tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89278802032806017572024-02-19T02:46:36.629-08:00Helgeson ArtJohannes Helgesonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01332115865997777723noreply@blogger.comBlogger167125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927880203280601757.post-53820378566486809232014-10-27T15:35:00.002-07:002014-10-27T15:35:56.382-07:00Migrating to Facebook and TumblrSo I've decided to put blogger on hold, and instead post my stuff on Facebook and Tumblr. <br /><div style="text-align: center;">
Feel free to add or follow me on facebook, and on Tumblr > http://helgesonart.tumblr.com/ <br /><br />Here's maybe my final post on this platform! <br /></div>
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Johannes Helgesonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01332115865997777723noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927880203280601757.post-11894385952720013942014-10-13T15:49:00.002-07:002014-10-13T15:49:31.980-07:00Ink! <div style="text-align: center;">
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Johannes Helgesonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01332115865997777723noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927880203280601757.post-81202214464758884332014-10-06T17:35:00.002-07:002014-10-06T17:35:15.390-07:00Practice<div style="text-align: center;">
Slowly getting back up on the horse. Moving takes some energy and effort yo! </div>
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shapes here, didn't do my friend justice. Sorry! Need to not
be lazy with my shapes, and I have to use selections a bit more, the
edges are lost in the painterly strokes. Too loose and sloppy. Fuck.
Also want to use selections and smooth airbrush and gradients.The colors
suck. Not even close to Dice Tsutsumi. UuuuuuUuuuuggghhhh. <br />
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Johannes Helgesonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01332115865997777723noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927880203280601757.post-9520897143610810392014-09-27T16:29:00.001-07:002014-09-27T16:29:13.546-07:00Live from Quebec! <div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMLrDj1vcNjCbsbIoeoNRCZozshLKciNYlNz2uHQyww_daE-65hNvR9-T_VqoRYcMqFtJlgu3hY38yH3E9cwF363X7UtmUXB-8Y4YXGKhqAwkDpcUn0FUzxBFQ2ZPfcHvEl6A2NAeVHdNV/s1600/JHelgeson_VisualDiary01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>Lot's of traveling the past week... Finally arrived in Quebec to start my new job with Activision/Beenox. So excited! XD </div>
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<br />I've been meaning to get better at composition, color and light. Also, I want to be more honest in my illustrations, and speak of that which I know. In that vein, I've been doing little sketches in my sketchbook, which I then turn into sort of color-key-level-paintings which take about a couple of hours. They're real fun! :D <br /><br />The last friends I met in Sweden before leaving. It's a delight and a privilege to hang out with two such skilled, beautiful, fun and kind people! I don't do them justice. <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUZ81xIs6GSSZ9eZJ5O7ZhPoyPv9aNMk2A0r6qjXf_25BOzEj1IxKsgX9_eM6cx35_p_5pVYkqU1jzxcbCT-WEKCw1TudaQxZO-SrkR7qYzD-0ptcq_Nx7HrRulIngbkRBQHrjqGZbC2mN/s1600/JHelgeson_VisualDiary02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUZ81xIs6GSSZ9eZJ5O7ZhPoyPv9aNMk2A0r6qjXf_25BOzEj1IxKsgX9_eM6cx35_p_5pVYkqU1jzxcbCT-WEKCw1TudaQxZO-SrkR7qYzD-0ptcq_Nx7HrRulIngbkRBQHrjqGZbC2mN/s1600/JHelgeson_VisualDiary02.jpg" height="200" width="320" /></a><br /><br />Here are their stuff, please check 'em out! :D<br /><a href="http://vixiearts.blogspot.se/">http://vixiearts.blogspot.se/</a><br /><a href="http://www.dincomic.com/">http://www.dincomic.com/</a></div>
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<br />On the train to pick up some important papers...<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMLrDj1vcNjCbsbIoeoNRCZozshLKciNYlNz2uHQyww_daE-65hNvR9-T_VqoRYcMqFtJlgu3hY38yH3E9cwF363X7UtmUXB-8Y4YXGKhqAwkDpcUn0FUzxBFQ2ZPfcHvEl6A2NAeVHdNV/s1600/JHelgeson_VisualDiary01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMLrDj1vcNjCbsbIoeoNRCZozshLKciNYlNz2uHQyww_daE-65hNvR9-T_VqoRYcMqFtJlgu3hY38yH3E9cwF363X7UtmUXB-8Y4YXGKhqAwkDpcUn0FUzxBFQ2ZPfcHvEl6A2NAeVHdNV/s1600/JHelgeson_VisualDiary01.jpg" height="200" width="320" /></a><br /></div>
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Last night at my dad's place. Couldn't ask for a better father :) </div>
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Johannes Helgesonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01332115865997777723noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927880203280601757.post-22690528126495699202014-09-23T06:30:00.000-07:002014-09-23T06:30:11.577-07:00Inspired by THU<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/22680645/JHelgesonTHU2014_01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>THU (Trojan Horse was a Unicorn) was an amazing workshop I attended in Troia, outside of Lissabon in Portugal. Had a chance to re-unite with people I love and care about as well as make new friends! Big shout out to the organizers, and be sure to check it out next year. <br /><br />I was encouraged by some really awesome Pixar/Ex-Pixar dudes to further explore color-keys. So I'm trying to do a few quicker paintings inspired by the people I met and feelings I had, focusing on more cinematic composition, shapes and light. </div>
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Inspired by a really sweet street-musician in Lissabon whose performance on this cheap toy-like instrument was very endearing, and someone else. <br /><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/22680645/JHelgesonTHU2014_02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/22680645/JHelgesonTHU2014_02.jpg" width="320" /></a><br /><br />Me after 2 hours of sleep at the airport. So long! <br /><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/22680645/JHelgesonTHU2014_01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/22680645/JHelgesonTHU2014_01.jpg" width="320" /></a><br /> </div>
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Johannes Helgesonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01332115865997777723noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927880203280601757.post-30258638916784158002014-09-14T13:02:00.000-07:002014-09-14T13:02:18.306-07:00Three Values <div style="text-align: center;">
Back in June I attended a workshop with the great Nathan Fowkes. One of the exercises he advised if one wants to improve at composition and light, was to take screengrabs from movies and try to break them down into three values. Also checked out Eytan Zana's lovely gumroad-tutorial on graphic composition. It's great. Well, I want to not suck at composition, so here are some attempts at improving. Also aiming to reduce the shape-complexity and introduce subtle shape-stylization. Hmm, it's interesting to blend together the strong shapes of light and shadow, with the local values I'm assigning to the compositional elements themselves. Never thought of it like that before, I usually keep local values and light separated. If you know the movies you get a cookie ;) <br />
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Johannes Helgesonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01332115865997777723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927880203280601757.post-76388601114588104922014-09-11T03:49:00.000-07:002014-09-11T03:49:22.083-07:00Practice<div style="text-align: center;">
