Sketchblog - of sorts

Jimmy

2011-10-31T12:44:00.000-07:00

Another TAWmonkey piece. 'Jimmy' was the theme a few weeks ago. Some recent health problems delayed me a bit. I had trouble with this one. 'Jimmy' is a difficult theme, but I went with the fact that jimmy is another word for a crowbar.

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Sorry I Forgot You

2011-10-17T12:38:00.000-07:00

Okay, this one I rushed a lot. Tried out some faster and sketchier lines. I like something about it, but still needs work. Anyway, it's another TAWmonkey challenge: 'I'm sorry I forgot you'. I'll let you figure the story out yourself :D

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Frère Jacques

2011-10-09T13:33:00.000-07:00

Dormez-vous?

TAWmonkey once again. Theme this time round was 'Children's Songs'. I decided on the French nursery melody 'Frère Jacques'. In the song he is supposed to ring the morning bells but he's fast asleep.

Sidenote: I had a different concept as well, where Jacques was a vampire hunter/killer who would fight the creatures of the night with a magically religious bell in a country where night had lasted hundreds of years. It would have been a phony movie poster with the tagline 'morning bells are ringing'. Thinking I might do something with this some day. Happy I went the other way, though :D

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Haunted

2011-10-06T14:36:00.000-07:00

Another evening sketch.

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Evening Sketch

2011-10-05T12:45:00.000-07:00

Just for fun :D

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Time Traveler

2011-10-02T14:45:00.000-07:00

Again for TAW-monkey, theme: 'Time Traveler' Far too late did I realize how bad it looks from far away. Kind of a rushed piece so I don't mind too much.

Interesting note: I loved the show 'Seven Days' when I was younger (still do, when I catch it here and there), so I made the top of the cane a (simplified) chronosphere.

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Konnichiwa!

2011-09-21T12:03:00.000-07:00

Another taw monkey painting, this time the theme was 'face in the crowd'. I like to think he's trying to blend into an old monster movie. Or maybe he's there for the sights.

Anyway, great fun :D

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Cupcake Miracle

2011-09-13T11:09:00.000-07:00

For a school related themed challenge.

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Barbarian

2011-09-04T13:14:00.000-07:00

Another sketch.

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Late-night Sketches

2011-08-21T12:17:00.000-07:00

Just to keep my hands warm and my mind going. Pencils.

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Red Poala

2011-08-16T08:07:00.000-07:00

'The Red Poala is roughly the size of a grown man's head and is known to be completely still when being watched. This is the female of the species and is decidedly brown in color. The males, however, sport a vibrant red fur, explaining the name. Males are hard to find, though, as they only move about during mating season and hide for the rest of the year to protect their fur from sunlight.'

This was fun :D

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More Black and Whites

2011-08-11T06:31:00.000-07:00

Just having a good time with values right now.

Muscle

The Flame

Mummy!

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Warm Ups

2011-08-09T12:26:00.000-07:00

Some warm ups from last week.

Moth

Brute

Mink

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Been a While

2011-08-08T11:52:00.000-07:00

So, the CGHUB challenge... Fairytales Re-imagined.

I chose Little Red Ridinghood. Still happy with my idea, though I realize it doesn't stray too far from the original. Might work on it further some day.

Anyway, didn't leave myself enough time to paint it, spending a lot more time on the idea and concepting - which was fun. Went back and forth on the composition, too. Don't even get me started on values :D

So I'm not entirely happy with how it turned out, but here it is:

Some concepts:

Overalll, a good experience. I also did some warm-up paintings that I'm quite happy with. I'll share those in another post.

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New Carrot in Town

2011-07-03T14:00:00.000-07:00

So, there's this challenge going on over at CGHUB. More on it later. Anyway, I'll be painting for the challenge, and realized that it's been a while since I've done anything more than a speedpaint, so decided to do this practice piece, trying to get back into it all. Happy enough with the result :D

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Boxboy

2011-06-23T11:53:00.000-07:00

Character design done completely within Maya using a limited tool set.

