During the last couple of weeks I’ve been working  for ‘doubledutch games’  on a game that’s now called ‘Chaos Battle’. I was asked to do the art for the game, so that means that I’ve  been making a lot of  stuff.

But most art is of course for in-game. You know, bits and pieces like backgrounds, pick-ups and HUD elements. Now although it all turned out pretty well, it’s by itself it’s not the most interesting stuff to show; I think you need the big picture to be able to enjoy that.

And I’m pretty sure I can show that soon, but for now I’d like to share some more detailed art of the main-characters. First up ‘Aggro Bear’! 

Really, it’s nice to get away from Photoshop once in a while. Because no matter what I do with it, it always gives me the feeling that I’m at work; even if I’m just drawing for fun. So when I get the chance I gladly do some experimental art and just throw some paint on a real canvas. But that’s clearly not my specialty.  As it turns out I used some special printing ink which supposedly never dries! So this painting will stay wet forever :/

Oh well, at least the picture is dry :]

Well, this ‘PIG-war’ universe keeps expanding. Origionally I made these designs for a  comic, but I’v just got too many machine-concepts to fit them all in there. So maybe I’ll just collect all this stuff into an artbook.

When I was in Japan, I found a book about the ‘Machine Krieger’ model kits and this book was the thing that really inspired me draw more of these PIG-bots. Another big source of inspiration were the designs in GITS  (the comic, movie and the ‘stand alone complex’ series). And I guess I also picked up some inspiration from the designs in last ‘Metal Gear solid’ games,.. although I never played them. Of course all these references are quite serious, but I like to put some more humor to it… by turning assault vehicles into overweight animals :]

…and meanwhile I also do some art for ‘doubledutch games’ !

This is some concept art for one of the main characters :]

Well here you have it; my secret design process!

0. I liked the idea of creating a rocket launcher that was somewhat shaped like a pig. So I picked up my sketchbook and started drawing.
1. I always start with a small thumbnail; this picture was not bigger then 10 centimeters wide. Usually I do more thumbnails, but I was happy with the first one so I continued right away.
2. The next step is to scan it, blow it up and print again so I can start refining the concept. Sometimes I already tweak it a bit in PS, but not this time.

3. Then half way through the design I suddenly felt that the force-feedback-motion was not right… too bad.
4. So I thumbnailed another motion sketch for the rocket launcher and brought that action-line straight back into the bigger drawing.
5. When I’m happy with the rough sketch I use my lightbox to trace it and clean it up. Meanwhile I also add more details to the concept. In this case I felt that the image could be cooler if I made a scene around it. So I added some friends.
6. Now it’s time to trace the sketch once more to get the final line drawing.

To be continued!

I’ve been making these model drawings lately and I was looking for a good way to color them. Here I tried the aquarelle-technique…

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As I mentioned many times before…I play D&D on a regular basis; and this is a map that belongs to our most recent adventure! We started the adventure 01-2010 and will probably finish it in a few months. So that’s almost 2 years of playtime that you see above. I just felt like documenting all these good times, and a map seemed the perfect way to do it.

Our journey started on the top left corner of the map and we are now on the top right corner. We are basicly searching for a mysterious island that hasn’t been revealed yet. Once we found it, I will add it in the centre of the map to complete it.

Look at those amazing discoball biceps!