New Topic......finally

will be:

B-MOVIE POSTER

Doesn't matter if it's from an existing film or one that you come up with.
I have these classic 50s till 70s ones in mind but that's no strict rule here. Have fun! That's the rule!



Deadline will be Monday -the 6th of May

The Long Way Home

Long Way Home

I tried to paint a space station. Did most of the painting with the software Alchemy.

It is a lot of fun and experimenting, especially without an undo button :).

Long Way Home

Haven't painted a scifi piece for a while. was fun to shake off the dust.

The Long Way Home

first try...

14th topic - March 2013

Hey Guys,

because were getting pretty much into the Character area again ;) the new Topic  will be...

The long way Home

Just to improve our environment skills a little ;)

Deadline will be Monday -the 8th of April

Forced Drawing

I went with Simon to the Life Drawing classes at his College. Unfortunately the model didn´t show up, so we did some speed paintings of the students -all in 3 to 5 minutes... so I think you can call it Forced Drawing ;)

Figure Drawing

As always, i wish i had more time to spent on this topic but at least i can post some quick studies here. But as Alex already said, it reminded me to study figure drawing more often from now on, you just gotta keep kicking yourself in the ass.

Live Drawing

My attempt at Live Drawing. I should probably mention that I'm not the best draughtman in the world, as you can see, but more often than not, it's still a lot of fun for me.

Took about 30 to 45 minutes.

Sorry for the bad quality, but I dont have a scanner and I'm not that used at drawing in photoshop yet. thats why this picture was taken with an iphone.

Figure Drawing

Did several rough sketches and settled for three and added a little shading.
I should really do this more often, to train the eye and hand :)

Forced Drawing (Figure Drawing)

Hi everyone,
I decided to make a quick sculpt based of the beast drawing from Glen Keane.
It Was a lot of fun and I hope you like it.

13th Topic - March 2013

Since I'm striving to be a very good animator one day I chose a topic that's very important in achieving this goal, which is:

 Forced Drawing (Figure Drawing)

For those who don't know what I'm talking about, please check the works of the following artists:

Michael Mattesi
Glen Keane
Jin Kim

Pictures don't have to be colored (it's even better if they're not), what I think is more important is that you capture the weight, line of action, directional force and so on in a single drawing.

The figures you draw should be naked or semi-naked. Good poses to draw can be found here:

http://artists.pixelovely.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing/


Good luck everybody and I hope this topic is chosen well and interests you the same as me.

PS: Animals are allowed to. Examples can be found on the same site I posted above.

Incredible Machine Iron Giant Edition

Hey fellow monkeys!

I was inspired by the movies Iron Giant and Castle in the Sky for this painting.
Tried my own version of it. Hope you like it.

Incredible Machine

Started really late on this one, by this i mean yesterday actually. Would've liked to develop it a bit further but hey a least i am able to post something. Had a lot of fun experimenting with this peace and learnt a lot of new stuff.

ps: sorry for the huge filesize. couldn't make it any smaller somehow.

The incredibly machine (robot animation)

My first contribution to the blog , I wanted to do something with a katana for a long time and thought this Rig would fit perfectly to the topic.

For a higher resolution, go to

http://ewh.smoothcode.de/swordsman.mov

Also, heres the animation together with the 2D scribble:

http://ewh.smoothcode.de/blueprint.mov

The Incredible Machine

Because of our long break over the Holidays -I really enjoy painting again ;) I´m working on three pictures right now. So there are some more to come... Here is the first

12th topic - February 2013

Just to make it official ;) the new topic for February is

"The Incredible Machine"

 Deadline will be Monday the 25th ...Hope to see many incredible pics :)

New Topic

It's an honour for me to introduce the new topic... well, i have two possible ones, but i'm not sure which one to pick... maybe you all can help me?!

On the one hand, i'd like "The Incredible Machine" - 'cause it's something where you don't necessarily have to paint characters and faces and stuff... again.
On the other hand, i'm having a tough time at the moment, so the other possibility would be "It's not FAIR!!!"

Thanks for helping me with the decision!

PS: Deadline will be February the 17th, i guess?!

something's wrong

Hey Guys,
thats my first painting for the blog, laugh if you must.

And by the way: Hello everybody!

Something´s Wrong

Hey Guys -so here´s my first picture for 2013... hope there are some to follow :) Had a lot of fun with this little sloth! Really put some effort into the lighting, but I think it paid off ;)

11th topic -January 2013

Hello fellow F******! :D The "new" topic is "something´s wrong".
So you are free to pick whatever you like. Deadline is the 28th of january.

Hello fellow monkeys. I moved to another flat, so my internet connection sucks and I already reached the "highspeed-limit" from my UMTS stick. I wasn´t able to upload pictures anymore. After doomsday I have earned new Internet! Sorry for the delay.

