Sunday, July 31, 2011

Phoenix Vehicle Sketches

The Phoenix Vehicle is a Special Unit's Vehicle in Utopia 54. These were the first sketches that came to play after a small series of shapes/silhouettes I did a few years back. In the beginning it was more resembling a dragonfly, but after shaping the front like a beak and the lights were shaped as eyes, I decided to name it after the fiery bird I love so much: The Phoenix.


   

Friday, July 29, 2011

Utopia 54 (page 003)

And so it is time for another page! Hope you enjoy it. Page 3.




Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Dragon Tale (WIP)

This is a portfolio piece I am working on. Before a finished image, there are always a lot of sketches and scribblings, this time I wanted to do this digitally first and then transfer it to more traditional watercolor.
I'll keep you posted on the progress.


Thursday, July 21, 2011

Utopia 54 (page 002)

It's Thursday and here's page 2 of "Utopia 54". hope you enjoy it!



Monday, July 18, 2011

Mirror, Mirror...

One of the most memorable scenes from the classic tale of Little Snow-White, is then the Wicked Queen is approaching her magic Mirror on the wall. As you might remember, not very long ago at all, I did a piece on Little Snow-White and the Seven Dwarves for the Grimm Tales Challenge over at the Art Order. I have continued on the story, and these are the most recent thumbs/sketches on the project.
 

 (Maybe it is silly to call these thumbs, because I rarely do any smaller sketches than A6 format, in this case A5 (8.3 x 5.8 in). The Wicked Stepmother Queen envy the beauty of Little Snow-White.


"Mirror, Mirror..." Had an idea to richly decorate the frame and let it reach from floor to ceiling, depicting creatures from the bottom of the sea to the skies above.

Friday, July 15, 2011

Troubled Joker

For the BioWare FanArt Showcase I made this piece about Joker, one of my absolute favourite characters in the Mass Effect Series. I was thinking of him as tired, worn-out and troubled. Always sitting alone in that big ship, always ready to work and always showing a happy face whenever someone drop by. He's the sidekick that saves the day, without him Shepard would have died 20 times over. Though a rush-job, this is my tribute.


Thursday, July 14, 2011

Utopia 54 (page 001)

The first page is finished! The working title is now "Utopia 54", I hope you will enjoy reading it as much as I did creating it. I will  try to keep this up to date once a week, but as always it depends on the amount of work at hand.



Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Comic On the Drawing Table

I have started to work on my comic book novel. I won't be in any rush to finish it, as previously mentioned it is a long term project. I will upload progress every once in a while and the finished pages will be available online whenever ready, so make sure to keep an eye out if you're interested.


Saturday, July 9, 2011

Cave Explorer

As a long term project I have been working on a Sci-Fi story which I have mentioned previously in this blog. I have decided to try it out as a web comic. Still in progress as I write this, I just wanted to post this draft from my sketchbook.


The prelude is almost done. It is my hope to have the first few pages published either here or on a separate page in a near future and I'll decide where to go from there. It is tempting to draw it digitally, but I'm still soft for traditional pen and ink. Maybe I'll add watercolors to it as well...


Thursday, July 7, 2011

Leif the Lion

I was happy when I was commissioned to illustrate my first Children's Book, written by Anna Engquist about "Lejonet Lejf" (I am guessing the translation would be "Leif the Lion" in English). It will be published for the digital market this fall by the Swedish company Mind Vitamins. I was allowed to show some of the work here and write about it.


The requirements of the image were "City Park" and drawn with "Colored pencils". There are many colorful and old quarters in the cities here, so I picked out a few buildings for inspiration and started to sketch up the neighbourhood around the park in the story. The fun part was the challenge of using colored pencils again, I have not done that since the early school days (now it's mostly watercolors and digital images). I hope to show you more of the work done when it has been published.

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Trolls Final


I am happy to bring you the final piece so soon. 


Details... I was painting the fine lines with a W&N series 4 size 0 brush, it has a really fine tip allowing me to go into great detail even if the paper size is not very large. I was working on a standard A4 size (about 8" x 11" I think) 240g acid free cotton paper.


As I have mentioned previously, this image was based on some writings and drawings I did years ago, I wanted to post the original image here as it gives me a good laugh today:

 

Trolls Pre Final

I am done with the watercolor stage, next will be color enhancements and polishing on some details in photoshop. I am overall happy with the progress so far. Next time I post it will be the finished piece.




Sunday, July 3, 2011

Trolls update

I wanted to show you the current progress of the "Trolls" image.


This image have really sparked my creativity. More to come soon.

Trolls

Detail from another work in progress. In an old drawer I found parts of a script I wrote back in school, together with a bunch of sketches about the trolls emigrating from our world, never to return again. This drawing was inspired from that.




Friday, July 1, 2011

Little Snow-White (Final)

So, it's July already! I believe I have a lot of stuff stocked up to show you this month. With a few days left to deadline for the Grimm Tales Challenge over at the Art Order, I have painted the last stroke of watercolor on this piece. I wanted to tell the classic story of Little Snow-White and put it in a steampunk environment. I used a lot of brown colors to get a feeling of dust, wood and leather. I really enjoyed painting this.