PAAC ART the blog

Elf

2011-12-12T00:08:00.000-08:00

More sketches

2011-09-19T17:35:00.000-07:00

Random sketches

2011-09-11T16:37:00.000-07:00

Dancer

2011-08-01T14:54:00.001-07:00

Spaceman

2011-07-13T00:14:00.000-07:00

Quick sketch with progress shots.

Also, new, edited and updated portfolio! check it out at your right, link called PORTFOLIO.

Monkey sketch

2011-06-24T00:14:00.000-07:00

The Resting Traveler + Graduation!

2011-05-31T18:07:00.000-07:00

Here's a new painting, really just wanted to paint a tree...

In other news: I graduated!

Here I am with couple of my art school buddies, (from left to right) Roman, Emerson and me. Roman was so kind enough to bling out our bro picture. Much more bro now.

New York Show

2011-05-10T01:30:00.000-07:00

The Society of Illustrators student competition show opened in New York, and as I mentioned couple posts below I have two pieces in the show. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to go myself, but check out these photos taken by Marcus Sakoda.

Bunch of sketches

2011-04-28T14:14:00.001-07:00

a compilation of sketches, a mix of recent and older ones, that I made to submit for the sketchbook category at this years springshow...

The Swan

2011-03-17T13:00:00.001-07:00

I'm working on a collaborative project at school, developing a short animated film about a swan.

I've been drawing bunch of swans, and here is one such sketch...

Innovated Magazine

2011-02-16T18:55:00.001-08:00

I've been featured in Innovated Magazine! Check it out here

Society of Illustrators 2011

2011-02-12T17:49:00.000-08:00

I got into the Society of Illustrators student show again this year! Last year my piece "Not Your Housewife" got in, and this year I had two pieces accepted!

You can see them here

And you can see the rest of the show here

This is a radish

2011-01-19T17:04:00.001-08:00

Bluebeard

2010-12-17T17:49:00.000-08:00

I finally got around to scan the rest of the drawings that I've been doing in my visual development class. I've gathered all of the designs for the project and put it in a presentable form. This semester went by super fast and I hoped I could have done a little bit more with this, but I think I will continue to add some story beats to this, even though the semester is up.

Bluebeard is a gruesome old French fairy tale about a man named Bluebeard who charms young women into marrying him only to murder them in his home. Last semester, for Baby City, I focused more on the story beats and color keys, and I painted the characters. It was a humorous futuristic story with robot babies. So this time I wanted to do something completely different and focus more on drawing and designing everything about this world. The characters, their homes, the town, etc. Since it's a French fairy tale I based the architecture of Alsace where my dad is from in France, and infused some industrial revolution in there. You could say it's steam punk -ish. So there you have it, check it out. Everything drawn with colored drawing pencils.

Flakk tv ad

2010-12-17T14:12:00.000-08:00

Here's a short tv ad that will air in Iceland in the next days before Christmas. Put together by the good people at Pipar advertising.

FLAKK Released!

2010-12-05T19:08:00.000-08:00

photographs by Sigtryggur Ari Jóhannsson

Flakk - kapphlaupið að forna hliðinu er komið í búðir!

Loksins er borðspilið komið út, en við hjá Drekafisk ehf. höfum verið að vinna að þessu spili í þrjú ár. Ég er rosalega stoltur af þessu og býð öllum íslenskum lesendum að tjékka á því! Upplýsingar um spilið sjálft og hvernig hægt er að nálgast það hér:

Flakk á facebook!

Flakk heimasíðan!

My boardgame "Flakk" has been released in Iceland! It's out in stores! Unfortunately for my foreign readers, this is an exclusive Icelandic product, but perhaps it will be translated in the near future. Check out the links above.

Kisi

2010-11-15T14:32:00.000-08:00

For the last three months I've been working on a comic with writer Hugleikur Dagsson translated in english as "The one eyed cat Kisi and the mysteries of Eyjafjallajökull". It's an action packed adventure comedy.

