Denman Rooke's Finished Works

[Juggertha]

Lot's of tough pieces there.. impressive. That ice dragon would be especially hard to pull off.

[Shadow Stalker]

Dude, the picture of the dwarf and dead orcs is genius. Seriously man, you have just become one of my favorite artists. The frost giant concept is brilliant, too.

[Syle]

Here's the most recent finished painting I've done. entitled the Escape.

the Escape was done in photoshop, approximately 11 hours. This painting was done in greyscale first, then with color overlays, and then re-painted overtop in color. Looking back on it now i should have just started in color, but hey what can you do. I'm learning here and there what methods I prefer over others. This piece is mostly imagination work with a little environment reference. I really enjoyed playing with the colors and environmental mood of this piece, and I think it came out relatively well.







Here's the HD video from start to finish. Compressed to just under 15 minutes for your viewing pleasure.

BEAUTIFUL! I love your color and value treatment in this piece. Your process video is also extremely helpful, and very fun to watch.

I have a question regarding when you very first started laying in color on the figure/tree. What sort of color overlay is that? Do you just start laying down color on a new layer that has some sort of weird layer setting?

Keep up the amazing work; you'll go far.

[Dennis Fröhlich]

The Bearwarrior is one of the greatest illustrations I've ever seen, honestly! I totally fell in love with it, the dynamic pose, the general composition, the colors... it's a 10/10!

The Escape is cool too, I liked the greyscale more though, the yellow is a bit too much, but thats only my opinion. Non the less, I'll definitely check your site again.

[rseward]

Really inspiring body of work! You do great stuff with your colors.

[Quigleyer]

Well done on that last one, man. I like your work a lot.

[J_A_E]

love the soft tones used in the fishing town characters

[Revolution77]

Since I got a few requests to see the process video of Bear Warrior after it was featured on DeviantArt.com's Daily Devations, I figured I would fast-track it onto the interweb. So here it is, the making of the Bear Warrior. Done in Photoshop with a heavy use of the natural media brushes. Read more about the development of this piece in my blog post.

Music by Jeremy Soule - Skyrim Soundtrack.

[Revolution77]

Thanks so much everyone! I feel truly honored by your generous comments.

And in regards to your comment Syle,

BEAUTIFUL! I love your color and value treatment in this piece. Your process video is also extremely helpful, and very fun to watch.

I have a question regarding when you very first started laying in color on the figure/tree. What sort of color overlay is that? Do you just start laying down color on a new layer that has some sort of weird layer setting?

Keep up the amazing work; you'll go far.

In photoshop I believe it's actually titled "Overlay" (some other layer effects are titled "multiply" or "hard light" etc., the one I used is "overlay" for that particular section). I actually don't use that method often as it's hard to actually get the true colors your looking for, but it's a good way to manipulate the hues in a piece. In traditional painting it's similar to glazing of sorts.

[theUNKNOWNsketcher]

Very nice! Keep it up!

[[A'B]]

Thank you so very much for sharing the process with us R.
Best regards!

[Chris Bennett]

Interesting and spirited work - you have a good feel for the whole surface and how it might to tell your story.
It's got a quality you don't see very often - internal gravitas.

[Skapry]

Love it! Every piece is so passionate and full of emotions. Keep it!

[Revolution77]

New video up. The Making of Inn Keeper.

Third in the series of Irish townsfolk character concepts I created.

Music by Crasdant, Cilmeri, and Cromlech.

[cg-monkey]

i love the 1st painting in post#22 really nicely done,also thanks for the process videos they are great.

[Revolution77]

I totally forgot to post this a few weeks back. Anyway, it's the latest process video of the Irish townsfolk characters.

[Mr. Werewolf]

oh man... your works is so amazing! especially Bear Warrior (!) I don't have words... outstanding! I also love your videos, keep painting!

[Revolution77]

Thanks so much guys! I'm glad your finding the "making of" videos useful. I should put a new one together soon.
-cheers

[Revolution77]

Here are two recent pieces I did for the D&D art test.

[Shadow Stalker]

Wow! Awesome work, man. I love the updates, and thanks so much for the videos. Very insightful.

EDIT: I'm seriously blown away with your style, your design, rendering, painterly feel. You, good sir, have just made it to my "Favorite Artists" list (not that that really means anything to you, haha!).

[Revolution77]

Thanks everyone!

Started doing some work for Paizo Publishing's Pathfinder series. Here's some of the latest released work.
-cheers

[Alex Alexandrov]

The last post is awesome ! Great improvement !

[OldOmen]

I love the hands in the first one, and your lighting is fantastic! Not a single complaint, they're all gravy.

[Goremageddon]

Wow, just wow!!

[anendlessvoyager]

Great personality!

[theUNKNOWNsketcher]

oh lovely last update!!!! really great proggress!

[artpreferred]

wow you are really good love all your stuff