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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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!

2Dartist magazine - speed painting

Here's a speedpainting I did for 2dartist magazine's November 2008 issue. It took about 90 mins to finish.

Planet Stories - The Dark World

Here's a cover illustration I did for Paizo's Planet Stories book series. It's called The Dark World. The typography on it is quite overwhelming but it doesn't look that bad I guess. I'll post the original illustration after the book gets published later in November.

Warmachine Legends illustrations

Here are 4 of the illustrations i did for Privateer Press back in 2007. They are about a year old and not so recent but I wanted to post them because I had alot of fun while working on them. Legends is now out so you can have a look by visiting Privateers website.

Midyeci

Here's a new character. This guy sells stuffed mussels. Yum!

Lava and rocks

I've been sitting on this one for a long time now. Decided to finish it tonight... Lava and rocks combination. I think I like warm and cold color contrast...Anyway, enjoy!

The Expedition

Here's a new environment work I've been working on. Three guys looking at the horizon kind of cliche but I've tried to capture some interesting lighting and color contrast on this one. Not sure about the rock formations and design too. Well, anyway...

Rocky meadows

Here's a recent environment work I did. I just felt like painting rocks and sheeps wandering around...

Recent characters

Here are two recent characters I've painted... First one is my interpretation of Mehmet II (Fatih). The Ottoman Sultan who conquered Istanbul. The other one is an orcish, alienish kind of Sultan. Don't know really...Both are done for practice purposes...

First Post

Ok, well...I've decided to start a blog cause I don't want to update my crappy old website with new images until I design and open a new one. So, here we go... I beleive that this blog will help me to create more personal works. I couldn't find any time to do personal stuff last year but I'm willing to change it and start to draw more often...

You'll see my most recent work and sketches here. As well as Ideas about my own projects and finished commissioned works. I love to draw Oriental themed stuff so expect to see alot of Ottoman characters and Ottoman influenced designs... Ok, here we go...

These are pretty old but would be a good start for a first post.
Enjoy...