It's been fun and stressful at the same time, as in penciling and inking a 52 page comic along with all my homework can be... yeah.. interesting. Anyway, our lovechild is finally in printing and will be released in Iceland in just a few days! Be sure to look for it Icelanders! (sorry foreigners). This is the cover for the comic, painted in photoshop. And below is how it will apparently look like after printing, the text was added by the publishers.

Western

2010-11-11T02:13:00.000-08:00

For my narrative painting class we were given a list of short sentences to choose from an illustrate. I chose "The two animals were bad banditos" and created this western train heist about to happen.

Painted in photoshop.

Bluebeard City

2010-11-09T21:56:00.001-08:00

More drawings from my Bluebeard project (one older one in there though). Trying to figure out what this city looks like..

Metalhead

2010-11-02T16:28:00.000-07:00

This is a teaser poster design for Icelandic director Ragnar Bragason's new film project called "Metalhead". Painted in photoshop.

Sketches

2010-10-26T16:53:00.000-07:00

Troll Bridge

2010-10-15T15:13:00.001-07:00

Goat and trolls

2010-10-02T15:10:00.000-07:00

Some sketches for an illustration I'm doing for class, it has goats and trolls in it...

Chromagination

2010-09-24T15:23:00.000-07:00

Hey guys! Big news!

My friends and I have put together an art book called Chromagination.

The book has 128 pages of full color illustrations and paintings with several step-by-step tutorials by some of the artists, including me. I'm super proud of this book and I hope you check it out!

We'll be selling the book at APE (alternative press expo) here in San Francisco next month!

If you don't live in SF but want the book visit us at one of the links below and reserve a copy!

For previews and more info about the book and how to get your own copy visit:

Chromagination on Facebook

Chromagination on Blogspot

Chromagination at APE

Town Design

2010-09-19T14:08:00.000-07:00

Some drawings to figure out what the town feels like in my new visual development project, Bluebeard. I'm designing a sort of industrial fantasy town fusion, heh.. I'm still working on it so the town will evolve a bit more I think..

The Chemist, painted

2010-09-15T20:53:00.000-07:00

I painted the chemist based on my drawing from the last post. An assignment for Narrative Painting. I'm also taking visual development again so I will post some more drawings from that soon. Oh and thanks for the responses, appreciate it guys.

The Chemist

2010-09-11T23:16:00.000-07:00

Flakk Prototype

2010-08-21T12:22:00.000-07:00

We finally got the prototype from the printers. It looks great, the printing is really nice. The cards are different paper than the final will have though, and the edges on the cards will be rounded too. I'm including all the characters as well. There are 6 types, and you can choose male or female. I'm also showing the new map, the board. Adventure! Fun! Yay! Soon in stores!

Space chill

2010-08-13T17:27:00.000-07:00

A quick speed painting, doodling between work stuff. His anatomy is a little messed up, but anyways. He's waking up and drinking coffee in zero-gravity orbiting a distant planet...

Flakk!

2010-08-04T18:49:00.000-07:00

More art from the board game. This time its the box art Cover! We're getting the prototype soon! Check in later for more stuff from the game..

Icelandic to English: Flakk means to wander or travel. Kapphlaupið að forna hliðinu means The race to the ancient portal...

Window View

2010-08-04T08:38:00.001-07:00

Another quick doodle from my friends place, view out the window..

Another Sneak Peak

2010-07-23T10:23:00.001-07:00

Here's another little sneak peak of some of the work I've been doing for the boardgame project. We're in the final stages now, and we will get a prototype from the printers next month. It will be released in Iceland around christmas time. I will post more art from it once it will be closer to release, then you will finally get the whole picture :P

I'm also doing a comic this summer, more info on that soon!

Summer time

2010-07-02T17:13:00.001-07:00

Summer time is ice cream time

Wizards

2010-06-29T18:05:00.000-07:00

From my boardgame project.. More to come soon...

Another doodle

2010-06-28T17:18:00.000-07:00

another quick photoshop doodle from life

Doodle

2010-06-16T20:25:00.000-07:00

Here is a quick little doodle from my friends living room, looking out the balcony door.

