Drakaina: a Fantasy art Muse

Winner art Drakaina Masters competition

We finally reached a decision.. It was a tough choice, as the artworks submitted really stood out, whether it was because of amazing skills, creativity, originality or a mix of both!!!

One artwork did stand out more than the others, obtaining 10 out 12 votes, and this artwork is the “Drakaina” painted by the talented Uwe Zarling. The majority of the jury found that Uwe’s painting was the closest to my likeness and also that it did represent a strong and empowering yet very sexy woman, both appealing to males and females readers alike…

So please join me in saying congratulations to Uwe, winner of the 500 cash prize, and cover art for the Drakaina Masters art book!!!

A little bit more about the artist:

Uwe Jarling was born in 1968.
After graduating with a diploma degree in graphic design 1991 he worked  as an illustrator and graphic designer further on. His first works were countless covers for videos, books, … and many technical and architectural illustrations for advertising agencies.

An important step in his further development followed in 2000 where he started to develop his “Fantasy Artwork” more seriously and did his first attempts creating his art on a computer. Since 2003 almost all of his work is painted digitally for clients all over the world mainly in the Fantasy-art genre.

Uwe lives and works in a little village in the south of Germany.

Techniques
Uwe is a traditional artist using traditional media like oils, watercolors and mainly gouache, but the last years he did the step into creating his art digital. The last 3 years 98% of his images are created using digital tools. Uwe experimented with several digital tools 3d as well as 2d. For 3d he experimented with 3d max, Poser, Vue, Bryce and more nice 3d applications, but as it doesn’t fit him too well he decided to work mainly using 2d digital tools. For his 2d digital images Uwe uses mainly the software Painter, currently version 9, so most of his paintings are now done with Painter. For color corrections of his images or several effects Uwe uses Photoshop. All his latest images are done using Painter 9 and some Painter 9 and Photoshop CS in combination. Uwe currently “paints” on a Macintosh G5 using a pressure sensitive Wacom tablet.

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Thanks again to all of you that took part in this competition, the art book will be filled with incredible talents and I am honored to have been your Muse of a day

Love you all and stay tune for more infos regarding the runners up;)

Drakaina