The Portal Mason

After doing a little more work on the poster for Max: The Curse of Brotherhood (which came out yesterday, woop woop) I felt like doing some proper painterly stuff again.

So this is The Portal Mason, a stone artisan, specialised in the art of scribing magical symbols and geometry in order to craft portals.

It took several shorter and longer sessions over the course of a few weeks to make this A0 sized digital painting, I don't know exactly how long. Finally a shout-out to my colleagues at Press Play for giving comments and critique for the final tweaks of the image.

Sir Chin-Alot

Spent a short hour doodling after hours at the office, before heading out for a night on the town.

Quite unfinished its nothing special, only a bit of fun with proportion and wrinkles.

Foreign Envoy

Riding the train is still one of my prime motivators for working analogue. Pencil & eraser.

So this is my foreign envoy. Much like the farmer he was made during a train trip. I never decided what his mission is, but judging by his face, I reckon he is getting the deal he was aiming for.

Wheelchair Warrior

Wheelchair Warrior - Lineart

I wanted to draw some fantasy madness and take it over the top, inspired by the art from Torchlight which to me caries a great sense of volume and weight.
However, to twist it a little I decided to make a character which wasn't just a run of the mill hero. Might get around to colour it sometime.

6 hours in photoshop, using a photo reference and the hard round brush.

While painting digitally after a photo of a nude model isn't "the real" deal, or very original, I enjoyed working somewhat traditional. I didn't use any adjustment layers, effects, clipping masks or blending layers, just ye olde round brush. I didn't really time it, but my guess is that it took around 6 hours.
I quite like the outcome.

Oh and the ref was nicked from http://figuresfordrawing.tumblr.com/

Here's some process

Thugxedo

Ink lineart over a pencil sketch and with pencil shading; gangster style.

Signe offered me that I could decorate the first page of her new notebook with whatever I wanted, so I decided to draw one of my series of characters with apparently mismatched looks.
This one became the thugxedo. Ink lineart and mech pencil.

Oh and don't tell her what the left hand means...

Barrel Treehouse

Bringing your sketchbook to long briefings can prove fruitful.

This is kind of an oldie, from late summer 2012. But since my scanner was unavailible until december, this thing has been burning in my sketchbook to get added to the series of treehouses. Kind of extraordinarily for me, I did this without sketch, simply going straight into ink. It was quite the mental exercise, having to plan overlapping items and such in advance.

Farmer Man from Sketchbook

Going to western Jutland, I just couldn't help but think of farmers.

With a nice new set of drawers that we got for Christmas, I finally have a place to put my scanner! This dude I drew this weekend, in my sketchbook, going to western Jutland by train for a thing with my girlfriends family. I guess farmers was what sprung to mind when I thought of western Jutland.

Doodled for a short hour after work. I had fun playing with the clothing, but overall i find the drawing kinda bland. Also even though the snowy white background was thought in when I reached that my doodle should be a man with a map, its still really hard on the eyes.