District 9 is one of the best movies I've seen. In addition to having a great story, driving home an important message, it's a visual milestone, raising and setting the bar for a lot of contemporary sci-fi design. Here's a feeble attempt at internalizing some of those shapes. I think I should use other, less bristled & painterly, brushes and more selections and gradients when doing hard-surface-stuff. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHwF6MQH23ECmOdV5Ct4-8AO4xrVECV6S0W1dOjQv825Ev9V6jGO943Ll0qOKqyni4Q_hi4-05_QZOBWEWegmVLxu14pvkuBvux0E577sM7KYmLct8fCAAQdSqXBV-a-3FwiK_pgj5ocqp/s1600/JHelgesonDistrict9Study01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHwF6MQH23ECmOdV5Ct4-8AO4xrVECV6S0W1dOjQv825Ev9V6jGO943Ll0qOKqyni4Q_hi4-05_QZOBWEWegmVLxu14pvkuBvux0E577sM7KYmLct8fCAAQdSqXBV-a-3FwiK_pgj5ocqp/s1600/JHelgesonDistrict9Study01.jpg" height="320" width="256" /></a><br /><br />A lovely lady, as per usual. Attaching some notes on the light and colors which I'm observing. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhlfFvQ6bHrKPFoNF0fHqxU_vSMDVA5DssyVk9m7YUB6uDncbOj-U1Uro_iyEej7RH3r4sJ9n8Oik2OJ1bouYB001alMTCjlyJ93O54ZUJ5LxLQa4CslRdDvbLK9PiQQFyMVrVULL5wVE/s1600/JHelgeson_nicole_k_99494_12_Study01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhlfFvQ6bHrKPFoNF0fHqxU_vSMDVA5DssyVk9m7YUB6uDncbOj-U1Uro_iyEej7RH3r4sJ9n8Oik2OJ1bouYB001alMTCjlyJ93O54ZUJ5LxLQa4CslRdDvbLK9PiQQFyMVrVULL5wVE/s1600/JHelgeson_nicole_k_99494_12_Study01.jpg" height="175" width="320" /></a><br /><br />Here's a study of a sculpt from Skylanders Swap Force. Actually, seeing <a href="http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?185585-Skylanders-SWAP-Force-Toy-Sculpts"><u>this post</u></a> @ Z-Brush-central is mainly what attracted me to Beenox/Activision. Knowing that they were in possession of such skill and taste, and the lure of somehow being part of that, was extremely seductive. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-wjs-uG9yljfshh_n0yl0A7wdTToXOLgG49p4sY4MoNK5lChdn0sKSYWWM6UT13_AJZqZxjHWM3p_m6xWSQzbYqoWAtn54nxoUOBFSdyFdkQZNHqo8YQis5r1Pct-ri5569Yr1rV8yxxM/s1600/JHelgeson_SwapForce_FireKracken_Study01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-wjs-uG9yljfshh_n0yl0A7wdTToXOLgG49p4sY4MoNK5lChdn0sKSYWWM6UT13_AJZqZxjHWM3p_m6xWSQzbYqoWAtn54nxoUOBFSdyFdkQZNHqo8YQis5r1Pct-ri5569Yr1rV8yxxM/s1600/JHelgeson_SwapForce_FireKracken_Study01.jpg" height="204" width="320" /></a><br /><br />Finally, it might be a lil' while (about a month) before I have a new update. I'm leaving for the Trojan Horse Workshop in Portugal next week, and straight after that I'm taking the flight to Canada. I know from experience that moving takes time, energy and effort, and I might be pre-occupied with finding an apartment and making new friends etc. So, I'll be back ;P <br /> </div>
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Johannes Helgesonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01332115865997777723noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927880203280601757.post-46770263336695251322014-09-07T13:13:00.000-07:002014-09-07T13:13:45.519-07:00Some Paint<div style="text-align: center;">
Threw down some colors on them there portraits! Pretty good practice, may do more. Got some great feedback over at polycount.com, the world's best community for artists in the gaming-industry (imo). </div>
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Light-, color- and stroke-practice.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhUpKCAQOivPhdPeX1DAAfFuC7DYRWKwbxudcMCBZxqeIGMbuTVmUKNxP1MfjA4gWrWLyp0nuuC3xVGqF_g6FZmTr8Hwkvl9MEWREGVZbutbKCaR4HZoggMGLr80Sp3v31_eQ2m6KtcX0e/s1600/JHelgeson_farfalle_7_Study01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhUpKCAQOivPhdPeX1DAAfFuC7DYRWKwbxudcMCBZxqeIGMbuTVmUKNxP1MfjA4gWrWLyp0nuuC3xVGqF_g6FZmTr8Hwkvl9MEWREGVZbutbKCaR4HZoggMGLr80Sp3v31_eQ2m6KtcX0e/s1600/JHelgeson_farfalle_7_Study01.jpg" height="270" width="320" /></a><br />
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Up-beat electronic music. :D <br />
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Johannes Helgesonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01332115865997777723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927880203280601757.post-20861684750552338732014-09-01T13:16:00.003-07:002014-09-01T13:36:52.895-07:00Post-Apocalypse Cartoon<div style="text-align: center;">
I've been deeply immersed in the post-apocalyptic world of Wasteland. So much fun to design cartoony characters in a relatively dark and gritty setting.<br />
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Wrote a story for these dudes, but I can't write, so I deleted it. There. Cole Westwood is my favorite :) <br />
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Silhouette-check! Are they varied and easily distinguishable from each other? Is the overall shape-language consistent? <br />
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I figured I'd attach some of the really rough sketches I do before making the actual drawing. Don't usually show this :) I like to have a clear vision in my head of where I'm going before I invest in a proper lineart, and doing rough sketches is one of the tools. <br />
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Photostudies! Shape, shape, shape and shape. I don't know if this is the right way to think, but I'm testing it out. <br />
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Mooooaaarrr studies!!! I just lost interest once I reached the face, so meh. <br />
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Johannes Helgesonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01332115865997777723noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927880203280601757.post-54965589280008204042014-08-28T07:39:00.000-07:002014-08-28T07:39:34.735-07:00Sketches<div style="text-align: center;">
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Fairly soon InXile (one of the coolest game-dev studios in the world) will be releasing <b><a href="http://wasteland.inxile-entertainment.com/">Wasteland 2</a></b> (scheduled September 19th)! As you all know (duuuh ;)) my favorite game of all time is Fallout 2, and Wasteland was the spiritual predecessor to that franchise. From what I can tell from online, it's looking very promising! I felt like drawing (and maybe later painting) my squad of Desert Rangers. Obviously they're not in the style of the game, but who cares. Love for InXile and Brian Fargo! :D<br />
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Abe Bronson is the leader of the group. He's charismatic, intelligent, pragmatic and has strong wilderness survival skills. Tank Hollywood is the brute force, she's the most capable melee combatant. I imagine she challenges Abe for the leadership of the group with some frequency, and I envision some sort of sexual tension between the two. Murray Daniels is an engineer and tech-expert who's kinda cowardly. He's around 50 years old, has a "been there, done that" kind of attitude and likes the simple pleasures in life. Finally, Yuki Machida is the firearms expert. She's cocky, enthusiastic and positive. She's motivated by challenges and want to improve her skills at any cost. <br />
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Johannes Helgesonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01332115865997777723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927880203280601757.post-28308756079514492522014-08-22T05:17:00.000-07:002014-08-22T05:19:38.577-07:00Facets of Jazz<div style="text-align: center;">
Those of you who come here know that I love music, Jazz in particular. With that in mind, I started out with a simple premise; What if the great personalities of jazz existed in a Pixar-world? Trying to capture their likeness, while keeping them cartoon was tough challenge for me. A most frustrating endeavor, I assure you, but the love I have for the characters and their stories made it worth it. I don't know if I managed to get close to capturing their likeness or convey their personality, but I gave it my best shot :). <br />
