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Gaaaa I know it's not Halloween yet, but I sooo wanted to upload this! *hops around* I colored this one for Michael DeBalfo. The original had some composition problems so I fixed them.

Reference source for my pumpkins anyways: Enchantedgal_Stock from DeviantART

This was the first complete painting I did on MAC using an Intous 4. I bet the colours will look all screwed up when I take a look at it on my PC again. I am feeling someway insecure now - which monitor is more to trust? Does the the painting have beautiful bright colours when you guys look at it? *scratches head*. :/]]> Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:05:48 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/769930

Aah! *sob* (Closeups are here: http://sezazu.blogspot.com/2009/05/some-close-ups.html#comments , if you want this as print product just request it!)

I worked all night on this and then, today I was told that this wasn't necessary because whole class was slow and so we all got more time. I am so tired, grr!

Prof says: "Well then you can be proud that you've worked professional, while the others didn't. So you have learned something for yourself."

I say: "Who cares for a simulation of working professional? They all got some sleep and I didn't. Gnaa!"

(This painting was made for a fictional advertising campaign that I will not publish here.)

Please be so kind to spare any nasty comments. I got enough trouble working on this on a amazingly small time schedule anyways. (And no sleep, this is enough punishment for a person like me -___-)

Inspried by fashion shots, Swarovski, some work from Katanaz_Stock and objekt_stock.

PS: Placing the damn jewels took me forever. Not to speak about the wallpaper. Raa! XD]]> Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:44:04 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/763109

And there Mermielle the little mermaid looked up in astonishment, had she found something that she could absolutely make no sense of.

(Stockimages were used for good underwater reference.)]]> Wed, 13 May 2009 05:41:35 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/802723

I painted a fairy... \O_O/
Actually I wanted to express sadness in the first place, but it now also shows anger.
I hope you like it...?]]> Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:55:16 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/786053

No doubt, it's inspired by Enayla. I miss her.

Get The Making Of Here]]> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:07:19 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/751708

There is a sad story behind this, but I won't tell you right now, because there is enough sadness in her eyes to get an understanding of what's going on.

Here is the sketch: http://azurelle.deviantart.com/art/...89?submitted=18

And here is my artblog http://sezazu.blogspot.com]]> Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:28:02 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/744730

Once upon a time, there lived a young and beautiful princess.
Rich as she was she lived in a wonderful castle, where she had all kinds of treasures to call her own. Sadly she did not understand that the human heart cannot be bought with jewelry, so she caught a mermaid and told her to turn her tears into magic stones if she ever wanted to be free again. With those she would lure young men into the mountains which center was her castle. But since none of them truly loved her, they all turned into stone themselves, and so the mountains grew bigger and bigger so that one day she would never see the sun again. In this rich but sad world of loneliness and the desire of death her only friend would be her toad.



Okay so much about my try to write a kitsch story. XD

The title comes not just from the poverty of loneliness but also because I thought I had screwed the whole painting as I was half through. But then I luckily got it on again and here it is finally finished after three months of work.

The original idea came from my art direction class which held the following subject to deal with in photography: Full body subject with chair shown during every day work. It can be documentary or fictional. When you plan to use this as inspirational topic, show me your results!
Remember since this is art direction the character surroundings like wallpaper and furniture are very important so don't leave them aside.

Working on this painting was such enormous work that I shot some reference photos, but this wasn't enough, so speaking of art direction, I have to do it like the Oscar's now, because there are many amazing people around here who make it possible to give inspiration for such an enormous piece of art.

I wanna thank adiastock, objekt_stock, shnarfle_stock, crumpstock, Iardacil_stock, Companda_Stock, LunaNYXstock, taho_stock, angelcurioso, FantasyStock, midnightstouchSTOCK for being such a great inspiration for all of us. For sharing their work, and for doing wonderful art direction on their figure shots aswell. Without your inspirations and references I would have never been able to finish this piece of art direction, so I have added you all to the keywords, too.
Please recognize that not everyone I mentioned here was used for reference. A lot of them are inspirations, but an inspiration is as important as everything else for the creation process of a painting, and many people forget to mention that!


Other than that, thanks go to HuiLin85 who waited so patently for this painting. I neglected to paint her for money because of her back story. So instead she became my inspiration for this character.
Girl, I hope you will love it!]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2009 09:55:37 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/714182

Some notes for this artwork:

- This artwork was done for my boyfriend as christmas present who had certain wishes what he wanted to have and so I finally designed something for him which resulted into a 60's pinup/ art nouveau style combination.

- The artwork symbolizes tastyness and so all elements were art directed to support that purpose.

- Stock photos were used for reference and texture. Some were shot by myself. Finishing the whole artwork took around 30 hours. I started working around 3 weeks ago.

- I did not paint cast shadows because this does not work very well with art nouveau style.

- I have added flowerpowerstock to the keywords since I got my best references for the cherries from there. I also love how she arranged the cherries on the trey in front of this wonderful wallpaper. It shows real sense for art direction so her account is really worth a visit!

