100 caricatures in 2 days

Well, 2 and a half days. 

You can see the entire process over here http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1404566

I have improved alot during those days, and it feels like I can draw humans from memory with more freedom and shapes. It's only been 5 days of the two weeks of human drawing, so I still have a long way to go before I can go back to animals. But I think I will draw humans more frequently by then, and after!

Caricature challenge

Only 2 days ago, I opened a thread over at Facepunch, asking to draw everyone who posted. I have already reached 80 caricatures, and I decided to stop at 100. That's a major achievement in progress for me who has ADHD and lack of concentration. I managed to find my own loophole bu focusing on the major shapes of a face and spending less than 10 inutes on each face.

I might reach 100 already tomorrow. Here are some examples!

Finally found my long lost inspiration

A few days ago, I had a talk with Stephen Silver over skype, which was pretty life changing. 

For many years I have struggled with drawing humans, maybe because we all know what a human is supposed to look like. And if we can't recreate that from memory, we get discouraged. I always drew animals cause I enjoyed the shape and form, and I sort of connected with them easier than people. 

Stephen told me that I easily could do the same with humans. What suprised me the most was when he said he didn't really know anatomy. I said "what?" really confused. I thought you HAD to know all the muscles and bones in order to be a successful character designer. But that wasn't the case. Only the shape and form would do, as long as you at least knew the basics of the human body.

 I got so relieved hearing that.

Then a thought stuck me; I don't know animal anatomy either! I don't know the names of the muscles or bones or what even drives the animals. I only observed their shape and had some fun with them. Then Stephen gave me the difficult task of drawing humans only, for 2 weeks. And I took that very seriously. 

So that's exactly what I am going to do!

Portefolio 2014

This week we are going to create a portefolio as our assignment at school, and upload it online. 

This features some of the recent work I have done at Noroff.

The player on here is very small...just click the youtube button to watch it directly on YT for bigger size.

Multiple goal syndrome...?

I noticed that I have issues with overcoming too many ideas. I want to do everything, and I feel a constant pressure about knowing everything because of my age. For some reason I get nervous about people going further than me at a younger age. When I see someone who's younger than me doing way better in drawing I usually curl up and whimper about it. Some days I want to become the master of light and colors , other days it's about pespective or semi-realism. I have to learn everything otherwise I won't be happy with myself.

That's what I think at least, but I notice that I am way better off with making characters on a white background than a semi realistic looking scenery with loads of details. I see artists like Nico Marlet and wondering if he did very detailed work like the ones I ahve in mind before he started making characters. 

His work have been inspiring me alot lately and I want to focus more on characters than everything else. 

But as a freelance illustrator I have to know more than how to draw characters, I need backgrounds for the pictures I'm drawing. I am not creative enough to find my own method, because I don't like experimenting unless I know it's taking me somewhere.

I don't know whether it's because of my state of health (some ADD issues that stops me from having a workflow) and other things. I am going to take online courses during 2015-2016 after school is finished, hoping I can evolve my knowledge of art, light, color and perspective so I'll feel more satisfied and confident with my own art.

I'm going to "fight" these thoughts untill then, just doodling and studying various things from real life and taking inspiration from my surroundings hoping it will broaden my mind a little. I am very unpatient without guidance so still life painting is quite difficult for me. I guess it's back to drawing animals and pokemon again to keep myself going!

A nodlecart from Pandaria! Time to draw something new...