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<u>Jean-Baptiste "Django" Reinhardt</u>, 1910-1953. <br />
A french jazz-guitarist of Romani heritage. He is credited with inventing a new distinctly European style of jazz, known as "Hot" jazz guitar, or "Gypsy Jazz". Oh, and on one of his hands he could only use three of his fingers, because the others had been paralyzed in a fire. He managed to be successful, and avoid being sent off to concentration-camp (because even the nazi-officers loved his music so much), during the Nazi-occupation of Paris. <br />
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<u>Chet Baker</u>, 1929-1988.<br />
One of the best trumpet-players I've heard, with a marvelous singing-voice to boot! His style is very melodic, romantic and lyrical. He was a broken human being, with a heavy drug-habit. He would con, manipulate, lie and deceive to get what he wanted, and at one point he got his teeth smashed out by hired thugs, because he owed the wrong person money. He died falling out of a window of a hotel in Holland with a mix of cocaine and heroin in his body. <br /><br />
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<u>Sarah Vaughan</u>, 1924-1990. <br />
Also referred to as "The Divine One", her voice makes me shiver with joy. She's got such depth and character. She grew up in a religious family and started practicing music at a very early age and eventually dropped out of high-school to pursue singing. She suffered from stage-fright and was shy in public.<br />
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I'm using the very same formula I outlines a couple of posts back, but I spent a bit more time on the Key-light-phase, added a rim-light, and spent more time with the actual painting-phase. One thing I discovered, is that I try to avoid working with brighter values until later, I try to stick with sculpting with mid-tones and shadows. If I go in immediately with highlights, I lose control of the values. <br />
Each character, not counting the failed drawings, took around 10 hours each. With research and failures (which you can't see :) ) I'd say they're around 13-16 hours average.<br />
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Thanks for looking! :D <br />
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Johannes Helgesonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01332115865997777723noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927880203280601757.post-70470248796956395402014-08-17T08:31:00.001-07:002014-08-17T08:34:26.351-07:00Studies<div style="text-align: center;">
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So I've got about one more month before I start working in a studio again (Beenox/Activision). I'm really excited and thrilled, and I also feel that having taken a break from work and freelance since May has been really beneficial for me. I love doing studies, and working away at my weaknesses. Although my self-imposed art exile has taken a toll on my social-life, it's felt thoroughly meaningful and enjoyable nonetheless. Just sayin' :) <br />
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More practice of environments. Picture had some really nice shapes, and obvious atmospheric perspective. <br />
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Today, chilled out hip-hop beats. This is mainly the kind of music I listen to while drawing and painting. Boom-Bap dope ya'll!!! ;) <br />
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Johannes Helgesonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01332115865997777723noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927880203280601757.post-71087016044910010052014-08-14T03:23:00.002-07:002014-08-14T03:23:23.691-07:00A Formula (Step-By-Step)<div style="text-align: center;">
I'm occasionally asked how I paint from imagination, and I've sometimes given demos to friends. I figure I'd indulge and try to explain for everyone. Beware, text and pictures ahead! <br />
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This process is designed for a reasonably fast and predictable result. It's aimed at beginners who are familiar with photoshop primarily, but might be beneficial for more advanced users as well. It's meant for painting from one's own imagination, and I've reached this process through years of experiments and advice from more senior artists (<a href="http://adamscreation.blogspot.se/">Adam Ford</a> and <a href="http://artsammich.blogspot.se/">Sam Nielson</a> have outlined similar approaches in the past). If I had a reference or model in front, my approach would be different, and I'd focus on getting the right shape, color and value of each stroke from the get-go. Here we're using photoshop as a tool to figure out colors and values. I would like to point out that my process is continually changing as I'm learning new stuff, and what I'm doing here might be obsolete in the near future. Please apply your critical thinking when approaching this, and know that I have merely attained a journeyman level of expertise. If you're serious about learning, check out masters such as Zorn, Sargent, J.C. Leyendecker, Rockwell, Velázquez and Sorolla. <br />
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I'm taking the liberty of giving you the PSD-file (reduced in size to 50%). When I fail to express myself in words, perhaps you can find clarity in the file. <br />
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<u>1. Lineart</u><br />
I just drew some chicks doing stuff. Talking about drawing is a whole different chapter, and this tutorial is about painting. In short, I try to have some fairly clean lineart which I can use as a foundation. For more about drawing, look at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/ProkoTV/videos">Stan Prokopenko's Youtube Tutorials</a>, check out <a href="http://radhowto.blogspot.se/">RadHowto</a>, read Glenn Vilppu's Drawing Manual and Walt Stanchfield's Drawn to Life Vol 1 & 2. <br />
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<u>2. Masks and Shadow-Shapes. </u><br />
I mask out the lineart using the polygonal lasso tool (hold down the command-key (mac) or ctrl (PC, I think) to activate it with the normal lasso-tool)). This creates really hard and crisp edges, and is very fast. I don't know of any faster more accurate way to do this. In marketing-art in particular, the client will often want the characters clearly separated from the background, to be used in different contexts, so we're being preemptive. I do this per default by now. <br />
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For the shadows I fill a layer with a solid black, which I then lock into the positive shapes. Now, painting in a layer mask, I use a 100% hard-edged opaque brush to separate between light and shadow. Mentally, I'm trying to imagine doing it roughly like in a Mignola-Painting. Depending on how much of the positve shape I want to be in shadow, I will either paint the shadows or the light, whichever requires the least amount of work. Finally, when I'm done, I change the color of the layer to a midtone purple. I think this looks good, and the purple hue, to the best of my knowledge, is a combination of the ambient color of the scene (which in this case is blue-ish), plus some warm light (from the key-light, the sun (which is actually white but I'm stylizing it warm orange/yellow)) mixing in from bouncing all over the environment. Am I wrong? However, let's say our subject is on Mars, or in Space, the color of the shadow would be different. In this case, Red and Black respectively. <br />
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<u>3. Sculpt Shadowshapes </u><br />
