I felt that I need a portrait picture so I went with a steampunk one. Here is the original.
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| Colored with markerpens |
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| Inked version |
The Blog follows my way from art Zero to Hero (hopefully). I wanted to draw cool fantasy art and started a blog about me learning to do it.
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Self Portrait
Hi again,
I felt that I need a portrait picture so I went with a steampunk one. Here is the original.
I felt that I need a portrait picture so I went with a steampunk one. Here is the original.
Nurse Sketch
Hi,
This morning I sketched a nurse belonging to some fictional 19th century military medical facility. Yesterday I bought my first alcohol markers, so I coloured the nurse with them. It is quite fun actually to colour with these large marker pens, I felt like a small kid. I drew on a A5 and the face turned out like hell when I started inking mostly due to the microscopic scale. Oh well, here is the result anyways.
This morning I sketched a nurse belonging to some fictional 19th century military medical facility. Yesterday I bought my first alcohol markers, so I coloured the nurse with them. It is quite fun actually to colour with these large marker pens, I felt like a small kid. I drew on a A5 and the face turned out like hell when I started inking mostly due to the microscopic scale. Oh well, here is the result anyways.
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| Nurse |
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| My new markers and work area |
Steam monsters
Greetings!
I took me more than a week to update my blog, so I reward you with not one but two pictures. Last time i said I would like to do something within the steampunk genre, so I did. The first one I did on Christmas eve to scare all the childeren. It is an evil titan sized Steam rolling santa that collects naughty children in cages beneath him and uses them as fuel (the burner is in his mouth). I tried to make the picture so he is about to stomp the viewer and grab him. I had to redraw the stomping foot a few times.
The second one is actually somehting that I may develop further, putting it in a battle scene with soldiers at it's feet. I will try some different colour schemes first on it. It is an Imperial battle walker. It's main armament is a self-loading steam operated cannon (it uses partly steam from the pistons and some directly from the boiler. If the enemy gets too near it uses the large circle saw on it's left side.
The walker takes 3 crewmen. 1 commander, 1 driver (aka "Walker") and 1 engine operator. The commander stands with the hatch open and can use the telescope and calculator combination to designate targets and fire solutions. The telescope can lock to the cannon's movement so that when the telescope is moved the cannon moves accordingly (10 degrees to left and 30 degrees right). The driver operates the feet and steers the walker. It requires a great deal of skill to operate the walker and with extremely limited vision the driver must rely on the commander to get directions. The engine operator functions as a back-up driver/commander and monitors the steam engine. He also fires and operates the weapons from inside the vehicle.
Enjoy and until next time happy new year 2012!
I took me more than a week to update my blog, so I reward you with not one but two pictures. Last time i said I would like to do something within the steampunk genre, so I did. The first one I did on Christmas eve to scare all the childeren. It is an evil titan sized Steam rolling santa that collects naughty children in cages beneath him and uses them as fuel (the burner is in his mouth). I tried to make the picture so he is about to stomp the viewer and grab him. I had to redraw the stomping foot a few times.
The second one is actually somehting that I may develop further, putting it in a battle scene with soldiers at it's feet. I will try some different colour schemes first on it. It is an Imperial battle walker. It's main armament is a self-loading steam operated cannon (it uses partly steam from the pistons and some directly from the boiler. If the enemy gets too near it uses the large circle saw on it's left side.
The walker takes 3 crewmen. 1 commander, 1 driver (aka "Walker") and 1 engine operator. The commander stands with the hatch open and can use the telescope and calculator combination to designate targets and fire solutions. The telescope can lock to the cannon's movement so that when the telescope is moved the cannon moves accordingly (10 degrees to left and 30 degrees right). The driver operates the feet and steers the walker. It requires a great deal of skill to operate the walker and with extremely limited vision the driver must rely on the commander to get directions. The engine operator functions as a back-up driver/commander and monitors the steam engine. He also fires and operates the weapons from inside the vehicle.
Enjoy and until next time happy new year 2012!
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Steampunk and Francisco de Orellana Amazon expedition
Hi,
This is a fast update what my next projects may be. I have a long time wanted to do something for the genre Steampunk. I really like the artist Keith Thompson take on it. Steampunk art combines Victorian age aesthetics with industrial and fantastic mechanical technology. There are people of the steampunk subculture that creates the most cool looking (useless) devices ever. The best part is that the devices are made from all kind of old junk these artists find.
Below is a link for more pictures:
Google picture search "Steampunk"
Yesterday I read about Francisco de Orellana's expedition down the Amazon river. The short story is that in 1541 the Spaniards led by Gonzalo Pizarro and his second in command Francisco de Orellana went out to search for the legendary "Land of Cinnamon" and cities of gold . They started from what is today Peru and through the Andes eastward. Depending on sources they had 220-350 Spaniards, 150 horses and 4000 natives, and a large pig herd for food, when they started. After almost a year navigating through the Andes they arrived to one of Amazon's side rivers Napo. Most of the animals and Indians had either died or deserted during this time. Now their main objective was to stay alive. So Pizarro ordered Oreallana to go downstream for search of food with 56 men. Oreallana and his men never returned to Pizzaro but continued on the Amazon all the way to the mouth of the Amazon. During their voyage they clashed with local Indians many times, on one occasion they even fought a tribe led by women warriors. The Spaniards also committed atrocities like burning and slaying whole villages on the way. Pizarro returned to Quinto with 86 men and lost his position with the king. Oreallano enamoured the Spanish court with his tales and led a new expedition to the Amazon to fortify Spanish claim of the lands. The second expedition also ended in disaster with Orellano's death 1546. Later on Spain lost New Andalusia to the Portuguese what became Brazil.
