1st project CGA

First week's going fast. Lectures combined with group work planned for the first 2 weeks, me being in a group with three girls. This is some conceptual style-idea exploration I did for the background scenario. It's going to be more indoor-orientated and not so caribbean ocean style. But here goes:

More to come later on.
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Colored pencil experimentating

A little experimentating with colored pencils, at croquis and freestyle

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Creature artwork - madureira-inspired

Creature-sketch done tonight. Inspired somewhat by Joe Madureira's style and Darksiders-artwork, especially the picture here

Funny thing is, when I looked and first found this picture of Madureira around half a year ago, I was in awe and thought I'd possibly be able to do this kind of stuff and artwork in maybe 10 years+ - however, feels like the dream's hopefully going to come true a bit earlier!

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Creature proces

Creature-sketch+coloring this afternoon

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Sketchbook decoration

Felt like doing something different - picked up some picture of the mainstreet in Viborg from the newspaper (the mainstreet's currently being rebuilt) - putted some white paper behind it, started taped it onto the sketchbook - and then just went crazy with colorpencils, tusch, tape and materials. Also figured out one can use the transparent kind of tape onto pieces of your picture to make it brighter, and therefore create depth (like the claw furthest away). It all turned out to this:

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Wup - update

Update time here. This time it's going to feature a bit of selected sketchbookpieces aswell as my best works from my recent trip to Rome (5 days with family, got to do a bit of watercolour and pencil drawings ;-)  ).

Also this post's gonna feature a bit of croquis I did last night, after having a 2 1/2 month long break from live figure drawing (woaw, that's a really long time!), and hopefully I'm not totally out of practise.

Croquis:

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Rome:

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Various sketchbook stuff:

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Bg painting

Finally got going with a lil tablet-work again, some stormy background-adventure landscape. Gon' scan in some sketchbook ideas and drawings soon aswell.

Got really happy with this one, probably 3-5 hours work

This one was more like 2 hours practising funzie-quick one

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Aaaand here goes the zoo!

Yeah, like 3rd time within a year I've been visiting the zoo and drawing animals w. friends/family - awesome. I should really practise on cat-faces and anatomy though - it's still a lot of trouble. But overall, things is starting to feel more fluid and natural while drawing. Got really happy for the more cartoony-influenced rhino-drawing this time! (3rd drawing, upperleft)

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TDA exhibition stuff and zoo... again!

Hello there.

My long summerholiday started - and so far it's been great, tho a bit busy and hectic, I feel like I'm soon in need of some days off for myself - the strange feeling of wishing to be alone for just a few days:D Anyways, what follows here on the blog will be my TDA-studies and the stuff I had hanging on the walls at our exhibiton. So, time to show off what the 5 months of intense classical-drawing could pull off from me, in terms of studies of  faces, figures, bones and other creative output:

Zoo-drawings from today coming soon

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Epic reunion w. colorpencils :D

Yay! Had an awesome evening at the school with classmates drawing, and finally made something I'm really happy about. Can be rare to get the "yay" feeling!:D Anyways, I borrowed some of Mortens colored Faber-Castel pencils, found a picture on deviantart I printed and went away by trying out the Lawrence/Glenn Vilppu style we learned in this spring. Was great trying to get some fluidity in it and focus mostly on the light/shadow play in the picture.

So here goes, dedicated to the guy who where the first to truly teach me how to draw, Lawrence Marvit:

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Face study

I'd believe we're not actually done with this picture yet, even it surely feels like I'm done with it..!

Next friday+ I'll be posting many studies, since it's our last day and we'll be exhibiting our works. So expect big update there!

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Lil digital stuff

Lil exercise, doing a digital portrait for a friend.

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Croquisstuff + longstudy

So, time for a lil update before imma head to party on the school. We're doing more longstudies with Artem at the school, currently working on a standing male and a sitting female-pose, which we've finally finished. I'm not particularly satisfied with it - a lot of frustration was let out during the proces. However I'm sure it's all meaningful in the end and I surely learnt a lot from it.

Funny little episode when our teacher's 1-year old little girl Rambo went posing and put on an act beside our model, and ended up giving her a pinch in the nipple, to everyone's joy! Most hilarious figure-drawing moment so far :D

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And here some experimental croquis-drawing with ink and some more figure drawing w. Glenn Vilppu:

Laters
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CGA august+, hand study and more fluid G. Vilppu croquis

So...I've gotten the extremely awesome message by the Animation Workshop, that they've accepted me into their Computer Graphic Artist bachelor-programme from 29th of August, so I'm all high and happy for the time being! Furthermore many of the people around the school-environment and from my drawing class got admitted too - so it's going to be great and super exciting gettin' started!

At the drawing course we've recently gotten our russian teacher Artem back, so back to composition and russian-stylish longstudies - it's actually great and things is starting to make more sense. We're also working on a standing figure-long study which we'll finish during next week hopefully. Below is an hour-long handstudy of a female classmate of mine, Marion:

During the last few days I've also had the pleasure of having the figure-drawing master, Glenn Vilppu, and work some more on my croquis and this curvy gesturelike-approach to figure drawing. 

Also, little sidenote: If you like chillout/electronica/downtempo, go check out Bonobo - they make some very nice music

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Moar sketches

Sci-fi character sketch (10 m) and a little longer drawing of a female model posing in a train-cabin (2 h)

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