31.01.2010

instead of cleaning the growing pile of dirty kitchen stuff, i decided to draw it.

and then i drew a part of the livingroom

and then i looked through my itunes library and found a song called "la belle et la bête" and i had a sudden urge to draw the beauty and the beast, and started out with that thought in mind but ended up with some kind of a tree people.. sleepy.. icecream.. thing.

train travel 22.01.2010

the day i took the train to ryomgård for the first time.

and also the day i discovered i can do my train drawings again <3

koi.

just looked through one of my sketchbooks and found a lot of drawings i'd forgotten all about.

croquis from october 2009

or, people drawing croquis.

wuthering heights

i was trying to read WUTHERING HEIGHTS by emilie brontë, but after reading 40 pages or so i decided to wikipedia the book, and although i already knew the story was pretty depressing from the beginning, i'm just not in the mood for that amount of depression right now.
but that doesnt mean i'm not in the mood for fan art :D so this is in the beginning where mr. lockwood visits wuthering heights and invites himself for tea in a house that doesnt particularly welcome visitors.


ehm.. and i didnt really know what i was aiming for, when i made this - which makes drawing a drawing pretty difficult! so i started out with a pencil drawing, and while i put on some of the colours i turned off the layer with the pencil lines.. and i thought it was interesting.. but then i didnt know how to do the lines, because it always looks horrible when i try to draw in photoshop - but i tried anyway - learning by doing, as they say.. haha, not very succesful. i love the background, though!

second year midway test

last week we had our midway test on second year, and the rig we used was a brand new one called LEROY and it had never been used before = no testing = A LOT of bugs! so i spent the first two days trying to solve a problem with the rig that i was unable to solve. pretty annoying. but it was fixed, and the last three days were fine - except 5 days were now 3 days. having 4 weeks of resting time has been very beneficial for my arm though, and it is almost back to normal - or at least i can animate for 6 hours a day now, which is a major improvement nonetheless.

parkour

for two weeks just before christmas last year, we did an action scene, and the theme was 'parkour'. i'd never heard of parkour before this assignment and i think it's awesome! though because my tennis elbow was still bugging me a lot and i was away for a couple of days, i was only able to do one small jump, and it isnt even very good... :( but since my box lift assignment (which we did before this) is basically only keys, i will post this instead.

don't get tennis elbows.

celery fingers.

my fingers carried the smell of celery all night, so i pondered the idea of having celery fingers. and i was just experimenting, trying to colour a quick pencil drawing to see what would come of it - haha! parts of it went well, though, i think.

andrew bird

i was listening to andrew bird this evening and took my fan art into the music universe. this is andrew bird.

another twilight moment

bella and edward in the meadow - i love drawing hair.

harryronhermione

yesterday evening i tried drawing with a black coloured pencil, and it is funny how the materials affect the style. i am continuing the fan art for a bit, and this is a harry potter fan art. i think fan art is fascinating - mostly because i love seeing different interpretations of the same things.

piano

some quick piano drawings i did for my brother.

twilight fan art.

hahahaa.. i think it looks kind of odd! well, for quite some time i was utterly obsessed with the TWILIGHT books by stephenie meyer, and i have been working on this for a very long time - not so much in drawing time, but date time. i wanted to do this in watercolours, but over time and time of resting my arm i wanted to try finishing it in photoshop, because i got pretty bored with the watercolour. i used a screenshot from the movie as my reference, wanting this to be an experiment with finding the right colours. i was still aiming for that when photoshop took over, but i couldnt make everything as dark as they're supposed to be, so it's not that accurate. and the whole thing looks kind of weird. it was also an experiment with mixed media - watercolours and photoshop. haha. in a way it looks exactly how i wanted it to, and in a way it doesnt look anything like it at all. i like it - and i dont like it.

hahaha.. but it was fun to draw.

denise and bjørn.

