Happy 2012!

I'm a bit late but happy 2012 everyone! I'm hoping that this year I'll be more productive in terms of personal work. Here's another self portrait to start the year. I kinda look like a member of Bee Gees but oh well! This is what happens when you experiment with colors and shapes...

A rough bloke

This dude has been sitting on my HD for a while. Time to part with him...

Just a random sketch

Got bored at work...

Workshops

Hey all,

Been some time right? I just wanted to post some news. I'm flying out to my home country Turkey soon to do couple of Workshops. First one will be at Eskisehir Anadolu University Fine Arts Faculty- Animation Department and second one will be at the Animation Festival in Kutahya Dumlupinar University Fine Arts Faculty. Here are the dates:

27th of April - Eskisehir Anadolu University Fine Arts Faculty - Animation Department (Whole day)
29th of April - Animation Festival @ Kutahya Dumlupinar University Fine Arts Faculty (Afternoon)

If you are a student in these Universities, come and say hello.

See you there!

Emrah

Some random stuff

Hey all,

Here's a self portrait I've done just for the sake of updating.

and a random head sketch as a bonus

see ya next time!

Fable 3 Concept Art!

It's time for an update!

I uploaded a selection of "Fable 3" Concept Art on my website (at last). Here are a few of them for sneak peak. But you can find more here:

http://www.emrahelmasli.com

Hope you like them.

ImagineFX - Issue 62 workshop

Couple months ago, the nice chaps at ImagineFX asked me to put together a workshop for them. It's about limiting your colour palette while painting digitally using a gamut mask. You can find it in ImagineFX issue 62. There's a 6 hour video, photoshop brushes and all sorts of other exciting stuff included as well. It's already out so go check it out.

Here's the image I created:

And this is the issue cover:

I figured that recording while you're painting is a bit distracting. You feel like someone is watching you, you know what I mean? weird. Well anyway, hope you like it. If you buy the issue and watch my video, I would be more than appreciated if you drop a couple of comments here.

Cheers!

Marauder

This is a character I did for Paizo Publishing a while back. A Marauder for Pathfinder series. I thought it's worth posting...

Madgator album cover

Wow! I'm so lazy. Another four months without any updates. Well, we're really busy at Lionhead trying to push Fable 3 out of the door so I could't find much time to do personal stuff lately. But I had done an album cover a while ago. It was for a Brazilian Heavy Rock band called Madgator. Give them a listen here: http://www.myspace.com/madgatorofficial

They are pretty amazing actually and it's their debut album. I did the identity, cover illustration and booklet design. Here's how it looks:

It was fun to do and they are really nice chaps as well.

Anway, this is it for now... over and out!

A new character for Wizards

Hey everyone,

It's been some time since I last posted. Well, here's the first art of the new year then. This is a recent Wizard character I did for Wizards. It's for Dragon magazine's issue #383.

I've some more art piled up but I'll have to show them later on. Sorry...

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(This is for Turkish readers only)

Gecen hafta Merlin'in Kazani adli Oyun sitesinde taze bir roportajim yayinlandi. Okumak icin asagidaki linke tiklayabilirsiniz:

Merlin'in Kazani Roportaj

Dragon 380 Cover, Warmachine Retribution and more

Hi All,

At last I'm posting some art :) Actually I have lots of stuff piled up but I'll post the rest in time. Here are some illustrations I did this summer:

This one is the cover of Dragon Magazine - Issue 380 for Wizards of the Coast. I had lots of fun doing it. Credit goes to Jon Schindehette for the Art direction.

Here's an interior for Dragon 379. It was for an article about assasins...

This illustration is for a Turkish web based game. I did the character concept as well. Can't say much yet but the project was really fun to work on...

and lastly a full page illustration I did for Privateer Press's Warmachine - Retribution book. This took ages to finish... oh well...

Ok, this is it for today. Hoping to post some more art soon! ;) So stay tuned!

Shunt photos

Here are a couple of photos from my digital painting demo at Shunt as I promised. It was a great experience and the place was awesome as well. But as you can see in the photos, it was very dark. The demo went just fine except the projector was a bit shitty, I had to paint in b&w.

Well, anyway... I'll post some new art soon. There are quite a bit piled up...

Live digital painting at Shunt - London Bridge

Hi All,

I'll be at Shunt on 4th of September, Friday around 7.30-8pm and will be doing a live digital demo. There will be some other artists doing cool stuff and an art exhibition as well. The event is called "Art in the industry". If you are in London area, drop by and say hi. Here's a link to the event on facebook: Facebook event

I'll upload some photos after the event so check back soon...

Fable 3 Announced!

Fable 3 has been announced at last. I've been working on the environment concepts of the game for the last 6 months. The game is coming together really nicely and it's great fun to work on as well. Here's one of my concepts which has gone public yesterday.

Also here's link of a preview on Eurogamer. Link

I'll see if I can post more concepts in the future but this is it for now :)

Digital Art Masters Vol. 4

Digital Art Masters Volume 4 is now available for sale! I helped out 3dtotal staff during the Judging process and wrote the foreword as well. So check it out! It's full of amazing art work...

DAM4 on Amazon.co.uk

Ziya

Here's a new character I've been working on. Actually it was an old sketch but I just wanted to rework on it little bit and tighten it up. Here's the result. He's a Kulhanbeyi (Roughneck) from the last days of Ottoman Empire... I exagerated the proportions a bit and gave him some muscles. Hope you like it...

My brand new website!

Hey All,

My new website is online now! Please have a look and drop a comment or two if you can ;)

http://www.emrahelmasli.com

Thanks!

Hordes - Metamorphosis

Hi all!
It's been 3 months since my last update. Actually I was suppose to do this a month ago but I've been postponing it. Lazy me... Well, anyway. Last year, I did quite a lot of illustrations for Privateer Press's Hordes - Metamorphosis book. It's out now. So, I decided to post some of it. There are lots more but I'll probably publish them on my new website which is due this summer. (Hopefully) Here are five of them:

Hope you like these, take care until next post!

Couple of recent images

This is probably the last post of 2008 for me. It was a really busy year. Both at Lionhead Studios and home. I worked on Fable 2 and now working on another cool title which already looks great. I also did a lot of illustratons for Privateer Press, Paizo and Wizards of the Coast. You'll hopefully be able to see all of those stuff in 2009.

But now, here are a couple of recent images and a sneakpeek.

This is the original cover image I did for Paizo's Planet Stories - The Dark World. You can see the actual cover design in the previous posts.

This is a portrait painting of "Arap Ihsan" from Ihsan Oktay Anar's Novel "Puslu Kitalar Atlasi". I'm not sure if he has been visualised by someone else before but don't think so... More to come on this one...

Lastly, this is the cover of "No Quarter - Issue 21" from Privateer Press. The image on the cover is an illustration I did for the book "Hordes - Metamorphosis". A bit of sneakpeek for you guys ;)

This is it for now. Happy New Year to you all!!! :) See you next year!

Color practice

Here's something I did just for fun. It's mostly a color practice so haven't paid so much attention to the design... enjoy!