Sunday Art-Week Review part 9...

On Thursday I went on "vacation" to Norway, and am right now in Oslo without a proper computer to work on. And much of the early week went to work on stuff I won't show yet. So... short one this week:


My weekly autobiograhpical lie. Meh.

10 minute sketch of Enslaved guitarist Ivar Peersen done for mye Norwegian blog after interweb fisticuffs about filesharing and the Pirate Bay trial. The general consensus is of course that I'm right, and he's an evil capitalist scumbag, but Enslaved still makes lovely music.

And that's basically it for this week. Apart from that I've done what I can on Pickmans Model without more photos, but will take them in Bergen next week. Oh, and if anyone knows where to find images of Bostons North End from the 1920' s, please drop me a line.

The next two weeks I'll strolling through be trying to take all the photos I need for Bomtur, which will be a lot. But I'm hoping to also get some time drawing. Fingers crossed.

And there's a few shorter ideas floating around in my egghead, trying to hatch... so we'll see... maybe I'll have something cool soon...

Sunday Art-Week Review 8...

Another week... Too much sun.... Still some work got done. Have been doing a lot of sketches, concepts, and thumbnails on paper this week, lazing on sunny afternoons, and unfortunatly there´s little point of photographing the doobles through my iMac-camera.

So I´ll just post what I´ve done digitally:


Pickmans model page 4 and 5. Have finally gotten images of the model, and starting to experiment with the flashback style. I´m not sure I´m satisfied, as they might be a bit stiff and photographic. The most important thing when drawing on top of photographs is to make it not seem like photographs.

And of course, my autobiographical lie of the week:


And that´s it.

BTW, someone has made a fanpage for me on facebook. Join, or I will cry myself to tears every night.

Sunday Art-Week Review 7...

Another week, another... art?

Ummh... Yes....

Thought it was easter this week, but it seems the Greek know better. Easter started today.

Anyhow... Been doing a lot of stuff besides art this week, but have still gotten some shit done.


This is a poster for something I´m told not to write about quite yet(Men folk i Bergen kan få vite at dere bør gå på arrangementet plakatene er for). I do posters for these guys for free(I get food and beer sometimes, though), so when I started doing it I decided to never do anything that takes more than 2 hours. Sometimes I´ve broken that promise and done close to 3 hours, but this one came in at one and a half hour from concept to finished art. Good work, Kim!

And of course my weekly autobiographical lie:

This one is a comic with a song, so if you hate your ears, check it out here. Or if you hate your life, check out my other songs here. I´m no musician, but I do have a lot of fun singing and writing songs about myself.

And I´ve sketched some various things around the village. I don´t have a scanner, but I thought photographing this one with my Macs built-in camera was fun:


And last, but not least, I´ve (almost) finished another dwarf for Wesnoth:


Also done some work on the other projects, but not much, and none to show. Hope ya´ll had a great easter, and I´ll go have a great easter this week!

I wrote "ya´ll". :(

Sunday Art-Week Review 6...

Ahh... It´s actually been a great art-week, but I ain´t got much to show for it. Work progressing on the Confusia-redesign, on Pickmans Model, on Bomtur, doing stuff for Wesnoth, and I´m trying to get a headstart on the weekly autobiographical stuff. In other words, lot´s of stuff I can´t or won´t show yet.

And since I´m having a slow Sunday I´ll just make this post short and sloppy.

This weeks autobiographical lie:


Jesus VS Aslan Cagematch!(Don´t ask, because I don´t know):


And finally, a sneak-peak at how Richard Upton Pickman will look:


Have a great week! Now back to watching wrestling...

Sunday Art-Week Review 5...

Yes, getting slightly better by the week.

Been drawing way too many dwarves, orcs, mages, werewolves, and horsies for Wesnoth. It´s very fun, and I´m learning a lot, but it´s taking too much time away from my comics, so I need to cool down slightly.

Anyhow:

Finished dwarf. Took a lot of work doing and redoing the armor. Got a lot of help and learned a lot about painting metal.

Another dwarf. Was very satisfied with the sketch and linework for this one, but trying to paint it I´ve been running into huge problems, and have ended up tossing away the first three attempts prematurely. Bah! But I´ll get it some day...

Nice elderly mage. I like this one.

Elven rider. Supposed to be snotty and rich. I´m not sure about this one. A bit boring? Hmmm...

A wizard that has been trapped in the mountains for a while. Has a DIY Griffin coat, in a little story related joke. I loved the face in my sketch, but somehow he lost "it" in the linework.

A Warg, which is some sort of wolfman race. I like this one a lot.

Sketch for dwarf-lord. Jeez, I do huge hands.

Dwarven warrior sketch. Supposed to be cornered in, but I need to change this to be less boring.

Sketch of the bad guy.... ohhhh....

