http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/ azurelle's gallery of images en-us 120 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/625297

Hum... dunno... actually I just wanted to do something to get warmed up for that gaming card commission I am currently on, but well... I have promised some friends to make some DarkTown girl pinup (like american style 50's / 60's and some art nouverau or steampunk?) like endless times ago... but then I liked it too much to stop.

A little sidenote: Yes, I am working with references. I am not that good with painting to work without, not one of those geniuses, you know?
But I think this helped a lot to improve the way I paint light, I think... o_O]]> Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:40:59 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/622615

I have never been a friend of much words for the art that I've done in the past since most of it basically contained of practices which had no great meaning anyways.

Knowing that my technique is not perfect, there are certain things I just can't do. I wouldn't be able to paint perfect hands even if my life relied on it, but I also know that this is not aiming to be one of those perfect rendered elves in a forest paintings anways.

It is one of my few paintings which actually delivers a message regarding what is going on right now with China, and I hope that you guys know more about China than just that they use to take popular artists' work to spread them on their sites without asking, because their population seems not to be allowed to browse websites like DeviantART, for instance.

This should make us think.

Try to wonder why this woman so proudly inherits the world, while she also carries the olympian flame in a lantern that would not allow it to be touched by any wind... I really wonder if I will discover this painting on on of my favorite chinese art sites two days after I have published it. I bet they hate me now. :P

Here is a closeup of the head by the way, as it was still in work:http://azurelle.deviantart.com/art/...rl-WIP-82073119

Have a nice day!]]> Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:55:18 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/616520


Another workshop that I have done for the official Painter Magazine: Paint Like Lautrec.
However, this workshop should help people to learn from the old masters, their history and their working methods to improve their own future paintings!
Therefore the attached disk includes a high res charcoal sketch (lines only) which was directly nailed on top of the painting sothat you will only have to worry about your painting studies!
I really hope that you guys can learn something from this workshop and it would be cool if you show me your results after you have purchased the current issue and grabbed the sketch for practice. This issue #15 is available at your local magazine store or online at http://www.paintermagazine.co.uk

PS: I still wasn't able to get issue 14 conatining my Vermeer workshop. Is there anybody around here who got the mag and do some photos of this article for me???]]> Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:01:02 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/605045

Well guys, I can only say that it helps much to learn more than one painting style even if this require copying from time to time. This nice "paint like" (Vermeer) workshop for The Official Painter Magazine is such example.
However, this workshop should help people to learn from the old masters, their history and their working methods to improve their own future paintings!
Therefore the attached disk includes a high res charcoal sketch (lines only) which was directly nailed on top of the painting sothat you will only have to worry about your painting studies!
I really hope that you guys can learn something from this workshop and it would be cool if you show me your results after you have purchased the current issue and grabbed the sketch for practice. This issue #14 is available at your local magazine store or online at http://www.paintermagazine.co.uk]]> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:13:12 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/586706

Crazy self portrait which I made for the official Painter magazine, issue 12, January 2008.

So, if you are interested in how this self portrait was created, you can purchase it at any good sorted local magazine store or online at http://www.paintermagazine.co.uk/

Take care and don't be freaked out too much! ]]> Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:22:48 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/582645

I would like to write some stupid story to this like "He lives under the sea, all alone, and since he has no arms all he touches just bursts like the little bubblefish which he eats..."

However, I had actually started to make this painting for the strange behaviour challenge.
(My challenge thread: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthr...?f=225&t=539219 )
But I was flooded with commissions and so wasn't able to finish it in time and it also turned out in something very personal - and much different - from what I have done before.
I haven't done such a "big" project for a while now and have also put an insane (maybe too much) amount of work into it... well I really hope you can like it somehow and also may find some time to look at ot for a bit longer than usual to observe everything that's going on there. ]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:13:50 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/590732

Hm... I discovered a competition for designing some sort of gothic lolita outfit 3 days ago and suddenly had the stupid idea to see if I could produce an outfit within ~6 hours which looks rather decent.
I am not too sure if I succeeded, since I stared too long on this and am meanwhile somehow error blind. XD]]> Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:09:30 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/574736

Guess what I worked on for the last two days?
Yes! That drawings you may already know from my blog. Now colored and such, nices design applied to it, yadda, yadda.

Have been working with lotsa textures on this one because I want a very certain look to be archieved. Therefore I have visited the "real Silent Hill" which basically is a large abandoned hospital complex near Berlin. The whole place is rotten and gives just the perfect feeling. We came home with around 700 photos for reference and am going to take some more there soon.

However, this is one of the reference sheets for the artists working with me on the Silent Hill Project.
What? You aren't participating to the Silent Hill Project yet?
Impossible! Drop me a note now!

