A self portrait I painted today. Rediscovered the palette knife in Painter X - what a tool!
Always something very strange and difficult to paint a self portrait... you just can't relax.

2 new plein air paintings. The first two I did without a drawing before, so I just blocked in colors and the result was surprisingly a lot faster and secure. You sometimes need to lock away the fear, right?

Still not where I want to be with my plein air studies, but I'm getting closer. :)

The Vienna Sketchgroup

Some weeks ago, my buddy Tom Seiger started a weekly sketchgroup session. This is kind of nostalgia for some of us, as we used to do this some years ago, but unfortunately most of the people moved away or lost interest. Anyway... it's mostly about sitting together, have a nice chat and do some art. Here are the portrait studies I did during the latest evenings. Mixed, as always, two gouache paintings, one in oils and another digital painting of Tom, who posed for us after a model dropped out.

I recently watched blade runner, yeah once again, and i really fell in love with the lightning in one of the first scenes, so i decided to do a small study of it. Nothing special, but i though it's still worth to share.

And I'm also showing a digital lifepainting I did during a session with my buddies Stefan Nützel and Igino. The mighty Andrew Judd also joined our session! Dude, it was such an inspirational experience meeting you - thank you a lot for the nice talks!

A bunch of things I did in the last weeks. Sketches, studies, doodles, and so on...

Long time!

To start it slowly again, i just show something i did at the beginning of these silent weeks.

Heres a kind of logo i painted for a friend of mine whos playing in a metalband. The idea was to just get a logo for promotional things, but i think they'll use it on their next album cover too. Their ideas were quite clear, but i had my artistic freedom in choice of color and overall style of course. I'm pretty happy with the result, still it's not something i usually tend to do.

If you want to check out some austrian rock solid metal, go visit their site: http://www.reap.at

Digital study, didn't stick that much with the reference. Done in PS and Painter.

Character design for the weekly character challenge over at conceptart.org. The theme was something like "Siamese Twins in a postapocalyptic setting".