I was quite inspired by this tale of big hopes and the following complete and utter disaster. I am thinking about a picture of an encounter on the river with the ragtag Spaniards in their boat and hundreds of Indians on small rafts throwing spears, stones and whatever at the already defeated explorers that discovers that their gunpowder is wet. My objective is not to romanticize or glorify what happened, but try to do a snapshot of an intensive situation and what may have happened, a bit like the beach landing in Saving Private Ryan.
I will probaly update again later this week with sketches as for now I must concentrate on my exams. Until later.
This is a fast update what my next projects may be. I have a long time wanted to do something for the genre Steampunk. I really like the artist Keith Thompson take on it. Steampunk art combines Victorian age aesthetics with industrial and fantastic mechanical technology. There are people of the steampunk subculture that creates the most cool looking (useless) devices ever. The best part is that the devices are made from all kind of old junk these artists find.
Below is a link for more pictures:
Google picture search "Steampunk"
Yesterday I read about Francisco de Orellana's expedition down the Amazon river. The short story is that in 1541 the Spaniards led by Gonzalo Pizarro and his second in command Francisco de Orellana went out to search for the legendary "Land of Cinnamon" and cities of gold . They started from what is today Peru and through the Andes eastward. Depending on sources they had 220-350 Spaniards, 150 horses and 4000 natives, and a large pig herd for food, when they started. After almost a year navigating through the Andes they arrived to one of Amazon's side rivers Napo. Most of the animals and Indians had either died or deserted during this time. Now their main objective was to stay alive. So Pizarro ordered Oreallana to go downstream for search of food with 56 men. Oreallana and his men never returned to Pizzaro but continued on the Amazon all the way to the mouth of the Amazon. During their voyage they clashed with local Indians many times, on one occasion they even fought a tribe led by women warriors. The Spaniards also committed atrocities like burning and slaying whole villages on the way. Pizarro returned to Quinto with 86 men and lost his position with the king. Oreallano enamoured the Spanish court with his tales and led a new expedition to the Amazon to fortify Spanish claim of the lands. The second expedition also ended in disaster with Orellano's death 1546. Later on Spain lost New Andalusia to the Portuguese what became Brazil.
I was quite inspired by this tale of big hopes and the following complete and utter disaster. I am thinking about a picture of an encounter on the river with the ragtag Spaniards in their boat and hundreds of Indians on small rafts throwing spears, stones and whatever at the already defeated explorers that discovers that their gunpowder is wet. My objective is not to romanticize or glorify what happened, but try to do a snapshot of an intensive situation and what may have happened, a bit like the beach landing in Saving Private Ryan.
I will probaly update again later this week with sketches as for now I must concentrate on my exams. Until later.
Monday, December 12, 2011
Ali-King of the Jungle
Hi again,
I should be reading on my exams, but instead I went on and drew Ali Ibn Zuleiman. Ali lives during the legendary times of Arabian nights. He is from some far away unspecified jungle beyond the great desert and calls himself "King of the jungle". A long time ago his family got mixed with thunder djinnis and so a part of the family line can command thunder and lightning at their will. In some version of the Legend Ali had a faithful black panther named Shaka that in time of need appeared beside Ali. Other versions describes that Ali could turn into a panther with parts of his body made of pure lightning. When this hero fights evil he wields a golden shield and a blade made of pure lightning. It is said that the blade is made of the wildest lightnings the thunder djinnis captured and forged by their best smiths. The blade was given to Ali's ancestors so they could protect the djungle from outside threats.
I should be reading on my exams, but instead I went on and drew Ali Ibn Zuleiman. Ali lives during the legendary times of Arabian nights. He is from some far away unspecified jungle beyond the great desert and calls himself "King of the jungle". A long time ago his family got mixed with thunder djinnis and so a part of the family line can command thunder and lightning at their will. In some version of the Legend Ali had a faithful black panther named Shaka that in time of need appeared beside Ali. Other versions describes that Ali could turn into a panther with parts of his body made of pure lightning. When this hero fights evil he wields a golden shield and a blade made of pure lightning. It is said that the blade is made of the wildest lightnings the thunder djinnis captured and forged by their best smiths. The blade was given to Ali's ancestors so they could protect the djungle from outside threats.
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Finger Painted Greeting Cards
Hi,
It has been over a year since I last posted something. I have focused my creative energy on photographing. But now I made some finger drawings om my IPad (using Autodesk's Sketchbook Pro). Please download and use for your Christmas greetings if you like it. Please leave a comment if you download.
Picture resolution is 640x480 pixels and should be fine for 15x10 cm prints.
It has been over a year since I last posted something. I have focused my creative energy on photographing. But now I made some finger drawings om my IPad (using Autodesk's Sketchbook Pro). Please download and use for your Christmas greetings if you like it. Please leave a comment if you download.
Picture resolution is 640x480 pixels and should be fine for 15x10 cm prints.
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