"Im Bann der Hexer"

"Im Bann der Hexer" was finally released.
A couple of days ago I got my specimen copies and I am very happy with the quality of the print.

I hope you like it!

Dreamscape

This is my entry for the CG Challenge "Dreamscape". It has been a great challenge for me indeed, since I
did not paint a detailed image in a long time. But it has also been great fun to to work on it and relive some memories of my school years I spent daydreaming and drawing on paper, books and tables.

You can view some steps of my progress on cgsociety.

Im Bann der Hexer

I am happy to announce that my first comic book "Im Bann der Hexer" will be published as a German hardcover edition in April. The story is based on an original Iroquois legend and was written by Alexander Berger. You can find some pages on my homepage.

As a preview the comic magazine "Comix" publishes the entire story in four parts over the next four issues,
including a small "making of" in the current issue. I took a few pictures of some of the pages:

The Wormworld Saga - Fanart

At the end of 2010 Daniel Lieske released the first chapter of his Online Graphic Novel "The Wormworld Saga". The artwork and storytelling is just great...don´t miss it! My first painting this year is a fanart for his story and shows the main character, Jonas Berg, and the firelord.

See you in 2011

Last post for this year and only some greetings from Mika.

I hope I can show you some new paintings soon!

Weekly Challenge Result

As the winner of the last "weekly challenge" of the digitalartforum I was allowed to set up a new task. So i painted a background, an old harbour, and asked the participants to fill it with a character of a historic whaling crew. A lot of funny and nice characters came up and at the end I arranged all of them in front of the background.
Thanks everyone for the great contribution!

(Background by me, Characters by members of the digitalartforum)

Color Sketches

Some more rough ideas for the Conterra project:
Three mercenaries, a guardsman on his mount and the high council.