Anything Anders

Troll in midsummernight

2011-10-16T11:38:00.000-07:00

A painting done for aibjumble.blogspot.com where the current topic is Gradfilm Encore.
Since it hasn't been many months since I finished mine, I decided to do a different take on the style.
Also a good opportunity to practice some digital painting!

33rd Sketchcrawl

2011-10-16T11:29:00.000-07:00

So this saturday was the 33rd international sketchrawl (as created by Enrico Casarosa). It is the 5th in Luxembourg which is run by Gillian Reid. It was my first one (or second one if you count the one a few weeks ago (which was not part of this international event.)
Here are some drawings from yesterday and some from last weekend:

Operation Moonfall

2011-09-18T13:07:00.000-07:00

Been working on this one on and off for some time, and decided to move on to the next thing now.

A little rough around the edges but a fun exercise.

Drink and Draw

2011-09-18T07:37:00.000-07:00

Some sketches from last night's "drink and draw" (plus a page from earlier in the day).

I expected the drawings to get progressively worse, but I gotta admit I enjoy the later ones.

Thanks to Rob for arranging it, check out his blog here.

Fanart? Yes.

2011-09-12T12:48:00.000-07:00

A collection of sketches from the last week or so.
Been getting into some fanart as a starting point for some character design.
Recently I've wanted to get into colour, so I started flicking through James Gurney's book of Light and Colour. It's a great book worth a read, and very inspirational. Check it out here.

It's been ages since I've done any sort of painting so this was quite refreshing. Later on I want to try out some larger illustrations once I get back into the swing of things.

Grund sketchcrawl

2011-09-04T10:47:00.000-07:00

Went on a sketchcrawl with some folks from fabrique this weekend, and visited the Grund for the first time.Grund is a district in Luxembourg city, located within a large valley.It's a very attractive area with scenic views and nice pubs where we enjoyed some cold drinks in the hot sun.Here's a couple of sketches from the crawl, plus a few other doodles.

Luxembourg

2011-08-24T12:08:00.000-07:00

I have now found my way to Luxembourg where I'm having an internship at Fabrique d'Images for 3 months.
Flew down from Bergen via Copenhagen where I spent a few hours.

Luxembourg is pretty cool so far, and I find it very similar to Norway in terms of living standards. There are quite a few animation studios around despite the small size of the country. Fabrique lies in a small village named Kehlen and I find it odd to have a studio of 50+ employees in the middle of fields and forests, but I like it. Went to the zoo this weekend, so here are a good mix of drawings from this month.

Førdefestivalen

2011-07-11T06:52:00.000-07:00

This weekend the Førde international folk music festival happened in my hometown, and for the third year in a row I worked as a doorman for various concerts.
It's a great way to earn some money while discovering a lot of good music. Ana Moura was one of the highlights this year.

I managed to do a few sketches while watching some of the concerts, so here are some of them plus some random faces.

Last days in Bournemouth

2011-07-11T06:38:00.000-07:00

Some scribbles from the last days in Bournemouth and a bit of Annecy.

GO-RILL-A

2011-05-07T13:06:00.000-07:00

because they're awesome

some fairly recent drawings

2011-05-07T12:52:00.000-07:00

Assessment is coming up, and as I was scanning in some drawings today I thought I might as well post some of them up here. It's been awhile!

It's hard to describe how much I'm looking forward to finish of this term, and the degree. Once that's done I'm going to get back into more observational work.

some old random sketches

2011-02-12T13:49:00.000-08:00

Some old sketches from before summer, done in between other work.
The guy with his hands in his pockets is a background character design for Back to the Sea, a film (that I think is still) in production at Glory 'N Dream animation studios in Nanjing/Shanghai.

Cthulhu

2010-12-14T08:52:00.001-08:00

Slimy!

Anatomy ecorche drawing 2

2010-12-11T04:24:00.001-08:00

Digital drawing over photograph

Some more China gesturework ++

2010-12-08T03:08:00.001-08:00

China gesture drawings

2010-12-02T11:19:00.001-08:00

Hey there

Been a while since I updated last, since I've been focused on my final uni project.
Anyway, I've scanned a bunch of stuff for the upcoming assessment, and I'll be posting images from that every now and then.

peace

Various troll concepts

2010-10-24T05:49:00.000-07:00

Some character concepts for the student film I'm currently working on!
None of these are the final.

