The Knockers

A bunch of dudes I made for a children's story early this year. They are a race of dwarf/gnome-like people called "The Knockers".

Board Game Characters

I'm working on ideas for a board game! It takes place in a sort of otherworldly market, where different creatures and weird folk try to finish their shopping lists and score the best deals on odd items before sunrise. These are sketches of some of the playable characters.

It's a big project with all the possible characters and item cards that need to be done, and I don't really have much time for it. But it feels really good to work on. Sort of like I ought to have started doing something like this a long time ago. We'll see how it turns out!

So I keep forgetting I've got this blog

But today I remembered, and decided that I was going to write in it as well.

I've been having trouble creating personal work for quite some time, and I suppose even drawing in general. I constantly feel that I need to top myself, or make a really grand project, or really try to fine-tune my style. Everything has to be planned just so. Of course, this always backfires and I more often than not end up creating nothing at all.

And that's really stupid.

So this week I have been letting myself sketch a couple of characters before my ordinary work, without caring too much of how they turned out. This is, aside from an exercise in character design, a way to allow myself some spontaneity. I used to be better at it, and I need to learn once again that it's not the end of the world if the finished product isn't the best thing I've ever created. So far it has felt really good.

I'll keep doing this as well as other exercises here on the blog, and write down more of my thoughts along the way. I believe it will be of help to me, and hopefully even to other stupid illustrators who are thinking too much.

(The regal looking guy is supposed to be Christian II of Denmark (generally known as Kristian Tyrann in Sweden) - I asked my friend what to draw, and she told me to draw the old king without looking up what he actually looked like.)

The Roslath Clan

Earlier this year, while likely playing too much Fire Emblem and watching too much Game of Thrones, I decided it would be fun to make concept art of a couple of clans with RPG-elements.

I obviously didn't get very far, but here is a sketch of one of the families; the unscrupulous Roslath Clan. Who knows, maybe I'll pick this up again one day.

Vikings

My new years resolution is to draw characters more often, so here's a bunch of vikings! I would love to paint them too.

Bleujeanna and Olivia

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

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!

The Keymaster

He's the master of the keys.

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.

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.

Zpeedy

Lite jobb jag gjort för Zpeedy - ett holländskt företag som snabbt levererar förnödenheter så som öl, läsk och godis. De ville ha en superhjälte-maskot och en manual som visar hur processen går till.

"Vi levererar till DIG!"

Mer lär komma.

Señor Juñor Pisco

Jobbar på att fylla ut min portfolio med concept art. Karaktär från en rollspelsession jag och några vänner spelar.

Former och Ansikten

Snabb övning i karaktärsdesign efter slumpade former.

Liknande övning med profiler.

Zodiac

Paus i arbetsproverna och gjorde ett hastigt bidrag till Character of the Week på conceptart.org. Temat var att göra en krigare baserad på stjärntecknen. Den som kan gissa vilket det är vinner en ny, fin bilradio.

Robot IV

Jag hinner väl för sjutton inte fortsätta mer på den här nu?

Robot II

Nu får robotskrället vara färdigt. Tanken är att jag ska göra flera stycken till ett skolprojekt. De andra i klassen tror att jag bara ritar djur, men tji fick de för jag ritar robotskrällen också.

Orc 3

Gjorde en digital också.

Kanske räcker nu.