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More Sketches + Hulk

2011-06-21T10:29:00.000-07:00

So yeah, more sketches and a quick paint-over of one from the previous post. Hulk splash!

Looks great if you squint.

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Green Monkey

2011-06-19T13:39:00.000-07:00

An other monkey. Tried out the deviantART muro thing.

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Monkeys

2011-06-14T14:26:00.000-07:00

Last week we had a color class at school and we painted with acrylics. The topic for some of our paintings was 'monkeys', and I've been into drawing monkeys ever since. Here are some done with colored pencils.

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Sketchbook Sketches

2011-06-12T14:01:00.000-07:00

I've been having a lot of fun drawing in my sketchbook lately, so here are some sketches.

So yeah. I'm having a good time.

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Retired

2011-06-05T14:15:00.000-07:00

A late night sketch.

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Sketches

2011-06-01T14:03:00.000-07:00

Just a few digital sketches from the other night. Been exploring proportion and anatomy lately. Lots more in my sketchbook - one of these days I'll put some of them up here.

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The Saint of Spades

2011-05-21T16:17:00.000-07:00

Realized it'd been a whole month since my last post here, so thought I'd better update.

First of all, a gouache painting. The Saint of Spades.

I've had the sketch for this lying around for at least a year. Finally manned up and painted it over.

One of the reasons for my lack of updates might be that I've been very much into my school assignments - they're just a lot of fun :D So I thought I'd post some of my recent exercises here.

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Baron von Milchbard

2011-04-21T12:53:00.000-07:00

Looking at the name now, it kinda sucks, but I have no alternatives.

Anyway, for a contest over at Sketchoholic. Topic was 'ugly with style'.

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Missing Pieces

2011-04-03T13:20:00.000-07:00

Another TAW-monkey piece.

The theme was 'Missing Pieces'. The connection to that theme kinda got more and more obscured as I went, but I still like the end result - was fun to do :D

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Mr. Pickle

2011-03-29T14:05:00.000-07:00

Keeping it cool :D

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Gymnastic Heist

2011-03-20T14:04:00.000-07:00

Again for the weekly school thing.

Couldn't get the face right, so I put in a black bar - ended up liking that :D

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Kung Fu Pig

2011-03-16T14:41:00.000-07:00

Enter the Pork!

For a sketchoholic contest, Sketchoholics Anonymous: Kung Fu Animal.

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The Boy Who Cried Wolf

2011-03-14T14:40:00.000-07:00

For a weekly sketch challenge at school.

Hope you find it amusing :D

Also, here's a sketch for the next challenge: 'Gymnastic Heist'

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Lefty Loves You

2011-03-07T13:20:00.000-08:00

I've been drawing hands a lot lately, for school - I finally think I'm getting somewhere :D

Anyway, did this hand in Painter, because it feels like forever since I've done anything from scratch with that program. Had fun with the colors :D

I think the heart makes it less gruesome - don't you?

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Bulbs

2011-03-06T11:52:00.000-08:00

This is a warm-up assignment from last week for school. We had to design two light bulbs, one good, one bad.

I had fun with this. Hope you like 'em :D

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Ghostly Gent

2011-03-01T03:37:00.000-08:00

Part Photoshop, part Painter - all ghost :D

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Rotary-Man and a Robot

2011-02-27T06:41:00.000-08:00

Hey, so this week at school we were introduced to Photoshop and After Effects. I've had worked with Photoshop a few times before, but still learned a lot and had even more fun. Here's an assignment (a superhero) and a personal thing (a robot) to further explore what we were learning. Masks are super useful :D

We were free to do our own superhero so I did Rotary-Man, a character I'm playing around with every now and then. He's a former sailor with a powerful (possibly alien) device embedded in his chest. The device allows him to dial various traits and attributes either up or down, such as strength, speed, vision, etc.

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Crop Circle Hippie

2011-02-20T12:20:00.000-08:00

Sketched the upper half of this girl and decided to challenge myself to draw the rest, because really do that. Don't know what she's pointing at, though.

