Ranarh's Art Blog

My contribution to the Threadless challenge about Kung Fu Panda. [please vote on Threadless] I really love the films and series and included a whole lot of enemies Po meets in the series (although compromises had to be amde so everyone would fit in; some of my personal favourites, like Temutai, warrior king of the Qidan, or the evil genius Taotie, are missing). I'd be happy about your support on Threadless: https://www.threadless.com/designs/pandamonium-8

Threadless is a printing company/community where proposed designs for t-shirts, hoodies, or phone cases, among other products, are rated. Best rated makes it into print and will be available for purchase. This is my latest design submitted to Threadless. I'd be happy about your vote - and Threadless is worth checking out in any case! Find my design on Threadless here: https://www.threadless.com/designs/gory-gory-halleluja

Two more illustrations from my ongoing collaboration with John Armamentos on his book series, Rhoenoak. The artworks posted before are here: http://ranarh.blogspot.de/2015/07/rhoenoak-book-illustrations.html These are the acruma (the big guy, has gravity-influencing powers) and the karoth (bad guys and dragon worshippers - it's not good). John proved to be an angel, when after well into the acruma painting I thought it was horrible and started over from scratch, and he just agreed and went with it. Learn more about the book series on its facebook page: Facebook.com/RhoenoakBookOfficial

Threadless is a printing company/community where proposed designs for t-shirts, hoodies, or phone cases, among other products, are rated. Best rated makes it into print and will be available for purchase. This is my latest design submitted to Threadless. I'd be happy about your vote - and Threadless is worth checking out in any case! Find my design on Threadless here:  https://www.threadless.com/designs/jellyzilla

I had been working on creating a new signature for my work for a while. Simply writing my name on a piece of artwork was too simple, and a well-designed signature is useful for sooo many things - signature, business cards, stamps, logos, who knows what sorts of project I will come up with. The needs I had were: that it should fit the touch and feel of my body of work, and be easy to write by hand. For the latter, elaborate writings or curves, exact proportions, let alone any actual graphics, forbid themselves. Additionally, while I would have been happy with a proper monogram (like Albrecht Dürer), the asymmetrical J is devlishly tricky to use that way. Finally, after much picking, throwing out, rethinking, and refining, I proudly present my new signature. May it last long.

Rather random piece of space art, done after work to relax. Nebulae come in different flavours; this is a supernova remnant nebula. And amino acids have been found in space nebulae - quite complex molecules that are just a few steps down from DNA. Maybe space monsters are real after all.

For the book series Rhoenoak by John Armamentos, I have started illustrating some of the content for the author. What you see here are the maruga - an enemy class - and two of the main protagonists, Mylah and Pat. More to come - and take a look at the facebook page Facebook.com/RhoenoakBookOfficial