Type: Digital Painting
Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Cintiq 21ux

We all have them. Scars that define bravery, scars that define devotion. Marks of spirituality and amulets of protection.
We choose to wear them; even though we rather hide them.

Inspired by Chinese tattoos. Originally it started to be an Elven woman walking in a forest but thinking it was too cliché I had it developed to include more oriental influences. Purely done in Photoshop with a Cintiq21ux and used a stock photo as a reference for the pose and body. I also used stock images as reference for the tattoos, and used stock brushes for the fabric's pattern.

Related Links:
Oriental Scars - full size artwork
Oriental Scars - step-by-step process (coming soon)

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Type: Digital Painting
Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Intuos3

We all have our share of secrets we try to keep hidden from the public, no matter how innocent we may try to be. Trying hard to keep them hidden could create our own personal jail and then will be too late for us setting anything free.

I've developed this purely in Photoshop CS3, and used photo reference for the Angel's pose. I tried to keep the composition simple with not too many details to over-complicate things and keep the focus on the Angel.

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Hidden Secrets - full size artwork
Hidden Secrets - step-by-step process

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Type: Digital Painting
Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Intuos3

I have always been inspired and fascinated by the fantasy women of Luis Royo, my favorite artist, and I always wanted to create a piece that draws those influences but is based on my own personal style. This work is my first approach for doing this. ‘Aella’ is an Amazon warrior in Greek mythology slain by Heracles. Her name means “whirlwind”. The only references I used from mythology about Aella were just her name. All clothes, weapon and style is my own interpretation of a modern Amazon warrior. This piece took me a lot of time and effort since the lighting and shadows where big challenge to get just right. It was done completely in Photoshop from scratch, and some partial photo references where used for the pose and anatomy.

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Aella - full size artwork
Aella - step-by-step process

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Type: Drawings / Sketches
Tools: Photoshop, Cintiq 21ux

A few digital drawings of some characters that I'm working on.

Type: Drawing
Tools: Photoshop, Cintiq 21ux

A simple drawing done for a speed-drawing video tutorial I did. Video will follow soon.

Type: B&W Drawing
Tools: Photoshop, Cintiq 21ux

One of my most favorite and most inspired blogs is ArtOrder who is run by Jon Schindehette Senior Art Director of Dungeons & Dragons®. He posts weekly challenges around the theme of fantasy art and one was for a Black & White drawing of 2 vampire warriors, Gwenth & Garreth. I found the theme really interesting but wasn't too sure about the technique since I'm not used to doing pure black & white drawings with no grayscale. Unfortunately by the time I managed to get some free time to do this it wasn’t until 4 hours before the deadline so the end result was nothing even close to my standards. Compared to the rest of the entries my work was definitely one on the bottom of the list, but my hat’s off towards the talented artist who also participated to the competition. I have already voted for my favorite from the list and it wasn’t me. Still, one great and fun challenge to take on board, and I’m looking forward to participate on more challenges from the ArtOrder blog.

Related Links:
ArtOrder

Type: 3D Sculpture
Tools: ZBrush 3, Intuos 3

I've started learning ZBrush3 which I find an amazing tool for sculpting characters in 3D. It feels very free and artistic and is a tool I'd like to use more for my character creations. The above study is my very first approach for sculpting the face of Warcraft's Night Elf Druid, Broll Bearmantle, from a figurine toy that I own.

Type: Flash Adventure Game
Role: Game Designer, Game Developer, Writter,
Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, 3D Studio Max, Poser, Sony Sound Forge

Redemption is a point & click adventure game demo in a first person perspective, created, developed and produced by me as my final project of my Postgraduate degree course in Design for Interactive Media. Aim of the game was to create an adventure experience purely made in Flash as a way for extending my skills in interactive design, programming and 3D design. Throughout the development progress Redemption became a much more ambitious project than what was originally met to be, and as a result was the development of a fully playable demo of an adventure game with fully designed environments, characters and an extensive storyline and gameplay. In September 2005 the game was exhibit at the React degree show in London with a great response from the visitors who tried and tested the game. Some of the comments from the people who signed my visitors book where as follows:

“Very fascinating and intriguing creation, the combination of amazing graphics, music and environments make for a potentially superb dark and mysterious adventure game. Great work on the drawings!!! The level of difficulty is quite over the top for the average gamer however it did keep me frustrated for 1 hour until I solved it!” - Alex Spyrou
“A wonderful work and very imaginative. Congratulations!!!” - unknown visitor
“Your game is difficult & requires times, but it does have good atmosphere. well done.” - Ally Ellison
“Brilliant!! Good graphics and structure” - Sakis
“Very slick - I like it” - unknown visitor
“I have been redeemed!!! Thank-you” - unknown visitor
“Sick (in a good way)” - unknown visitor

At the moment Redemption still remains as a demo with no future plans for further development.

Related Links:
Redemption-TheGame.com
Redemption - full demo download [ 253 MB ]

Type: Concept Designs / Concept Art
Tools: Adobe Photoshop

Concept designs and artworks for a personal art project of mine called 'The Mystic Forest'.

Type: Sketches
Tools: Sketchbooks. soft pencils

Nothing facinates me more than the female form when it comes to art, and through this sketchbook I was exploring the art of woman through various scenarios, styles, appearances, even from other artworks.

Type: Sketches
Tools: Sketchbooks, soft pencils

Done at a young period of my life where I was exploring a lot the dark and gothic art, from various sources, including poems, quotes and sayings. The same time I invented my own secret writting and was a way of self expression through words and drawings.