I´ve learned a whole lot from these, so it´s worth it in that way. But I have comics that are screaming for attention. And I have worked a bit on all of them this week. Drawing on Confusia has been a mess though, and for Bomtur I´ve been working on a single 3-point perspective shot that takes a lot of time.
For Pickmans Model I do have a few frames to show. The last three frames before I jump into the first flashback and show Pickman himself:
Still haven´t confirmed a model for Pickman though. I have some more talking heads that I can draw further on in the story, but untill I get a model I can´t really finish any pages.

And on wednesday I did my usual autobiographical lie:

I´m satisfied with this one. This one is about post-poning stuff.

And finally I finished the birthday-greeting thingie I think mentioned last week. You can check it here.

So... yeah.... getting better. Still not up to 100% efficiency, and I need to manage my time a bit better. But oh well.... I´ll get there....

Ciao!

Sunday Art-Week Review 4...

Ahh... This week is a bit better than last week. Not quite up to a 100% yet, but I´m definetly breaking the funk.

Still I haven´t got too much to show for it. I´ve tried to do work on Confusia, Bomtur, and Mörkanger this week, but it´s just been slow and full og CTRL-Z, again and again. I did get some good hours in though, but nothing to show yet.

And I did manage to do my weekly autobiographical lie, and even though it went slow and I´m not that pleased with the finished art, people seemed to enjoy it.

It´s just called "Training", and is pretty much self-explanatory.

Then I got invited to write for a new norwegian gaming-blog with some really cool people at tokyo.no, and did a review of the fantastic World of Goo. I really need to write more pure text, and start to get a portfolio of things so I can perhaps get some paid work. Illustration and comics alone seem too hard emotionally. Writing is something I can do that doesn´t drain me quite as much. Yet, at least. Oh, well.

Anyhow... for the review I did a tiny review-score. Mostly as a joke because I don´t like review-scores and because I needed small silly things to draw to get me out of the funk.


I like it.

And also, to get out of the funk and mostly just to be a nice guy, I committed to drawing a birthday invitation for a friends 30th birthday. It´s almost done, but it would be rude to show it here before showing it to her.

And lastly... The biggest and most helpfull thing to get out of the funk(I´ve been sayiing "the funk" too much, sorry)...

... After the World of Goo review was done I was thinking about other games to review. Having just a mac, and not any Windows installed, the options are limitted. I know I´m gonna do Fallout 1 and 2 some time, but after that... What to do?

I´ve become more and more old-school in my game tastes, and have a growing fascination for the indie-scene. So while searching for indie-games playable on the Mac, I rediscovered The Battle for Wesnoth. It´s a pretty marvelous open-source project, trying to create a vast, cohessive, and very modable strategy game in the style of Fire Emblem and Advance Wars. So very old-school, utterly playable, and very addictive. In addition to being very strict, minimalistic, and balanced gameplay-wise, it´s got some excellent feautures that most retail games don´t even dream of, including direct downloading of add-ons from in-game menus, the best autosavesystem in a long while, and an excellent level-editor.

Oh... where was I?

Yes!

Art!

Of the week!

So... while browsing the Wesnoth forums I came across a great tutorial for doing portrait art for the game. Being really inspired it, and seeing some photoshop-techniques and tools I simply haven´t used before(I´m slow), I decided to have a go, and did a dwarven portrait.

At first it was a bit... meh.... But with great help from the awesome people at the Wesnoth-forum it quickly turned better.

And now it´s gonna get in the game as an alternative for the Dwarven fighter art, or something. So that´s fantastic! Having art in a game is a dream come true, and open-source games are like commercial games except cooler since your don´t have to suck on Satans cock.

I´m gonna try to continue doing art for Wesnoth, because it´s a fantastic project, and I really, really need to have a side-project that´s purely art, to keep me on my toes. And with Wesnoth the art is very much up my alley, the community seems great at feedback and I can learn a lot, and it´s altogether very much inspirational.

So hopefully next week, in addition to updates om my comics and other work, there will be some more dwarves! Yay!

Sunday Art-Week Review 3

Ah... Crappy week. 

Haven´t done much art. Been doing too much, and having too little spare time lately, so I´ve done gone ran myself into a wall, as per usual. But I´ll be back on my feet soon enough. Ah, the glorious adventures of bi-polar disorder type 2. Or whatever the excuse is. Oh well...

BUT... I did actually do this: 

The translation would read something like "Hate.... hate... food... hate...", but with a few to many vowels.  A pretty accurate account of last weeks highlights. 

Having committed myself to doing one of these autobiographical shorts every week, whether a single panel or a longer pager, is probably a good thing, to keep some consistency. As most creators will know, it´s hard when you set your own deadlines. 

Anywho... will be back stronger next week. Mark my words. OR sumthin....