More observations

2010-10-24T03:27:00.001-07:00

Anatomy ecorche drawing 1

2010-08-19T02:38:00.000-07:00

This summer I've attended an online anatomy course, where ecorche has been the practical assignments. I'll post more once I've tidied them up.
Check out the course here

Summer observations

2010-08-19T02:28:00.001-07:00

Here are some sketches from the time I spent home during the summer.
It's been fairly wet and cold, but as I'm writing this it's taken a turn for the better, much better. Chances are I'll go out and do some more drawing before I return to England!

Things from my mind

2010-06-13T07:42:00.000-07:00

Some sketches I did a while ago, a break from all the lifedrawing before. Will post more of this since summer just started and there's not a lot of figuredrawing to be had.

Film poster

2010-04-30T15:10:00.000-07:00

Marwell zoo!

2010-03-31T03:32:00.000-07:00

Weekend update

2010-03-13T14:52:00.000-08:00

Armors and more nudity

2010-02-23T13:53:00.000-08:00

Lifedrawing this week

2010-02-13T18:00:00.000-08:00

Had a really good lifedrawing session this week, some continuous line drawings done with pen.
Worked really well, and helped me to focus more on the shapes then I have been doing lately.

It also helped on foreshortening, which I have a tendency of messing up.

Christmas and winter sketches

2010-02-08T12:52:00.000-08:00

Liferdawing from fall 09

2010-01-14T12:14:00.001-08:00

Gesture drawings

2010-01-12T10:36:00.001-08:00

Animal sketches

2010-01-12T10:25:00.000-08:00

Random drawings from 2nd year, term 1

2009-12-22T18:07:00.000-08:00

Time to upload some more work from the past few months.
Here is a somewhat random selection of drawings I have done lately.

Landscape

2009-12-07T12:05:00.001-08:00

A little sketch I did from a photograph I took while hiking.
Good times!

Done with a 2b pencil.

Gesture!

2009-12-06T05:15:00.000-08:00

Some gestural sketches i did the other day, for the student film I'm currently working on.

Columbus tabletop

2009-05-16T08:59:00.000-07:00

To compensate for the lack of updates lately I'm doing two today!
This is the Columbus tabletop. The assignment was to come up with a design showing how Columbus' table could have looked during his first voyage to "India". And yes my painting skills are pretty bad.

Artist studio process work

2009-05-16T08:34:00.000-07:00

Here are some images from the process behind the artist studio. Scroll down to the first post to see the final design. I quite enjoyed this one, despite the long nights.

More life drawing

2009-05-04T12:11:00.001-07:00

Some drawings from first term

2009-05-02T10:45:00.000-07:00

Marwell spring 09

2009-04-28T12:11:00.000-07:00

Here are some drawings I did when we went to Marwell zoo just before easter. The most recent trip was (very) cold and rainy, but the week before was real good with some nice and warm sunny weather. Got some alright drawings there, and here are a few of them.
Apologies for the poor picture quality.

Gesture drawing

2009-04-26T11:08:00.000-07:00

Figure drawing

posemaniacs + gesture

Posemaniacs

2009-04-18T15:28:00.000-07:00

For anyone that's into drawing and want to improve, you should have a look at posemaniacs.

It's a great site that lets you do 30 second drawings from a library of nearly 20000 anatomical figures in different poses and angles. It's pretty awesome! It's mainly meant as a supplement to gesture drawing, but it's pretty handy either way I would say.
There are also some 3D models of bodyparts that you can spin around in 3D, and some are CT scans apparently. Nifty stuff!

www.posemaniacs.com

Check it out!

2009-04-18T12:35:00.000-07:00

Blogging is all the rage these days, so I decided to start my own little thing to post anything I would like to share. I'm gonna use this mostly for quick drawings, but I won't restrain myself to only that.

I'll start off with my most recent hand in for the Layout unit in animation. Not exactly a quick drawing, but I think it came out alright. I'm happy with the drawing, but not so sure about the painting