Expressions.

A series of expressions done for a Q&A with my character, Eberhardt.

Designing for "Vagabond"

First sketches I made while designing the main character of "Vagabond", the bachelor film I worked on.

Kissing.

More Brotherswing sketches.

This project is currently on a hiatus, as Dorte and I have to deal with the end of second year and preparing our pitches for the Bachelor project and other important things.

These are not really new, but they show what I have been doing with the characters lately. Enjoy! And click to enlarge!

Trailer project

Another late update, but here's a little bit of work I made for our first big 3D animation project. We formed a group of several pupils from both lines, the Character Animators and the CGs. Each group received as an assignment to analyse a given film, in my group's case it was the David Lynch classic "Blue Velvet".

It was a very interesting project, and very challenging to do. Here is some of the work I did as a character designer. Soon I will add the work I did as both as a storyboard artist and animator.

It was interesting to go back to my fine arts roots and rediscover artists like Gustav Klim, Egon Schielle and Francis Bacon. The characters ended up looking slightly different in the final result, especially regarding the asymmetry. But overall I'm satisfied with the work I did.

Summer sketches!

Some doodles inspired by reading Marvel comics (Uncanny X-Force and Wolverine and the X-men) and some burlesque acts I saw while visiting Edinburgh during the Fringe Festival. It was an amazing experience, really inspiring, I highly recommend it to everybody!

Super heroes, naked ladies and my dog at the top-left corner...

And have some cats and lions.

More free time doodles.

Hello! This time I bring you sketches I did towards the end of the first year, when I was super busy with assignments and exams. Some of them are even done in the airport while waiting for my plane back home!

Quick doodles of original characters and some movement sketches.

I drew Loki from the Avengers, i really like his design in the film! The man on the right is based on The Spine, a character from the whimsical musical band Steam Powered Giraffe. I recommend you guys to take a look at their songs and live performances, they are great!

Personal sketches.

Some doodles I draw on my spare time. This is more the personal stuff I like to draw for myself.

(contains mildly homoerotic images)

Sometimes I like to grab a pen and draw directly on paper, without any
pencil lines as a guide. It feels very fresh and intuitive.

Free-time doodles!

Here's the first huge sketch dump with assorted stuff I've done in my spare time. You will see original characters from fellow artists, plus my character Eberhardt and other random designs I've come up with, mostly while watching movies or videoclips. Enjoy!

Delayed updates: introduction.

Now this is what I call being M.I.A. ... but hey I managed to scan all my third sketchbook and upload my final showreel from first year, so expect a lot of posts, and some of them gigantic!

For now, have some sketches:

Preliminary sketches for my Dance animation exercise.

Some doodles for a roleplay that was going to be based on
New Orlean's voodoo tradition, currently in stand-by.

More voodoo inspired things, including Dorte's character as a
demon and  having fun with Baron Samedi. Also, some cats.

Been out for a while

I have been really busy since the last time I updated this blog with classes and personal stuff. Hopefully I'll manage to upload the last showreel I made for the end of first year and a lot of sketches I made in my third sketchbook.

As a starter, have a doodle I drew on Tegaki for a friend :)

Also, this is the tumblr Dorte and I are going to use to post updates on the "Brotherswing" webcomic. More stuff coming up there soon!

http://brotherswingcomic.tumblr.com/

Cheers!

More character sketches!

Classes are keeping me incredibly busy, but here's some character design sketches for future personal projects.

Mid-Autumn sketches

These are fairly old, but I rather like them and I wanted to show them around before they're way too old.

Body comparison between these two characters

Designs for Agatha and Gwen Takano: a ship captain and an alien warrior

gasmask study based on Chinese statues of lions and dragons

Self indulgent sketches

This last image needs a longer explanation. First page: looks like Callahan and Eberhardt are dressed up in stylish clothes, but this has resulted to be the origin of an idea for a possible story, currently in development with Dorte .You'll probably see some sketches about this very, very soon.
Second page is a mixture between character studies, thumbnails and silly doodles. The character with black eyes is from Beck's String Theory, a webcomic I earnestly recomend to all of you.

Doodles galore!

I was going to post my linetests from Mike Polvani's classes, but seems there's something wrong with Ernest. I can't export videos on avi, all I get it's a black screen...

While I try to fix this, have some more sketches from my first sketchbook (yes, I managed to fill a whole one in just one month...)

Study for my character, Agatha, and some doodles. Been watching "Carnivale", I recomend it to everyone.

Some rough designs for my blog header.

More designs for the headder, Callahan, Eberhardt, and nude models.

Doodling original characters

This is Dr.Eberhardt, one of my original characters. I'm currently developing his personality and backstory in a role playing game, but I love to experiment with facial expressions and body language with him. You'll see him around quite a lot.

The skinny man in the left is Callahan, Dorte´s character. You'll see him around too, I really like him.

Agatha, another character, currently developing

Another favourite thing of mine: drawing dynamic figures! Specially people fighting, they have so much life! She's another original character and here I try to study the way she would move as well as  her costume design. I'd love that jacket for myself, hehe.

Digital filmaking

At the beginning of the course we had 2 weeks to join the CGA mates and produce a short film. I got to design and animate one of the characters, who happened to be an old, huge football coach. I love drawing this kind of bulky bodies and wrinkly faces. You can see a "mental" plan I made to see how I would animate the resulting puppet (the animation was supposed to mimic the cut-out style used in Angela Anaconda, so I had to study the joint movement and stuff)

And have some shoes. I like to practice drawing shoes, that way I can study how the feet is wrapped with the different materials (leather, rubber,etc.)

First sketches

Some doodles from the life drawing class.