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Old Watercolors

2011-02-15T11:32:00.000-08:00

Some latenight weatercolors from last year. Done during my last few days at the folk highschool. Happened upon them today.

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Some More School Work

2011-02-07T12:59:00.000-08:00

Just really happy with this latest assignment, a walkcycle, so I thought I'd put it here.

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Some School Work

2011-02-02T13:31:00.000-08:00

Finished these the other day.

These assignments are from our second week with Lawrence Marvit, and are mostly about value and rendering as well as composition. A fun week :D

The themes were 'giant monster attacks ancient Greece' and 'space pirate fight'.

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Wind Me Up

2011-02-01T13:55:00.000-08:00

A giant wind-up mechanism in your back could be handy when work's got you tired.

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Not the Phantom

2011-01-31T13:44:00.000-08:00

Another quick one. Kind of a mix of the Phantom and I guess the Punisher.

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Some quick ones

2011-01-30T12:30:00.000-08:00

Just a few quick ones from this week. Trying to get back to 'painting' every day. Charles Santoso did this awesome tiger painitng recently, so I thought I'd do a couple tigers. Bit sketchy.

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In The Thicket

2011-01-16T13:00:00.000-08:00

A quick one after a busy week.

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Quick Cowboy

2011-01-09T12:55:00.000-08:00

For fun :D

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2011

2011-01-09T11:03:00.000-08:00

A bit late, but happy New Year!!

Anyway, I've been busy trying to get something out of my holiday, drawing practice and various projects. Nothing really went according to plan, but here are some of the things I did get done. Some watercolor and gouache. Semi-happy with these..

Back to the new year - really looking forward to this year. Gonna do great things in 2011 :D

Jonas bm

Took me long enough

2010-12-21T14:04:00.000-08:00

I've been working on my entry for J. Scott Campbell's interview and contest over at sketchoholic.com, ever since my holiday started this friday, and now it's done. At first I couldn't really decide whether or not to even enter, because the theme was a tricky one: "sexy fairy tale character". The challenge would do me good, I thought, as it is miles away from what I usually do. I would have to really study anatomy to make it work and also read up on a few fairytales. I chose to do a fairy godmother because you don't see too many of those around.

Having settled on an idea, I ran into the next obstacle: should I paint or draw or both? I knew I needed to practice linework so drawing it would be ideal and the other day I figured out how to do line separation in Painter, so lines it was. I think I drew it three times before it came out right.

Tried something new for coloring, especially where the shadows are concerned. Hope you like it :D

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Banner

2010-12-15T13:07:00.000-08:00

So I got around to making a banner for my animation/student blog. Still dancing around making one for this blog. It'll probably be something like this or comepletely different - doesn't really narrow it down, does it?

Anyway, banner:

To see it in its proper place go here.

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Scribbles

2010-12-12T13:16:00.000-08:00

More paint scribbles. Trying some stuff out with these. Hope you like 'em. Middle one is my favourite :D

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Ruoho and The Mist

2010-12-10T17:11:00.000-08:00

Ruoho shows the Mist his favourite puddle/lake in the whole forest. In the next scene he jumps in - you'll have to imagine that one. I think this could be a fun character to work with some more. What do you think?

Did a few other scribbles before the above one. Some loosely painted women.

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Sketching Away

2010-12-09T13:57:00.000-08:00

Indeed I am. Here's one I liked from today.

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Time to Draw!!

2010-12-05T13:32:00.000-08:00

So this week we animated scenes for some students from the Danish Film School. We worked in teams of 4-5 people working on 5 different project. Anyway, the project took up most if not all my freetime, so I didn't really get to do much other drawing. So I've decided to start drawing more, you know, sketching. I actually fell asleep the other day thinking to myself that it's about time I learn to draw - sounds like a good idea, I think :D

Anyway, here are some sketches. I should show more of these here (this is a sketchblog, after all).

