Christmas greetings 2011

This is my Christmas elf collection, and my best Christmas wishes to you out there and I also hope you will have the best New Years eve!!!

Made with a collection of col erase and photoshop under paint.

do you feel blobby?

The Goldman Sachs grave

 

Here is a illustration made and inspired by the great world we are living in now financially speaking and those who has played a major role in making that grave, I thought it was the appropriate time for this kind of evil picture:-)

Apart from the mockery it has been a very good learning experience of doing it all analog. I made it with pencils and graphite powder that i have spread out with a paint brush and rendered further with the pencils going from HB to 4B. I can really recommend the pure graphite powder i got from Sennelier and the paper from Daler/Rowney the heavyweight version.

Gorilla sketch collection

In honor of my lost tooth:-)

Halloween after party:-)

Rabbit doodles

Doodles:-)

Wip. Tank idea 3

WIP. tank ideas 2

WIP. Tank ideas 1

This is the start of a new collection of images i will do in traditional media and it is about the nature and my opinions of the world of today as well as the nice contrast between the 2 main elements Tank and Nature.

greed

My thumbnail drawing for the theme drawing challenge at the studio... the theme was "Greed" and i had just seen the documentary about the crusaders and the holy quests.. pretty greedy:-)

Parc des Buttes Chaumont 19th.arr. plein air

 

Here is the sketches from the last 2 weeks more or less if I remember correctly.. i had a good day out in the park yesterday, doing most of these sketches. That day I also acquired my self a folding stool, since I am getting a bit more into this sketching thing, it is really something my back appreciates.

It is a really great for me coming back into this sketching thing, which I haven't been doing much or since drawing class many years ago..:-) and gives some quick personal drawings in between all the productions drawings i do at the moment for an Israeli company named Animationlab. 

They are a really kind bunch of animations people that has given me a really interesting design job for their first feature and if I am not wrong the first Israeli animated feature film.. can't say more but one day ill post some of the drawings when we are done with the film... until then you must do with my sketches and there are more in the bag to be released soon:-)

Plein air sketches 10 arr. Paris

Plein air sketches in Dunkerque

An update to this post since my friend and arranger of this sketch trip have published his work from the days he spend in Dunkerque, it is some really great stuff he has published very gritty and sketchy... have a look at my friend Remi's post

Bird sketches 2

Plein air asus eee slate sketch2

Fresh out of the slate and made during the day. I started this morning and finished now after work:-)

Plein air asus eee slate sketch

This is the first proper sketch i made with my new toy from asus.. it is really a nice piece of equipment the eee slate ep121 that comes with a wacom pressure sensitive digitizer called penabled.. it is not a cintiq but not far from it when you have adjusted your brushes to its sensitivity.
ill come with more soon, when there is time for it, gotta do some work now which also drawing so it all good:-)

Bird sketches

 

 

Black Faber-Castell Polychromos story sketch

New Ideas

I have begun working a bit on getting some of my new ideas down on the paper in a clear and effective way and also practicing on my workbook skills, keeping it simple!! (it is hard when you love to render).
Thanks to Nima Azarba for letting me work with his awesome ink brush:-)
Also check out his work he is major talent in the art of simple and clear compositions.

Digital sketchbook page 2

Hi guys... here is more character designs from my sketchbook and the personal test's I do to learn more about color and getting the right texture feel to it.. I have found it a little difficult to get the right pencil/paper look and keeping the colors from looking dirty or too dark, but I am quite happy with this one so far:-)..

A sharing friday:-)

 

Hi guys, I made a new brush set that I am giving out as a free sample.
The brushes you get is the ones i made this pencil blue sketch with, to get the free sample follow this link hope that you'll enjoy it..

Digital sketchbook page 1

I now started my sketchbook where I will develop characters for my next projects.
At the moment I am writing a bit on a story and then i have also hatched out a sketch project a bit like francois but mainly for monsters and complete freedom to make all kinds of design and compositions. More to come later on that:-) but first character sketches..

Last feature I worked on:-)

A little best of, from the last blog