Temporary Gallery

2010-06-10T09:09:00.000-07:00

I've made a quick and easy portfolio over at carbonmade, while I'm building my website. Check it.

http://paacart.carbonmade.com/

Shows!

2010-05-29T16:30:00.000-07:00

The Annual AAU 2010 Springshow opening was last thursday. 7 pieces of mine got into the show. I also won a few awards at the show! One piece of mine (below) won two awards: Best of Show!! and Best Advanced Elective! Also my Baby City project won Best Visual Development! Take a look at the photos from the show:

I'm also adding photos from the Society of Illustrators Student competition show, in New York. I wasn't able to go, so these are shot by my friend:

This is the catalog which they printed as well:

Book Cover

2010-05-17T17:36:00.000-07:00

My final for honors portfolio class, a book cover. tah dah.

Boneshaker

2010-05-12T17:32:00.001-07:00

I used my sketch below to make a poster-type illustration for the Boneshaker.. It's more like a sketch than a finished painting, as you can see by the roughness of the strokes.

Character sketch

2010-05-07T15:06:00.000-07:00

A character sketch from a book I just finished reading, the Boneshaker. It's quite good.

Editorial

2010-05-02T18:26:00.000-07:00

This is an illustration done for class. The assignment was to illustrate an article about plastic surgery. I'm not big on editorial stuff, so I wasn't too excited about this, but at least I got to paint a hot chick.

Mermaid and Fairies

2010-04-27T21:45:00.001-07:00

I feel like I'm kinda getting the hang of using pastels, it's been a fun semester. These are one hour drawings. We had our models dressed as (hot) mythical beings. Three weeks left of the semester. Finals, here we go. I'm adding some photoshop doodles, testing a new brush:

Doodle

2010-04-26T20:40:00.000-07:00

Pastel life drawings

2010-04-24T14:26:00.001-07:00

Color Keys

2010-04-20T17:43:00.001-07:00

Here's the second half of the storybeats done in color... color keys... You can see the all of the storybeats in the previous post.

Baby City

2010-04-08T00:21:00.000-07:00

Baby City is a project I'm doing in my Visual Development class. We take a story and develop all the visuals for it. I'm doing a short story by J. Ævar Grímsson about an unlucky bachelor. Above are the storybeats, some key moments in the story. Focusing on clear staging. I've painted the first half in value for the lighting, but I'm just gonna do the rest as color keys. Then maybe I'll take some and paint them bigger if I have time. Below are the key characters in the story..

Rooftop

2010-04-05T20:30:00.000-07:00

An illustration based on a song about a boy sitting on a rooftop writing a letter for this girl he likes...

Sketches from life

2010-04-01T20:19:00.001-07:00

I just got this new sketchbook, its panoramic, pretty cool. These are just some quick sketches around town, coffee shops, workshops etc..

M & M

2010-03-30T19:25:00.001-07:00

Another character for the boardgame. Say hi to Munda.

A quick sketch of Magellan

pastels

2010-03-13T20:28:00.000-08:00

Some more drawings from my clothed figure pastel drawing class..

Award!

2010-03-09T20:26:00.000-08:00

Hey, I won an award in the Society of Illustrators student show in New York, but the show opens in May. Check me out here. Click here for the rest of the awards.

Good times!

Butterfly girl

2010-02-27T17:59:00.000-08:00

We were supposed to take a drawing we did in class and do something with it in photoshop. This is what I did. You can see the original couple of posts below.

Finished Painting

2010-02-15T17:14:00.000-08:00

Phew, finished this one just in time for class.. Painted in photoshop...

Society of Illustrators

2010-02-14T11:33:00.000-08:00

A piece of mine got into the Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Competition, and will be included in their show in New York. Check it out here and here

semester start off

2010-02-09T18:09:00.000-08:00

Alright, the semester is off to a good start, I'm looking forward to these in particular: honor's portfolio, visual development and clothed figure 4 (pastel drawing).