Also want to paint traditionally more, so here's a little gouache piece:

So I was busy this week, and so I wasn't gonna enter the latest sketchoholic interview and contest. Until three hours before the interview. Went super sketchy with this one and colored it loosely in Painter. Sketch and finished thing:

Also, I finally got to see 'how to train your dragon' - infinite shades of awesome :D

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TLP update

2010-11-29T13:32:00.000-08:00

Remember how I started a webcomic type project a while back? Thing is, I never got around to continuing it, got too caught up in how to go about it, you know style and such. Part of the project was actually to let the style develop as I went along.

Anyway, I finally did number 2. Pencils and digital color.

Hope you like it :D

Jonas bm

Inbred Unicorn

2010-11-28T12:44:00.000-08:00

Never thought that'd be a title. For a sketch-o-daily, topic was 'inbred unicorn'. I had a ton of work to do for school, but this topic sounde like so much fun, I mean, it's genius :D

Started in Photoshop, finished in Painter. The turning point for me was when I put him in a jar. It was fun.

In other news, I have a student blog, you know, I study animation now at The Animation Workshop. I haven't talked much about it here, but last week's assignment went really well, so I thought I'd share it here.

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Some Paintings

2010-11-21T12:10:00.000-08:00

Some recent digital paintings, done for sketch-o-dailies over at sketchoholic.com. Been having lots of fun painting recently - seems I have more time on my hands to do it right now :D

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Curiosity Takes Flight

2010-11-14T12:31:00.000-08:00

For the James Robertson contest and interview over at sketchoholic.com

Topic was 'flight' and was great fun. Spent a long time thinking about how to go about it, but ended on just painitng it, digitally of course. Again, had fun :D

Also, did another sketch-o-daily during the week. Topic here was 'buddies'.

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Fall is Here

2010-11-09T12:59:00.000-08:00

It is, you know. This is for a Sketch-o-Daily over at sketchoholic.com. Topic is 'spiky', so naturally I thought 'hedgehog' or something like that. More like spiky rodent, really. The autumn-thing just kinda happened. I like it :D

Done in Photoshop, by the way.

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Jinni

2010-11-08T13:58:00.000-08:00

School this week is about design. Very abstract though, to keep it simple. Simple as it is, though, it's hard to get right. Had a composition assignment today with 3 boxes and a line, and it had to be dynamic as well as keep 90 degree angles.

Anyway, had time to sit down and draw on the computer today. Something quick and fun - a Jinni:

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Summer Doodle

2010-11-01T14:19:00.000-07:00

No idea where this came from. Sat down to warm up for my next piggy comic (Which is still MIA, sadly), with something halloweeny, and this happened.

Didn't get around to doing a Halloween piece at all. Makes me sad, really. Still, felt good to do something so simple.

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This Little Piggy

2010-10-25T11:01:00.000-07:00

So I'm starting a little project. Very tentatively, though. Not even sure I'll find the time, but seeing Mr. Charles Santoso doing his first ever children's book got me thinking that now is the time. I've been sitting on this idea for years now, anyway. Should be fun too :D

It's sort of an experimental webcomic with a theme: "this little piggy + something".

It'll have it's own website (or blog, actually). I'll post the occasional one here, though, probably.

This Little Piggy Comic

Cheers :D

Jonas bm

I Like Tea

2010-10-10T13:58:00.000-07:00

I've been playing with charcoal lately. Not gonna share any pictures, just wanted to get it out there. It's messy, charcoal, but it looks really neat - like, try it if you haven't.

This week we've been doing storytelling keys at school, for three different scenes, which has been fun. We've started each morning with Mike Nguyen and his thoughts and philosophies regarding the medium of animation - great stuff :D For more info about Mike, look for his feature film in progress 'My Little World'.

Anyway, finally got around to entering one of those new Sketch-O-Daily contests over at sketchoholic.com. You have like 24 hours to enter, and I still only used about an hour on it. Feel I could have used more, you know. Topic was 'civilized creature' and I thought 'tea'. A few of us did :D

Got third place - Yay!! And here's some Photoshop fun. Scary shaman.

Charcoal, people.

