Happy Halloween!

So in honour of today's celebration, I bring you a Halloween piece!

First the sketch:



And the finished:
As you can see, I did some changes. Dropped the pumpkin and cropped the composition considerably. Think it looks nice like this though!

Arabian Nights and an Indian

Hey all!

Just a few things I drew lately. First up a random Indian boy...just hanging, I guess.


Then there's this fairly quick photo-study I did of a belly dancer. The reason for this was because I wanted to draw something Arabian (for a theme at an Icelandic art site), so it was mainly a little research. It then ended up being the reference I used for another picture, completely in my own style, which you can also see below!


Here's the belly dancer in 'my style' :D Ink and cel-shading...how I missed you!

Hi all!

Here's something new and different to share. I did an animation for an animation course at the university. We were allowed to do whatever we wanted to, so I decided to try my hand (quite literally) at traditional, hand-drawn animation. Well, it was drawn digitally, straight into Photoshop, but the method itself is still traditional. I've never done this before, so this was definitely an experience!

With my love of different cultures and general history, I decided to make my animation about the evolution/progress of mankind, shown veeery quickly. I just have this one lady progress through the ages, nine different ones, to be exact.

I really wanted to add colour to it, but I ran out of time! So frustrating. Because initially I intended to show only the rough animation (yes, the entire thing is also available in rough), but I decided to clean the whole thing up with ink so I could later colour it. Oh well, maybe I'll do it anyway soon.

I know the text on the side is in Icelandic, but it should be fairly easy to decipher. In any case, here's the order:
Stone Ages > Egypt > Rome > England > France > Switzerland > N-America > Japan > Present Day.
Also, the title at the start is a saying, it means roughly to go very fast and quickly over something. In this case, World History :p



Song is a clip from 'Judy is a Dick Slapð by Belle and Sebastian.

The Last Three Airbenders

Hey all, long time no see!

Actually, that also applied to my drawing muse, seemed like it went on vacation. But I think I'm back on track, at least for a while!

So my two best friends and I are total Avatards--that is, obsessed with the animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender (NOT James Cameron's Avatar). We're all big fans of the element air so I drew us all in said element! These are just the sketches, but I intend to colour them all soon.

This would be me, air gliding! I'm actually not too happy how my face turned out--it's always a challenge to do a self portrait. Maybe I'll do some tweaking before I ink it.

This is my awesome friend Guggus (or Guðný, to be exact). She's always bubbly and happy so I tried to capture her spirit! She also recently started a cool blog about design stuff, go check it out! Inspiration Madness

Here is my other awesome friend Toots (or Þórunn or Tóta or...etc). I quite like how she turned out, she looks a bit serious maybe for an airbender but I think it suits her personality :]


So stay tuned for the coloured versions! Oh, also of a sketch of my brother--he requested that I draw him as a firebender. ;)

At last

Hello!

I've been meaning for a long time to have my own blog where I will post all sorts of sketches, doodles and maybe some finished pieces inbetween. I might also make a portfolio here, but I'm going to start this off with some sketches and we'll then just see how it'll develope.

So, enough blabber. Here are a few recent sketches.