Evening sketch - traditional medium look

Simulating traditional medium-feel digitally. Mixer brush tool, grungy brushes and a lot of fun.
Oh, and recently I've gotten into the habit of doing quick 30 min. paintings according to themes - see the challenge we got going at my school here - feel free to join in. Perhaps I'll post some of those 30 min. experiments in the future. For now, I'll just enjoy the loose non-attachment of them.



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"Meditative"

"Meditative"



Sometimes there's forces within you that tells you what picture to paint. This is such one. Being occupied with clearing and relaxing the mind, I somehow ended up imagining some kind of meditative resting place visually - complete with floating rivers, organic shapes, puffy graphic clouds and pleasant colors - all set in a high-key environment. This is the experimental result of those thoughts and visions.

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Professor Chertavek

Professor Chertavek

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Sketchbook - August 2013

A little collection of some of the better sketches recently. A few of these I'd like to take to a colored more finished stage for sure.

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James Wood sketches

Sketches based on James Wood sketches/artwork. I love the fluidity and cartoony simplifiedness he manages to push into his characters. Wish my own things had some of the same qualities, so I sat down and "redrew" some of his sketches.

Will be doing more of these sketch-another-artists-work pages. Next one will be Cory Loftis and then back to some more Brett Bean.

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Cory Loftis sketches

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Ines - Sweet little girl

"Ines"

 This is Ines! A sweet little 2-year old half spanish/half danish kid I used to take care of, when I was working 10 months in day care/day nursery in Aarhus. She used to fill her mouth up with sand, and I'd attempt to tell her it wasn't the greatest to eat.

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I've realized something about my paintings as of recently. A good friend of mine, Morten Lund, recently pointed out to me that there was one particular picture he'd always look at, when I'm my room - and it would be the one with the most captivating story. That led me to reconsidering my approach when making artwork - very often I just do doodles, studies or things that eventually and randomly become finished paintings - but with very little backstory or idea.

So, returning back to what Peter Chan taught me in my first year of TAW, creating emotional and powerful artworks will be my new pursuit. And I feel like I've got quite a good bunch of ideas up my sleeve that needs visualization.

And sincerely thank you, dear reader, for following my progress here on this blog.

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Project Cream Lake

Hiyo! 

A personal victory has been achieved...I finally completed my self-study! 

http://www.flipsnack.com/7B78897EFB5/fdxkqtt7

It's been an ongoing challenge for me since end-February to complete this self-study project, for several reasons. I realised how difficult it was to put together a story, I realised how a styleguide is great but can also make one feel creatively locked down and I realised that sometimes one just gotta get something done, because it's never going to be perfect. Rather finish up the deal and the goal I set for myself, than give up halfway.

- Last note: I can recommend THIS soundtrack while viewing the art

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Color sketches

Some color-sketches. There's quite a few of these I could easily imagine be taken further and turned into more final pieces. Perhaps I will?



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Summer course-paintings

This summerholiday I was on a painting-course at Kunsthøjskolen Holbæk together with my sister, Emilie Bach (check out her stuff too) and my mother, Christel Bach.

I had the pleasure of having the painter Jesper Palm as my teacher, and it was all in all a really good experience. I've never painted as big before, as I did these weeks, and I felt like I got a good taste of what traditional acrylic painting can offer and be like. Anyways, to the paintings themselves:

"Last Snow" - 120 x 93 cm - acrylic

This one was really fun to create because I would just slash big strokes of measurement in the beginning and establish the forms, designing them - hence adding more and more before arriving at the final piece. However, I struggled with the "redness" in the picture grabbing a lot of attention in the background, especially in the distance. You see from my proces-pictures just below how I introduced a lot of warm brown and red in my picture quite early - hence eliminating and downtoning a lot of it in the final.

Proces:

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"Escaping Her Drawing" - 100 x 79 cm - Acrylic

I've always wondered how something would look if it was half a painting, half a drawing - as the final result, and not with the drawing just being a preliminary stage for the final painting to sit upon. So this is my interpretation of how that would look.

Proces:

Last note: my paintings were photographed by Morten Lund - Big thanks!

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Ebony child - study

Study - 2-3 hours. Looked a lot at Zhang Lu's portraits meanwhile

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Khaleesi

Khaleesi from Game of Thrones
I'm going to dedicate this piece to my friend and roomie Rune who introduced me to this great show!



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Colorful forest study

Quick sketch this evening from a photo



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Creature sci-fi faces

Creature faces drawn this evening and some warm-ups from the day before. Warmups was drawn from Brett Bean-pictures as reference.

Feels like I'm getting more of a decent grip onto this type of playful cartoony line-art after all.

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Addition to the blog

Notice anything different on this visit?



Feel free to share around with your friends and like-minded fellas!

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Messy girl - evening quckie

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Brett Bean practise

 I thought I'd do some focused practise, and in order to help me doing so, I thought I'd select an artist to focus on for the rest of May and June month. I've recently seen the works of Brett Bean after having listened to a livestream - and I'd really wish for my own character designs and environments to have that fluidity, playfulness and daring shapes. This is what I attempt to practise at the moment.
As you can see on the sketches below, the proces was as follows:

- 4 warm-up sketches, from some of Brett Beans own artwork.
- Hence a caricature - reference photo from this great gallery - but it didn't felt pushed enough. The hair could have been an even bigger shape and enhanced more.
- Nextly another attempt at the same woman from a different angle - she ended up looking really mean!

- Finally another reference photo and a simple coloring beneath

This was a little about my current attempt at improving my character design. Have a great day!

Oh, and this was a little fun drawing Ser Jorah from Game of Thrones:

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Glowing Flower Cave

Recent days' work (reworked 24.05.2013)

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Alaska and sunset

Testing out techniques - today's doodles
Sunset-one inspired by this awesome video

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Lux - Steel Legion-skin in acrylic

Lux from the game League of Legends, here in her "Steel Legion skin" - the piece was made as a gift for a young friend of mine

Another thing I painted in acrylics recently. It's proving a challenge with acrylics especially making the brush behave like I want it to, get smooth transitions and generally working with the medium - but it's a lot of fun. 

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Acrylic, experimental and sketches

Acrylic:

Experimental concept using a lot of watercolor-brushes:

Sketchbook:

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