Art of Timo Hilger

Chronopaint started

2010-11-24T15:20:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone,

I have a new Daily Painting blog where I post a new still life painting in oils every day, which started just recently.

Would be glad to see you there.

Chronopaint - Daily Painting

moving forward

2010-04-18T15:25:00.000-07:00

hello everyone,

I gladly announce that I moved my blog to wordpress.com.
The reason is simply comfort and handyness. I just like it when I have all my stuff under one roof. Wordpress does that for me, with a tool named pages, which lets you build a website around your blog. love it :)
the concept of the blogfolio is nothing revolutionary I invented, I have seen many other artists make the move, too.

If the concept of a dynamic blogfolio is appealing to you, head over to Thomas James´ Escape from Illustration Island, where he writes amazing and very very educational articles on freelance Illustration and many aspects that touch the subject.

Article on combining the blog and portfolio

thanks very much Thomas.

I´ll be happy to see you there,
cheers

boldheadstudio

sharpen my photography skills - an ongoing endeavour

2010-04-09T11:25:00.000-07:00

sharpen my photography skills

2010-04-09T11:21:00.000-07:00

I will be posting some photography now and then, just trying to stay loose and learn a few things here and there about my camera ;)

Hope you like it and stay tuned for more

cheers

lucky guy

2010-04-09T05:44:00.000-07:00

oh yeah,

I got really lucky yesterday.
Sam Bosma was sending some leftover promotion postcards to a few lucky people, and I was one of them. Made my day when it arrived, Sam. Gorgeous piece of art, really appreciate it.

You can find Sam and his art on his blog

cheers

various part 2

2010-04-09T05:10:00.000-07:00

and some more

I hope you like some of it :)

cheers

various media update

2010-04-09T04:57:00.000-07:00

hi guys and gals :)

damn, I got lazy with updating. Have to change that :)
BUT, I finally got access to a scanner (my girl bought one, WIRELESS!!!) which makes the process a lot more comfortable and enjoyable.
So, what have we got today? let´s see...watercolor studies, acrylics, marker, oils, graphite, all from life. jup, that shall be it. Here we go.

watercolour, not so successfull..

another study with wc plus detail. I´m a sucker for the randomness you get with watercolor when you get right in there :)

that´s the famous David´s ear from Michelangelo, oils

and acrylics, just a test. haven´t touched them in a long time

first time in 2010

2010-02-17T17:32:00.000-08:00

hey guys!

alright, finally getting around to post a small update.

lately I have been getting heavily into 3d and motiongraphics, very fascinating stuff.
because of that, I didn´t draw as much as usual though, and tried to wrap my brain around all the programms that are involved. oh man, that takes time, I´m telling ya´.

one awesome fellow I stumbled upon while searching the net for tutorials is the allmighty GORILLA on www.greyscalegorilla.com. Check him out if you are interested in watching cool animations or are looking for help and inspiration too :)

ok, on to the update itself.
two life-sketches from my skellie, one is chalk and prismacolor pencil heightened with gouache, the other is technical pen, which I also have started just recently.

hope you like it, you are welcome to write a comment on this lonesome blog hehe

bunnypet painting

2009-12-01T14:16:00.000-08:00

hi everyone,

here is a new painting that is not perfectly finished, but in a presentable state :)
I will work on it some more, when my eyes see the mistakes better and I´m patient enough to rescue the drawing in some parts hehe.
It started as a 10min demo a week ago and looked rather abstract, but today it felt like I could get something out of it... there you go, listen to your gut!

anyway, hope you like it

oh yeah, and a sketch with a similar motif, that let to the bunnypet-painting ;)

cheers

2 sketches out of the yard

2009-11-27T05:22:00.001-08:00

hey,

here is a small study in my pocket-size sketchbook I use when I´m travelling.
You know the moleskine books? like that, just cheaper and the paper sucks, but what do you do? study of an autoportrait of William Bouguereau, hope I spelled that right hehe
the 50 cent coin (oh, the pun) is for scale :)

and here is an inlay sketch of another russian academy drawing, next phase is rendering, yay.