PS: I encourage advanced critique. No spam, no flame. I am always open for a talk, but if you don't like my art, go visit another gallery. Thank you.

new: Tutorial http://azurelle.deviantart.com/art/Painter-Blending-Foliage-Tuto-107985704]]> Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:30:20 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/728419

This is Fashion Victim's big sister. I was inspired much by some fashion shots (Niguyen) and Ponsonnet' works who always shares Ballistic Publishing submission pages with me. She also is the second one of a series that features emotion. Here we have a strict kind of emotion, that I currently use as self portrait at several places because it also resembles what I am.

If Melanie Delon knew about this... she painted me once. And it was absolutely beautiful. I was highly impressed by how she sees "the blue woman"... since I could never paint something that sensitive. So she was actually able to see another part of me people hardly see... You can actually find the painting when you take a good look around.]]> Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:01:57 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/706307

"You killed me, but I will keep watching over you, sothat it will always remind you of what you have done!"

I was flipping pages of a Victoria Frances artbook and suddenly started to wonder if I could paint a crying lady with some gothic style elements, too.
So I chose some sad music and started working. In her art they are generally crying most of the time. But I wanted no blood. So I aimed for a sad person who was human once, generally my white girl that you may I have painted since my early works, but this time as ghost, and saw how it could develope.
I also spent a lot of time on the detail of her dress. Part of it was created with a texture that I had shot with my photocamera, and the other half is just insanely time consuming painterwork.]]> Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:54:36 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/699466

Note: the here published version does not officially count as Alice Cullen artwork because I want to retain my rights to my art, this is why this changed version was published here!
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Alice Cullen?

Since Twilight the movie celebrated premiere in LA on November 17, I thought it was about time to post this here! :3

A DIFFERENT version of this was painted for Stephenie Meyer.
It shows Alice Cullen (also with her BLACK EYES instead of bright pale gold, as they are here), but I did not go for the one that you saw in the movie.
I wanted to depict my own vision of her as I had imagined her by reading the books, and that's what came out of it.
I tried to stick to the colors that were descriped with her and with an elegenat style, because it was said that Alice seems to be into fashion, since she would dress Bella all day if she had a chance to.

PS: My favorite book of Stephenie is "The Host"
PPS: I would suggest everyone to get the english books no matter where you live. They are just so much better than the translated stuff!
PPPS: Please don't tell me anything about the FOURTH BOOK from the series here. I had no chance to read it yet.

Thank you!!


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"...Shall I?" - what if the apple is all she has left? Would she keep it or destroy it? There is a fresh grave waiting for her. She will die anyways...

It was done for Painter Magazine issue 23 that will be released on November 6. And since I make sure to have good relationships to my customer I was once again allowed to show it on my online galleries and that before release.
Issue 23 was a massive issue for me. I did not just have this major tutorial that this image was made for on making patterns with Painter, I also had some pages of the pro corner to take care of.
There I explained how to paint rain, deal with backgrounds and make custom brushes. I really hope that you will like this issue. ^_^

Stay also tuned for issue 24 and 25 since I have currently accepted to work monthly for them again. There will also be a surprise with issue 24, I guess, but I am not allowed to say anthing yet.
Stay tuned. ^_^

This image is also featured in a tutorial for Artsquared's recent book with friendly permission from Imagine Publishing.

Painter Magazine

EDIT: I disabled comments for this because I really don't like how some people "behave" when I paint a fairytale image.

Last but not least, yes I have as always worked with references, I will say that everytime again, I am not that genius, and yes I am "lame" for doing so. Blahblah. And one more yes, there is a detailed part in my Painter tutorial showing how to use references and stockphotos. I don't feel ashamed of it and the beginners will be thankful for that.
Have a nice day. ]]> Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:37:12 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/686003

"I've come to witness the beginning,
The rebirth of paradise once spoiled by mankind.
You will lead us to paradise with bloodstained hands,
And then you will be relieved."

Yes it's a bit of a quote from SH, since I felt so much inspired by it! It's being changed, though.

Close Up:
http://www.darktownart.de/AdahFaceClose.jpg

Could this be Adah, Altair's love from Assassin's Creed? To a good friend of mien she is, to me she is what I stated above. And be careful, cause she'll travel long and never give up, until she found and killed you.

This painting is also featured in Painter Magazine's issue 23 in the pro corner.

edit: I uploaded a slightly bigger version because that makes it look more beautiful since now you can see much more of all the detail ^_^]]> Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:54:39 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/680335

My, I am excited to finally publish this! It's been months ago since I painted it and at first it seemed like I'd be totally ruining it. It is one of the few private pieces that I painted back then, supposedly showing the mood of happyness combined with a lovely fashion design since I have much fun with these.

Later... Rodrigo (digitalinkrod) decided to get on my nerves each day to finally post my new (private) stuff that I had to promise him to show something here. Blah... sometimes it happens that the stuff I just make for me eventually turns out into my best pieces?!

