Jon

A portrait of my friend Jon as a gift to his birthday from a picture he uses as avatar. I started this some months ago as a sketch that I just continued to evolve. this was actually the first realistic styled portrait I started. I am happy with the level of detail in the face but the overall proportions turned out so and so. I also seriously need to work on my blending skills. :) Very difficult for to make things not entirely pitch dark and still a solid colour.. but I had to rush it in the end. Could be a matter of the paper I used a bit as well.. not sure.

Dave Longstreth

I Started painting a picture of Dirty Projectors' David Longstreth yesterday and finished it off now as I learned that they are releasing their new album today. :) Even if I knew it was around the corner it was an odd coincidence. The Album is titled "Bitte Orca" and you can listen to it here on spotify


The reference I used was a press-photograph by Mia Ferm

I used graphite and charcoal for skething and pastels to colour it again. Size is 3/4 of an A4.

Some drawings...

A sketch of a female torso. First try on that. used a photo by m-LaRa.deviant.com as a loose ref. Messed up the shoulder.

Bought some pastels and tried them out.
John Darnielle from the Mountain Goats.

Started out as a quick sketch but as I wasn't very happy with it I worked some more on it. 2h in total. A bit too small to use charcoal and pastel chalks on, at least for me. I'd do it twice as large if I could redo it. Size A4 on recycled paper. ref from a photo by Markvans.

The finish line is in sight.

I've had so much to do these last weeks and neglected a lot of things because of it. The Uni has been the chief culprit with me having little inspiration and motivation to acutally finish all my exams and papers off. But I'm seeing the end of it soon and summer and holidays are on the way! :)

I've been working with foley and sounddesign work on a short film as well:

"Draken"

http://www.vimeo.com/4960333

My first time doing this kind of work from scratch with no sound being recorded on set. The sound is not entirely finished in this version, I have done some changes and additions since, but I don't think the finished version will be available online. My work on this short film will be done next week. I'm also happy to report that the movie won VAFF, the regional selective competition for Novemberfestivalen in Trollhättan. The original music was done by Anders Wall, a very talented chap. Directed by the equally talented Nils Moström.

I've scanned some quick drawings I've done recently and will post them on Deviantart and here this weekend.

hey

First message.

Avelorn is something I just made up when I went to high school. I did learn later that it was a region of the Elven Kingdom in Warhammer, not sure I got it from there though. Maybe subconsciousness cause nonetheless I've been painting miniatures for the better part of my life(perhaps?). Not that I've painted like a badger on speed but that's where I've put my colour creativity when it sneaked up on me. Recently I've started to draw as well, trying to step up to the challenge of drawing lines. Miniature painting is mostly a line-less craft you see. It's about colour and lighting, and adjusting lines at most, but never about getting that jaw line just right. That is what I know nothing about, but hopefully, this time, I will actually learn.

Well enough of this drunken rambling, I'll probably have a few pieces up by next week that I've worked on recently. My nick on conceptart and deviantart, coolminiornot is Avelorn as well. And so is my mail at hotmail. This will be the homepage I will adress to for now.