my cousin commisioned a portrait of her and her boyfriend for christmas, if it wasn't too much for my arms. and it seems it wasn't that bad actually :) doing nothing all day long for many days apparently works!

sometimes i've been asked how i colour my drawings, and to me it's always fun to see how people work. so this time i remembered to save some of the steps in the making, though in this particular case there weren't too many changes.

unfinished business.

a short while ago i went looking for an old drawing i once did inspired by my work experiences as a costumer consultant for a phone company, but i didnt find it. but i know it's here somewhere.. nevertheless, i got to look through a bunch of my old sketch books and found a surprising number of long forgotten (and in some cases unfinished) drawings. so i figured, since i dont have anything "new" to show, i could post some of those! - i am actually in the middle of a new drawing, but i can only draw a very little at a time with this tennis elbow of mine, so it's coming along quite slowly... but.. someday..

okay, this one i did during my stay at kunsthøjskolen i holbæk

and these two i did during the very first of days when i moved to viborg

i have no idea when this was done, but i just love the tree! i think i have a thing for trees.

and this one is based on a song by MUGISON called "hold on to happiness". the lyrics are included. i love that song.

and one more drawing without a face

also from the beginning of the viborg days

and these were experiments. at the time i was not satisfied, but now i think they're kinda cool.

and i dont know when this is from - but i'm guessing 2007-something.

facial expressions and dialogue.

so, we spent week 43-44 with sean, and we moved on to another rig called NORMAN. first week we did an expression change - i chose "disappointed -> excited" - it's really undone, and the last day i practically couldnt do anything because of my arm (tennis elbow - it sucks.)

week 44 we were to do a short dialogue and to practice dialogue, we were asked to do a simple word "miaw" without sound, with another rig called ALFRED.

i wasnt particularly fond of alfred, so i used norman for my short dialogue piece. i havent got any clue where the dialogue comes from. this is also not finished.........

atumn in the forest.

my arm has been aching a bit for the last 2 weeks from all the computer and middle mouse in school, and if i draw - it gets worse!! :( so seeing as i'm not very fond of the consequense being that i'm unable to draw - in my desperation i suddenly remembered watercolours. very little pressure to arm and hand. PERFECT. so now i can draw again, juhuu!

in the fall break i went for a walk in the forest with my family :)

4 weeks with HOGAN.

after 3 weeks with a ball, a lamp and a flour sack, we were introduced to HOGAN - and since i know not everyone knows what MAYA looks like, my family for instance, i took some screen shots to give you an idea of how it works. so here he is - with all the controls and the 3 basic tools all of the controls have (in some cases some of them are deactivated, luckily) which are the move tool, rotation tool and scale tool.



there are many ways to set up the layout you use, but this is basically how i do it.

and this is an overview of the three different kinds of curves we use the most at the moment: stepped, linear and spline.

so anyway, back to Hogan. it was a horrible experience for me and i hated maya and 3d more than ever, but towards the end i went back to thinking that 3d is.. okay.

1) do 7 poses: deflated, embarrased, empathetic, frantic, inhibited, nervous, smug.

2) do a weight shift from 1 pose to another

3) do a take

4) do an action in 25 frames in stepped

5) do a bow

6) do a walk cycle + walk across screen

7) do a personality walk + walk across screen

8) do a run + run across screen

paintings.

most of the paintings i did when i was atttending the art course, Kunsthøjskolen i Holbæk. (fall 2007) acrylics, spray cans, ink and posca. all on canvas. i used inspiration from photos from deviantart.com and photos i took during the photo class. (my courses were painting, photo and painting again)

70 x 70 cm

70 x 70 cm

70 x 45 cm

70 x 70 cm

70 x 70 cm

60 x 80 cm

45 x 65 cm

65 x 65 cm

50 x 75 cm

45 x 70 cm

45 x 70 cm

week 43: autumn

weekly drawing. tried to continue with more art nouveau, but it got a bit more drudilized than i intended. actually it didnt come out the way i'd imagined at all, but that's how it is sometimes.