There's a difference between Form-Shadows and Cast-Shadows. Form-Shadows occur when the form is turning away from the light-source, creating a smooth transition from light to shadow. A Cast-Shadow on the other hand happens when and object is blocking the light, creating a hard-edged shadow. In this step I try to distinguish between the two, plus going into a little bit more detail that I was in the previous block-in step. A mistake I did in the past was to treat this step too casually and sloppy. Take your time, be patient here, it's going to be really helpful later on. It can be beneficial to look at some reference too, to make sure you're being consistent with the light. Wes Burt kicked my ass at the Made Workshop in Berlin around 2009-2010 (can't remember exactly) regarding my shadow-inconsitency. <br />
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<u>4, Ambient Occlusion </u><br />
Using the lasso-tool (not a single stroke without a selection, otherwise all the edges get too soft) and a big smooth airbrush I apply a dark shade to areas which receive little or no light. This is pretty good for separating forms of similar value and hue. I'm not Uber-detailed with this. I'm using a really dark dark reddish color for this. The reason for that is that I'm simulating a lil' bit of Sub-Surface-Scattering (more on that later) and because our eyes are very sensitive to warm hues (shorter wavelength light) and picks them up easier. Also, because the subjects I'm painting exist in a largely cool-colored scene (which I'm imagining), by contrast, the areas which don't receive blue cool light will appear warmer to our eyes. So the red is faking what our eyes are doing in real life. <br />
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<u>5. Local Colors, Temperatures and Color Variety</u><br />
I first fill in a reasonable fleshtone all over. Then I'm using a color-randomizer brush, and some textured brushes to add variety and to activate the fields of color. Then I start adding temperature variations, like the more reddish knees and elbows and cheeks, and the more cool breasts and pelvis. I'm essentially thinking about where the blood is closer to the skin and therefore more evident. Also natural tanning, from being outdoors plays a part in this, like a woman who wears a bikini at the beach will get a certain complexion and various local temperatures of hue. A mistake I did in the past was to make this layer completely flat, and with ONLY local colors. That looks dull, and sucks. <u><br /></u><br />
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<u>6. Ambient Light </u><br />
I imagine these girls outdoors on a fairly clear and sunny day. Therefore the big blue dome (the sky) that surrounds us tints everything in shadow blue/cool. I add a subtle cool blue/purple to upwards-facing planes in shadow on a screen-layer. To the best of my knowledge, a screen-layer works as light works in real life, additively. It's important to not go overboard here, and make the value of the blue light too bright, because then you can mess up the contrast between what's essentially in shadow and what's in light. I consider them as two families, which I want to keep fairly separate. (See image below, in step 7, where I combined this step and the next)<br />
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Downwards-facing planes in shadow receive a warm bounce-light. I imagine the ground-plane reflecting a warm main light (the sun). Also when that same light hits the skin, and is reflected upwards into the downwards-facing planes, we get a warmer and lighter hue. I'm tinting the planes warmer. A mental way to think about it is to imagine the girls standing on a floor of golden coins. I want to emphasize how important it is to think about everything in PLANES, and the angle of those planes to the lightsource. The more perpendicular a certain plane is to the lightsource affecting it, the more that lightsource will influence it. Also, the further away from the lightsource the plane receiving the light is, the less influenced it will become. So a downward-facing plane around the eyes will be less tinted by the reflected light from the groundplane than a planes around the knee, for instance. <br />
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<u>8. Key-Light </u><br />
Real simple, selecting the shadowshape-layer from before, I create a new layer with the shadows as a mask. Now, painting only in the light-areas, I go in with a big airbrush with a warm hue. I just want to capture the general direction of the light with a few simple and big strokes. <br />
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<u>9. SSS - Sub Surface Scattering </u><br />
In a new Overlay layer I'm painting with a really saturated red. I'm mainly focusing on painting in the core-shadow/terminator, and places such as fingers and ears. SSS happens when light enters the skin, picks up the red hue of the blood and then scatters out again, creating a more red-hue. It adds a lot of life to the colors, just remember not all materials act in the same way, and skin is particularly susceptible to SSS. <br />
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Flatten all, and adjust colors with adjustment-layers according to taste. I'm also letting the original lineart remain in some places, totally intuitively. <br />
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<u>10. Paint! The Grand Unpredictable Adventure to Shangri La! </u><br />
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All the previous steps have been preparation for the grand adventure of painting. Consider everything up to this point, packing our bags, reading the maps and familiarizing ourselves with the language of some foreign, exotic and wondrous land. Now we're ready to set out on our journey :) <br />
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When I paint I have a few key goals. I aim to detail and render the focal-points. I want to define forms which aren't 3D enough. I want to reinforce the gestural and compositional flow of the subject using the direction of the brush-strokes (Claire Wendling does this beautifully in the direction of her pencil-strokes in the shadowshapes of her drawings). I want to explain materials by controlling the hardness of the edges (mainly painting with the smudge-tool). I want to add specular highlights and add a subtle atmospheric perspective. Finally I wish to enforce focal-points with Hue-intensity and Lens-focus. I also don't want it to look formulaic, although we've stuck to a formula to this point. I wish to highlight that I think it's very important that you allow yourself to deviate from the lineart at any point in the painting process. If you see something off or wrong, fix it. My painting from here on is chaotic, I jump all over the painting simultaneously, seemingly without a goal. But I have a clear vision in the aforementioned intentions. I can't and won't make this step mechanical, I need to be able to be intuitive and follow my feelings here. I need the uncertainty to find pleasure and joy in this craft.<br /><br />
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I would like to point out that I feel having the right tools is essential. While you should be able to create a good-looking piece with rudimentary tools, it cannot be denied that the right brushes will have a massive impact on the end result. There are limitations to painting with charcoal on a cave-wall. I recommend finding the brushes that work for you on your own, but you'll get a very good start if you try out the brushes of Alexandre "Zedig" Diboine, and Shaddy Safadi. Use your google-skills to find them. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOGfMDPp5soLJZw_J_XRUP5f3jSdGMhBhTKgCh7FcPgba-QEbjislA6V3jzVu4sBg2Yb1NHs7_QyA0jvtjq9Cq-vxFTQvTET-MJRKxJ4AXgYs7bH3luGLdV8JEL7r1WfEkJLb_AcnBWv5o/s1600/JHelgesonGirlsShadowShapes03.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br />
