presents, oh there be presents

for my sisters kids.

opinion

three thoughts about opinion. the last one is a twister.

#1
my opinion is never your opinion if your opinion is the general opinion. see? 'cause the general opinion is influenced by the general person which by default is stupid. and that's a fact.. no, not the individual, don't you read? it's the general person mind you.

that's also why my opinion will never matter 'cause once it does it's part of the general opinion. alas, that's why my thoughts are priceless compared to yours. yes, you heard me you general person.

#2
if your opinion is my opinion, then why would I ever bother to discuss yours when mine is so much better?

#3
I love to discuss their opinion since mine only gets valid when we disagree.


in a way I'm deep in water with this one but just found a sketchbook with some drawings and notes. the drawings has to wait though since I'm out on both camera and scanner.

'cause mum says no

Metrik, a guy over at stencilrevolution, did a piece with clouds. had to try it out for a sketch. saw this guy at the train with a breathing mask. one of those white once. one scary piece of meat I tell you.

edit: I'm supposed to be texture and whatnot but haven't seen much of that lately, have we now? fixed.

creative enough?

before anyone jumps the wagon, a jellyfish doesn't have a brain. that said.. creative enough or not funny at all? trying to go the extra mile, not just something I make 'cause I find it worthwhile. I could try to up my skills or I just go with a subtle second meaning. I prefer the later, not just 'cause I'm lazy.

edit: this is turning into one of those epic pieces that never ends. I'll have to wrap this up and move on.

jellyfish, pink or black?

so any thoughts?

progress photo: jellyfish

some progress photos while I'm stuck. what's left is making the shadows on the top-part of the jellyfish.. I suppose I'll change something else along the way too but that's yet to come.

thank you Picasa Web Album for allowing me big size photos, not. you get an idea at least.

into the woods #3

fix a miss-spelling (little thing called insomnia has an s to much on thing) and move the big emblem up then done. thank you.

[update] and the done piece below.

leopard seal

I'm not the one to go on about stuff not related to my blog, art and stuff, but this will be one of few exception. a leopard seal at its best (follow link). while you're there I'd take the opportunity to sign up for national geographic youtube-channel, it's the best.

picture by Paul Nicklen for National Geographic, don't forget.

into the woods #2

added some of the arty farty stuff for the cover, it will be a foldable CD case that is glued together. missing now is a label symbol and some contact info. I'm going for save a tree kill a lumber added somewhere as well.. hopefully as part of the label symbol that, of date, is not done yet.

cheers

into the woods #1

part one of three. will, as of now, become an album cover.

is it a bird or an aeroplane?

special occasion card. bird, monkey and whatnot mixture.

[ball of yarn, colour as you please.]

bathtubs

Bathtubs -how they are supposed to be.

nothing more then a sketch. no greater thought behind it.

chamaeleo

the only one to choose its own fashion, well almost true -the chamaeleo. should perhaps used more colours. as of now framed in a golden frame. yes I do love framing things, at least as long as the frame is cheap.

caw caw -it's for losers

five minutes drawing with only some colouring done afterwards. enjoy

rabbit I'd suppose

rabbit n' rus, again some astronautboys pattern.

wind-up bird: done

don't forget to click on the picture in the "image link of the week" section to explore the artist work.

failure is just a state of mind

omg. worst upload this side of christmas, will hopefully re-upload this picture. soon. and chrome gold + red just tops of the christmas party. well, lets just say I'm not to happy about these two.

russian doll

photo quality isn't what it used to be. got my hands on mom and dads camera. not the one I'm used to but good enough. cloud totally influenced by astronautboys.

garbage man

well since I've been working my central behind off lately as a garbage man AND on top off that been on the downside with adding work here (not good) I'd thought I just add something not mine. oh, and yes, work as trucker is all over and done.

city of yonkers found thanks to web urbanist.

birdie num-num!

markers and what not. mash-up from 5 or 6 different birds, can't remember them all at the moment.

panorama

my room, in panorama "quick style". didn't exactly spend time on it. but you get the idea... and the mess(!). projects all scattered around.

things starts to pile up

issue with having a camera at hand as per usual. thinking of just doing a panorama picture of my whole room at this point. then just doodle with a marker what is new since last...

anyhow, IMAGE LINK OF THE WEEK #5 is up.

sketch: toothy rabbit

two setups I sketched on the bus home. I plan to add texture to one of them at a later stage. perhaps redraw the carrot as well with less details and shape to fit the image. astronautboys is a source of inspiration.

edit: added colours some days to late. not even close to finished. should wash out the colour range some.

wallpaper texture

yeah well, I aimed to add these when they where done but in the end I don't really feel like working on 'em right now. might change my mind and finish them up in a week or in worst case next month.

wallpaper texture by KillxThexScenexStock over at deviantart.

graffiti equals art?

graffiti is art, or is art not in the eye of the beholder?

molly near completion

there. seriously. think I've got the background colour and eyes down for this piece. I've got less then a forth cutting left. yay for me.