The drawing above is my first assignment for honors portfolio, we were given 5 sentences to choose from to illustrate and I chose something like "The shadow that she left behind". It reminded me of a story that happens in 19th century london... Anyway, I have to paint this before next week, yikes!

Below are some of my drawings from start of clothed fig 4.

What are you guys up to anyways?

Another one

2010-01-29T12:14:00.001-08:00

Reki

2010-01-20T10:23:00.000-08:00

I'm pimping up all the characters for the boardgame into a more animated look, here's Reki..

Finals

2009-12-20T15:09:00.000-08:00

Ah, finally done with finals, can't wait to take it easy on the break. Flying home to Iceland after the weekend, good times...

Clothed Figure Painting final, oil on canvas, 18x24in.

Quick Studies final, oil on canvas, 18x24in.

Digital Painting, we had to gather our best work done during the semester and put together a portfolio, I made a simple little web page..

Boardgame news

2009-12-14T21:25:00.000-08:00

Our boardgame is coming along quite nicely, we're very close to a finished product and I have to say the game is soooo much fun! Here's a new colored version of the board I just finished painting.. it is not completely done, and will probably be revised for the final product but this is what we got for now! Enjoy!

Characters

2009-12-08T18:23:00.000-08:00

some miscellaneous character sketches...

This last one is a private joke.. My friend dressed up like this one time.. hehe..

More Quickies

2009-12-04T15:58:00.000-08:00

Illustration

2009-11-30T15:33:00.001-08:00

There is a contest back home in Iceland for the cover of the phonebook, with a quite a bit of a cash prize, so I gave it a shot. The theme we had to work from was "Iceland in a positive light" So I did this sort of playful, animation-style illustration with a hint of adventure.

Some close up details...

They'll announce the winner at the end of december... Wish me luck!

Digital Painting

2009-11-29T03:09:00.000-08:00

Practicing my photoshop painting...

Digital Sketches

2009-11-22T21:56:00.001-08:00

Here are a few sketches, messing around in photoshop.

This one, below, is an oil painting from my clothed figure painting class.

more quickies

2009-11-17T23:55:00.000-08:00

My demo

2009-11-11T23:28:00.001-08:00

So my friend Gerald, the president for the Concept Design Club here at the Academy, and I thought it would be fun if I did a digital painting demo showing how I paint in photoshop. It was a great success actually, around 50 people showed up :)

I started with this sketch

After 2 1/2 hours, not completely done, but ran out of time so I rushed a few things. If I had a few more hours I would finish the background and refine the sloppy stuff, etc.

I thought I'd throw in this version, before texture and color adjustments..

more quickies

2009-11-02T20:28:00.000-08:00

Street scene

2009-10-28T01:23:00.000-07:00

Street scene, a bit stylized. Oils...

Quick studies: Still life

2009-10-22T15:20:00.000-07:00

We had a still life day today in quick studies class. These are all done in 30 mins each.

Midpoint Review Portfolio

2009-10-15T16:20:00.000-07:00

It's time for my midpoint review at the Academy! We were supposed to create a portfolio for them, with specific instructions. You can see mine here:

Midpoint Review Portfolio

(Since my computer crashed I haven't been able to finish my website, paacart.com, because I don't have the necessary programs. In the meantime you can visit the above porfolio on Flickr.com)

-Pétur

more quick studies

2009-10-13T21:49:00.000-07:00

more homework for my Quickstudies class. These are between 20 min - 40 min.

Album cover

2009-10-11T15:18:00.000-07:00

So I've been working on an album cover for a few friends of mine. Above is the final product, below are the rejected ones.

Landscape studies

2009-10-07T16:35:00.000-07:00

Landscape quick studies, around 1 hour each. From photos...

More studies

2009-10-03T12:55:00.000-07:00

Paint studies

2009-09-30T17:28:00.000-07:00

These two above are from my clothed figure class...
And these below are from my Quick studies class...

Balcony view. Quick study, 25 min.

Semi nude study, 25 min.

Clothed Figure study, 25 min.