- Jonas bm

Midnight Marsupials

2010-10-01T17:14:00.000-07:00

For Charles Santoso's contest and interview over at sketchoholic. Theme was 'Nocturnal' and it was a lot of fun to do. It's been a busy week, with school assignments and all - animated flour sacks this week - but I really had to make this painting. Actually finished an hour or so before the deadline. Again, fun fun fun :D

Now go look up Charles Santoso's blog. It's great!

- Jonas bm

No Nose Seadog

2010-09-22T12:57:00.000-07:00

I'm continuing my Photoshop practice, and I got to say that Photoshop is actually a lot of fun to use - time really flies with it. Fun fun fun :D

Anyway, I wanted to do something different this time, instead of a face I started out with an octopus kinda creature. Ten minutes in, it's a face...

With all this Photoshop going on, I thought it best to do something quick in Painter.

I'm feeling good about it :D

- Jonas

He put the 'rock' in rocket science

2010-09-19T12:51:00.000-07:00

Joined the Intensity Club this friday - and won! Topic was 'prehistoric rocket scientist' and it was a lot of fun.

It was a great way to end a great week. Looking forward to next week :D

In other news, I've played around further with Photoshop today and had much more fun than last time I tried it. I think the colors are off (different screens), but I like it all the same.

- Jonas

Busy Busy

2010-09-17T15:07:00.000-07:00

Just ended week three at the Animation Workshop. This week, we actually got into animating, going through the principles, and it's been fun and challenging.

In other news, I've been lucky enough to join a few Sketchoholic contests, though time for it is limited.

Here are a few submissions.

- Jonas

Photoshop is a different beast

2010-09-02T12:42:00.000-07:00

I've only just recently been introduced to Photoshop, as in actually using it. Now, I've used Painter for years, but always looked forward to the day where I might hget to use Photoshop, because I hear good things about it.

Today, for the first time ever, I tried painting in Photoshop. It was confusing to say the least. I'm sure it can do whatever I want it to, but I haven't the farthest clue of how to make it do it. The hardest thing is not having the brushes you're used to. Oh yeah, learning Photoshop is gonna be fun :D

Here's the result of today's trial and error.

- Jonas

I Own Salt

2010-08-31T12:41:00.000-07:00

It's not really something you expect to own, salt, at least I find the whole thing peculiar.

I moved out - that's the short of it. First time too. So far I'm doing better than I thought I would - I was thinking 'Giant Nervous Wrecking Ball', but so far, nothing of the sort.

But really, moving out is just a little bit of it. I've just started animation school, yep, I'm an animation student now I was super lucky to get in, and pressure is present, though not as much as I feared.

Anyway, I've been lucky enough to catch a few marathons over at sketchoholic.com, though school is taking up a lot of time.

Space Fisherman

Sci-Fi Witch

Cannibalistic Plant

To conclude:

- Jonas

An Unusual Cocktail

2010-08-27T01:05:00.000-07:00

Marathon stuff again. Sketchoholic.com is the place to be!

This one was a lot of fun, I tell you. Unusual Cocktail:

Here's one from yesterday, started a little late. Two Face:

This last one was for a CHIUstream. Think it came out a little too flat in the end. Cute But Evil:

That is all. Cheers!

- Jonas

Hippie Boxer

2010-08-25T08:29:00.000-07:00

You've guessed it - more marathon stuff. these are from yesterday.

First one, Hippie Boxer:

And then a topic I came up with, Demon Rodent:

In other news, I went to pick up the assignment I did some months ago when applying to a design school. Might put some photos up here.

- Jonas

Phantom Spaceman

2010-08-24T07:13:00.000-07:00

A quick thing I did today, fiddling with brush-settings.

And here's a marathon image from yesterday. Topic was 'Giant Cannon'.

