ALIENWARE14 - And new project! ;)

A couple of days ago I became the proud owner of an ALIENWARE14. And I must say that I am extremely excited about this beast. The design is just amazing. Brushed aluminium, matte black plastic, and none of the anoying stickers that are always next to the keyboard, bragging about what the machine does. Because quite simple, this machine does not need to brag. It is extremely deadly in all its silence. ;)

So far I have don a bit of painting on it, for a project, that will soon be featured on this page. I am not talking about STORMViND here. This is something completely new. Although STORMViND is still in the making, and far from dying. :) I just seem to be able to, better push my own personale projects aside for a while. But anyway this new project is quite exciting, and this computer just rocks my Photoshop CC! :D

Also I have been gaming som Dayz, which is definitely a game I can recommend. Although it is in pre-alpha, so it definitely has some issues all around. Its GPU heavy, lagging, bugged. BUT FUN AS HELL! :) And this laptop runs it like a dream, when it is tweeked to perform. This game will probably rune much better in the future, due to the lack of optimization at its current stage :)

Here it is!

Wish me luck.. I command you!

Today I finally finished and delivered the material for the comic-contest I entered. The pruduct is a couple of strips, and five pieces of character concepts that will appear in upcoming strips.. IF I win, that is! Which is highly doubtfull.. ;-) As mentioned earlier, 1. price is a cash payment, and a contract for a number of strips to follow, with a regular payment plan.

I'm not going to upload the finished material until the contest is over, cause I am not certain how the client will react to that. But here is a picture of the final stage in the process.. Adding detail.. :)

Take care!

Heeeeelloooo!!!

It has been a long time since my last post, due to a busy and joyfull time in my personal life. But now I promise that I am back in buisness, as far as blogging goes anyway.

The last couple of days I have also been working on material for a drawing contest, which I have decided to enter. I am getting close to the end on that project by now, and hopefully it will give me a nice place, let alone some cold cash. ;) First price includes, besides a cash payment, a comission on a regular basis. The only thing that bothers me, is that the manuscripts they send me, for the comic-strips are totally NOT funny to say the least. But thats the life of a comissioning-cartoonist. I will just have to make the best of it.. So wish me luck! :)

Also my laptop is still not up and running, but things have changed a lot in that area though. Th company that was supposed to repair my laotop, lost the damn thing. So they ended up refunding the entire amount that I paid for it to begin with. This resultet in me purchassing a new laptop. I stretched the buget a little further, and ended up buying the 14" ALIENWARE, with an i7 4700mq processor, nvidia GTX 765M, and 16 gigs of ram. This should deffinetly be able to run photoshop well for quite some time. And a couple of games! ;) I promise to give a firm review of this beast when I receive it, and have it tested.

Here is a preview on the material I'm working on for the contest. The style is very traditional and kept really simple, which i deliberatly. This makes it easy to produce on a regular basis... and also the "audience" is typically quite traditional.. ;)

Take care! (And a late happy new years)

New brush tip marker

Yesterday I decided to do a little purchase in my period of testing different brushtip markers. This marker is by copic, and is called MULTILINER SP. And actually it is more of a regular multiliner instead of a marker. This ome just has a paint brush like tip. And a replaceable catridge as well. It beats the POSCA by far.

After using the POSCA and COPIC SP for a while, the COPIC exeeds greatly in the following ways. First of.. The COPIC seems to make a more delicate and smooth line. Second.. The COPIC doesn't need the user to pump or shake the marker to get the ink to the tip. Third.. The POSCA has a tendensy to dry out, even with the cap on. This was never an issue with the COPIC. Fourth.. The POSCA ink doesn't seem to be 100% marker proof. Severel times when i added shadow with my COPIC markers, the linework seemed to smudge. The COPIC SP though, is all waterproof and copicproof!

Just a small update.. Happy new year!! :-)

Brush-tip markers

I recently bought a new "brush tip marker" earlier this week. The trick about this tool, is that the brush tip is actually made of a hair like material, similar to a traditional paint brush. This allows you to make really dynamic linework, although it really took me some practice getting used to. But I am already quite smitten. This one is made by POSCA. 

I am going to try out the Pentel Pocket Brush in the near future. This is a bit more expensive, but is also refillable (unlike the POSCA I've got). So it wil certainly be cheaper for heavy users in the long run. Also the Pental is favoured by many pros as far as my research go. 

Below is a sketch that I just did using it. It was my first try, but I'm quite satisfied.

Take care! :-) 

Inspiration!

"Drawing & Storytelling" signed by the artist Peter "Valhalla" Madsen. My all time greatest source of inspiration in Denmark. This book contains all you need to know about creating a solid visual story.

Don't know if you are able to get it in any other language than danish..

Making progress!

The storyboard for my graphic novel STORMViND part 1 i coming along nicely, but slowly.. :-)

Even though the images does not reveal anything as of yet, I can promise that this "comic" is not going to be for the faint-hearted! ;-)

Merry x-mas!