- Eduardo Schaal -

The Devil Inside

21Jan10

This lovely naughty girl was made for my “campaign” on twitter to achieve 666 followers.

You can check the process on this one clicking on the little strip below the main image.

PS CS 2, Wacom Intuos 4 Small and a Laptop as my weapons of choice.

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Ideafixa #14

18Dec09

I have 3 of my classic monsters illustrations published on the very cool collaborative e-magazine Ideafixa number 14.

This number has Nostalgia as a theme. Wolfman, Frankenstein and the previous unpublished The Bride are there.

Loads of great illustrations, design and photography artwork from 55 artists fill the more than 200 pages . Go there and download yours. Its free!

The next theme is “the Impossible”.

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El Monstruo

13Dec09

The second from my series of portraits of classic creatures is my vision of Karloff and his best creation, The Monster of Frankenstein.

The making of is available on the e-magazine. Click to check it.

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El Hombre Lobo

28Nov09

I am a big fan of Werewolves or Wolf Men since I was a kid. From the truly classics of Universal to the now classic ones from Rick Baker`s American Werewolf in London and Rob Bottin`s The Howling.

This illustration here is inspired by these classics creatures. Real monsters, not those boy band`s metro sexual stray dogs from modern cinema aka New Moon – arrrrgh.

The approach this time was a very loose sketch done with pencils and roller ball pens on a small Moleskine sketchbook and all the rendering completed in about 2 and a half hours in Photoshop.

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Tags: classic monsters, schaal, werewolf, werewolves

mind’s eye

14Nov09

What I like in this one is some experimentations with graphic shapes and the use of greyscale tones to render the lighting on her face and several passes of colours on top to get the mood.

BTW the lighting and the figure came from my imagination, no photo references on this one. I tend to use loads of references, but sometimes its quite nice to just pull things from the mind`s eye.

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Kiss me

01Nov09

Another one from the vampire series. Just a woman profile, but I quite like her expression.
This time I came with a coloured digital ink instead of a full rendered piece.

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Sisters

14Oct09

The second from a series of vampire illustrations that I have been doing.

All digital, PS and Wacon Intuos 4.

I ` ve spent about 8 to 9 hours of work from the sketch to the finished painting and you can check the process on the “making of” digital magazine (clic on the cover).

Girls just want to have fun

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Catwoman illustration.
For the fun of rendering latex, cats, filthy stuff and girls
Pencils, black ink pens, watercolour on A4 paper and Painter X, Photoshop CS2 + CS3 with a Wacom Cintiq 12″ and Wacom Intuos 4 small for final digital rendering. The original file has 24 megapixels of resolution (6Kx4K). Click on the image to see it in detail and on the cover of the Making of to open it

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Art Rage

26Jun09

From 2005, some experimentations with the ArtRage software. . Really good for sketching and at that time I was very interested in explore unusual colour schemes for figures and very loose oil paint brush strokes and textures.

Click the image to see it in detail

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North Pole and Russian Beer in CG

05Jun09

I spent about 6 weeks working on this beer commercial generated in Computer Graphics at 422 South.

For this particular project I put my hands on concept art, look development, matte paintings, CG lighting, texturing and a little bit of particle work and 3D modeling.

Here , 2 illustrations that I did to conceptualize the look for underwater shots and the video has the full commercial.

Rogerio Alves and Craig Howarth were the CG supervisors and Martin Blunden was the lead 3D artist.

Photoshop for the artwork and textures. Maya for the 3d CG job.