PS: If anyone of those fancy art thiefes dares to put this in his gallery I'm gonna send this guy after him to chop his head off! ARR!]]> Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:18:50 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/569595

White DarkTown Black Bar girl, supposed to team up with: Link

I promised to get this finished now for a friend of mine *_*

Close Up of the face: Link

*rushes to next painting* XD -- Been so busy with character concepts lately, it's amazing - *lol* -

PS: I know this one has some flawes but that doesn't matter ^_^]]> Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:02:58 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/576714

The following painting as seen on the cover of the 2DArtist Magazine November issue, is actually a very emotional painting from my private collection. There is a very different version of this which I painted for Ale as birthday present (original called "Desert") as a homage to the great fashion photographer Louis’s ‘Green Apple’ series and printed it on 70 X 50 cm photopaper.
Later on, I decided to change that painting to create a little lips tutorial for the 2DArtist magazine from it. The actual desert painting didn't feature such red bump out lips ... well in fact, her lips are dry and of no color, like she is dying of the lack of water, but also something else - plus some other things which are very different and will probably never be seen in my public galleries because of private reasons.
This painting also personally means an end to the portrait series which started with "Burning Heart" to me.

Update: I just didn't feel well with having that nude in my gallery so I uploaded this changed version.]]> Wed, 26 Dec 2007 05:51:48 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/495898

... because they make great movie posters but the content basically is like him walking from right to left. The movies reveal themselves as big marketing machines.

LOL, okay so this painting was declined by CGT staff because it was mistakenly thought to be an original poster copy...
"Watch Harry Gump walking from right to left through the screen! On cinemas from May 13 2007!"
*hahaha* I'm so falling over sorry to all who wanted to comment on it you'll have to leave your comments in the guestbook *rofl*

For the ones who are interested, these are some REAL Harry Potter posters: http://img82.imageshack.us/my.php?image=harryrefis8.jpg



ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: Kill me now! :P
And for the description junkies:

However.
This is my second real mattepainting (I haven't published my first attempt yet because it was made for a company.).

Means:
Heavy usage of custom brushes, filters and (my own!) photo textures.
Harry has been referenced from goblet of fire posters and photos.
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Second of all: This is the cover of the comic I have been writing about in my journal like nine thousand years ago. It is nothing special, really, because it was just made for art akademy and just in this way to drive my teacher nuts.
(In which I totally failed, because he loved it to death - damn thee!).
And since it is an academy comic I am not going to publish the whole thing on the web as some expected - just sothat we understand each other clearly...

However, first of all: What justifies a painting which was originally hand made on acrylics with canvas being in a digital art gallery?
Well the fact, that I scanned it?
NO!
HERE is the story: I scanned it with a scanner which costs so much money that you could give it away and get a little car for it, and the darn thing managed to ruin EVERYTHING!
So I had to carefully readjust every *biep* page after I had scanned the comic. And it's supposed to be print ready in A3 so that gives me additional digital retouching work like at least 7 hours - damn it?! o_O

And now zero of all - or actually third: I so shamelessly referenced from the great Aly Fell for this project because the teacher made a mistake and so we just had like 3 weeks for the whole damn thing - which prevented me from going to the KoRn concert, god damn thee even more!
However, lol, I dropped him a note, (Aly, I mean) and I really hope that he likes it

BTW, close ups are here:
http://azurelle.deviantart.com/art/Revolver-Pussy-Close-Ups-62327994]]> Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:31:24 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/547717

WOW I got this one finally finished!

This has been on my harddrive for forever... the first children's book illustration for my mom.

I'm gonna send her a big size print to surprise her. *hehehe*]]> Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:23:00 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/509084

First of all sorry for the long absence but I had a little bet going on regarding "pageviews" *rofl* whatever, thanks for the 100,000 hits in such a short time! I really appreciate it.

About the girl; 2D Artist Magazine, issue 20:

"The painting in our example is a picture of a lovely woman I have set up not too long ago for a customer. The customer gave Courtney Cox as main reference which also resulted in references of Olivia Wilde, Hayden Panietere, Calista Flockart and one of Enayla's (www.furiae.com) paintings called Ailil ending up as reference. When you have a customer and he is unsure how he wants the looklike of his desired character to be, then it is good to ask him for celebrities or fine art paintings which seem to impersonate his imagined figure to him. Other than that it is hardly possible to come up with a result the customer will like finally or can feel connected to."

Feel free to get it now http://www.2dartistmag.com/]]> Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:12:55 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/465424

Another portrait wich I did just for fun, no real purpose but that I safed her in another Photoshop file with dozents of layers to create a hair tutorial for you guys

Reference: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/18814953/?qo=56&q=by%3Aadiar&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps]]> Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:43:58 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/526438

This is actually the first "matte painting" attempt I had made. I had taken it offline to overwork it a bit and here it is again.
It could be seen as a compositing still to get an impression of how falling snow would look like.
The original one was made for a customer who wanted a still of an iceberg which makes you really freeze while looking at it, so I used the old and original footage to make a newer better one for my gallery ]]> Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:54:30 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/516977

A matte painting I did to practice backgrounds. I had to fight much for this because it is in a format not many people use, but I have seen many good artists using it and got inspiration from them.

