Christmas Presents

...for my family!

FAQ

I have gathered some frequently (and less frequently) asked questions about me and my work, in an attempt to quench your undying thirst for knowledge. I might expand on this if anything else comes to mind, but for now:

Q: You seem to be some sort of drawtist, so can I hire you for this cool paying job I have in mind?

A: Absolutely you can! Any serious job inquiries are always welcome, so just contact me through email or PM.

Q: You seem to be some sort of drawtist, so can you draw me a cat/a flatbed truck/whatever I want for free? It will be good marketing for you!

A: Absolutely I won’t! As someone who draws for a living I will MOST CERTAINLY NEVER do anything for free, however cool your flatbed cat truck may seem. Free marketing is never a good enough reason, and you should know better.

Q: How did you make [painting]?

A: Unless otherwise specified almost all of my work is done with Photoshop, and the version I’m currently using is CS5. I use a Wacom Intuos3 to paint.

Q: So, how did you learn to use this ‘Photoshop’ then?

A: When I started out as a digital artist I used to hang around the forums at conceptart.org. I learned a lot by joining in community painting exercises, getting critique from my peers, and studying other artists’ work and tutorials.

Q: Did you go to art school at all?

A: I did! But I knew Photoshop before then. In 2009 I went to Konstskolan Basis in Stockholm to study the basics, and then went on to study graphic design and illustration at Nyckelviksskolan in 2010.

Q: Have you made any tutorials I can look at?

A: Nothing that isn’t in a magazine or made after 2008. I do have plans to make more tutorials in the near future though. Stick around and you might just get lucky!

Q: Why do you draw all those stupid animal characters all the time?

A: Because it's fun to play around with their shapes. Also because animals are funny and stupid. 

Q: What did you think of season three of Downton Abbey?

A: I thought it was worse than the previous seasons, but is this really…

Q: Have you ever kissed a girl? Are you a mormon? Can I borrow your penguin T-shirt?

A: T-this certainly isn’t relevant! That's enough for now!

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(Didn’t find an answer you were looking for? Just ask me directly, but keep it classy!)

Glögg

Made för an invitation to a glögg-party. Glögg is mulled wine that Swedes drink in December to forget it's dark, cold and miserable.

Batman

You know, from TV!

Bleujeanna and Olivia

Two inhabitants of the Cattery in A Defender's Tale! Monsieur Bleujeanna, a sphynx cat, and Olivia, a persian.

The Map

The map to the islands from A Defender's Tale!

The Companions

The companions you can choose from in A Defender's Tale; Oonie the ostrich, Linus the lizard and Noah the goldfish.

A Defender's Tale (formerly known as Defender of the Realm) is a choose your own adventure-book for iPad that I'm working on full time at the moment! There will be more updates along the way. If you want to know more about it you can check out its Kickstarter page!

Dwarves

So I made these guys last month for a tutorial on dwarf designs in Fantasy Artist Magazine. I didn't have much time to get it done, but in the end I think it turned out alright.

Yes, I'm uploading this for your sake, Richard!

Stinky

Sorry for the lack of updates, guys. I've been working on a few things during the summer that I can't really share yet, but in the meantime you can have this little picture of Stinky, from The Moomins.

The Keymaster

He's the master of the keys.

Rainbow Friends

As some of you might know, during this last year me and a couple of guys have been working on a puzzle game for iPhone called Rainbow Friends, and now it's finally out in the App Store! Check it out!
We would really appreciate it if you felt like supporting us! Download, play and give it a rating! it helps us more than you might think. It's a really fun game once you get the hang of it!

How to play:

The game is a color-based game where you connect animals according to the rainbow colors, and try to make as long a chain as possible.
When you've made your chain you press the collect button to get points and extra time.
The more turns you make the harder it gets, and once the time is up the game is over.
If your chain contains all five colors you get the Rainbow Friends-bonus!

Now go and get a great highscore!

Character Sketches

Sketches of some other characters I may or may not flesh out. We'll see.

Characters

A couple of new character pieces for my portfolio:

Toilet Paper

I never kid about toilet paper.

Animal of the Day: Octopus..?

I forgot my drawing tablet at the studio so I drew you this cool octopus with my mouse instead. SHIT BRO LOOK AT ALL THOSE FEET

All nine of them.

Animal of the Day: Bat

I didn't have time to finish this today so here's a sketch of a bat to keep the internet-wolves at bay. :P

Edit: And here's the rest of the bat, but I'm basically one day behind!

Animal of the Day: Penguin

Animal of the Day: Ocelot

Animal of the Day: Armadillo

Animal of the Day: Marlin

Animal of the Day: Manatee

Animal of the Day: Flamingo

Cynical flamingo cares for none of that commercial Valentine-hogwash, thank you very much.

Animal of the Day: Crocodile

Animal of the Day: Crow

Animal of the Day: Water Buffalo

Animal of the Day: Anteater

Technically it's a new day so this should be COMPLETELY LEGAL.

Too wide for the blog though.

Animal of the Day: Wombat

Animals, son. Let's try it again.

Fred

This is Fred. I made him for a website. See if you can find which of the rabbit sketches he was based on.

Rabbits

 

The rabbit design brainstorming session went well.

Boogie Woogie

Dang birds.

Filthy Annoyed Knight

Here's a character concept I did with a random description generated from Character Driven - a blog dedicated to character design.

The keen observer might have noticed that I've switched to English this year. That's because people from other countries don't seem to understand when I type in Swedish for some reason. Fåniga utlänningar.