The Mage

Another doodle, not sure if I'm going to finish it.

Sushi Huntress

I've been really busy with work, started July 1st. I absolutely love my job, I'm drawing the whole day :D But I also have a lot less time to do some doodling at home. However, I managed to paint a sushi hunter!

Typhoon

There was a typhoon here in Osaka yesterday, so going outside wasn't really an option :) I started sketching a bit.

Golden Axe

Ah didn't finish this one, but it was a remake of the boss battle in Golden Axe, one of my favourite games when I was younger :)

Websites fixed!

Yes! I have reinstalled my broken websites and they are up and running again!

My Portfolio:  http://www.martheart.com

My Studio:  http://www.bitpunk.net

Environment practice

I've been painting a lot of environments lately to train my skills. Here are some:

More Bitpunk Art!

More characterdesigns for my new projec BITpunk: a mix of fantasy and 80ies music, fashion and games!

Are we safe..?

An environment sketch inspired by one of my favourite games: Uncharted :-)

Bitmagic Academy!

Welcome to the Bitmagic Academy! Here you learn how to use your hidden 8bit magic skills :-D This is a cover for a Japanese mangabook. I painted it together with Ward Lindhout, who did the background of this piece.

BITpunk

Here are the first designs for a new project: BITpunk! I'm making designs for a videogame and the style is bitpunk: a mix of fantasy and 80ies music, fashion and of course games!

Paick Environment Design: Finish

I almost forgot, here are the finished pieces I did for James Paick's class, Environment Design. I learned a lot from that class and it was so much fun, kind of sad that it's over!

Environment Design: Sketches

Here are some thumbnails I sketched for James Paick's CGMA Environment Design class. A couple of these will be rendered into finished pieces. I love doing these fast and sketchy designs!

Karuta Designs

These are designs for Karuta (a Japanese card game where you have read a poem/sentence and find the matching card) I had to make for character design class. The theme is "sins and virues" and I based the designs on Japanese costume history. The letter on the card I transformed into a family crest design, to fit the theme.

Gluttony:

Diligence:

Patience:

Sloth:

Covetousness:

CGMW Environment Design

I'm currently following James Paick's masterclass "Environment Design", which is really really awesome!! I'm learning so much. Here are some of the assignments I did for the first couple of weeks.

Value studies: 

Colour studies: 

Krazy Kitchen!

This was the final assignment for Character Design class, a piece of concept art that shows the atmosphere of the game. I titled my game " Krazy Kitchen". The main character Mark works with his parents in the kitchen of a castle when all of a sudden the food comes alive and starts to attack the people in the castle. The big boss, RoastButa (Roasted Pig), captures Mark's parents and takes over the castle. It is now up to Mark and his catapult to fight the evil fruit and vegetables and face Roastbuta in an epic battle to save his parents ;-p