To mark the beginning of this blog, I'm uncovering a new concept: Art summaries!
The goal is to sum up any artsy stuff I've done the past month, on instagram (which should give a good overall look at what occupies me at the moment), in commissions and in my business Panimated - and in my new part-time job in the tourism department in Træna.
JANUARY:
January began a little slow, as I spent the first couple of weeks in Berlin and Trondheim. I didn't bring my computer, but I was able to do some hand-drawing (see instagram). Three weeks in (or so) I started on my new job, but as I still didn't have a contract, I didn't have set hours yet. I've also been learning a new software; Toon boom, which have slowed down animation production a little. Even though Toon Boom is great, I've learned that I propably should raise the prices of my animation commission because they just take so much time to do... Overall it started out slow, and I'm picking up pace for february.
Instagram in January 2016
Instagram was a little all over the place in january, and I didn't even make anything "worthy" of deviantArt this month. The first two are christmas-presents for my sister and brother from december. The sheep was to test out some new markers I got for christmas. Then I practiced drawing some chunky ladies and bears, then some bodybuilder-women for the big Lexi-commission I'm working on (more on that below). I was also commissioned by a friend to design a tattoo of a bumblebee, and the last one is a doodle of a character from "shadowtainted" (more on that below, too)
Panimated (Commissions)
As seen on instagram I finished the bumblebee tattoo design for a friend. I've also been working on a big animation commission for an online client, which I call the "Lexi-commission". This piece features a girl called Lexi, who transforms into a werewolf. It's very complex and a unusual concept to me, but I'm it's certainly a learning experience. It's also my first proper animation in the software Toon Boom, which I'm just now learning. In january I worked on the keyframes and refining the movement of her different bodyparts.
Lexi Commission in mid-january, as 14 rough keys drawn in photoshop.
And a week later, now with 28 frames, cleaned up and colour-coded in toon boom.
At this point I took a break for two weeks, as the deal was that half of it would be paid up-front, and the rest after the sketch had been finished. Next I will start working on the line-art.
Panimated (personal work)
January has been dominated by commissions and work, so I haven't been prioritizing personal work. However, I've been playing with the idea of bringing my story "The Shadowtainted" back into production. I've been doing some writing and drawing, but I'd like to save that content for later. As it is february now that I'm writing this blogpost, I know you will certainly see more about this in next months summary!
Work
I just started working at my new part-time job as an assistant at Træna municipality's development/tourism department. We work with tourism and cultural development, and help start up new concepts and basically do marketing for the local community. I mostly help out doing whatever needs be done, translating texts from norwegian to english, updating the website and if there is an event, I help rigging - and sometimes I design posters, signs and brochures. There is a big winter-festival coming up in february, so that's what we've been focusing on now. Art-wise I've made two posters, number on is the announcement-poster for the winter-festival, the second is the announcement of the children's winter festival.