I need a drawing monkey who makes all the drawing, so I would just do the rendering haha

russian academy study

2009-11-26T02:36:00.001-08:00

hey all,

here´s a study of a drawing from one of the congenial russian academy students.
amazing drawings :)

first time I used an estompé

photos from the BerufeLife Fair Cologne

2009-11-20T03:16:00.000-08:00

hey everyone, here are the promised photos from the BerufeLife Fair in Cologne from 2 weeks ago.

enjoy :)

PhotoSet on Flickr

batch of Ryder studies

2009-11-12T01:59:00.000-08:00

another day, another post :) swinging...

here is the finished study of a selfportrait of Anthony Ryder, charcoal and white pencil + gouache for the high highlights.

and another fast pencil on copypaper study of Ryder. Awesome artist!

portraits, portraits

2009-11-11T09:59:00.001-08:00

hey there,

ok this time it is all about portraits :)

spending more time on honeing my skills and accuracy with drawing from life and studying the great and contemporary masters, still a bit wonky here hehe. but only practice makes perfect, draw draw draw...

here is a portrait from life, a friend and fellow student was so graciously nice to sit for me and we did this 30min study :) below is a photo of her with the portrait alongside.

then there is some Anthony Ryder study, from his "Figure Drawing" - book.
first is a sketch to work on the construction, it´s woobly I admit hehe, then there is a progress-shot of the final study I just started.

and last but not least, another Ryder study I did in class, pencil on paper.

2009-11-05T11:23:00.000-08:00

and another study of a skull, I definately have a favor for drawing these; at least when it comes to studying from life hehe

I will be at a booth of the RSKA, Academy where I´m studying, in the Koeln Messe Deutz the next two days. For every gradutate of the Realschule and Gymnasium here in the Cologne area interested in a creative study this will be pretty informative. Next to talking to people, I´ll demo zBrush via a Beamer hehe, pretty neat.

Berufe Live in Koeln

I´ll be posting some photos for a change, so you can see what was going on.

cheers

portrait study from life

2009-11-05T01:48:00.000-08:00

hello everyone, here is a portrait study from life, 40 min.
medium used is chalk with white prismacolor pencil and gouache for the highlights.
oil portraits coming hehe

hope you like it :)

2009-11-02T10:50:00.001-08:00

hey there, here is a self portrait I´ve done yesterday for the international 1rst November event on conceptart.org.
oils with mirror, around 2 hours

2009-10-26T04:45:00.000-07:00

two new little stilllifes I did yesterday. painted it with artrage, a nice little freebie programm. it´s a lot of fun to work with it :)

cheers

2009-10-21T05:29:00.000-07:00

hi, here´s a new piece I´m working on. Not sure where I´m going with it though.
I think I put it aside for some time and come back to it with fresh eyes hehe

cheers :)

2009-10-10T08:50:00.000-07:00

study of hands, always practice ;)

2009-10-09T03:57:00.001-07:00

hey,

here are some watercolor studies i did in school. mostly half an hour to two hours.
hope you enjoy :)

finally finished :D

2009-10-06T03:13:00.000-07:00

hey, finished this one up :) little details and made the stance more realistic.

chimera wip

2009-10-05T00:07:00.000-07:00

hey :)

new one, a little chimera, or human-animal mutation. can you identify what I mixed in there? hehe, I hope you like it.
I will put some finishing touches on it, but mostly done.

cheers

3d cyclop

2009-10-03T04:56:00.000-07:00

hey everyone,

update time.
a new zbrush experiment. It is still WIP, so I´m working on it, fixing here and there.
I would like to rig him and render him out in cinema with as little a polycount as I can manage. wow, 1 month ago I would not have known what I´m talking about haha

2009-09-23T13:07:00.001-07:00

hello everyone,

just wanted to proudly announce my new up and running portfolio website.
Still fixing little things, but it´s overall finished :)

BoldHeadStudio

Have a look, and some feedback would be more than welcome :)

cheers

2009-09-13T03:25:00.000-07:00

hello hello,

I´m currently working on this little fellow, aside from 3 others which will follow up here when they reached a reasonable degree of progress ;)

2009-09-04T05:08:00.000-07:00

some paint sketches in artrage, it´s fun ;)

2009-09-01T15:03:00.000-07:00

hey,

finished up my "Maerchenrunde" - piece. In English the title would be something along the lines of "fairy-tale round" :)

2009-08-29T13:19:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone! Here is a new piece I´m working on, not finished yet :)
Hope you enjoy.

