It may come as a surprise to some of you, but yes... I am still alive. Haven't had time to do much personal painting these past months, but now I finally finished something new. And I am quite proud of this one, can't wait to see it on a really large print. Hope you guys enjoy it. I think I can say with some certainty, that you should be able to see another piece or two quite soon.

Tell me what you think!

Daniel
www.dancakes.com

Look at that, he still works digitally as well!

This is a rather quick piece that I did this week. Should be about 10 - 11 hours. The whole painting was pretty much there after 7 hours, but I wanted to polish it a bit and add a few details. Whoever coined the phrase that the last 10% of a piece take 90% of the work time, was right on the money.

Anyhow, I hope you guys enjoy it. I got a nice matte print of the 7-hour state in front of me here, and I have to say it looks pretty nice. So treat yourself and check out the print, as soon as it is up!


Daniel
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...or?

I know, it's hard to believe. Two submissions in one week, I'm setting personal records here!

I have been working on this on and off for quite a while now. To be honest, I'm still not entirely happy with it, but I think I have to call it done. Sometimes working too much on something just leads nowhere. And this bugger has changed a LOT since the initial sketch. Still, I'm overall quite happy and it feels good to finally have realized one of my dozens of ship sketches as a painting. More may follow...

As usual, I'm curious to hear what you think. Print should follow soon. Happy Easter, everyone!


Daniel
www.dancakes.com

I actually began this piece over two years ago, and then put it aside because I just couldn't get it right and it kept bugging me. So a few days ago I decided to dig it out and finish it. Looks so much better now!

Dedicated to `mynti , who has seen this from the first sketches and always kept nagging me to finish it. Well... I finally got around to it

Print will follow on monday...


Daniel Alekow
www.dancakes.com

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Seems like I actually managed to finish one of the many personal paintings that I have started over the course of the past weeks and months, whenever work allowed. This one began as a tiny ballpoint sketch in my sketchbook...and developed into a little more work than I had originally anticipated. Partly because I wanted to paint this one without using any photos or textures. But I had loads of fun, and I hope you will enjoy it as well!

I will probably upload the print next week. Am looking forward to hear what you guys think. Much love

Daniel Alekow
www.dancakes.com

Concept from a cancelled game project.

Done for Frogster Interactive Pictures AG
Art Direction: Boris Kiselicki


By now the pieces are almost two years old and I'm definitely noticing mistakes, but I figured I'd show them anyway. I still had fun working on them.

Hope you guys like them =]





Daniel Alekow
www.dancakes.com

A new sci-fi scene. I experiment some new digital process , especially for the colors. I hope you like !

some1 asked me to post progress shots so will post on my tumblr

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It's been a while since I did not make a matte sci-fi scene and here is "The Terminal".
This one is fully inspired by a French artist I discovered in the following book in french (sorry...): [link]
It's Paul Chadeisson I should credit him for the composition and the brushes he kindly shared, check out his website: [link]
Have a look at his gallery, it's really good.

Nevertheless, everything has been fully made by myself, no like for like elements. I added many things, details and textures.

Here are the stocks I used, mostly for the left part of the plant:
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Planet texture from the NASA site:
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All the rest has been painted or from my own stock.

Hope you guys we'll like it.