Espen's Art Book - The Third Chapter.

[Rvd]

awesome work espen... you're improving like crazy.  the last one is definately more curvier and a nicer head.  good crits raven.

[Espen]

Thanks bud!

Wacom Intuos 4 is a gift from the gods.. its so fucking amazing. (Might be because my intuos 3 was SOOOOOOOO shitty in the end.. thanks for everything, though!)

TINGLE!

[Ravenseye]

Tingles!!!! you should have him working on a digital 3D map of space or something ... kinda like the 3d digital space map from district 9 ... just and idea.

[Espen]

yeah mang, though what i had in mind for tingle was that he were an EX architecture professor, who got hit by the lightning.. after that he started drawing blueprints for buildings and what not.. skyscrapers, factories and such. also a 3d screen would be to high tech for the time period im giving the story... also how could a homeless man afford that?


did a concept for WAYGATE; Disc realm

the round shaped objects you see in the sky is not planets, but enormous granite discs.. made by the demigod Ouiaton, simple to defend the planet from meteors and such

Also, the planet Sivra is the same size as jupiter and have 415 continents..  i imagine this place to be near one of the polar regions.. so some sort of molecule transformation mixed with the planets gravity gives the discs the ability to float safely over the planet... havent been digging to much into the science.. this is magic on an advanced level!

but this region is not quiet safe, over millenniums the discs have conjured earth like icicles which can do devastating damage to the surface below.. you can see a couple of them in the distance.

ironic, isnt it?

[Snowman]

Holy crap! Wait...honestly I think I need to ask you this. Did you use a real picture for the foreground in that concept? If you drew that, you literally tricked me into thinking it was a real image.

Man I'm blown away, the first glance I had at this thing had me thinking the whole ground scene was real. I can tell now that some of it is painted. That's amazing Espen, I'm in awe of how close to realism you came.

The disc thing in the sky is kind of funny though. It seems sorta flat, but not in the way you were describing. It almost looks like it's supposed to go farther into the distance but it doesn't fade out enough to give that impression.

[Espen]

Yes, some very small parts are real... so this is sort of a Matte Study Concept Art if you will
also.. this was just a test picture i did.. i will never use real photos ever again!

[Espen]

[Pieter]

I think you sometimes tend to overemphasize the facial structure of your girls, and it makes them look a little bit masculine. Which is totally fine if it's done on purpose, in the late 1700's and early 1800's it was actually very fashionable.
However if you want them to look more distinctive feminine soften the shading on the brow and soften the jawline (move the chin up a bit closer to the mounth). And perhaps soften the cheekbones too incase you want more roundness.

Perhaps you prefer them this way, so it could totally be personal pref.

(ps it could be me, but I sometimes notice that redheads tend to have sharper features, perhaps it's me, don't know)

Another thing to take in mind might be to spend some time tweaking the corners of the mounth, it really can make a lot of difference. Soften the edges a little and give it a bit of shadow, and sometimes light falls on the lower corners of the lips creating a slight beveled effect.

[Espen]

I just suck.. taking a break from the project to study the female face. fuck.

GOTTA GET BETTER

but to satisfy your critique, which I'm VERY thankful for:

any better?

[Comlock]

Hell yea! That's a lot better.
And great critique from Pieter

(It says I edited your post Espen, but that was because I accidentalyitaly hit "edit" instead of "reply" =))

[Espen]

OMG PIETER IS THHHHHHHHHHE MAN!!!!!


You did WHAT NOW?
when are you going to brønnøysund again?

[Comlock]

!Hell yea he's da man!

I'm not coming until summer. 3 busy months left on animating the bachelor film as well as guiding the 3 other animators on the team.
http://backwatergospel.blogspot.com/

[Espen]

ooooooh i see! can't wait for summer!

super quick speedy

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/CstuhgVyNAk&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/CstuhgVyNAk&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;</a>

[Katatafisch]

WOW....
amazing seeing you paint my friend, makes me wanna paint so badly

damn your workflow is rly incredible, you should post such vids more often, rly inspirational

btw what program do u use for recording??
greetings

[Espen]

You got it!
Program = camtasia
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/iBwvLlyIyRE&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/iBwvLlyIyRE&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;</a>

NOW IN HD

music by request, god i hate trance