- Jonas

Recent Sketchoholic Stuff

2010-08-20T10:42:00.000-07:00

Intensity Club: Lunatic Army General

Marathon: Flying Seacreature

CHIUstream: Moustache

Been pretty busy this week, so haven't made it to a lot of challenges, but a few is better than nothing :D

- Jonas

They come at Night

2010-08-17T01:23:00.000-07:00

This was a big one. Took me like forever. I tried out several possible mediums before settling on 'tried and true' digital painting. Although I really wanted to do something special and traditonal this time 'round, I couldn't be happier with the result. Plus, was great fun :D

The most fun was coming up with the idea. Think of these semi-magical and dragon-like creatures as the bringers of nightmares or the nightmares themselves. They are curious by nature, but do their job well. Can you spot the youngest member of the group? (Hint: he's called 'Buttons')

This is of course my entry for the Chris Sanders contest over at sketchoholic.com - I'm a huge fan of Sanders, especially his comic, Kiskaloo, which you should definitely check out, and I am really looking forward to the interview.

For once I kept process pictures - enjoy them if you like:

Relieved and content.

- Jonas

Aloysius Again

2010-08-13T14:03:00.000-07:00

Still battling with the 'Nightmares'-theme. Choosing the style is where I'm at right now.

Here's a pen drawing with digital colors:

- Jonas

Sketchoholic Stuff

2010-08-13T00:08:00.000-07:00

So things over at Sketchoholic.com have been so crazy this this - so intense. Marathons all the time. 'Tis truly awesome :D

Here are some of my best entries, as of late:

Topics (from top left): animal on steroids, dinosaur princess, stuffed fanart, angry goblin, siamese twins, warrior princess.

And here's my entry for this week's CHIUstream. Topic: one tooth.

- Jonas

Aloysius

2010-08-10T10:49:00.000-07:00

This is amazing!! Bobby Chiu will be interviewing Chris Sanders next week - Yippee!!

The Topic is 'Nightmares' and I'm getting started early on this one. Huge fan of Chris Sanders. Now, this is just a teaser, cause I don't wanna give to much away just yet - not even sure this is the way I'm gonna go in the end.

For now, though, enjoy :D

- Jonas

Sketchoholic Marathon + Great Day

2010-08-09T14:42:00.000-07:00

Had a great day today. I saw my new (and first) apartment today, and am really looking forward to moving out and starting school at the end of the month.

And the Sketchoholic Marathon was awesome tonight. Great fun topics. Came in a little late for the first one, but did okay.

Satan's Little Helper

Strange Encounter (I chose this topic)

Little reference to Venture Bros. in that one.

Weird Shapes

Cheers, and have a great day!

- Jonas

I Wanna Be The Very Best!

2010-08-08T08:32:00.000-07:00

Finally got the piece to work for me and finished it today. Really happy with the result, especially because it caused me so much trouble. The epiphany that saved it all, was making the pokémon look like plush toys. Totally did it for me.

This is for Dice Tsutsumi's interview, by the way.

- Jonas

Homeless Butler

2010-08-06T15:07:00.000-07:00

For tonight's Intensity Club. Really happy with this one - well, the sketch anyway :D

- Jonas

WIP Pokémon Piece

2010-08-05T06:27:00.000-07:00

I've mentioned Dice Tsutsumi's contest on Sketchoholic before, topic is 'your favourite childhood anime in your own style'. Still haven't decided whether to enter or not. The only anime from my childhood that I remember in any kind of detail would be Pokémon. I remember bits and pieces of other shows, but Pokémon was the big hit when I was growing up.

Anyway, here's a sketch to get things going.

- Jonas

Check out my new hat - Durr...

2010-08-04T15:09:00.000-07:00

For tonight's CHIUstream. Topic was 'fluffy animal mind control'. Great topic, had a lot of fun.

Could probably have gone fluffier.

- Jonas

Jungle Inhabitant

2010-08-03T11:45:00.000-07:00

Just a little sketchpaint. Wanted to give the 'forest spirit'-topic another go.

- Jonas

Sketchoholic Marathon

2010-08-02T14:31:00.000-07:00

Four challenges in a row - kinda pooped now, but man it's been a good four hours :D

The results. Undead Space Ranger, Animal Chef, Forest Spirit, Fat Little Princess.

