Commission: Dragon Chomping Moon Cheese

First artwork of the year!

It's based on a funny photo of the commissioners pet rat and his dragon character (who is based on a ferret).

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Life drawing at blankspace oslo

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This is the result from yesterdays trip to blankspace oslo, a gallery that offers life drawing sessions. Drawing the human form is one of the most efficient way to improve drawing skill. For the first time I used my laptop and wacom intuos 3 for life drawing. that means both a pc and a tablet on the lap ( I used a second chair to hold the pc) It was surprisingly difficult. I never realized just how much disccrepancy there is between my eye movement and the hand drawing. Normally I can correct for the tablet movement by seeing the line on screen, but when watching the model, my lines are off by many degrees, resulting in thick and thin limbs and a lot of frustration on my part. Frustration was highest around 12-15 and nearing 20+ I started to get the hang of it and resumed working on figuring out what method of looking that actually results in me having reasonable proportions in the drawing. Actually measuring doesn't seem to work out well for me yet (at least not in 1 minute drawings), but getting one contour with (semi) blind drawing and then just going with it has the nicest looking results, even if they are inaccurate.

Speedpainting forest fire creature

I have been streaming twice weekly lately, and aim to do a speedpainting every wednesday. The picture was drawn from a photograph I took of a bonfire some years ago, obviously I added the dragon creature. I chose this for studying colour and smoke, while I also need more familiarity with the forest.

I'm Exhibiting at Oslo maker Faire

 

Oslo Maker Faire is Right around the corner!

I will be exhibiting with a computer and projector, drawing live art for onlookers. The faire is about art and technology of many strange kinds and combinations! Featuring such as Norway's largest smoke ring machine and other fun things. Some beautiful, some intelligent, some useless yet interesting.  I will be playing with the open source program "Krita" and it's mirror drawing function as seen in my sample below.

 You can read more about Oslo Maker faire here: Oslo Maker Faire

Featured below are works of other participating artists, read more about them on the link above.

Update: Maker faire now being in the past, enjoy some videos from the event.