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news …

The eMagazine Phantast No. 5 is out now. The topic this month is about fantasy and humor … I provided fictionfantasy.de with 7 of my illustrations (side 5,23,52,73,76,84,88). So thanks for this cooperation to Jürgen Eglseer!
Watch the magazine for free: Phantast 5 on fictionfantasy.de (german)

new personal artwork …

Ok, this is weird :) It is a personal artwork with the title ‘The Jury” … beneath the final I placed the kick-off-sketch.

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new personal artwork …

This is a personal artwork I made. The title is “Evolution Of An Idea” (orig. “Evolution Einer Idee”). I tried to keep it muddy and creepy while put this against shiny warm light. Beyond that the moony arrogance of the character is very important for the function, I guess …

new picture in my gallery …

This one is a production painting / kick-off-environment I did for a game production last year. I decided to use less details not to freeze the dynamic of the scene and to save the moody character of the atmosphere.

new picture in my gallery …

This is a character design I made a couple of weeks ago. I tried to figure out a new direction of what a mage, wizard or alchemist can look like a step away from Tolkien and the usual high fantasy stuff.

new picture in my gallery …

There is a new picture in my gallery. I painted it during my holiday time. – Well three of my friends already told me: “This is a typical Helge-C.-Balzer” hihi … The title is “The Feather” (original: Die Feder) … please enjoy!

retrospection 2011 …

Preparing for Christmas holiday next week while looking back on a year with many great jobs and projects for which I created over 500 artworks, sketches and graphics. And I am happily looking forward to the new year 2012 with new chances and adventures! Have a good time, merry Christmas and a happy new year!

new picture …

There is a new picture in my gallery. Most of you will know it – my Christmas gift for you. For all who currently do not know about it: just follow the link and download it for free use (CreativeCommonLicense BySa3.0): www.ars-atra.com/download

Christmas gift 2011 (free use)

I am happy to release the current Christmas gift 2011. It is a Christmas picture which is free for private and commercial use having regard to the CreativeCommon-licence BY-SA 3.0. You can find the gift on www.ars-atra.com/download

aQua ad lavandum – making of …

In the dawn of a new movie project by Amber Artworks in spring 2012, I happily remember our latest one … in 2008 ‘aQua ad lavandum – in brevi’ had made it’s way across many international festivals and had won some nice awards. – So here is the making of aQua from 2008 …

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