Ninja concepts plus the End of the world!!!

Very nice, the first two are very Frank Miller 'Sin City'-esk, which is a good thing. The secoond two are quite breath taking in scope. Great stuff.

Pantmonger

i love it, seriously both types of pictures are fantastic, my fave would be the pinky orange tinted apocalypse peice though.

The figures actually remind me of chaos marines from the warhammer 40k tabletop game, their weapons do not though

SHHHIIIITT!!, HOLY CRAP, those are nice. I luv the ninja, how did you get that effect, was it all done with brushes?

Beautiful work. [:)]

all looks very good. the two painting must have taken quite a few hour to do! I particually like the grey 'dead' look to the last one.

Great work, outsanding I have to say. I like all of them, keep it up.

Wow, I love all of these. I really like the last one the most though. Hope to see more.

Brilliant work, I love the style of the weapon and the characters head in the front, great. His pose reminds me a little of a sandman, I imagine you do this for work fulltime?

Awesome work, with the ninja's you've really captured the brush and ink style fantasticly! I am a sucker for post apocalyptic stuff! The grey one makes me want to dust off fallout!!! I have to say, I always love the addition of people in landscapes, makes them feel more... real. If that makes sense, especially in this one, I can almost hear the echos of their lonely conversation!!

The end of the world pieces, are fantastic pieces of art. You have managed to convey the theme so powerfully - like Pantmonger mentioned the scope is fantastic. This is the kind of art that that a person could actually sit down, stare at, and write a story too.

Well done Gerhard [:)]

That is some of the best locally made digital painting work I've seen. Fantastic and inspiring work [:)]

!!! man they a GREAT i wish i could paint like that !!! can you tell us abit about how you created them !!!

GREAT WORK !

Fantastic work :D

AWESOME WORK !!!
Hey have you ever considered looking at the artist that did Metal Gear Solid 'paintings'? 'Coz thats what your style reminds me of (the first two).

The last two just blew me away. So much details in so little time!!

Thanks all,
The first two images were fairly quick studies, about 2-3 hours each. While thw landscapes were a bucket of work. The grey scale took about 3 full days while the amber image was an epic; it took 5 days.
Lots of work in each of them
Doyle:The trick with heaps of detail, is really heap of texture. You have to attack the canvas with texture, photoshop brushes are great for this when you start to play with all the possible brush variants. You have to cover the entire canvas with paint, before you can get into detail.
I start with a simple line drawing to work out the basic composition.
Then I paint in the canvas with texture, using the line drawing as a basic guide.
Then when the canvas is covered paint, I start with the sky or background, as this will give you the mood of the picture.
The work towards the foreground.
The last thing is to paint the characters.
Then refine and refine
I guess the most important thing is to be deterimined to finish the image, cause in the begining they all look shit, but you have to persist.
Cheers

I'd like to see a game done in B&W with these sort of graphics. a ninja game in comic style animation. It would be something new!

Oooh, and the whole game could be B&W except for the red blood, that'd be stylish, great idea.

hey awsome work righ there. do you post over at conceptart.org ?

I'm just adding myself to the list of people in awe over these great drawings!

groovyone / Wizenedoldman: I really like that idea! I'm (very slowly) working on a Mortal Kombat-inspired game, and I think that style would fit right in. I've been playing with shaders over the past few days trying to reproduce that effect, with no luck as of yet. Would be truly awesome to have in a game, though!

i think theres this game being made to look like a living old japanese ink painting thing. You know the ones you see on scrolls with characters down the side and a man fishing in the middle. The game itself sounds like a cross between zelda and black and white (interesting i know), because your a god (who's physically a dog...) who does adventuring and does the whole gathering beleif and power aswell.
Cant remember the name for the life of me, anyone?

Hiya Gerhard, I sincerely urge you to enter this competition ( if you havent already )

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=178327

I think youd do really well!