However, I originally wanted to attach a little story to it, cause I imagined it as setting for a DarkTown story in which airships supply people with what they need, and get shot down by the rebels.
Hum, I might add this storypart to my blog if I find a muse, later.

What else is to say? Well actually this is the second one of two sceneries I wanted to publish, but the first one, which is no other than a remake of the iceberg painting I had produced at company for a customer, is not completely finished by now.

Here are my refs, and the photo in the middle is a stockphoto I used as base pattern: http://img255.imageshack.us/my.php?image=strandedrefsyl6.jpg
]]> Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:41:39 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/481319

Hm.
Even forcing me to write a description is in danger to result in no more than a few words. Sometimes a painting should speak for itself. And when I ask you to watch this to see my understanding and feeling about love eventhough I may be into a relationship, how's that so hard to get?
Love has always been a pain in the *beep* for me. Either screwed it up or found the "wrong" guys. That's it!]]> Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:25:44 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/518477

Read this guys, you won't regret it!
Oh my I just so fell over as I saw the new issue of the current 2D Artist magazine.
(Please check here: http://www.2dartistmag.com/ ).
I somehow totally forgot that it would be released now eventhough I made a nice beginners tutorial for painting hair.
Because this was actually thought to be included in the 3D Creative magazine, I wrote the tutorial in a way that also a 3D artist could easly apply it to his 3D models he wants to touch up later in Photoshop.
So and now: Why is the comment function missing again?
Because I was LAZY and this is the same girl as on Furry just with dark hair so please click here to comment! ]]> Sun, 15 Jul 2007 02:01:33 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/469251

-- PLEASE FULL VIEW OR THE IMAGE WILL APPEAR TO BE BLURRY! --

Breaking the line of femaleness again - aw guys I can't tell you how much I fell in love with this sketch http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/3991775 by trev-solo as I found it while innocently browsing DA
Well you can see how I coulcn't resist on coloring this

Making Of can be found here: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/48908664/


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I know, another portrait, but it's a commissioned piece and actually I was very glad to gotta work on something I'd count to my "strong points"
Her name is Seras, the beautiful as deadly assassin.
She was created after my customers wishes who wanted her character to look like my Jelika Fairy Portrait with the figure gently blending into the background.
She sent me screenshot of the character design and told me that Seras would have resemblane to Scarlett Johansson if she was real.
http://img442.imageshack.us/my.php?image=serasrefvf8.jpg

PS: This is my first try with Painter X, blessed be the official Painter magazine - and it shows great color improvement on my work ^_^]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:48:09 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/471208

Run, hide - it's another fairy!
A commissioned piece for my mom - you know she LOVES fairies. And so I partly painted that with her sitting aside me to guide me how she exactly wanted this face to look like.

Check the refs I've taken http://img353.imageshack.us/my.php?image=refjelibi5qs6.jpg note that it's Keira Knightley and Natalie Portman ^_^

PS: Ale wanted me to add more detail to the hair, which I did, but it sadly gets a detail lost and pixalation dueto JPEG compression. ]]> Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:54:24 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/427052

This is meant as the opposite of "Doom".

First of all I have to say that I worked very very long on that face. I finally wanted her design to be done and I saw that I should learn from some "old masters" now. That's why I took my books and looked for artists I'd like the most. One book was featuring french masters and I picked Fragonard and Bouguereau as my favorites to learn from.
Influences can be seen here, because I just love their way of painting backgrounds and floating dresses.

I also started to make her costume for real. http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/8784/wheyoz1.jpg ]]> Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:14:59 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/424704

"When mankind left alone,
With itself its sins atone,

In the fallen world of men,
We shall meet together again..."

Welcome to a world that shows mankinds true nature: A cover of an illustrated novel (DarkTown) that we are currently working on. It was created by V. S. Alexius and me. I developed the original concept and figure, he then gave his part to the background and finally I finished the whole thing with coloring touchups, texturing and slightly corrections on the composition.