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That's the best I've got for now, I've given you everything. The End. Lots of love ;) <br />
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In 2005 I joined the conceptart.org community, right about the time I started studying 3D-graphics at University. It is now but a shadow of its former self, but back then it was the best resource for artistic improvement I had ever come across. Not only did I, for the first time, get a notion of what level of art was expected of me to become a professional, but I was also introduced to the mentalities, paradigms and attitudes which it took to improve at a quicker pace. At the time, the community was built on the fundaments of helping each other grow through honest, straight forward critique. It wasn't about popularity, likes or kindness. It was brutal sometimes, completely ego-shattering, and absolutely glorious. </div>
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It was when I embraced failure that I started growing at a faster rate. When counter-intuitively I abandoned the idea that I had to make pretty pictures, I was free to step outside my comfort-zone and actually start improving. For me that's the best advice (besides being prolific), to start making ugly pictures. Obviously that's not desirable in a professional context, we need to be reliable and perform at a high level. But personally, at home, I still try to maintain that attitude, to not fear failure, but rather embrace it as a natural and positive part of growing. I just need to re-iterate that for myself occasionally. In addition, my sense of self-respect isn't closely linked with the quality of the pictures I make, but rather correlates closely with my self-perceived effort at practicing. Sometimes that means making ugly shit. </div>
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I'm writing this mainly as a reminder for myself, but also as a piece of advice for beginners (but I ain't no teacher, and I don't eagerly give advice, because of all the misconceptions I feel I still hold). It breaks my heart to see newbies sticking to what they think is good, and most often, the fear of failure overcomes them. I don't want to be like that. Make ugly pictures. <br />
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Johannes Helgesonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01332115865997777723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927880203280601757.post-4164609858285897752014-08-08T08:53:00.002-07:002014-08-08T08:53:48.843-07:00Weakspots <div style="text-align: center;">
Interior design and architecture are some things I've neglected, and which leave me quivering in my pants. Figure I'd tackle 'em straight on, face my fear etc. Doing the lines and then clean shapes to be used for masks were really time-consuming. If I did this in 3D I would certainly make a render with the important planes color-coded. Can't say I enjoyed these all that much, a bit too technical for me, but maybe they'll get more fun as I improve. </div>
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Sooo muuuch tiiiime... Spent 2 days on this, mainly just putting in lines with the line-tool and flat shapes which I could use for masks. Note to self- Next time when doing the shape block-in, turn off Anti-Aliasing. Tried some new brushes which I love now. <br /><br />
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<br />Unwinding with some naked girls... Derwent Artist - Sepia and Indigo on A5 Moleskine (The best paper there is imo). <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFwhE4W2zAw84s5zHpIzw29fu_xoZMIFCxwmVVMlJpzfzTIWH3tNQpwJkJ7NwaVECoX3YMWuP8s5-9931fG-UZ910A16KiE5HqVaNGz5je2loQbV1X-AKJR-Yykp3OGCQQa8vB9Zx9JAzY/s1600/JHelgesonGirlSketches02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFwhE4W2zAw84s5zHpIzw29fu_xoZMIFCxwmVVMlJpzfzTIWH3tNQpwJkJ7NwaVECoX3YMWuP8s5-9931fG-UZ910A16KiE5HqVaNGz5je2loQbV1X-AKJR-Yykp3OGCQQa8vB9Zx9JAzY/s1600/JHelgesonGirlSketches02.jpg" height="202" width="320" /></a><br />
<br />De La Soul!!! Hnnnnnngghhh, so good. <br />
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Johannes Helgesonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01332115865997777723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927880203280601757.post-42826797337893983712014-08-05T10:34:00.001-07:002014-08-05T10:37:11.361-07:00Cartoons<div style="text-align: center;">
I was born in 86', and was fortunate to grow up with plenty of high-quality cartoon-shows. Transformers, Turtles, Gummi-Bears, Darkwing Duck, He-Man, Chip N' Dale - Rescue Rangers, Ducktales, The Jetsons and The Flintstones to name a few. The most influential for me however, was Batman Animated from 1992. I loved the visual style (especially in the fourth season), the mood and the stories. To this day I am deeply inspired and influenced by that show, and my dream is to work on something equally as impactful at some point in my career. Some artists I've learned were involved were Bruce Timm (The GOD), Shane Glines (fourth season only as far as I know) and Glenn Murakami. I can think of few artists who are as skilled at shape-design, and as a study, I felt like painting a sketch from Mr. Glines. <a href="http://cartoonretro.tumblr.com/">Check out his art</a> if you haven't, he's a contemporary master :) Also Batman Beyond is really worth a watch, I think he was more involved with that show. <br />
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Hot darn sweet baby Jesus it's been a while since I shared some classic sketchbookery.. Lines on paper, just foolin' around...<br />
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A song most magical...<br />
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I discovered Ahmad Jamal's music pretty late, it was like finding a long lost treasure. In my opinion one of the greatest :) <br />
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Johannes Helgesonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01332115865997777723noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927880203280601757.post-782698445958707152014-07-31T03:13:00.001-07:002014-07-31T03:13:13.246-07:00The Apartment<div style="text-align: center;">
I dedicate today's post to Brian McDonald. His blog, <a href="http://invisibleinkblog.blogspot.com/"><u>invisibleink</u></a> and his book Invisible Ink, have taught me what little I know about storytelling, and more importantly, highlighted my lack of knowledge. I deeply respect the craft, and I feel it's a very important aspect of our work as illustrators. His book is easy to read, informative and cheap. I recommend it. <br />
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One of the movies I discovered thanks to Brian Mcdonald is "The Apartment" by Billy Wilder. In it, Jack Lemmon's character, C.C Baxter, chases a promotion by allowing his bosses to use his apartment for various nocturnal activities. Meanwhile Shirley MacLaine's character Fran, an elevator-lady, is having dead-end affair with the boss, who's married, at the same company. Suffice to say, both characters are faced with problems arising from their situations, and need to deal with them :) The movie is a call to integrity, a comment on the hazards of chasing money and promotions, and the down-sides to being an amiable people-pleaser. <br />
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I really should stylize and make the shapes sexier.. Damn. <br />
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Wise men once asked "What is best in life?". Well, I would be tempted to say spending time with friends and loved ones, making art, listening to good live-music and eating good food. But coffee, it's certainly up there.<br />
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Up-Tempo House!! Yeeeeaaaahhhhh! </div>
