"Discovery, Mystery, Danger"

"Discovery, Mystery, Danger"

Recent piece coming to an end. Visual inspiration from the movie "Prometheus".

And happy new year to everyone!

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Alien Council Member

Member of Alien Council.

Would you trust him?

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Practise practise

Tiny colorroughs from ref - max 10-15 min each

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Trailerproject - Breaking The Waves

Trailer-project done! Half a year of schoolwork coming to an end. Hope you like.

https://vimeo.com/55599950

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Clouds

I like clouds :)

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Sketches

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Edges - smoking guy

Been recently trying to nail controlling my edges - it's proving to be a challenge.

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Mermaid

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Proces:

This piece may not be for everyone.

But it's certainly a part of me, that I haven't previously explored artisticly. I've wanted for quite some time to do something that involved the following things: lineart, wakfu-style, fluidity, happyness, sweetness - and hopefully I managed to capture some of those keywords in my piece.

Inspiration: Xavier Houssin (Wakfu-style) and Britney Lee

Thanks to:

Ann-Helen Hellesø Rinvar, Jess Nicholls, Anne Moth, Henning Sanden, Mathias Nørgaard, Morten Jæger, Marion Strunck, Nynne Mors, Rune Hansen & Esben Lash Rasmussen for awesome tips and pointers along the way

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Cartoony faces and sketching practise

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Donato hands study

Hand study of a painting by Donato Giancola
2-3 hours



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Digital Painting Lecture

Recently I did a lecture on "Digital Painting" at my school. For those who did was not there at the time of the presentation, I did a recording which can be seen here:

http://tawtuts.blogspot.dk/p/blog-page.html

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Value practising - Island locations

Long time since last post - is currently in the last preparation-stages for a lecture on "Digital Painting" I'll be doing soon. Will post the final lecture in two parts on Vimeo and on Tawtuts.blogspot.com - so stay tuned for more updates.

Today some value-practising. Random locations for an island.



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Zbrush - first sculpt

We're learning Zbrush at the school these days - what an amazing tool for 3D! This is my first attempt at a sculpt.

Make it fullsize to see it properly.

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Color studies - Bladerunner

Some more color-studies on the way. Found 4-5 suitable indoor screenshots from Bladerunner. Will update this post with the next ones.

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Color studies

Really started to like looking at color scripts/lighting keys after reading "The Art of Pixar" recently, and since it's a personal desire to improve my skills in this field, the natural solution would be to do color studies myself. Formerly I've done color studies mostly just picking the colors from the original pictures - however, this does merely challenge the painting-aspect of it, and not so much finding, seeing and creating the colors from the ground myself.

Results follow below. Next challenge will be to do some more low-key indoor ones.

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2B pencil-brush sketch

Warm up-sketch with a new brush I found that kinda feels like a 2B-pencil - was really fun to use!

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MMO-background

Next major portfolio-piece completed. This one's inspired by classic MMO-scenarios with distant lands in the background, small huts/villages from Switzerland - and the artwork and feel of Guild Wars 2. Hope you enjoy.

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Keeping the juices flowing

Just a little playful little speedpaint

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Croquis & Sketches

Refreshing to do some croquis again. Also, some mixed sketches and a watercolor from the Garda-lake in Italy. And finally three copy-studies, first two of Justin Gerard and last one of a Nicolas Marlet drawing.

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Goache playaround

Playing with brushes and goache again

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"Out of My Comfort Zone" Part 1: Zombie Portrait

Out of My Comfort Zone Part 1: Zombie Portrait

Inspired by a teacher-given task given to a classmate - I decided to do a similar task for myself, creating a piece in the opposite direction of my typical comfort zone. This was an adventure into the dark, the creepy, the nasty and the gross - resulting in this zombie portrait. Aside from the joy and struggle of the painting proces, it was also quite a personal challenge for me to look at the reference pictures I had helping me along the way, because in all honesty - some of them were really nasty.

Hope you enjoy the result. Next up in "Out of My Comfort Zone" will be some cute manga-faerie-girl with delicious thighs and pleasant colors! So stay tuned!

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Mary Grace

"Mary Grace"
Study - 4-5 hours.



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Finally zoo again

Spent some of my 22th birthday with my family at the zoo in Aalborg - It's been a while since I've had the chance to sketch animals from life - it was a pleasant reunion. I particularly loved the sleepy sea lion and the lioness - both of them would occasionally sneakpeek from their nap to see if I was still studying them.

And continuably awesome holidays to those following my blog!
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Tribute to 24 hours

After having spent...approximately 8 days of my life watching 24 hours with Jack Bauer - I felt I owed him a little tribute, so I felt like drawing Jack doing what he does second best; Yelling "WHERE IS IT?!"

Most of this picture is study from picture - but several things adjusted and changed to fit my interpretation

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More sketchbook

First one: Eric Fortune. Second one: Mixed sketches from moviestills. Third one: Drawn after the game Psychonauts. Two last ones is kind of self-explained: Croco and foxes.

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Patient sketches

Felt inspired to do some more pencildrawing, after listening to a podcast with Marko Djurdevic and looking at Wesley Burt's artwork. I noticed that in order for my own sketches to have that kind of detail, I'd have to spend more time on my drawings and be more patient in the proces. So here follows two sketches, being more "patient" than usual. They're screenstills from movies by the way, there's a great resource of movie stills on Framefilter

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Studies

Study of some place in Santander, Spain



Sea lion

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School showreel - YearEnd June 2012

School Showreel - YearEnd June 2012. Kind of long, but it had to include everything we had been through.
Click HD button and watch it on Vimeo for better quality.



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Visual Development Week

One week with Peter Chan of my favorite subject, concept design, lead into exploring what one is usually not comfortable with - so I dived into the world of cartoony, tight and simple. The task was to create three different character designs with varying shapes - and use those three characters to tell a story, creating a "moment" in a film.

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Sketches - May

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