Daniel Lieske

A painting of the comic character Hellboy in an iconic pose, standing on a rock inside a dark cave. Hellboy's red skin stands in stark contrast to the greenish tint of his surrounding.

I had a bit more fun with my Hellboy Blender scene from half a year ago. I've been exploring a classic look for the final surface finish and I arrived at this point by using Photoshop's mixer brushes and the fantastic impasto brushes of Rebelle. It's a lot of fun messing up a rendering like that!

A painting of the comic character Hellboy in an iconic pose, standing on a rock inside a dark cave. Hellboy's red skin stands in stark contrast to the greenish tint of his surrounding.

I had a bit more fun with my Hellboy Blender scene from half a year ago. I've been exploring a classic look for the final surface finish and I arrived at this point by using Photoshop's mixer brushes and the fantastic impasto brushes of Rebelle. It's a lot of fun messing up a rendering like that!

What a thief stole thou steal'st from a thief; could gain be more thankfully got?

-"The Ring of the Nibelung", Richard Wagner

Meine Frau hat gestern bestimmt ein Dutzend Fehler gefunden, unter anderem auch den erwähnten. Ging vielleicht doch etwas schnell mit der Übersetzung. Ist jetzt korrigiert. Danke für Dein Feedback!

Quick news from my side: I've just released Chapter 12 of the Wormworld Saga.

You can read it for free at: wormworldsaga.com

I wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Quick news from my side: I've just released Chapter 12 of the Wormworld Saga.

You can read it for free at: wormworldsaga.com

I wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

I love the textures in your work!

Quote your art with fire! 🔥

A screenshot of the Wormworld Saga website that features an array of chapter cover icons beneath a detailed header illustration.

It's my birthday today and if you'd like to make me a little gift, you could share the link to the Wormworld Saga website at wormworldsaga.com. What you'll find there is an epic fantasy adventure that's free for everyone to read on a handcrafted website without third party advertising. #indiecomics

Oh, erste Auflage von Band 1. Schöne Sammlung! Danke für Deine Unterstützung!

🙌

Dankeschön! Und danke für's Teilen!

Vielen lieben Dank!

Dankeschön!

A screenshot of the Wormworld Saga website that features an array of chapter cover icons beneath a detailed header illustration.

It's my birthday today and if you'd like to make me a little gift, you could share the link to the Wormworld Saga website at wormworldsaga.com. What you'll find there is an epic fantasy adventure that's free for everyone to read on a handcrafted website without third party advertising. #indiecomics

Thank you, Klaus! That's some super encouraging feedback!

A collection of key artworks for different indie computer games, all showing a main character in his game world. Shown here are the artworks for "Bloodmoon Survivors", "Super Dungeon Maker" and "Whiskers & Wizardry".

A collection of key artworks for different indie computer games, all showing a main character in his game world. Shown here are the artworks for "Astroloot", "Blossom - The Seed of Life" and "Stratogun".

A collection of key artworks for different indie computer games, all showing a main character in his game world. Shown here are the artworks for "Up With Doznik", "Earthborne" and "Boomerang Jack".

Kind of a thing now that people ask me to create key artworks for their indie games. I deeply enjoy the wild mix of genres and styles. The artworks have a horrible aspect ratio to present them on social media. Unless... you stack them! Find close ups and WIPs at www.artstation.com/daniellieske...

This one was a challenge but also a lot of fun to browse through the community model library and find cool 3D models for the key art.

An iconic composition of the comic book character Hellboy, standing on a rock. In the background, ominous tentacles are writhing.

The same scene, a bit closer to the figure.

The same scene, a bit more closer to the figure.

The same scene, this time a portrait shot of the figure.

Got a couple of pictures from my latest artwork for you. While working on the "Ring of the Nibelung" piece, I realized that the style would work perfectly on one of my favorite comic characters - Hellboy by @mikemignola.bsky.social. So, it's a fan art for a change! #blender #eevee #hellboy

Name one non LOTR character who could resist the ring.

A stylized 3D rendering showing a scene from Richard Wagner's opera "Rheingold". Alberich, the self-proclaimed leader of the Nibelung people, yields his almighty ring and forces his subjects to search for gold and piling up a treasure for him. Below him, on the right side, we see his brother Mime who was forced by Alberich to create him a magic helmet that makes him invisible and lets him assume any form he wishes. In the center of the image, the ring is floating in the air, radiating with evil energy.

New version of "Tremble in Terror". I just needed more dark energy in this one. #Blender #eevee

The key art for Maarti Game's "Goeland" was a particularly fun one to create!

Thank you! The only textures in the scene are some procedural Voronoi textures mapped in world space and a displacement texture that is actually projected in the compositor. I learned some wild stuff over the last few weeks.

A stylized 3D rendering showing a scene from Richard Wagner's opera "Rheingold". Alberich, the self-proclaimed leader of the Nibelung people, yields his almighty ring and forces his subjects to search for gold and pilling up a treasure for him. Below him, on the right side, we see his brother Mime who was forced by Alberich to create him a magic helmet that makes him invisible and lets him assume any form he wishes. In the center of the image, the ring is floating in the air.

This is the first illustration that I created 100% in Blender. Titled "Zitt're und Zage!" ("Tremble in Terror!"), it depicts a scene from "Rheingold" an opera by Richard Wagner which I recently discovered to be a huge source of inspiration. More info in the Alt text. #Blender #eevee

Expanding my cast of Niblung folks. What fun is an almighty ring without subjects after all? Putting some more details into the ALT text #blender

Sorry to wisecrack here but I'd like to point out that a katana is worn with the blade facing upward in the sheath. It's against visual design intuition (swoosh kind of goes the wrong way) but it's done so that you draw the sword sliding on its bland back in order to not damage the sheath over time.

I'm not wise enough yet to figure out the end in all its details. But I'm optimistic that I will be when I eventually reach that point.

A heavily post-processed 3D illustration of Alberich the Nibelung. He's standing on a rock, the ring is floating in front of him.

A close-up of Alberich.

Another close-up of Alberich.

I'm evolving my Alberich scene. Today I modeled a new head and played around with some additional post effects.

Thank you! Yeah, it's nice to have an outlet that invites experimentation. And how unlikely that it's coming from the business side. It's a win win situation.

A collection of key artworks for different indie computer games, all showing a main character in his game world. Shown here are the artworks for "Bloodmoon Survivors", "Super Dungeon Maker" and "Whiskers & Wizardry".

A collection of key artworks for different indie computer games, all showing a main character in his game world. Shown here are the artworks for "Astroloot", "Blossom - The Seed of Life" and "Stratogun".

A collection of key artworks for different indie computer games, all showing a main character in his game world. Shown here are the artworks for "Up With Doznik", "Earthborne" and "Boomerang Jack".

Kind of a thing now that people ask me to create key artworks for their indie games. I deeply enjoy the wild mix of genres and styles. The artworks have a horrible aspect ratio to present them on social media. Unless... you stack them! Find close ups and WIPs at www.artstation.com/daniellieske...