Hum... this piece is featured in Exotique 4 alongside with some other more or less recent paintings of mine. It will also be seen in the first artbook from "Artsquare" to which I was invited after Exotique 4. I might also add a tutorial to their collection, who knows...]]> Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:15:36 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/674948

This is another artwork which I did for a customer a couple of months ago. It was not easy to make because I didn't know more than that it is a female demon, featuring red color and a certain kind of dagger.
The painting was also done in kinda hurry because I didn't have that much time. I stuck closely to some photographic reference that I was given, regarding the dagger and such.

And on top of that I did not publish it earlier because the novel for which it was created has not been published back then. But now it's out, but I don't know what it looks like printed, because I haven't seen it yet. Way to go, sometimes it takes a while until you finally get to see how your work looks printed. I have done some comic jobs and I haven't seen them yet, too, because it was oversea and I am somehow too far away to just walk over there and... blah XD

Other than that, this painting, alongside with some other new and fresh artworks that I did and that haven't been published yet will be featured in some publications later this year. To see the updated list, I would suggest you to visit my website, which will finally be updated within the next couple of days.]]> Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:14:27 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/665970

I think since another version of this called "Ginny" is already familar to most of you, there should be no problem when I post this now.

The story is the following: Some months agoI had decided to sart a project with my friend Melanie Delon which was related to Silent Hill. But since we are both amazingly busy the project hasn't started yet. All that was done so far are character studies own characters.

Such were seen by one of my recent customers who asked me to modify it for her novel. So I did some modification on this character, who is a witch now, to match it up with her wishes.]]> Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:11:54 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/654824

It's been a while since I tried to upload something here for the last time. Back then there was some kind of bug which wouldn't display new images.
Howeveerr.... I know that I have also been gone for a while. Had business to take care off but therefore I was able to create some nice new paintings and I hope that I will be able to show some of them soon.
This girl, however, is called Lilifee and is some sort of "fooling around with characters for the Silent Hill project" painting.
Take care! ]]> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:30:32 +0000 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/707054

This is Anne the witch again, that you already know from here: http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/
She is not supposed to be me eventhough we have the same name. The customer named this witch Anne, and I just did what I was asked to do - namely painted her. This could also be seen as a new version of "The Girl Who Seemed To Be..." http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/427052/

PS: I know that this one has big er "boobs" that the other one has not. My bad... but I liked it too much to change it and on top of that "Mel approves"... XD

PPS: I did many new works recently but so far I will just share a few here. This partly is becaused much of the stuff was commissioned.

PPPS: I am always working with references to archieve this kind of detail like I am always using references for all of my paintings and I am not ashamed of it. On top of that I do not like people who pretend to be able to paint all that just from their head.
I also used a very nice pinup painting as reference for her dress. Which had to be white, ugh. Will you find it? ]]> Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:40:49 +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/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/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.
]]> Sun, 13 May 2007 22:48:40 +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/723558

I was asked to do a big fantasy painting for Painter Magazine issue 25. I did not often illustrate couples, eg. paintings that feature more than one person in the past so this was quite a challenge. And therefore this tutorial is for advanced users. You will see that once you want to illustrate more than one person the whole thing becomes quite challenging. That explains why many artists only illustrate one figure.

The workshop is about storytelling, e.g. iconography so I decided to focus on the relationship of the figures and which questions this creates. I also had to include two key elements which are a key and a map. To that I added colors, roses, roots and a castle.

Because all of my Painter Mag workshops include parts that show how to work with stock photos, I went into the forest some time in November, as the project was assigned and took several photos of trees and leaves. Such photos were used to create a base for the leaves and bushes that you can see here. Red blobs, such as for the roses were then painted on top. The stock photos that I created for that painting can be found on the disk of the magazine from where you can take them and use them to experiment on your own paintings.
I also featured two outsourced stock photos for texture. The key I sadly can't find anymore so if someone knows who took it please let me know!
The map is from night-fate-stock [link] who was properly credited in the magazine, too.

I also suggested people galleries of now-a-day artists who like to paint couples/ several figures in one painting. So I recommended Jean Tay as an example. On top of that I had a look at Marta's work once again since she is pretty good with dramatic scenes and amazing dresses. But this was just to keep my quality high and nothing in particular.

This painting also includes a little joke since the guy might remind some of you pretty much of Devil Jin. For others he might just be some sort of demonic knight? Or so... The orange dress was designed for Melanie Delon. Since she also did a painting of me, so I owed her this since too long already...


Blahblahblah - As you can see I have done my best to credit and mention everything properly for this very time consuming work. If you find that I have forgot something this wasn't on purpose. Please be so nice to let me know. Thank you. ]]> Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:46:58 +0000 http://azurelle.cgsociety.org/gallery/703175

Would you like to know how to build up a landscape? Because this is how I would describe the process of making a good landscape painting.

Many people have problems doing that and so I have created a massive workshop on Painter Magazine issue 24, showing you how to do that - building it up that means. It's really like Lego in some way.

I also have done a short tutorial part about using stock photos on doing so to help beginners finding a base, too. So this issue might be something for you nomatter if you are a beginner or an advanced painter. My friend Marta Dahlig also has provided a cool figure workshop for this one, so I am definatly looking forward to is release on erly Decembert!

Painter Magazine]]> Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:34:57 +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
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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/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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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/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/435130

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/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/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/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/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/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