Hidden Temple

Trying out new techniques.

Evil Returns

Evil Returns - Being a child of the 80s I grew up watching the Evil Dead movies, John Carpenter's great horror masterpieces, Poltergeist, etc...I had to come up with something with living dead...I hope the 30somethings out there relate to this as I do!

The Crossing

practice sketch

Ruins

Speedpainting practice.

4 Thumbnails

4 thumbnails...good for keeping in a sketch folder and turning into a final piece later on...

The Beheader

Trying to make pink and swans look cool and evil. This one started out from the same sketch as "Everyone Wants To Be A Hero" posted some months ago.

Trenches

Same as previous exercise...1 hour limit speedpainting in one continuous session.

Bloodsucker's Humble Abode

Set myself a time limit of 1 hour to do this speedpainting trying to focus on the essential elements and using as much time-saving techniques as possible. I also did this in one pass to see if I could get away without relying on those invaluable pauses that make you see all the dumb mistakes you did.

 

The Hidden Path

Something more China inspired.

Swamp Traveller

Finally got some time to post a personal piece.

Romantic Shadows - Inspired by Lisbon's beautiful small parks...

Into the Dark - Another dark forest environment...

Conspiracy

Inspired by a visit to the beautiful church of "São Domingos" in Lisbon.
The church suffered a big fire in 1959 which completely destroyed the inner decoration. It was decided not to hide the marks of the fire and to my eyes it only makes the church more beautiful. I was told the orange painted ceiling is a reminiscence to the fire. Here is a photo:
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Dedicated to Paula Bottas for showing me this beautiful church.

Spikes of Despair - Going for a really cold environment...

Medieval Town - An old concept I never posted.

The Hidden Library 05

Another update.

The Hidden Library 04

The Hidden Library 03

The Hidden Library 02

The Hidden Library 01

The Hidden Library 01 - I'm doing an experiment over at Deviantart where I'm doing a painting from start to finish with the aid of the online community's suggestions/critiques. I thought I would post the process over here, too.

The Hunt

Nothing much to say, other than this started as a thumbnail a sketch I did last year for James Paick's online masterclass.

Everyone Wants To Be A Hero

I leave a suggestive title so you can decide if this guy makes it or if he is just a bit too ambitious...

Peaceful Kingdom

Some months ago I created a new folder with unfinished paintings/sketches and also intermediate steps of finished paintings. Basically it's a collection of a lot of crappy images I did over the last years that I think had some potential if taken further or reworked. This is one of my attempts to try and make something interesting out of something not worth looking at. Let me know your thoughts.

Winter Village

Commissioned concept I did last year...

Dark Days To Come

Image inspired by the work of masters Khang Le and Maciej Kuciara, two artists I greatly admire...

Warriors2

A fleshed out version of the previous sketch...

Warriors

Rougher work, which sometimes has the appeal of not showing everything to the viewer making it more engaging. My focus was on composition, color and pose.
Overworking a painting can lead to uninteresting results so instead I decided to share this image where the "paint" is still fresh...

Zombie Overrun

Probably inspired by "Undead Nightmare"...Gotta love them zombies!

Requiem

Here's an image I did for my musician friend Pedro Macedo Camacho.
You can check out his brilliant work at http://www.musicbypedro.com/

Hidden Tomb

This is the last of the rocks+tower series.

Twin Falls

Third in the "tower with rocks" series...I hope you can hear the roaring of the waterfalls and feel the chill in the air...

Watchtower

Second of the 4 tower-series paintings...

Empire of the Saviours

A book cover I did last year.

Summit

Testing techniques and ways to approach a painting. This is one of a series of 4 paintings I did with a similar theme.

Forest Temple II

This is the other Forest Temple painting I did simultaneously as the previous post...same ingredients: big tree, forest, 2 characters and a temple.

Forest Temple I

One of 2 recent illustrations I did for practice using techniques outlined by the amazing Feng Zhu. My subject matter was a moody forest, 2 characters and a temple of some sort.

Enchanted Forest

First painting of the year. Trying out new approaches...

The Wise Man's Fear

A promotional image I did for the portuguese edition of The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss.

Winter Travellers II

Although I live an area of sunny winters without any snow I've always been fascinated by snow covered mountains. The snow/rock patterns and their value contrasts are something I really love...add a few drops of fantasy and this is what I got to... Happy New Year!

Winter Travellers

Exploration of new techniques can sometimes lead to satisfactory results, although, most of the time, they end up in the garbage folder.
With this one I made heavy use of Photoshop's lasso tool in the initial stages and sticked to only two brushes throughout the entire painting process: a more textured one with opacity set to pressure and a round one with pressure set to size+opacity.

Blue Abyss 2

I wasn't quite satisfied with the outcome of the first Blue Abyss image so I started again from the same initial sketch and this is what I came up with. Even if it didn't improve I wanted to share this second experiment.

Sanctuary...revisited

Based on a painting I did last year that didn't really come out the way I wanted it to, so I decided to revisit it.

Blue Abyss

Practice...this time with a Blade Runner inspiration.

Trackers

Practicing...inspired by the works of Paul Lasaine and Robh Ruppel.

Fantasy Theater

This was done for an ad campaign for imm Sound, a Spanish company developing 3D immersive sound technology for theaters.

Colony Interior

This was the final assignment for James Paick's online masterclass. Had a great time and learned a lot.

Desert Winds

Commissioned painting. Inspired by the given title and "Prince of Persia".

Colony II

Week 7 assignment for James Paick's online masterclass.

Colony I

Here is my assignment for week 6 of James Paick's Environment II class.

Week 5 assignment for James Paick's online Environment II class.