I´ve been to the Pixar exhibition in Bonn. I felt like I needed to do more pixar studies. (:

This is the end? nah, don't think so. i wish you all merry christmas and a happy new year!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas fellow monkeys! I wish you all relaxing holidays with your friends and families!
Hopefully, you are getting only positiv unexpected presents!

Dirty Santa

HoHoHo ;) Have a nice Christmas guys! And if there is actually someone out there who hasn´t seen it yet...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZLIQodHaFk

Unexpected Present

Translation: Now let's see how he likes his real present. Hehehe...

10th topic - December 2012

HoHoHo, Christmas is coming...

but unfortunately the world is going to end on Dec 21th -so the deadline has to be on this final date ;)

But the topic will be something more optimistic than Armageddon -it´s

Unexpected Present

It kills me to see your the great stuff you did this time! I´m sorry I havent worked out anything. I hope next time I´ll be able to catch some time for the new topic! :)

Dawn of the Dinner

Still working on this one. Learned a lot from you guys. thx :)
Got a little impression from "Alice Madness Returns" and as you guys mentioned... he really looks a bit like "Skinner" from the Simpsons. Hope to finish it on the Weekend.

1, 2, Freddy's coming for u.....nicorns!

Well, I guess while Freddy Krüger was waiting in your happy dreams, he brought his love a little souvenir?!?! I wanted to try a darker style than I usually do, but I still ended up with some rainbows and unicorns :D.

Dinner? is ready!

okok, i have to admit that this one is a bit disgusting but hey, had a lot of fun painting it! great topic!

Dinner is Ready

9th topic - November 2012

 Hey fellow monkeys!

 The new topic for the next three weeks is called:

"Honey, dinner is ready!"


Deadline is Monday, 3rd of december.
Happy painting!

Sweep, sweep,... jump

Well, who didn't like to jump into the raked up leaves ... or should I say "doesn't" :D
Poor Mr. Johnson doing all the work :)

Fall Colours

At first I tried some classic paintings of red forests... but at the end this picture came up my mind. And because I had to paint a lot of egyptian beauties for a game project a few month ago -it just took a couple of hours to finish ;)

On the way to winter

hey guys. having survived my surgery on monday, i now have some bloody screws and piece of metal as nice little souvenirs standing next to me. inspiring to paint some slasher movie stuff but instead i have a dreamy fall scene here. well, gotta paint some rude stuff next.

new topic

next one is rather suitable for that time of year, it´s fall colours.

deadline is 12th of november

have fun

Monster Kindergarten

Hey there, just in time for the deadline. As Monster's Inc is my favorite Pixar Movie i thought of how Mike and Sulley would look as childs in a Monster Kindergarten Movie. Tried to keep an analog feel to the painting here.

Favorite Pixar Moment - Ratatouille

Ratatouille

Although there are lots of amazing characters in all of the Pixar Movies -I think I still like Skinner the most ;)

Kevin

It was my first time working with Illustrator. I don´t know if I´ll enjoy Illustrator someday...

but I had some fun at least! 

7th Topic - October 2012

I just went to the Pixar Exhibition in Bonn - it has been a very enlightened and inspiring experience to see the creative process behind these awesome movies! 

So the next Topic will be...

My Favorite Pixar Moment/Character

It worked pretty well with the 3 weeks timeframe - the deadline will be Monday 22th of October

Creatures from outer space or bananastreet :)

Had some fun with a webcam and photobooth. Tried different things like fruit and vegtables.
Picked 3 and did some fast overpaints. Took the idea from the book "Alien Race: Visual Development of an Intergalactic Adventure" by S.Robertson.

 

And here I played around with the ZBrush Mirror function.

weird creature

when I read the topic I was a little confused what to do this time. After spending some time in overthinking the topic I decided to do something evil. I had a lot of fun painting this one.

Alien Lineup

...and here´s the second pic - The usual suspects ;)

Creature from outer space

At first I started with some cartoony Aliens ...like always :) But then I thought it would be more fun to do some creepy more realistic stuff - and finished this one first... but I´ll post the other picture later on

Hi there,

This is Christian Krank, the new Kid on the Blog.

I am the Guy who writes and draws the "Tales of Dead Earth" comic and i have been doing Illustrations, Bookcover and Bandartwork so far. and i have been coloring Tank Girl for 3 Mini series a couple of years back. 

well, less talk, more art.

this is 

"Creatures from outer Space!"

cheers,

Christian

6th Topic - September 2012

It is already time to post a new topic!
So this weeks topic is:

"Creatures from outer space" 


Deadline is Monday 1st of October.
This means an additional week for this topic. We will check out if 3 weeks are a better timeframe.

Female Body Sculpt - Work in Progress

I could not deliver on time, so I posted a work in progress picture of my femaly body sculpt.
Started with a sphere and was testing the ZBrush Dynamesh function.

Going to replace the picture once I have finished my sculpt.

Too Damn Hot...

...of course I had a nice time painting ;) Maybe i´ll do another head pose the next days... but for now -enjoy the curves guys!