Saturday, October 22, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Acrylic skies
This is my 4th acrylic painting. 70x90 cm canvas.
painted for my lovely Aunt.
This is my 3rd Acrylic painting. dunno how big it was... big enough.
Painted for my favorite cousin!
2nd acrylic painting. quite small 25x25
This is what started it all. Pretty shitty painting if you ask me now!
I've been trying different mediums lately, and this is what I've done in acrylics. very interesting medium, but also very hard to make it work! I dont need to go into detail on all this right now.. maybe later!
Met this seagull once... I think that's what he was! anywho, he made some explicit Star Wars art on my car!
Dont think I'll try this medium yet....
http://vimeo.com/6143607
http://vimeo.com/6143607
Friday, February 4, 2011
Theorycrafting and push-ups
This next piece of writing is just me thinking out loud!
After doing a couple drawings from my imagination alone, without reference or anything like that, I realize I dont know shit when it comes to drawing! or atleast it feels like it... And that kinda woke me up a bit so to speak!
In order to become better you have to draw from real life... alot! all the time! Everyday! Building yourself a visual vocabulary in your mind, so that when you try to draw from your imagination you can refer to that vocabulary! (ex. in order to make an alien animal look believable you would benefit from doing studies of real life animals!) Drawing from life is like doing push-ups for the artist's mind!
When drawing from life you recreate what you see, down to every little detail as much as you can. All that detail can be used in your from-imagination drawings, taking the texture and shapes and adding them to your own piece! lets say you want to draw a hairy fruit; if you have done studies of animals with fur (or human hair) you would know how to make it look hairy! (hmm.. I might draw that..)
One thing that is becoming clear to me is that drawing faces and hands are extremely important! In almost any artist job they play a significant role! Be it designing a character for a game or tattooing a portrait. (or something like that!) I try to do portraits once in a while, but I should be doing one everyday I think! Maybe introduce a 30 min or even an hour for just drawing portraits everyday to train that hand-eye coordination and add more to my "vocabulary".
Part from that, being an artist is not only about how well you can draw, It's also about how you see the world!
The technical aspect of drawing can be taught to anyone really... But teaching someone to make up weird stuff and alien worlds cant be done! (I think) That is something to be discovered by the individual artist. Some people can think of the most insane ideas almost on the spot, while others need to brainstorm a little first... However, this is what this post was really about! IMAGINATION! I'm trying to implement a second "push-up" device into my studies, and that is having someone draw a random shape for you to fill in with whatever you can think off!
I had my girlfriend draw my first shape:
This is what she gave me to work with... looks like a shoe right? those wooden ones.
But that would be too easy to just put in there... a badly shaped wooden shoe? I dont think so...
So I can up with these guys:
Some strange biomech snake things poking through a crack in something ;) and by something I mean what you are thinking about!
I'd like to put this into my weekly projects! (that was a hint to you S&P)
Hope something of this wasnt a waste of minutes cuz I cant give that back!
ciao!
After doing a couple drawings from my imagination alone, without reference or anything like that, I realize I dont know shit when it comes to drawing! or atleast it feels like it... And that kinda woke me up a bit so to speak!
In order to become better you have to draw from real life... alot! all the time! Everyday! Building yourself a visual vocabulary in your mind, so that when you try to draw from your imagination you can refer to that vocabulary! (ex. in order to make an alien animal look believable you would benefit from doing studies of real life animals!) Drawing from life is like doing push-ups for the artist's mind!
When drawing from life you recreate what you see, down to every little detail as much as you can. All that detail can be used in your from-imagination drawings, taking the texture and shapes and adding them to your own piece! lets say you want to draw a hairy fruit; if you have done studies of animals with fur (or human hair) you would know how to make it look hairy! (hmm.. I might draw that..)
One thing that is becoming clear to me is that drawing faces and hands are extremely important! In almost any artist job they play a significant role! Be it designing a character for a game or tattooing a portrait. (or something like that!) I try to do portraits once in a while, but I should be doing one everyday I think! Maybe introduce a 30 min or even an hour for just drawing portraits everyday to train that hand-eye coordination and add more to my "vocabulary".
Part from that, being an artist is not only about how well you can draw, It's also about how you see the world!
The technical aspect of drawing can be taught to anyone really... But teaching someone to make up weird stuff and alien worlds cant be done! (I think) That is something to be discovered by the individual artist. Some people can think of the most insane ideas almost on the spot, while others need to brainstorm a little first... However, this is what this post was really about! IMAGINATION! I'm trying to implement a second "push-up" device into my studies, and that is having someone draw a random shape for you to fill in with whatever you can think off!
I had my girlfriend draw my first shape:
But that would be too easy to just put in there... a badly shaped wooden shoe? I dont think so...
So I can up with these guys:
Some strange biomech snake things poking through a crack in something ;) and by something I mean what you are thinking about!
I'd like to put this into my weekly projects! (that was a hint to you S&P)
Hope something of this wasnt a waste of minutes cuz I cant give that back!
ciao!
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Yarr!
Did this guy in 2007 or was it 2008, cant remember.... Anywho, It's a drawing of a sculpture that "monsterpappa" on Deviantart has made! He's got several awesome sculpts.
So I decided to give it another try now to see the difference:
a tiny difference...
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Snooze
Designed my own snus.. This would be my commercial poster idea. It's got an old school flair to it I think!
(terrible work....)
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Unholy dagger
The photo is really bad... will scan it one day! maybe...
Reference used:
http://api.ning.com/files/yesER6QmymDkMh9yNC1SWWXeDaMxbty2QY-XZ1vOOUvwPcXA4OX3-b6IEThAXM8dglKJ5MrMfFHthPhm5vWGVVXcepnY3jHm/hourglass1.jpg
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/258/e/1/green_aura_by_huglebunnys-d2yt3cr.jpg
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Indiana Ford and the Amethyst
Finally finished this frog.... it took me quite a while! and still feel like I could do more to it!
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