free art stuff phase 3

there. phase 3 is done. phase 1 was planing while phase 2 was cutting. now the testspray is done and colours are more or less set in stone. it will be two versions. the lower right one and the two on the far left. had some misfortune with the spray adhesive on the first testspray but changed to 3M spray mount.

had some major problem with the spray cap for the background layer. if curious then just compare to the same piece I posted some weeks ago that turned out much better. I didn't align the layers correctly just to get some differences in between them, but perhaps I should try to get them a bit more in line. no need to go over the edge about being arty?

well anyhow. I know some of you people that visit do stencils yourself. I have a question for you guys -do you want a decent tutorial (stencil tutorial) on how to go about? I've noticed myself that most around lean towards quite crappy, in my humble opinion.

don't forget to check out this week image link of the week on the left hand side of the site. it's awesome.

other then that. a lot is going down. soon to come.

sketch: how to improve myself

ok, first off. I want to make perfect clear that this is in many ways not my art work. yes it's my hand that traced this down in my blackbook. but the inspiration to most of the artwork is from someone I've found on deviantart. astronautboys is the one that should be blamed for the awesome design.

why have I've done something this heavily influenced by someone else? well I figured, how do I improve myself? answer to that was; find myself some good artist. and as you do with any kind of art form. copy, duplicate, learn -so you at some point can improve your own style.

well hope you liked it and don't forget to check out astronautboys.

sketch: flowers are cute

was sketching with my sisters kids today.

sketch: molly

should I share stuff like this? it's a sketch for a stencil I've been working on and off for the last month. finally I think it's done and ready to be cut. perhaps it's to much of a trivia to actually add it here?

this will be done for a friend so no hidden message or stuff like that. was cracking the idea while working on this one, a piece that will, if ever completed, be more political. photograph by Richard Kalvar, must check up on fair use also before I go forward doing anything else with this stencil.

pattern by killxthexscenexstock over at deviantart. taken months to find a appropriate place for it.

sketch: school project

a ongoing school project but I doubt the other groups doing this project have found their way here... markers on second sketch got messed up. they bled tremendously.

this is a USB sender and receiver for controlling electronic devices in your home from your computer. it's meant to be able to do schedule tasks and receiving input from around the home. USB connection is on the back and a 12V plug in front to amplify signal if needed.

basic idea behind the design; slim and easy to bring along with your portable computer. people move away from stationed computers more and more so why create a product that only helps to lock one at place? essential for the product is that it must be very cheap to produce since the market is very young.

for the even more super nerds, it's symmetrical both at length and from the middle out, so only one of two parts need to be produced. the shape makes it ideal to withstand torque compared to a flat one. that allows us to cut down on the material. all in all it adds up to a slim, cheap product that just might look kinda appealing too(?). might add some of the other rejected sketches too at a later stage.

I'm out.

sketch: lady bug

quick sketch. got some inspiration from a magazine along the way so just redid it my style.

sketch: teddy bear

something is off with shadow / highlights. will put this one on hold until further notice. for better view, click on image as always.

project: free art stuff

flowers, 'cause I'm all fresh out of hate

all in all I'm very pleased with the piece, some people have problems with halftone patterns but from the blind-test I did very few people had an actual problem. close to none to be frank.

almost no underspray at all, beside where I was aiming to get some. my goal was to get underspray at the lightest colour of orange to give some glow effect to the flower. didn't quite end up as I wanted. this is the piece that will lay the foundation to my "free art stuff"-project. looking forward.

okapi: rainbow

me messing around with colours. the image is quite big, so for details click on it. need signature and somewhat more then it's all done.

stock picture by darkrose42-stock over at deviantart.

unfinished

my room three days ago, loads of painting missing a layer or two. most of them are finished by now but I still has to snap them with a camera.

stock picture by darkrose42-stock over at deviantart.

sketch: locutus of borg

a sketch I'm doing for a friend of mine. will turn out to be a stencil. title is "locutus of borg never looked this good". gonna combine stickers (a stenciled one), splatters and a 3 layered stencil for each colour (yellow, black and perhaps red) to get something poster-like. hope they like it.

flowers, 'cause I'm all fresh out of hate.

testspray, some underspray due to uneven surface.

sketch: hi

camera versus me, 1-0.

sketch: deep sea fish

I know it's ages since my last post... but only having a camera now and then makes it impossible to update a image blog on a regular basis. a not complete sketch I did today.

sneak preview

next project looks something as seen in the picture. it will not be halftone based on dots though. due to lack of appropriate tools I'll postpone that until further notice. bear with me, the finished piece wont be nothing like this.

anyhow, not sure if I should be sharing process snap shots or just present the finished piece when it's done. beside that... I'm considering adding a series of deviantART submission featuring some of my favorite pieces at that site, credit and link including each post of course. any thoughts on this?

picture taken by Elin and texture is done by KillxThexScenexStock over at deviantart.