PS: Even I didn't think that we would get all the hardware problems handled to finish this work finally ]]> Fri, 03 Nov 2006 01:12:07 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/513525

Maaa!
I have been asked to post more of my tributes here. Like "Why isn't Leon in your gallery?" I'm sorry This task was made teaming up with a friend of mine. She had made such adorable linearts I simply had to color them. (And that was also back at a time as I still had some spare time to goof around with stuff.)
Well, have fun with him!
And for those who wonder, the linearts are located here: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/38084673/

PS: I got no clue if this Resident Evil "fanart" will be allowed for CGT forums or not, so if you don't spot a comment function within a day, and have to say something, simply leave me a note in my guestbook.]]> Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:12:18 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/492770

My personal tribute to Tekken's Devil Jin!
Some time in 2006, I wanted to make a Tekken fanart Dojinshi, but then It occured that I got so much work with commissions and stuff that I sadly had to scrab the idea - and so it all ended with this coverart.]]> Fri, 04 May 2007 14:47:11 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/494138

I really don't know why I have forgotten to post some stuff of mine here, like this wonderful speedpainting
It was made for a contest (Theme: Music) and it won ^_^
Later it also was part of an art exhibition and the original framed handsigned piece will go to Italy this week. I really hope Ale will like the print - it looks so much better big printed and black framed than on this monitor - really you can believe me.
By the way, this is my white girl, and she might be a part of our next project. ]]> Tue, 08 May 2007 17:25:11 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/463683

Sorry CG, I sometimes really forget that you require a longer description than a link to a making of *blushes*

Once again: Happy Valentine's Day!

Here is the description from the Making Of: PUH is a chibi Version of Corky's and mine character Evan and was originally created by me.
As my hun visited me last week, we made up the concept for the Valentine's card where he drew the outlines for.

Since I always wanted to do something with clouds, e.g. a beautiful sky, I decided to choose clouds as background and painted as good as I could, using my custom brushes and some noise to make it look as realistic as I could.

I tried to make the balloon look good, either, which wasn't that easy, because I had no reference for that, too and needed to get an understanding how its surface could work.

As I came to color PUH then, I was confronted with the problem to combine chibi style as good as possible to the realistic one in which I had already painted the background!
So I tried my best to make it all look matching together, and to not lose the chibi style.

Making Of with Close Ups: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/48745712/]]> Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:08:57 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/453947

-- FULL VIEW PLEASE!! --

Hi guys, long time no see. This time I got something very different, so to speak, since this is the first creature design I am posting in this gallery. it was created by Corky and me for our illustrated novel.
Pencil sketch can be found here: http://www.darktownmanga.de/phpkit/popup.php?img=content/images/1_EvanPencil.jpg]]> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 01:06:29 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/448023

Technically and literary this is the sister piece of "Burning Heart"; belonging to a series of portraits, aiming to create a high amount of realism combined with some kind of surrealism, to create a human a like creature which could be real, but isn't so.

Reference: Cameron Diaz http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/2478/furriesar5.jpg

Dark hair tutorial version:
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NOTE THAT THIS IMAGE WAS UPDATED WITH A SLIGHTLY IMPROVED COLOR PALETTE ON APRIL 27 2007

"Mein Herz brennt"

A very personal work of mine, and that has something of Natalie Portman is a fact, because I consider her a beautiful woman and amazing actress.

I was also very happy to receive my copy of Exotique 2 this weekend, because I have tried to create a good print of this artwork for endless times at my working place, but failed because of this strange color palette - however, it looks beautiful in the book, which I just can assure you is worth its money ]]> Tue, 28 Nov 2006 23:34:29 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/462241

A design which I had already concepted in December 2006, but didn't publish it because I had the stupid idea to add a stupid looking background to it.

Some days ago my friend Corky - for whom I colored the Evan concept - arived from Vienna and I finally finished this design, while explaining him a few things about digital painting.

Bleh....

have fun :P]]> Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:20:14 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/445967

This is the last post here for this year and as mentoned the redesign of the lovely lady in the red dress. Painted in some kind of anime style for experiment, it turned out pretty nice for my taste.

I hope you like it and I wish you all a happy new year ]]> Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:30:31 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/438220

This is the story of the lovely mistress Blackayla, who was doomed with a grudge - to keep her world for the ones to come after her, and so to reproduce it over and over.

Because this painting was also made for fun it's marked as Pogasso #1 ^_^]]> Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:14:57 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/436654

I had found the initial idea for Laguz in the gallery of a friend of mine and liked it so much that I asked him what he would think if I made a painting of it. He agreed and that's what I created. Though this ainting is a bit older one, it's still one of my favs

PS: FULL VIEW IS A MUST!

His lovely pencils works can be found here: http://cyberalien.gfxartist.com/]]> Sat, 02 Dec 2006 23:14:40 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/515276

Well actually the true story of this painting is that I made it while my last boyfriend was with me and I had a very bad time so I painted a girl (me?) who just had killed her lover...
(PS: Yes, references where used as always yadda yadda and besides of tht a lot of custom brushes... bleh.)]]> Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:26:36 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/444256

Another older one of mine, which is still one of my favorites.
I wanted to illustrate the story of a girl who is inprisoned in a tower and trapped while trying to escape.
CLose Ups can be seen here: http://www.untergrundnet.com/azurelle/press/?page_id=39
Have fun! ]]> Mon, 25 Dec 2006 03:34:07 +0000