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Johannes Helgesonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01332115865997777723noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927880203280601757.post-69217955553499946512014-07-29T03:46:00.003-07:002014-07-29T03:46:58.182-07:00Practice<div style="text-align: center;">
Practice-practice-practice. Starting to tackle environments too.. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRSmRVb3B9HnJlq0pLT62CCJ6GFR5dpw_R0lYYR7oH58QkrWBmWJ8Fx1fy5nfWkc05dn2fv9KZkmIPVq1hGn6hftiuZ15V-gI11A-y7kRT3Fev3QjNi6Oa32C33ViSMFsqWE4zwBvj9oP4/s1600/JHelgesonWorkTestLowRez01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br />And here's a work-test in three parts I did for a studio. T'was fun and challenging! I'm afraid I can't say anything more about it. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRSmRVb3B9HnJlq0pLT62CCJ6GFR5dpw_R0lYYR7oH58QkrWBmWJ8Fx1fy5nfWkc05dn2fv9KZkmIPVq1hGn6hftiuZ15V-gI11A-y7kRT3Fev3QjNi6Oa32C33ViSMFsqWE4zwBvj9oP4/s1600/JHelgesonWorkTestLowRez01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRSmRVb3B9HnJlq0pLT62CCJ6GFR5dpw_R0lYYR7oH58QkrWBmWJ8Fx1fy5nfWkc05dn2fv9KZkmIPVq1hGn6hftiuZ15V-gI11A-y7kRT3Fev3QjNi6Oa32C33ViSMFsqWE4zwBvj9oP4/s1600/JHelgesonWorkTestLowRez01.jpg" height="178" width="320" /></a><br /><br />Some Hip-Hop to brighten your day ;P <br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/jiI_IzPAGgo" width="420"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/mnl7Q_IBXbw" width="560"></iframe></div>
Johannes Helgesonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01332115865997777723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927880203280601757.post-32765076656991263462014-07-27T14:16:00.005-07:002014-07-27T14:18:08.478-07:00Strokes and Stuff<div style="text-align: center;">
Totally Inspired by Aurelien Predal's Color-keys for
monster in Paris.. One of my dreams is to be able to work on feature
films some day, and I'd love to do character-designs and color-keys. One
day :) Fashion, light and strokes. Photo from the eminent
thesartorialist.com<br />
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Occasionally
I stumble upon a picture which takes my breath away, literally. Here's
one :) Experimenting a bit with a rich underpainting. I kinda dig the
contrast between rough and grimy rendering with the more delicate
subject. I'm having fun and learning at the same time :D <br />
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100%working-size<br />
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Steps<br />
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And
a pretty lady in a bathtub, beckoning some sort of action I feel. Is it
Iveta from kindgirls.com? My inspiration-folder is just full of
pictures from tumblr with no creditable names. <br />
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Yeah... <br />
I've
loved Brazilian Jazz (Bossa Nova) as long as I can remember. The first
song I learned on the guitar, when I was eleven, was Girl From Ipanema
(classic!). A.C Jobim (aka. Tom Jobim) is one of my favorite composers,
here's a less know song by him (as far as I know), but still beautiful. <br />
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Ivan Lins is another master, here's a song of his I enjoy very much, performed by sting. Word.</div>
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Johannes Helgesonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01332115865997777723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927880203280601757.post-71228777281158817432014-07-24T01:53:00.002-07:002014-07-24T01:53:49.323-07:00Cartooned! <div style="text-align: center;">
A blog I love is http://www.thesartorialist.com/ . They go around the world, taking photos of interesting-looking people and fashion. Figure I'd might as well make a cartoon-study! Trying to translate a photo stylistically is intellectually stimulating and challenging for me. I attempted to be more painterly, more along the lines of what you might see in a color-script for an animated feature.<br />
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So I saw all over the webz how a company called Mondo will be releasing an Iron Giant collectible figure. Being one of my all time favorite movies, and considering the fact that I'm weak at hard-surface designs, I had to do a study. <br />
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Revisiting an old character and setting which I like. Needed a break
from the studies, so I did something purely for fun, Crimson Claw
striking a bargain? Still not pleased with my rendering, but it's slowly going in the right direction I feel.<br />
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Here you go peeps, Swedish music! ;) <br />
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Johannes Helgesonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01332115865997777723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927880203280601757.post-18421434769134801802014-07-21T03:09:00.002-07:002014-07-21T03:09:36.711-07:00Mo Chuisle<div style="text-align: center;">
During the two hours I was watching Million Dollar Baby, directed by Clint Eastwood, I was deeply emotionally moved. In fact, I was unable to speak as I was cracking up with tears. Hilary Swank's character, Maggie Fitzgerald, is fantastic, and it's someone I feel I can identify with. Here's an attempt at capturing some of that movie's magic. Obviously stylizing! I feel I wasn't brave enough with playing with, and exaggerating, the shapes. Too timid and feeble-hearted. Maybe I rendered too far as well. Hopefully better next time! I did enjoy the subtle lighting of the scene, not a lot of dramatic overstated stuff happening. I've got a list of movies I wish to tackle in this fashion; The Thing, Heat, Magnolia, Terminator 2, Leon, Barton Fink, The Pink Panther (2), Straw Dogs and Boogie Nights, just to name a few. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy8XEu4h4RQgfXCuqa5txn4izvKGJc1RGPDCwdJmNzRuaqkycW4cXgih-ZvE6zhbQNhyCG84XtnTGsEEIvdofW1dN8IEmnVJciAL_yKUs17xGqqs5nDw6tCoHrP31Nim4BYV_cTHjsfwC5/s1600/JHelgeson_Sorolla---Self-portrait-70x50.5cm_02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>AAAaaaand a Sorolla-study. Damn I love his brushwork. Needed to try out a new brush to more closely match his style. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy8XEu4h4RQgfXCuqa5txn4izvKGJc1RGPDCwdJmNzRuaqkycW4cXgih-ZvE6zhbQNhyCG84XtnTGsEEIvdofW1dN8IEmnVJciAL_yKUs17xGqqs5nDw6tCoHrP31Nim4BYV_cTHjsfwC5/s1600/JHelgeson_Sorolla---Self-portrait-70x50.5cm_02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy8XEu4h4RQgfXCuqa5txn4izvKGJc1RGPDCwdJmNzRuaqkycW4cXgih-ZvE6zhbQNhyCG84XtnTGsEEIvdofW1dN8IEmnVJciAL_yKUs17xGqqs5nDw6tCoHrP31Nim4BYV_cTHjsfwC5/s1600/JHelgeson_Sorolla---Self-portrait-70x50.5cm_02.jpg" height="222" width="320" /></a><br />
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I've been a fan of popping for many years. Kite, Bionic (man), Salah and Yoshie are some of the ones I enjoy watching the most. Here's a stellar performance, entertainment at the highest level. <br />
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Johannes Helgesonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01332115865997777723noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927880203280601757.post-86635698351306765032014-07-17T04:37:00.000-07:002014-07-17T04:37:06.768-07:00How I Study <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Studying the magnificent Sargent. Original on left, my study on the right. </td></tr>
