Meet "Ike" the brush monster

Hi Guys
I have recently been working on creating a maskot for my brushshop misterbirdstools.com and founds this guy called "Ike" He is a real charmer and a great laugh.
Since I became so fond of him I decided to make a lot of different wallpapers that can be downloaded for free and used as a wallpaper background on your apple device.
I hope you will enjoy this character and the wallpapers.


 Ipad wallpaper:

Imac 27 inch wallpaper:

 Iphone wallpapers:

Color Roughs :-)

Now my colors are finally coming together and I am really learning a lot about painting through these color roughs. It is really such a enjoyable feeling!
 It can only be recommended to get your daily color fix:-) I will soon be back with more..

Klincus Character Design

Hi Guys
Here is a number of characters that I designed back in the days when I was in Belgium, Ghent. Working for AT anim. and Mark Mertens. The characters where made as a pitch to the Cartoon Media events. I have designed the characters together with Christian Kuntz who was the consultant on it and who helped me kicking my ass when needed:-)
First color pass was made by Louise Seynhaeve.
All final art is drawn and colored by me.

Minna and the Dream Builders BG Layout

Minna teaser smallQ from Kim Hagen Jensen on Vimeo.

I am very proud of being a part of this wonderful new feature film that I have been invited to collaborate on together by my old colleague/friend Kim Hagen.
He has successfully presented it at Cartoon Movie this year and we are excited to see the further progress and I am looking forward to work more on this project!
The film showed is the teaser trailer painted by Anders Hald and animated by Luca Fattore.
I was directed by Kim from his storyboard and then I made the design and the layout setup.

Xmas Present

My Christmas present for my mom this year.
She had for a long time wanted a custom made drawing of my personal project character Francois as an angel, so this year I took the time to make an angelic version of him in heaven:-) It was a pleasure to do, and she was super happy. Thanks for a great christmas time in Denmark!

Here is the gallery print I ordered for the gift. I was really impressed by the the print studio and the accuracy they provided.

Merry Xmas & a Happy New Year!

Dear all of you guys, I wish you the best of holidays and hope all your wishes came through this year.
Enjoy!

Meet Bill!

Bill is a veteran from the vietnam war who is living on the streets with his dog and all the belongings he has left after returning from the war. Life has been rough but he is still marching on. Luckily he has a playful friend in his dog Django.

Color Update office sketch

Hi again

I have been fiddling around with some color styles for the BW office sketch I posted some days ago since I thought it could be a bit more interesting than only BW images.. I have made it with 2 tone light and shadow colors, then a linear burner color, blue spot color and white to make some interesting variation. In the end i have mixed the styles over each other instead of hue saturation filter (that seems to loose color in the transaction fade)
And now I look forward to try it on other sketches:-)

Office Sketches

Hi Guys

here is 2 sketches from my office made a light blue col erase, a black ball point pen and photoshop shading. Have a great friday!

Frog Sketches

Hi guys
I have decided to start sharing the sketches i made for a digital sketchbook last year. It was not a great commercial success so I thought lets have some fun and joy out of them instead..
And it is also a shame to have them laying around in the computer for nothing.
Ill post a new one once in a while.. enjoy... and for the clients that bought it i have refunded it entirely so that there shouldn't be any problems with that. have a great friday!

Space Champer in Super Sculpey Firm

Hi guys 

I am back with at new sculpt and this time is a hibernation space chamber that started out as a test when i first got the new package of Super Sculpey Firm clay and then suddenly after playing around it turned into this space chamber;-) 

The first image is the baked and painted version and the second image is the raw clay version.

It is a thing I will dedicate to my girlfriend Kathrine since she is a huge fan of sci fi stuff and wants to be frozen down and then shoot out in space to be able to see the future. 

I can only admire that and this is a small helping hand:-) 

First Super Sculpey figur

Here is my first humble start in figure modeling with Super Sculpey.
It is a undefined creature inspired by a real life chicken that has taken a few freedoms along the way:-)
On these images you see the baked and painted version.

I made it for my mom's birthday and gave it away last week thursday where i visited her in Denmark with my dear girlfriend Kathrine.

Personal Project WIP teaser2

Hi Guys 

Here is yet another blender 3D sculpt i made as design research for a personal project.

This guy is one of the evil alien guys.

I learned many interesting during this sculpt incl. making the new matcap materials for the sculpt and making sculpt brushes with scales. 

Personal Project WIP

Hi guys:-)

here is a little teaser for a new personal project I am in development with together with my friend Rodrigo C who is a talented script writer.

We are at the current moment developing the characters and the world of the Aliens that is in the film. They are some quite funny guys and sweet.. or most of them:-)

The first image is ark of small character sketches done on the good alien guys and the gif image is a rough 3D clay sculpt I made in blender.  I can really recommend blender (not only because it is free) for its simplicity but also for being a very capable 3D program that for an artistic person was much easier to get into.

Meet Sergio!

Meet Sergio the ice cream thief that hunts you locale ice bar a night to feed his ice cream addiction:-)

Meet Huan!

This little fellow is called Huan and he is the happy brat of the street that assaults people with his water gun when ever he feels like it:-) 

Meet Jasper

Hi guys here is a character design i have been working on that is one out a series of drawings about homeless characters.. Jasper is a real gold miner type that is always up for the next adventure where he hopes to find his next treasure:-)

A little sketch

2 small sketches i did yesterday night at a late hour when the hand was running by it self over the paper and just drew.. always nice to just let it go. enjoy and have a great Friday!

New WIP Francois visual

A new artwork I have been sketching on in the past few days.

I had a lot of fun doing it in an old fashion way with an awesome ink wash pen (Kuretake) and some marker paper.. I cut out the different overlays and characters which gave a fun depth to it, as well more freedom of movement. It is the old school version of photoshop, pen, paper, scissors and glue:-)

First cintiq 24HD touch design

Hi Guys
Here is my first cintiq 24 HD touch test design.. It is a Squirrel design version that was rejected for a project I am designing at the moment but he was too cute not to draw a bit more on:-)
I also made a process jpg so you can see how i come to my final BW look.