For a long time, I preferred to work with traditional media, but have finally found my favourite in digital art. Almost always, I base my digital paintings on a sketch with a traditional medium, and even today I gladly paint with charcoal, watercolours or acrylics for relaxation.
I love fantastic and fairytale motifs, figures, landscapes, and creatures, whose essence and flair I try to capture in my paintings. No less, I am exited by science fiction and horror, yet I also like smaller genres like cyber- and steampunk. I like to grant an insight into the stories behind the motifs, be they of my own doing or the inspiration of my commissioners.
I am happy to take on commissions. I like to do artwork for games: cardgames as well as board-, computer-, and roleplaying-games. I design book covers and paint interior art. Also, I try to keep room for private commissions, I'm always happy to take those on.
Beyond this site, I also publish my works in other web-galleries, join contests or put up my work for discussion in art forums. Usually, I will use the name Ranarh (I can only guarantee this for the mentioned galleries and forums).
Plenty of my artwork can be seen at deviantArt: ranarh.deviantART.com
Interested may find contest submissions and discussion about my paintings in the forums at conceptArt.org and ImagineFX.com
Tutorials have always been a good help for me and still are. I am trying to give some of that help to others and write tutorials myself from time to time.
The Sorry Tutorial shows the design of a portrait where the focus doesn't lie in realism but in the mood. I explain this on the example of my painting "Sorry" (you can also see this on deviantArt).:
