Beauty Approximations

Quick concept for environment in intro shot.

First test for album cover for my friends band.

Painted some random colours onto a very wet watercolour sheet and let it smudge itself out for ~12 hours (quite amazing what those last 6h did). Captured the result and slaped it over this night sky. Next up is an animation with the elements together to get an idea of what I need to able to control, in other words, what I need to generate in CG and what can be real elements.

Sketched on the horizon look that the patterns from previous posts would be placed against. This is ment to be live photage later on but I did these tests to think through colours and such. Hopefully I will take some test photos soonish.

I started to sense a picture I wanted to realise but realised that I've basicaly done it allready, around 8 years ago. It was done when I was learning 3d and named to the half embarrising "Schizophrenia", but whatta hell, if you don't stick with your past what's the point of moving. Instead I figured that now would be a good time to remake it with updated ideas, tools and skills. So here's the first draft of it together with the original(top). Next step is to add some effectul blend between the two faces. I also need to improve the fleshy feeling at far right as I want the picture to transcend from clean computer geometric abstraction to realistic naturalism. I'll also hope to experiment some with 3d elements to enhance the composition. Regarding the original it's kinda funny to see the classical beginner mistakes in anatomy like enlarged eyes and scaled down upper skull. H ere's a small treat for reading this post.

Maby inspired by my visit at Tate Britain's Turner rooms yesterday I wanted to get into some landscape painting. I've got some ideas on creating a very closed romantic nature scenario and mix in abstract elements with that, maby a geekier version of some of Bjork's stuff. Hence I picked the "pond" as it hold that feeling of a seperate ecological system, a world on its own.

Another study. As subject I picked proffessor David Harvey who's one of my intellectual heroes and I will probably finish of this thing by wrapping him in a quote of his. His a marxist economist and his book "A Brief History of Neoliberalism" is a golden nugget for future historians. It's rather academic approach will never make him a spokesperson for the globalisation movement but he more then anyone gives me the confidence that the facts truly are on our side.

In an effort to diversify my style I used this Norman Rockwell sample as a reference. I'm mostly interested in Rockwell's semi cartoon look and I might go back to reach for those warm colours that makes his characters so loveable. Tip, "Freedom of Speech" is what art should be in my mind.

Generic portrait. Slowly leaving the stereotypical look that I've grown attached to. Problem being that I don't know where I want to go with them.

Did another attempt at this. Trying to both brake the somewhat boring overall look of it while also attempting to bring some depth by putting a bit of complementary yellow in the foreground, this could be light coming from the car (the camera is traveling on a road in some desert landscape). Also sharpened the details and lighting of the BG. Think I'll leave this to history now anyways.

I've got this idea for a video for the song "Goodbye" by Ulrich Schnauss. I've spent some spontaneous hours on developing the look and this little thingy is a result from that. I set out for sketching an abstract horizon that I could remake to 3d. Maby it got to real.

Filling out the background with sorrowful cool urban youngsters. Thought it be ironic that in the aftermath of our lifestyle we, the grand kids of god's murderers, will find ourselfs in a state of collective guilt, typical for christians. The contrast between "identity" and "faith" also hold some tention rendering the people malplace. Maby it's the "individuality" versus the "collective" causing this?

After my film was done I've put myself in a state of idleness. I've spent some time on a few random ideas with no deadline in mind. I think I didn't want to post anything here as that would be seen as progress when I really didn't want to "progress". I will get back on track soner or later but to not let this blogg be eaten up by some droning software from Blogger I post the two latest things I've done. The grayscale one still being WIP.

Quick test for title screen

I'm back baby! After a hysteric museum touring last few weeks I finally reeched culture overload at the Louvre this morning. Maby I'll write something about my thoughts around it but right now I feel nothing but a humble admirer for the masters whose work should speek for it self. What's more interesting though is that I've got a lot of inspiration to do some proper 2d stuff. This guy is one of many speed drawings and can mark the beginning or the scepticism all ambitious projects should be met by in the beginning.

Added some strong shadow, tried to brake the strong contrast between the shadows in eyes and the rest. Generally messed around with the cheak, maby 'll check some references cause I constantly seems to be insecure about that region. Now I'm going insane on the left eye so I take a brake until tomorrow.

Something I started on yesterday.

My side, waiting for Simons. This looks better zoomed in I think.

An anxious night a while back, while trying to sleep, I had an idea of what I could do for Daliga Gatans next gig. I told it for Simon the dude who wanted in on this one. This is a chunk of what I've brushed up tonight. We took photos of ourselfs in the bathroom, smudge them together in PhSh, collected all the photos we had with a "near and human" feel to it. Still got some work to finish up before Saturday when our naked skin could be cover the wall of Norrlands Operan.