Nick Fechter
NEW ARTISTS ARENA
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Another Poetry Club Portrait
Nick Fechter
Friday, May 15, 2009
Bruce Lee Portrait
Since last time Xia got my attention, here is a portrait of the legendary Bruce Lee... I have to tell you that when I scanned it, it lost its quality (even @300dpi). I don't know why but the one I have on paper is much better then this one... still, I hope you like it!
Peace!
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Arcana Girls commission
Here is a piece that was commissioned by an VP over at Arcana comics. These are some of their top heroines. Banzai Girl, Eve Vampire Diva, and Koni Wave. All hand drawn by your's truely.
Random Stuff
Hi there, here are some (useless) drawings I did a couple of days ago while watching TV... nothing of special, but I thaught of sharing them with you over here!



Hope at least you like one!
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Self Portrait
Comments, opinions, and advice or always welcome.
Have a Good One,
Nick Fechter
Life Drawing: now in color!


This is my first post. I shouldn't let you guys have all the fun... =) I tried life painting digitally for the first time, which allowed me to get some much-needed practice with color and how it relates to value/form.
The first pose was 45 minutes, and the second one about 20 minutes. I used Painter X and my latop/wacom tablet.
As you can see the color temperatures and tonal ranges are quite different between the two, despite being from the same scene. I started with an arbitrary background color for each and focused on judging the relative color values and temperatures. I'm not sure if that's how real painters do it, but at least it doesn't fail the squint test...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Beowulf
Here's a drawing of good ol' Beowulf, the fabled monster slayer of Danish lore. It took me about 2 hrs, any advice or opinions that anyone is willing to give would be much appreciated.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Hi! I'm New!



Sunday, May 10, 2009
Candy
*updated lighting
heres a random character i created just for fun, i call her candy lol.
comments are appreciated :)
Friday, May 8, 2009
Speedpaint spidertank
Here is a following tutorial to my spider robot. Yep I know it is not perfect but I am just messing around with the new screen record software. LOL first time I render out it was 21gb big but I manage to crank it down to 60mb^^And now I can further more produce loads of tutorials muhahahaha!! Oh man I need to get some sleep I havent slept in 2 days.
Good vs. Evil
The good fights evil in an epic scenery.
I entered this for the competition at Deviant Art and I liked how this turned out. I'm trying to improve on every painting I do. The picture is entirely painted except for the small windows and stuff which are parts of photos.
I used Photoshop only and took a me a bit more than 3 hours to paint.
Hope you like it :)
(my DA account is pokepetter.deviantart.com if you want know but I don't check i too often.)
Thursday, May 7, 2009
The Professions
Hello all,
Been awhile since i posted anything here, sorry about that, i was bz playing GW =p
So here is a colored sketch i did of my characters from Guild Wars, i have only 8 professions atm, but maybe i'll add the other 2 profession later(paragon|elementalist).
Anyway, as you can see, the color pallettes are strongly based from the in-game skill colors of the professions, i just love the way the skill icons looked in the game, so i had to bring some of that into the sketch :)
Let me know what you guys think ^^
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Sword Fighter

Just a quick character I did. It started out as a sketch, then did the line work in a vector program and exported to PSD, then did the coloring in PS. Kind of a new technique for me. I used to do everything vector but trying to do more with my sketches and painting and coloring in photoshop.
Monday, May 4, 2009
my new background work :D


well
this is like the 2nd background iv done
i know that im still not good,
im actually scared of making backgrounds for some weird reason
if any of you guys have some ideas for me to get out of my phobia for backgrounds,
then please help me out
thank you
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Quicky one - Female Fighter
Here is a quick sketch I did today... I want to minimize the time and give a good concept! Any good tips (especially from concept artists) are more then welcome! The harderst thing is to establish the right value (drawing the character doesn't take me that much).
Peace!
Friday, May 1, 2009
Black Cat mini comic
Here is a little mini comic that I did tonight. It was drawn by hand, then inked in comicswork, and lettered in illustrator. Its a bit different from the usual work here. but I thought a lot of you would get a kick out of it. Enjoy!
Thursday, April 30, 2009
And I'm off.
Like I noted before, starting tomorrow, I will be off for half a year
to Lombok. While I'm very happy going there (just like when I went to
Egypt), the internet connection there might be questionable.
So until I get back, I hope you all be nice here and won't give
Xia a hard time. For posting I'll try to put something up when I
can, but nothing promised.
For those who are interested, I made a site which I will use as my
own blog. Made to be light and easy to load. I heard that it can take
up to 15min at an internet café there to open Hotmail.
So if I can I'll keep track at De Volkeren Krant.
You can check the column for some useful links about Lombok and the
About page if you want to know more about DVK it self.
So, I wish you all the best and a great summer!
ps, for the invitations, I've redirected the contact page to Xia.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Female Figure Drawing 1
Here today I just started doing some female figure drawing... rather then doing my classical creatures and stuff! Obviously for the purpose that this community is for the public I added some black boxes--- to cover.
I hope that you like it and feel free to suggest me anything that will help me improve...
1. Here is the full body:
2. Originally I wanted to keep my focal point on the face but I fell in the trap of getting into a bit of detail... If you know any good methods on how I can make loose body to keep the main point on the head, feel free to post! Xia usually does this and I really like it! :)
Thanks!
Peace!
* We have reached the member cap of blogspot and haven't found any solution jet. If you know any, let us know. *










