Fraggle Rock Boober

Today Jim Henson would have been 75 years old. I grew up with the creations of The Muppets and Fraggle Rock and they bring out a lot of memories even today. Boober was the character I remember clearest from Fraggle Rock. He was the coolest of them all. To me, Henson represents creativity and innovation. I am happy that his legacy carries on to inspire new generations, and this image, though small, is my tribute. May his legacy never die.

Boober Fraggle. Watercolour and Gouache.

Portrait of a Train Driver

Working on a rather fun children's game (that I cannot for obvious reasons reveal too much about at the moment), I got to do some character portraits. This of an old Train Driver that I became rather fond of...

I hope we'll be finished with the project soon enough to show you a small movieclip of it.

Story of a Tomte (part 3)

Have had a nice holliday; walking the forest, picking mushrooms, blueberries, raspberries... made new friends, met a frog and longhorned grasshopper, and on top of all that, I finished the watercolor work on my piece about a tomte! It has a nice warm classic feel to it which I don't want to change.

 

Now a few digital strokes are still going to be added in order to work out the values better, but as this piece is larger than my scanner I will have to send it off for digital photo reproduction. that will give me a nice crisp image without too much paper texture to work with.

Story of a Tomte (part 2)

I have started the watercolor process of piece, thought I'd give you some progress shots!

 

The underpainting done...

 

Started to work on the shadows...

Story of a Tomte

Continuing on the trail of Scandinavian folklore, I am doing a small series of images telling the story of a Tomte and his many struggles. Below are early images from the starting process.

 This was the second draft that I made, it explains the general idea of the image...

I then did a little more refined sketch that I will base the finals on...

And a quick value composition in Photoshop I will use as reference when painting the image in watercolor...

Utopia 54 (page 004)

Time for another page! I am seriously considering making a separate page for Utopia 54 soon. Reason being It is starting to dominate my first page!! The idea for this month is to put up some more sketches and drawings of fairy tale creatures though. Hope to bring your some interesting stuff soon!

Phoenix Vehicle Sketches

The Phoenix Vehicle is a Special Unit's Vehicle in Utopia 54. These were the first sketches that came to play after a small series of shapes/silhouettes I did a few years back. In the beginning it was more resembling a dragonfly, but after shaping the front like a beak and the lights were shaped as eyes, I decided to name it after the fiery bird I love so much: The Phoenix.