Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Vampire

Character design for EDF campaign, Nurun agency, Paris, France.

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Good night – the process

I usually work with highly detailed sketches, but this time I decided to start painting right away, with only tentative image in mind and see where it takes me.

  1. I wanted to create an atmospheric and gloomy foggy scene with an old graveyard. So I started with simple, almost perfect 50% grey background. That would be a fog.

  2. Then I created a ground plane. It's a foggy scene, and I wanted the ground to fade away very quickly. So I created a very simple gradient from dark grey to 50%, with few rough brushstrokes. Around 10 seconds of work:)

  3. Then I roughly added all the basic elements, i.e. tombstones and an open grave, which supposed to be my main light source. It is the brightest object in the scene, though not completely white, because I'll would like to add some luminosity later. I divided all the tombstones to seven layers/planes, the closer the darker. The most distant one was only slightly darker than the grey mist.

  4. Here I started adding some light to the closest tombstones and some details to the rest of the elements. I also added some moisture mist close to the ground.

  5. More details and more light from the open grave on distant tombstones. Also added some grass and texture to the soil.

  6. At this point I decided to add some characters. I started with simple dark silhouettes.

  7. Added light to the characters.

  8. Added some more luminosity, some lighting effects, few more details, depth of field and color correction.

That is all:)

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Sharky

A remake of my old illustration I made back in 2009. Just to see whether things have changed or not.

Carrot race!

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New Year 2014 corporate calendar cover

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Prints for sale!

Tada!
I've opened an account on INPRNT website so now some of my artworks prints are available for purchase as high quality prints. Some of them are even as large as 24 x 33 inch. I'll be adding more new prints very soon.
Stay tuned:)

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Shrunk! Mayhem and Meteorites

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A book cover I created recently for Hot Key Books.

Pulcinella

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Meet Pulcinella, a classic Neapolitan Comedia del’Arte character

Slightly better quality due to lower compression: http://postimg.org/image/cv4s13wcn/

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Card game

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Little icons I created recently for some really cute card game.

Monday, July 1, 2013

One of a Kind

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Illustration for Clubhouse Jr. magazine cover

Paddle Battle

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Illustrations for July issue of Clubhouse Jr. magazine

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

What if

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Some stories might have had different endings.

Illustration for Krastsvetmet calendar.

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Xmass

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Advertising illustration

Friday, April 19, 2013

Born2B Wild

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Rejected sketch for some project I worked on recently

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

A lot of dogs here

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Just a bunch of sketches I did for some children’s book recently. Unfortunately I had to depart from the publisher due to ‘irreconcilable differences’ right after sketches stage.