- Jonas

The Encounter

2010-08-01T12:27:00.000-07:00

Bobby Chiu will be interviewing Dice Tsutsumi in a week's time, and looking at his beautiful paintings inspired me to take out my acrylics late last night.

I don't think I've ever had this much fun with acrylics - never seemed to do as I wanted. Part of it is probably the new paper I'm using, made specifically for acrylics and oil. Plus, I think I respect the medium a little more than before. Hope it lasts :D

- Jonas

Robot-bug

2010-07-30T15:33:00.000-07:00

Done for an Intensity Club, though I chose not to upload it as i had already won the prize before. Instead I spent a couple more minutes on it, while the stream came to a close. Lot of fun tonight :D

- Jonas

How to trap Greedy Blobs

2010-07-28T13:55:00.000-07:00

For a CHIUstream contest over at sketchoholic.com - wasn't planning on entering, but then a doodle got ahead of itself and I just went with it. It's a bit rushed, but I like it all the same. The topic was 'trap' and we had more than a week to work on it - I started today :D Had fun.

How do you like the new blogdesign? Not done yet, but I think it's coming along nicely.

Oh, and here's my entry for tonight's live CHIUstream.

I like the idea, but really wish I had more time for it.

- Jonas

Baby Chewie

2010-07-14T15:30:00.000-07:00

Tonight I had the chance to enter a CHIUstream contest over at sketchoholic.com, and so I did. Topic was 'baby version of movie character'. Had trouble finding my angle, but settled on Chewbacca, the only character who came to mind. Sketchoholic kinda crashed around voting time and wouldn't reload which was a bummer, but I had great fun drawing Chewie :D

EDIT: I found out this morning that I won. Thanks to Bobby Chiu and the Sketchoholic phenomenon!

Raaargh!!

- Jonas

The Golden Mouse

2010-07-09T15:28:00.000-07:00

Is truly golden - I just won an Intensity Club contest over at sketchoholic.com and I am feeling great! The topic was 'little street performer' and was a lot of fun.

In other news I'm on vacation starting tomorrow - just so you know.

Great day!

- Jonas

Wall Street Cyclops

2010-07-07T13:58:00.000-07:00

Nate Wragg will be interviewed on sketchoholic.com in about 7 hours. The contest theme this time is 'wall street cyclops', which I think is a funny idea. Really had fun with my entry. Went the traditional route this time with some newly bought gouache. Again, a lot of fun :D

Oh, and I joined Intensity Club this morning. Topic was 'carny gone wild'. Got a few votes and had fun getting intense.

Last week I entered the contest that accompanied Bobby Chiu's interview of Everett Downing. The theme here was 'Street Magic'. I felt like doing a superhero type character, so I did.

That's about it.

- Jonas

Mr. Pot Head

2010-07-01T21:48:00.000-07:00

My submission for Aaron Hartline's contest and interview over at sketchoholic. Topic: design a new something-head, like mr. potato-head. Was fun.

- Jonas

Godzilla for sketchoholic contest

2010-06-30T06:11:00.000-07:00

Bobby chiu will be interviewing Derek Thompson later today, and as always there's a contest to go with the interview. Topic is 'Godzilla', and, being a huge fan of giant monsters, I just had to enter.

I was planning to go the tradtional route this time, but I quickly messed up the watercoloring. Luckily, I had scanned the pencils and so colored the piece digitally. I think it worked out great in the end.

- Jonas

man vs nature

2010-06-04T16:25:00.000-07:00

Made it to another Intensity Club stream and feeling great about it :D Theme was 'man vs nature'.

- Jonas

granny with a gun

2010-05-28T15:51:00.000-07:00

So I made it to the Intensity Club on time. Go me! Topic was 'granny with a gun'.

I'm quite pleased with it - at least at a distance. Might work on it some more. Might...

Cheers!

- Jonas

short shaman

2010-05-28T00:31:00.000-07:00

Did this last week for Intensity Club over at sketchoholic.com. Topic was 'shaman'. Came in a little late, but had a lot of fun with the subject.

There's another Intensity Club happening tonight and I intend to be there on time this time.