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A study of Sargent, how I do it. For future reference, and because stuff like this helped me out when I started practicing painting seriously back in 2006. The conceptart.org community was the best, back in the day, and people such as <a href="http://www.artofscholes.com/">Tom Scholes</a> and <a href="http://www.artofpatri.com/">Patri Balanovsky</a> helped me out a lot in those early days. I feel a kind of obligation towards the art-community to share, as a sort of pay-back, and furthermore, by writing this I have to face my ignorance and mis-conceptions. It's an ego-destroying-process, once again reminding me of how little I know, how much I have to learn, and motivating me to practice more and better. Also this is challenge, and I love those... </div>
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At first, looking at a master-painting I panic. There's so much great stuff going on at the same time, the direction of the strokes, the edge-control, the bouncing light and materials etc. Where to start?! For me, it makes sense to try to decipher the major shapes...</div>
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A shape is a flat area of value or color, not to be confused with a form. Square, circle, rectangle, triangle, those are shapes, whereas a cube, sphere, pyramid and cylinder are forms. I try to reduce the complexity of the shapes, reducing the amount of bumps initially, and then increasing in complexity gradually. Inside the shapes, I draw in some very simple lines (usually pretty straight), indicating major landmarks, making it easier for me to judge the relationships of the shapes. Things like the bottom of the chin, cuts in the clothes etc is what I'm looking for. Easily identifiable landmarks showing where shapes will start and end. I'm eye-gauging some things, but I am also drawing horizontal lines from the original (this requires having the two images side by side), to aid me in the placement. I'm <u>CHEATING</u> 'cause I'm a horrible person. If the intent of the study was to practice drawing, I would deprive myself of that method, but this is mainly about painting. <br />
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What I'm NOT DOING is constructing forms, which is a method outlined by artists such as Glenn Vilppu. That stuff is very useful, and it's what I studied to learn how to draw, but this is a more academic approach. Construction of the forms is great for animation, but it's unnecessarily time-consuming and more appropriate for pure-drawing practice. In addition, I'm NOT trying to make a pretty linedrawing. I think it's important to know what it is you're trying to practice, and focus on that. Know what you're doing, and commit to that fully. "When I am walking I am walking; when I am eating I am eating.". <br />
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I'm using a strictly 100% Opaque brush, so I don't have to think about edge-hardness and smooth transitions etc, that comes later. I'm using the brush and eraser in equal amounts, adding and cutting out of the shapes to get the result I want. In addition, you don't have to think only about the positive shape, the negative shape gives very helpful clues in placing everything in the right place. Things such as the edges of the canvas are powerful allies in getting the right placement of shit! If there's a lot of sfumato and lost edges going on you'll simply have to imagine where the shapes start and stop. <br />
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This step is <u>VERY IMPORTANT</u>, it lays the foundation for everything else, and requires <u>PATIENCE </u>and being meticulous and careful. This step can take <u>HOURS</u>. It doesn't look very sexy, but you'll just have to accept that and postpone your gratification. <br />
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Command of shapes and shape-design is one of the most powerful tools we have as concept-artists. If you don't know about things like Straight vs. Curve, Tapering, Size-Variation, Primary/Secondary/Tertiary- shapes, the psychology of squarish, circular, triangular and asymmetrical shapes, you might want to dedicate some study-time towards that :) I know I certainly have A LOT to learn. <br />
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For a bit more on shape and painting, check out <a href="http://youtu.be/NygkJEc3yu4?list=PL0SSy7vUJ6ExSzVbhaliZ6S8242dJtKDm">Shaddy Safadi's video-tutorials</a>. In my opinion one of the most generous contributions aimed at the betterment of the concept-art community in recent years. <br />
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<u>2. Squinting Level Rendering </u></div>
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Put down colors in big strokes, focusing on the whole image at the same time. I try to get everything to a 10% of maximum render level. When I quint my eyes, which I do a lot, I want my study to look almost identical to the original. I resist the urge to jump in and render, especially the focal areas. I'm a sucker for pretty faces, so I'm really conscious about maintaining discipline here. At this point you really need to know which your focal-points are going to be. One of my major flaws has been rendering everything at the same level, and that's time-consuming, in-efficient, and looks boring. I suppose some people prefer that look, but I'm not one of them. I usually work on the big areas such as the background first, gradually working on smaller fields of color. <br />
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As I'm painting, I've locked the layer transparency, so I won't go outside of the shapes I established in the previous step. Sometimes I'll create a new layer which I lock into the underlying layer as well. If I notice that my silhouette is really off, I'll unlock the transparency and fix the shape. <br />
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If you consider each stroke as a shape, it gets easier I think. Again, like in the last step, we're just placing big shapes in the proper relationship to each other. I try to avoid working with small sized-brushes in this step. To get the right color I am doing a lot of colorpicking. This is probably a big NO-NO, but I'm selectively lazy. And I'm getting results and learning stuff, so fuck it. I feel I understand why the color looks the way it does. I think it's good to have a fairly good idea of color-theory if you want to use the color-picker. I would suggest the following for a solid foundation on the subject:<br />
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<a href="http://itchy-animation.co.uk/tutorials.html">http://itchy-animation.co.uk/tutorials.html</a><br />
<a href="http://androidarts.com/art_tut.htm">http://androidarts.com/art_tut.htm</a><br />
<a href="http://www.huevaluechroma.com/">http://www.huevaluechroma.com/</a> (this is heavy, but the most in-depth I've read)<br />
(Book) James Gurney's "Color & Light"<br />
(DVD) <a href="http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/store/product/981/Efficient-Cinematic-Lighting">http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/store/product/981/Efficient-Cinematic-Lighting</a><br />
<a href="http://theartcenter.blogspot.se/2010/03/sam-nielson-painting-process.html">http://theartcenter.blogspot.se/2010/03/sam-nielson-painting-process.html</a><br />
<a href="http://theartcenter.blogspot.se/2010/03/sam-nielson-painting-process-part-2.html">http://theartcenter.blogspot.se/2010/03/sam-nielson-painting-process-part-2.html</a><br />
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Jaime Jones outlined in one of his step-by-step paintings, that he switches brushes to avoid a "samey" look. Well, that looks nice so I stole that. I switch brushes quite a bit, although I have a favorite bristled one which I use for a lot of the skin. I try to avoid the smooth airbrush, cause it looks very photoshop, and it kills a lot of the random textured interesting stuff. Later, when we really want to model the form and sculpt, using the airbrush along with some selections is awesome, but not at this step. <br />
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<u>3. Final Painting</u></div>
