Caroline

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1920s, girl, illustration, portrait

I sometimes use my friends’ Facebook pics for inspiration

Through the bus window

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illustration, landscape, norway, winter

I live in Norway, so a simple bus trip often provides me with already perfectly composed images. naturally framed by the window. This is what happened here.

The Artist Workout Jar, Ticket #1

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artist workout, artist workout jar, illustration, loish progress, loish tutorial, painterly style in photoshop, portrait redhead, textured brush

 

 

I will hereby introduce you to my new artist workout method. It’s a jar. Yep. A jar filled with lots and lots of little post its. What’s on the post its? Well basically all the things about which I always tell myself “Ah, I should get around to doing that at some point”. I am not referring here to vacuuming my place or doing the laundry. This is a little more art oriented, like master studies and focused anatomy practice :D.

Since I pretty much suck at keeping a habit for longer than 3 weeks, I thought I should embrace my thirst for variation. Whenever I have time for a workout session, I’ll pick a ticket and do whatever is on there.

The first one told me to study the progress and work of loish (one of the art sweethearts of the internet). Then I had to apply what I learned in my own manner.

So..what I took from her here was:

-working from dark to light

-color variation

-build the nose and corner of lips more carefully

– rythm

-using one brush for painting and just one soft one for some final light effects

-confidence to use max 2-3 layers

Also, I used the 4th brush in this set, from AlectorFencer, for pretty much everything. I really enjoyed saving the time on browsing through brushes and focusing on colors instead.

Here is the reference I used : a gorgeous redhead

And here are some videos of Loish’s progress: my god she is good.

Stay tuned for my next workout 😀

 

 

On a trip to find his significant otter

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cute otter, illustration, landscape, light practice, marshes, otter, portfolio, red light, sunrise, sunset light

See what I did there? :p  Just a 30-40 min sort of doodle. wouldn’t really call it speedpaint either. It was a bit of a mindless experiment with color. Just really felt like painting a purple gradient today. 

 

An old book

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concept art, fairytale objects, game props, illustration, old book, visual development

This is one of the props made for my concept class. A guide on how to take down giants for my hero.

Character sketch again

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character sketch, girl with bag, illustration, photoshop, portfolio, winter

Lately I enjoy looking at people’s albums on Facebook, picking a picture and then using it as reference for a more or less quick sketch. It’s easier than picking a random reference image cause I actually know these people’s personalities and have an easier time finding the attitude to put in.

 

Environment design (The Skillful huntsman)

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cobblestone street, concept art, environment design, fairytale mood, grimm brothers illustration, illustration, landscape, medieval town, portfolio, the skillful huntsman

So this was a school assignment: creating the environment for my interpretation of the Grimm Brothers’ story The Skillful Huntsman (plus a version where the atmosphere or season changes). My version tries to maintain the fairytale aspect while introducing contemporary issues and elements. Did a lot of studies of Bavarian houses for this. Quite cozy. I will return to this for a final polish later, when I am less sick *cough, cough, sneeze. 

Yet another fairytale speedpainting

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background art, environment design, fairytale, illustration, production design, speedpainting, visual development

Character Design

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character design, fairytale characters, illustration, skillful huntsman, visual development

Made these for school. Not really polished yet, but more to come

Calypso

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calypso, day, deceiving, digital, flowers, girl, hair, her, illustration, in, innocent, nymph, orchids, painting, photoshop, portrait, sunny

So here is what I managed to put together in the spare hours. It started as practice for painting skin and I was driven by the vision of a girl wearing orchids in her hair. Well, that felt a bit boring and I decided to spice it up, make her into a innocent looking temptress. This is how Calypso took shape, named after the nymph that kept Odysseus captive on her island. Strange how our pieces/characters begin to have a life of their own after a while.