Ranarh's Art Blog

I did this quick study while creating a tutorial on water reflections for deviantArt. It is based on a photo I took during a visit to Hagenbeck zoo in Hamburg, it is the elephant region of the zoo which is beautifully designed to resemble southeast asian ruins (they are Indian elephants).

I finally finished my roleplaying characters from the Dark Eye setting. The twelve of them will be subitted to deviantart over the next few days. I used Painter 12's real Watercolor to paint them. I was very different from my paintings with physical watercolours because I work very wet, and I missed the accidents that happen with that medium, but the digital brushes were okay too.

I've been working for the past few issues of the Cthuloide Welten , the Call of Cthulhu magazine by German games publisher Pegasus Spiele. Now, the last issue #21 has been released, featuring my works in several articles. These are some of my favourites, and I have to say that especially the monsters came over nicely in the print. I leraned a lot about working with print media while illustrating for the magazine and met nice people, and I thank editor Frank Heller for giving me this opportunity.

Some of the commission I created since I put up my Fiverr account. Fiverr is a platform where people do things for five dollars - strange things, useful things, in my case funny things: "I will create freaky chimeras" for five dollars. That spaghetti thing for example is the infamous Flying Spaghetti Monster - I'm still waiting if the client will actually have it tattooed :)

I've been sick for days now, and what I hate most is the lack of concentration. I can do almost nothing, although I could really need some small feeling of success. At last I sat down and doodled a little with Painter's mirror feature. I like headdresses and facial paint.

Painted over a drawing I made in my sketchbook, using ArtRage, Photoshop, and Painter. I also just finished drawing all my rpg characters of the Dark Eye setting - well, the lineart at least, and I hope to find the time to paint them soon. Because there's a timeline to be followed in the world, I have twelve (!) characters - sometimes the adventures overlap, and then you need more people to them all, and there are so many concepts that you could try out... and then you have twelve characters that get played once a year each. Good thing I have a certified super memory ;) so I don't forget how.

Just doodling a little, I came up with a ruined city, a mysterious arch, and some people hiking off. I don't often jump into picturs like this, but I have taken a liking to painting with just one brush and all palettes off recently. I just finished playing F.E.A.R. 2 - there are pupils who are experimented on, and one of them has my name! That was creepy...