Holiday sketches n' stuff

Happy New Year and all that jazz...!!!

I know it's been some time again since my last post, and it's only my laziness to blame, to put stuff together in photoshop and upload them.

Been thinking some stuff regarding:

Color: I realized that i should figure out the color of the light source and have that in every color i apply on the sketch, so that the painting looks consistent and not like patches of color put together. The shadows are another chapter on their own, that i have to practice on.

Sketching humans: For some time now, i've been trying to draw moments instead of doing elaborate studies of details. Next time i sketch people, i'll try to put a name on every pose i draw.

I hope you have fun with those:

I'm feeling blues

(The one and only) Nina Simone and Lianne La Havas.

I was inspired by this awesome dude to do those.

The second one doesn't really look like her, but she was the inspiration for the sketch anyways. You can listen to these while you look at the sketches:

Feast yer eyes!

Been years since i last uploaded anything here...

So, prepare for a massive update! 

Here's a little info on what i've been up to: during summer, i was mostly practicing drawing and going back to some basic animation excercises to prepare for the 3rd and bachelor film year. And this time is now! I'm back to Denmark and i'm working on a film called Borislav. There are some super talented people in my team, and this project has a lot of potential, so stay tuned!!

Currently we're in the phase of figuring out details about the story, and having superfun playing with character design and visual style!

By the way, you might have noticed a change in the layout. That's because i got sick of the previous banner!! I have a new sketch for a new banner, but i have to get myself to do the coloring.

Here's some stuff i've done centuries ago, in chronological order from the newest to oldest. Actually, that's not true, i'm starting with the...uhm...sexiest!:

Da Commercial Project

This is a group project we did over a period of 5 weeks for an organization inside the danish summer rock festival "Roskilde".
We were 3 animators, and we had around 1 and a half week for the animation. I did the animation of the guy walking in the first shot, for which i'm not very proud of, to be honest.
I was the production manager/animator for the project.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the projects here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/greenfootsteps?feature=results_main

Lark - book cover illustration

A friend of mine asked for an illustration for a book cover. I experimented a lot with the line, as well as the colors, until i settled with this result. I love exploring new ways!

PS: Sorry for the watermark, but as it's a commercial thing, i just have to :o)

We lost the body, comrade! (aka. Kim Kardashian)

You might find it hard to see, but YES, this is Kim Kardashian. She looked more like her, before painting it. I'm no particular fan of her, but i saw a photo of her the other day, and i got inspired to do a curvy sketch of her.

There are still issues that i'm not happy with, but at some point after realizing those, there was no return, since i drew it traditionally.

Inspired by Fred Moore and Chris Sanders. I hope you enjoy:

For those who wonder what the heck i'm talking about with the title of this post, well it's a greek expression :D

Sexy girl

Got excited with this one!! I didn't expect it to turn out so well, since it started as an experiment mostly. On the process, i decided to try out watercolor pencils, but due to its small scale, i didn't have much room for details. So i did some small retouches on the computer.

I hope you like it:

A good drawing day

Yesterday i got excited with afternoon's croquis! The lines were put in the right place so easily! I hope this great thing will continue happening more often...

If you see misplaced shoulders or limbs abnormally long here and there, it is not by mistake, but because i was trying to caricature the figure. But without success obviously.

Andreas Deja

Yesterday and today was a glorious day for animation in Viborg! We had Andreas Deja giving a 2 hour lecture this morning, and yesterday i was honoured and lucky to interview him for the school's website!

For those who don't know who Andreas Deja is (shame on you), he's been an animator at Disney for 30 years, since The Black Cauldron times. He's been a supervising animator for characters like Roger Rabbit (Who Framed Roger Rabbit), Gaston (Beauty and The Beast), Jaffar (Aladdin), Triton  (The Little Mermaid), Scar (Lion King), Adult Hercules (Hercules) Lilo (Lilo & Stitch), and Mama Odie (The Princess and The Frog).

What can i say more... Just that Lion King was the first movie i saw at the cinema when i was a kid. Very strong movie, and his work speaks by itself!


You can visit his blog with great material for study:
http://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/


I'm outta here...

Drawing Gaston 

Drawing Roger Rabbit (Who Framed Roger Rabbit)

Drawing Jafar (Aladdin)

Comparing the design of Shere Khan (The Jungle Book) with that one of Scar (Lion King)

Comparing the design of Kaa (The Jungle Book) with Juju (The Princess and The Frog)

Acting croquis

Bonus post coming!

Today there was an acting croquis afternoon session. So, chance to upload some more sketches (the first 2 pics) forever forgotten in my hard drive. 

It was mostly 1 min sketching today. I have a lot of fun with those! It differs from nude croquis a lot, since it contains acting, and there's not much time for details, so the focus is in the essence of the pose, with the neccessary details to establish the "set up" of the pose. These are for example props that communicate what the model is doing. Facial expessions play also quite an important role in some of the poses.