Cave Explorer

As a long term project I have been working on a Sci-Fi story which I have mentioned previously in this blog. I have decided to try it out as a web comic. Still in progress as I write this, I just wanted to post this draft from my sketchbook.

The prelude is almost done. It is my hope to have the first few pages published either here or on a separate page in a near future and I'll decide where to go from there. It is tempting to draw it digitally, but I'm still soft for traditional pen and ink. Maybe I'll add watercolors to it as well...

Leif the Lion

I was happy when I was commissioned to illustrate my first Children's Book, written by Anna Engquist about "Lejonet Lejf" (I am guessing the translation would be "Leif the Lion" in English). It will be published for the digital market this fall by the Swedish company Mind Vitamins. I was allowed to show some of the work here and write about it.

 

The requirements of the image were "City Park" and drawn with "Colored pencils". There are many colorful and old quarters in the cities here, so I picked out a few buildings for inspiration and started to sketch up the neighbourhood around the park in the story. The fun part was the challenge of using colored pencils again, I have not done that since the early school days (now it's mostly watercolors and digital images). I hope to show you more of the work done when it has been published.

Trolls Final

I am happy to bring you the final piece so soon. 

Details... I was painting the fine lines with a W&N series 4 size 0 brush, it has a really fine tip allowing me to go into great detail even if the paper size is not very large. I was working on a standard A4 size (about 8" x 11" I think) 240g acid free cotton paper.

 

As I have mentioned previously, this image was based on some writings and drawings I did years ago, I wanted to post the original image here as it gives me a good laugh today:

 

Trolls Pre Final

I am done with the watercolor stage, next will be color enhancements and polishing on some details in photoshop. I am overall happy with the progress so far. Next time I post it will be the finished piece.

 

Trolls update

I wanted to show you the current progress of the "Trolls" image.

This image have really sparked my creativity. More to come soon.

Trolls

Detail from another work in progress. In an old drawer I found parts of a script I wrote back in school, together with a bunch of sketches about the trolls emigrating from our world, never to return again. This drawing was inspired from that.

Little Snow-White (Final)

So, it's July already! I believe I have a lot of stuff stocked up to show you this month. With a few days left to deadline for the Grimm Tales Challenge over at the Art Order, I have painted the last stroke of watercolor on this piece. I wanted to tell the classic story of Little Snow-White and put it in a steampunk environment. I used a lot of brown colors to get a feeling of dust, wood and leather. I really enjoyed painting this.