Barcelona

Just got back from a short trip to Barcelona, which was an amazing city. 

I didn't have time to draw all that much, but the ones I did turned out super advanced! 

Notice the lined paper, surely the choice of a pro. The style I used is what one of my teachers disapprovingly would call "beardy lines". The pen I used is a high tech ink pen that I found in our Hostal.

 A really fast sketch of my two travelmates.

A monkey. Always a monkey.

A beautiful night down at the harbour in Barcelona. There was some guys playing guitarr. A girl in a white dress passed by and just started dancing to the music.

It was a really inspiring trip, I have lots of ideas for paintings and sculptures now. By the way, I'm staying at my sisters house and I took some pictures of a sculpture I gave her for christmas last year.

My sister doesn't have Photoshop so I had to edit it in good old ms Paint. 

It's made of Super sculpy, fabric, string and wood.

Sofia

A portrait of my friend Sofia. One of the most wonderful people I know, and not only because she was patient enough to be my model. She lives in Norway, so I don't get to see her all that often. But this summer we hung out a lot, and she's as freggin awesome as ever. I totally love you, dude!

A girl on a chair

Today's doodle, ca 30 min. I used a cold purple as the dominating color and then put in some hints of warm orange-red to liven things up a little. I'm kind of a sucker for monochromatic color schemes.

Quick sailor painting

A sea captain, ca 1 hour. I started with an orange-red underpainting which brings out the blue tones in the desaturated color palette on top. Yeah, I bought a book on painting color and light so I thought I'd try some stuff out.  

ZBrush doodle

It's a sunny day but I don't care. I would rather sit inside by the putie. Yep, I'm a rebel like that. 

Yaaargh!

I'm going to a pirate party tomorrow so I felt like painting a pirate.

You know, eye patches are cool and all, but I would probably be much more scared of the pirate who didn't wear one.

Third 3d studio max exercise

It's a shark! I made him purple, the color of danger!
This assignment was to model underwater creatures using imageplanes and get more familiar with the different modelling tools like extrude, inset, cut and all that jazz.

I like Maya, but 3D studio max really has a lot of nice features when it comes to modelling. Like the tools are easy to use and easy to access through a sidepanel instead of hidden away in menus. 

Also  the mirroring and smoothing operations are done using modifiers.

In Maya you can just press 3 to see your mesh smoothed, so that's pretty handy. But by using modifiers you can perform several operations and then preview them at once and just as easily go back and continue to sculpt. I'm still a total newb when it comes to Max but I'm starting to like it more and more.