War veteran

Sketches inspired by the photoseries "Created Equal" by Mark Laita.

Milt Kahl Study

Work in progress.

Another Sunday, another zSketch

Sunday zbrush sketch

Another work in progress render. Used zbrush's "Best Preview Render" for the first time, YAY!

Le Sheriff!

 

Still in "Western" mode. Used photoshop CS5 with some custom brushes for this one.

Teaching photoshop this week, and made this sketch in class today to show some workflow possibilities.

I can't get enough of "western" bad guys :)

Just a quick overview of the process from thumbnail to valuepainting.

I used again a split complementary palette for this one.

Billy Mitchell caricature

   

Here's my last assignment from the caricature course. This is Billy Mitchell, famous from the film/documentary "King of Kong". I think he is the best character I have ever scene in a movie. (I know it's supposed to be a documentary, but it's cut together like a movie to give the story more impact). Have to admit I'm not too happy with it overall. I think the pose is a bit stiff, and I would liked to polished the shirt and pants more... but hey, at some point you just have to go to the next painting.

 

Tried a new painting technique today, a more intuitive approach where I started out with a broad paint brush picking colors by gestimating. No palette used, or valua painting. I worked very much in only one layer, which made the process more fun I think.

Above is some anatomy studies from the last sketches. I was supriced how different the skulls actually was.

Boris the bandit is asking himself "the big question".

-"Who am I, and why am I here?"

I know that feeling... Poor guy.

...and another one. This time monocromatic. Next up is Forest Whitaker, can be interesting :)

Keep an eye out for the epic feature "Hjalmar and the attack of the cold" from Møller Productions.

Medium: Pen and Photoshop.

Design Class Assignments
Here are some of my hand-in's from Lawrence Marvit's (brilliant) design class last year. Duration; one week.

Assignment: We where handed out some funky chololate ice cream (fresh from FØTEX) that we had to taste, and then make graphic representation of how we thought the taste look like if it would take a shape in space. In other words: Draw the taste :)

The design had to be flat, only pure black and pure white, solid shapes and last but not least; abstract.



Assignment: Make an abstract design that sais "science fiction". Has to be black/white, flat, abstract. This was later reffered to as "the stoner drawing". Wonder why hehe.



Assignment: Volume. Drawing missing. :(

In the last assignment we got to do an illustration for the fairytale "the Ginger Bread Man". No rules in this one, other than that we had to use all the stuff we had learned from the previous days.

I decided to make an illustration from the place where the little gingerbreadman is chased through the woods by a big nasty pig.

My thumbnails for the last assignment...

Crystalline
Here's a poster and a DVD-cover I made for the DADIU computer game "Crystalline". Today is the last day on the production and we are struggeling (mostly the programmers) to get all the content into the game and make it work in general. I'm looking forwoard to see it done, it's gonna be good :)







More info about the game on "moddb.com".

Schoolism - "Character design with Silver "

This fall I attended a character design course teached by the skilful Steven Silver (Kim Possible, the Clerks Animated, Danny Phantom,+++...). It was a 9 week course with one handin each week. It was a great experience, and I would defenately recommend it if you are interested in working with character design, no matter wich level you are at. Steven always has something to give you... I thougth I'd might post some of the drawings that I turned in. Here's the first assignment:

You can check out Schoolism here.

Assignment 1 - "Fat Joe"

The description given to us:

"You are to design a concept sketch of Fat Joe based on the play, The Long Voyage Home. Take it as far as you like.
Description:SCENE—The bar of a low dive on the London water front—a squalid, dingy room dimly lighted by kerosene lamps placed in brackets on the walls At the far end of the bar stands Fat Joe, the proprietor, a gross bulk of a man with an enormous stomach. His face is red and bloated, his little piggish eyes being almost concealed by rolls of fat. The thick fingers of his big hands are loaded with cheap rings and a gold watch chain of cable-like proportions stretches across his checked waistcoat."