Ranarh's Art Blog

I made up a small sketching group with friends, and the subject "Awkward roleplaying moments" came up. This is the very first comic I ever made. Since it was only a sketch, I didn't care too much for anatomy or perspective :) Translation: Sign: The Eye Of Death Rangild: "Hmm... interesting..." Pamina: calls her name Rangild: "How long was I out?" Pamina: "Only a few minutes." Rangild: "I didn't even see anything..."

Bookmark monsters I made for Christmas - you can never have enough bookmarks. Or read too many books at once... they were sitting on the bottom of the bookmark. Copic markers on chromalux paper. They squeaked.

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.