studies 2.0

2009-08-27T04:41:00.000-07:00

medieval helmet study, and a nude to practice those creamy skintones ;)

studies

2009-08-24T02:09:00.001-07:00

three new ones, from photo ref

study

2009-08-23T07:11:00.000-07:00

lousy update, but anyway... ;)
study from photoref

alienbaby in carriage, sketch

2009-08-04T08:54:00.000-07:00

jet again, it´s sketch.time :)

pencil sketch

2009-08-04T04:24:00.000-07:00

new sketch, started as anatomy practice to dust off my mind, keep loose. turned into some grotesque, but what do you do? ;)

runningbot

2009-07-29T04:32:00.001-07:00

worked on the runningbot sketch some more, not sure if I like it. played maybe a little too much hehe :)

study

2009-07-28T06:16:00.000-07:00

time to post again, he?

so here´s a study, reffed from faestock on DA, great stocks for free :)
and I put some more work into the last mecha/girl sketch, hope you like it.

cheers

sketch and some 3d practice

2009-07-15T14:27:00.001-07:00

still no paintings digitalised, but on their way

sci-fi armor skech

2009-07-14T06:07:00.001-07:00

make that one more

next batch will be some paints I´m working on today :)

sci-fi armor designs, 10min

2009-07-14T04:40:00.001-07:00

two new sketches from today while listening to Sidebar´s great interview with George Pratt. What an awesome guy, really inspiring.

click here to hear the interview

2009-07-12T07:01:00.000-07:00

hi all,

I posted some scribbles from today and callipgrahic experiments on my sketchbook

spiced up drawings

2009-07-11T10:41:00.000-07:00

hi,

here are some drawings from a year ago that I found on my drive.
played around in photoshop a bit to make them look better, though I´m not sure I succceeded. I find it´s always hard to stop before you go over the top in ps hehe fun none the less...

selling

2009-07-07T11:52:00.000-07:00

study after John Singer Sargent, oil on canvas paper 7,2" x 9,2", temporarily varnished.

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35€ + 13,90€ international postage and packaging

selling

2009-07-07T11:43:00.000-07:00

study after P. P. Rubens, oil on canvas paper 7,2" x 9,2", temporarily varnished.

Hit the button to purchase safely and easy via paypal:
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50€ + 13,90€ international postage and packaging

selling paintings

2009-07-07T08:55:00.000-07:00

in order to support my starving-artist life, I sell paintings now ;)

This study after J. S. Sargent is oil on canvas paper, having a linen-textured quality. The painting is sealed and protected with retouching-varnish, which means the paint can breath and dry underneath, cracking shall be no issue. A final picture varnish may be applied by the buyer later, but it is no necessity.

Hit the button to purchase safely and easy via paypal:
(no paypal account needed, accepts all major cards)
50€ + 13,90€ international postage and packaging

charcoal and oil

2009-07-07T06:08:00.000-07:00

some more posting, just going through my drive.

posted some charcoals and oils on my ca.org sketchbook, here´s a preview :)

have a good day and continue drawing

2009-07-07T04:48:00.000-07:00

posted some studies in oil on my ca.org sketchbook, here´s lil preview. check them out :)

ca.org sketchbook started

2009-07-07T02:52:00.000-07:00

I just posted a new online sketchbook on my all-time favorite ca.org.

there you will see a lot of crappy studies and sketches, just trying to hone my craft and improve technique. Often trying to improve leads to bad results in the eye of the viewer, but it helps none the less :)

my conceptart.org sketchbook

3d on the way

2009-07-07T01:30:00.000-07:00

for a change, here is some 3d I´m working on, done in cinema 4d and zbrush, an awesome app.
far from done, but anyway... more updates coming

not the right season, but...

2009-07-06T09:31:00.000-07:00

a christmas card I did for a contest in my school. sadly it got cancelled :/

want some? there you go...

2009-07-06T09:08:00.000-07:00

some more, sketches and an airbrush exersise, hope you enjoy :)

painting wips on the way, so hang on

continuing

2009-07-06T07:54:00.000-07:00

here are some sketches and scribbles, life drawing etc.
The insectoid monster is a chimera based on different animals, do you reckon which?

(the pose is copied from Andy Park´s hulk, great Artist by the way)

Posting again

2009-07-06T07:38:00.000-07:00

so, to get this blog cracking again, here is a relatively new image I´ve done.
It´s airbrush on paper, referenced of a photo.

I hope to post regularly from now on, you are welcome to comment and critique on what you see :)
damn, I have tons and tons to scan hehe