am a customer of Anastasiy, who created a beautiful tool which improves the workflow in Photoshop A LOT.

This is a feature to spread the word, perhaps someone didn’t know that a tool like this really exists.

I skipped a few updates of the Magicpicker, but decided to install the newest one today. As far as I can tell it runs perfect with Photoshop CS5, it also works with my CS4 version (but I have to work for some hours with CS4 again until I can tell more). I am sure many artists appreciate this great panel.

The newest version has a traditional colorwheel, which means you can mix the colors more traditionally (as we know, mixing colors digitally has different results).

To view at Anastasiy’s website and get the color wheel, just follow this link: http://www.anastasiy.com/colorwheel

Many artists use it and I can tell you:

You will improve your eye for color and all those little “hidden” variations in hue and brightness. Since I use it I am able to understand how color does work. And with the new traditional color wheel I feel more confident with my results.

Thank you Anastasiy for your great work, keep it up. If someone is reading this post and didn’t know about this tool yet, please tell me if you like it and support Anastasiy for his work - the more artists are using it and the more feedback he gets, the better his new updates and ideas will be.

I hope someone will discover this great tool when stumbling upon my blog-post.

Have a nice day!

- Dave

Wacom Intuos5 and some thoughts

Hey everybody, this time no personal artworks in this post (but there are many new artworks in progress). Recently I thought much about the new Intuos5 and there is something which I find very sad.

I am an Intuos3 user. I started with an Intuos3 A4 tablet and I loved it, though I always wanted to purchase an A3 version as I love the huge drawing area (movement-speed of the cursor is nearly 1:1 compared to my hand movement-speed, I hope you get what I want to say here) . The Intuos4 came out and I put some money aside. But then - I started to notice this fast nibwear-issue. There are many artists having a big problem with it. So I didn’t purchase the Intuos4 A3 and rather chose an Intuos3 A3 tablet. Nibwear is almost zero.

What I personally find very poor of Wacom is that it seems they just don’t care about the nibwear (because the more nibs an artist has to purchase, the more money they get). It would be so easy to sell an Intuos3-material overlay sheet for the Intuos4. But they just won’t do it. I hoped they would change their mind with the “new” Intuos5. But seriously - touch? They don’t even improved anything (the Intuos4 pens can be used, but that’s on the other hand a good thing), it’s like an Intuos4.1 with a touch-sensitive area.

What I find very annoying is - the papertextured/rough overlay is still there and you can’t even replace it anymore - and there is no A3 version. Does Wacom try to prevent artists finding a solution for the nibwear? I don’t want to say the new Intuos5 is a bad thing, it sure can be fun. But I can’t purchase dozens of nibs all the time, and I don’t want to, because I know it shouldn’t be necessary, it’s that easy - just to offer a slippery surface for those artist’s who don’t want to spend that much money would be a solution - and now they can’t even replace the overlay, because most of the Intuos5 tablets are touch-sensitive only. Is the touch-function only a bad excuse because Wacom just wants everyone to use the rough overlay and spend more money for nibs?

After thinking a lot about the Intuos4 and 5, I know I won’t purchase any version and just stick with my Intuos3 A3. And I don’t see the Intuos6 could be a real improvement. I mean - is it really that difficult to give those artists (including myself), which are many of them, a solution for the nibwear we didn’t have with the Intuos3? I wish there were a real and strong competition for Wacom, so they would notice that their actual way isn’t a good idea after all (at least not for everyone). If they really had strong competition (one or two other companies producing equal or better tablets) they would lose many customers (I think they would).

After all they produce, in my opinion, the very best tablets an artist could find. If I would have to purchase a new tablet (because my Intuos3 wouldn’t work anymore) I’d purchase an Intuos4 A3 and put my overlay from the Intuos3 on it.

I personally are afraid of losing fun when working digital in future because of too many issues with their new products.

Sometimes I just don’t know if I like Wacom or not. Actually, I don’t think they did a good job with their new tablets. There are too many problems with drivers as well. Let’s see what the “real” Intuos5 (I mean Intuos6) will offer.

To all of you loving the Intuos4 and Intuos5, as well as loving to work with smaller tablets - happy drawing, happy painting and don’t lose your fun. My post is just my personal opinion and I want to see if there is anyone thinking nearly the same.

All the best,

- Dave

Two drawings and one artwork

Two drawings, designs of my snakewarriors (female and male versions) :

And here is a scenery image, trying to let it look like a screenshot from an action scene showing my character “Marvel Snake” in battle:

Thanks for watching, have a nice day!

There is a problem with the blog about scifi art and stories I featured in this post, I am sorry about that. I will post an update when I get some informations from the owner.

Artwork-Update

Finally I am able to do a huge update, because there are many works I didn’t show here since the end of 2011. Thanks for having a look at my images.

Please visit my CGHUB Gallery http://davesart.cghub.com/ if you want to see more works I didn’t include into this post. Thank you very much and have a good weekend.

Marvel / DC: Bane “Venomized” raw pencils Another crossover-fanart is in progress. I love Bane, and I like the idea of Venom. That was all I needed to get started with this one.Bane and a part of the Symbiont will create a new villain. They don’t only want to break Batman, they want to break Spiderman too.Due to this baneful crossover, Batman and Spiderman have to face “Maul”, the combination of Bane and Venom. And because the Symbiont and Bane are injected with “Venom”, it will be a massacre they can’t even imagine…This is the pencil-step. I want to practice a lot to improve my drawing-skills, because of this I drew this fanart traditionally. Next time, I show you the digital finished piece.(There will be many images drawn with pencils, it’s a lot of fun for me to go back to the traditonal stuff)Tools: Photoshop, an A3 sized Printer, traditional pencils, white chalk, color-shapers on A3 paperBane is from DC and Venom/Symbiont from Marvel. View high resolution

Marvel / DC: Bane “Venomized” raw pencils

Another crossover-fanart is in progress. I love Bane, and I like the idea of Venom. That was all I needed to get started with this one.
Bane and a part of the Symbiont will create a new villain. They don’t only want to break Batman, they want to break Spiderman too.

Due to this baneful crossover, Batman and Spiderman have to face “Maul”, the combination of Bane and Venom. And because the Symbiont and Bane are injected with “Venom”, it will be a massacre they can’t even imagine…


This is the pencil-step. I want to practice a lot to improve my drawing-skills, because of this I drew this fanart traditionally. Next time, I show you the digital finished piece.

(There will be many images drawn with pencils, it’s a lot of fun for me to go back to the traditonal stuff)


Tools: Photoshop, an A3 sized Printer, traditional pencils, white chalk, color-shapers on A3 paper


Bane is from DC and Venom/Symbiont from Marvel.