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Yah yah, good. Now we can go into more detail! Just relax and paint using various brushes, selections and the smudge-tool. A mistake I made earlier in my career was imposing limitations on the tools I was using. Nowadays I just let photoshop be photoshop, and I'll use whatever method or tool to get the job done. Overlays, screen-layers, liquify, dodge, special-brushes, adjustment-layers, it all goes. <br />
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When I want to work on an area with detail, I'll grab a selection from the original image and put it side by side with my painting, if I had 2 computer-screens I would bring up the reference on my second screen, but I do all my work on my 17" macbook pro (which I have in my lap together with my wacom). </div>
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time to tackle the face! My favorite part, but I find it beneficial to
leave it for later, after I've rendered the rest. It can take a long
time paint, and once the face is rendered, I tend to want to over-render
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At this point it can be nice to show some love to the edges, so everything doesn't maintain that hard-edged opaque feel from step one. I've got the main compositional elements in separate layers, and using layer-masks I can manipulate the outer edges of the shapes without risking ruining too much. <br />
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I feel that doing these studies presents wonderful opportunities to try out new tools and brushes. Since the main purpose is to educate oneself, and most certainly these paintings won't go in the portfolio, its a non-serious and low pressure context to go wild and experiment. Since I started these studies I have reformed my brush-set completely, and that's over the course of three months. </div>
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So what's the point of all this? Well, for me it's about learning how to paint, and understanding from the masters how much detail is enough and how to handle brushstrokes.<br />
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Finally, maybe the best song, and music-video ever made. With this, I'm the king of the dance-floor, no joke ;P <br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="375" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/29525633" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <a href="http://vimeo.com/29525633">MODJO "Chillin'"</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/addictif">addictif</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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And here, take this from Question and Freddie Joachim! HipHop + Jazz<br />
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Johannes Helgesonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01332115865997777723noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927880203280601757.post-86960217010354112022014-07-15T11:32:00.003-07:002014-07-15T11:33:47.563-07:0012 Angry Men<div style="text-align: center;">
"12 Angry Men" (1957) is definitely one of the best films I have ever seen. No doubt, it's call to reason and emphasis on not letting prejudice and ignorance lay the foundation for our decisions, is equally as important now as it was when it was made. I hope I will be able to display the characteristics, the courage, clarity of mind and compassion, of Henry Fonda's character if I'm ever faced with a similar situation. I want to wholeheartedly recommend it to all of you. This movie feels more fresh than anything coming out of Hollywood today (except for Paul Thomas Anderson). And how skillfully the multi-figure compositions are handled, the readability reminds me of Akira Kurosawa's movies.<br />
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The light and feeling in this one captivated me. </div>
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My half-uncle Alex, who's an animator and illustrator (and french), bought me The Iron Giant when I was around 18 (as well as introduced me to Claire Wendling's "Iguana Bay"). I loved it very much, and I still regard it as maybe the best 2D animated Feature-film (alongside Don Bluth's "American Tail"). Directed by Brad Bird, the story-armature "You are who you chose to be" strikes a strong chord with me. Here are studies of some of the hand-references which I assume were used internally by the animators. I never felt comfortable with digital drawing, but now, using a new brush, being more at ease with the imperfections and working in layers, refining the sketch gradually, at least I feel I have tools and a process to handle it. I can't deny it, looking at the original drawings of these hands, I'm just a little bit aroused, so damn good.. <br />
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This, this is jazz at it's finest. I love this song beyond words. I read it was composed by Miles Davis for Cannonball Adderley. <br />
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Fantastic composition. Love this song, listened to it like a dozen times in a row. <br />
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Johannes Helgesonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01332115865997777723noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927880203280601757.post-33340211890452229982014-07-13T07:56:00.001-07:002014-07-13T07:56:49.315-07:00Cartoon Erotica<div style="text-align: center;">
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This was ridiculously enjoyable... Inspired by great artists such as Shane Glines, Bruce Timm, Bill Presing, Freddy Moore and Chris Sanders. Listening to Robert Greene's Art of Seduction, I felt compelled to paint someone seductive :) <br /></div>
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<br />I need to practice character interaction and storytelling, and I felt this photo was very compelling... <br />
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Steps.. <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQRCSN9pqpsAuteccBI_JSn2WL5VdLtrYkDACRCYjsY0NJfNPQ0DfKS0N8KaO9rg7wGRpZ5qCCy4Ynl4_76vxcEvbacHlG_OHtGMrJP84nxp8YlvXW5TQvDW5HRSydH9JniPaed7PmMFiS/s1600/JHelgesonComeGirlsTumblrStudy03_02_steps.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQRCSN9pqpsAuteccBI_JSn2WL5VdLtrYkDACRCYjsY0NJfNPQ0DfKS0N8KaO9rg7wGRpZ5qCCy4Ynl4_76vxcEvbacHlG_OHtGMrJP84nxp8YlvXW5TQvDW5HRSydH9JniPaed7PmMFiS/s1600/JHelgesonComeGirlsTumblrStudy03_02_steps.gif" height="320" width="259" /></a><br />Yeeeesssssss! <br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ZcLMak-TAUo" width="420"></iframe><br /><br />
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Johannes Helgesonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01332115865997777723noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927880203280601757.post-61295453730109420832014-07-11T04:16:00.003-07:002014-07-11T04:16:29.618-07:00More Murder Ballads... <div style="text-align: center;">
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Hey there! Some more characters for a personal project. Experimenting with lighting and rendering. <br /></div>
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I regard Milt Kahl as the best animator, and one of the finest draftsmen who's ever lived. I want to be able to be as expressive and skillful at visual storytelling as he was, one day. Stylistically I am more fond of the drawings of Bruce Timm, Claire Wendling, Matt Rhodes and Ben Caldwell though. <br />
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And please allow me to impose upon you this gem... <br />
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<br />Have a nice weekend, thanks for looking! :D </div>
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