Cheers!

- Jonas

damn pigeons

2010-05-05T13:22:00.000-07:00

Made for a CHIUstream contest over at sketchoholic.com, themed by Michael Defeo. I had fun with this one :D

- Jonas

ampu-raccoon and sci-fi bunny

2010-05-03T09:52:00.000-07:00

The ampu-raccoon was made for last friday's CHIUstream, theme being 'animal amputee'. Sci-fi bunny done after but inspired by.

- Jonas

fairyquest picture for sketchoholic contest

2010-04-29T16:27:00.000-07:00

Title says it all. I like the wolf the most.

- Jonas

dangle 'raccoon' toy

2010-04-27T12:03:00.000-07:00

So last week, I was in Berlin and I went to a few comic book stores there. I don't don't see a lot of these at home so this was really cool for me. Anyway, the comic book stores had all kinds of 'toys', you know tiny collectible figures, plastic or plush. Really want to make my own toys, so here's an idea for a plush one. Just for fun.

Nine more and we'd have a set :D

- Jonas

circus bear in bathing suit

2010-04-27T07:57:00.000-07:00

Done for last friday's CHIUstream (#45) over at sketchoholic.com. Well, okay I actually worked on this version here for a few minutes before uploading it. Nothing more than textures and some text.

- Jonas

bulb fish

2010-04-23T15:17:00.000-07:00

A kind of jelly fish I guess.

what a hurdle

2010-04-14T12:28:00.000-07:00

So I just finished an application test for a Danish design school. It's been a two-week long creative rollercoaster ride, with plenty of ups and one big down last week when I had to change direction well over a week into it. It was tough. I've ended way up, though. Really happy with the end result. What I handed in, was a portion of my process, brainstorms, experiments, etc. and a finished 'product' to solve or comment on the 'problem' or issue I worked with. I ended up making illustrations for a book.

I'd love to show you, but I didn't have time to scan it and all I did manage to do was take some pretty awful pictures. I'll see if I can fix them up on the computer, but if not, I'm going to the school to get the thing back some time in August.

It was really hard to let it go.

Anyway, after this I finally had some time to just sketch and paint for myself, so yesterday, while watching an episode of Hercule Poirot (gotta love that Belgian!), I sketched some creatures.

First one, just pen on sketchbook paper. The others, pencil on cardboard with some watersolluble colored pencils for shading and white details. Fishels, I call them :D

Tomorrow, I have an application test at a school of animation, The Animation Workshop. Hoping it'll go well.

On Friday I'm going to Berlin for a week. Hoping to get time to sketch while down there. Leaving the laptop at home. Should be fun. We'll be visiting some designers and see the art community there up close.

See y'all in a week or so.

- Jonas

goth dragon

2010-04-01T14:57:00.000-07:00

Was able to enter a CHIUstream challenge last night, though I'm as busy as ever at the moment. I'm just happy I did it :D

Off to bed!

- Jonas

lady scientist

2010-03-28T13:55:00.000-07:00

I've been thinking of putting more sketches up on here, so here you go, a quick sketch.

- Jonas

the rest of the books

2010-03-28T12:29:00.000-07:00

After doing the first two books during the first two days, we got to choose our own assignment for the rest of the week. I had the idea to make a kind of 3D barnyard book, but I never got around to it, because I had a lot of other ideas. I made 16 books after the first two.

Many of these books are blank note and sketchbooks of different shapes and sizes.

I made five of the upper and four of the lower that fit snuggly inside the box, which once contained painkillers. The papers from the box were colored and used for decoration. They're really nice in real life :D

In addittion to these two kinds of notebooks I made two tiny books that have pages that fold out.

I found that I really like to put some kind of content inside the books so I took some stories I wrote once, set them up in Illustrator and printed them out on this nice sketchpaper. My stories have now been in print :D

Then I felt like doing something fun and I really love Batman so I made this little book.

So all in all, a really really good week. I didn't get to relax, but I had a lot of fun and got to be more creative than normal. I'll leave you with some pictures from the exhibition.

- Jonas