In class studies:

-Pétur

Sérhver sem þyrstir

2009-09-26T17:17:00.000-07:00

Something I painted today, it's a project I'm working on..

doodles

2009-09-17T15:45:00.000-07:00

Just got the new photoshop CS4, been doodling a little bit. Liking it so far.

Album cover

2009-09-14T22:52:00.000-07:00

Recently I did an album cover for my singer friend María. She has released her first album: Not Your Housewife. I just got the disc in the mail and I have to say they did a good job on the printing.

María, Not Your Housewife is available online at www.gogoyoko.com/mariamagnusdottir.

Right now I'm working on two other album covers, maybe I can post some sketches soon...

wip

2009-09-12T16:01:00.001-07:00

Something I'm doodling in my sparetime. I'm quite fond of this style... work in progress...

Back in San Fran

2009-09-05T21:30:00.000-07:00

Heyo!

Got back in San Francisco couple of days ago. Iceland was great! I had really good fun back home for those few weeks. Now starts the new semester, I have a good feeling about this one, I'm taking some fun classes. Stick around!

Just a quick sketch of the thief-character Mörri...

Final

2009-08-05T00:12:00.000-07:00

Aiiiight, so my summer semester is up! This is my final for landscape painting. I was given the freedom to approach it more like an illustration, so I did this sort of bookcover type painting, urban landscape with a figure.. foggy mysterious mood... Wish I had painted it bigger so I could do the face better, oh well... Flying home to Iceland in couple of days! CYA!

Muir beach

2009-07-28T16:08:00.001-07:00

De Young museum trip

2009-07-23T16:51:00.000-07:00

Today we had a field trip to the De Young museum. First half we sketched outside the museum, and second half we went inside and checked out the art...

A watercolor sketch of the entrance to the Japanese tea garden, which is next to the museum..

a watercolor sketch of the stairs leading up to De Young

There was an african section in the museum, really cool. Bunch of masks and figurines and real skulls..

Rooftops

2009-07-20T19:16:00.001-07:00

We went rooftop painting today. It was a misty overcast morning.

After I finished the painting I did a few compositional sketches with watercolor. It was less cloudy and more sunny by then.

Twin Peaks

2009-07-13T15:42:00.001-07:00

and more landscapes

2009-07-09T16:41:00.001-07:00

This one was fun, I'm learning tons in class

This one is from a photograph of Jökulsárlón (Glacier lake) in Iceland.

and a couple of sketches from the same location as the first one.

Sketches

2009-07-06T00:17:00.000-07:00

Quick sketches, messing around in Photoshop...

Painting at Wine Country

2009-06-26T02:13:00.000-07:00

My new baby

about 2 hours

20 mins

More landscapes

2009-06-24T13:04:00.000-07:00

Trying to capture that early morning light, started painting this at like 9 in the morning..

Started another one around noon. This one is pretty bad, and it got smudged too..

Landscape painting

2009-06-20T00:20:00.000-07:00

So the summer semester started this week. I'm taking two classes, one of them is landscape painting. I'm enjoying this class very much so far. These were painted at South Park.

I'm trying to improve my eye for color and really trying to capture the light. I'll be painting around four of these every week so stay tuned :)

Jóli

2009-06-02T21:05:00.001-07:00

Icelandic-santa character design, part of a job I'm working on...

Sketches

2009-05-29T19:24:00.001-07:00

Springshow

2009-05-22T12:29:00.000-07:00

The Springshow opening night was yesterday and I got in 7 pieces. I also won the Barbara Bradley Appreciator Award, which I'm very happy about.

Last CF3 class

2009-05-15T17:36:00.000-07:00

Last day drawings in Clothed Figure Drawing 3... Good times. I think I've grown a bit in this class. My direct-drawing technique is a little better. I was in a more of a painterly mood this day, as you can maybe tell...

Last Illustrations

2009-05-12T03:08:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, last week of school! Finals went well and I got some pieces into the Springshow, but I don't know which ones. I submitted a lot...

Here are my last two assignments for Illustration 2: Watercolor. Watercolor is much more diverse than I expected, but I'm not sure I'll be using it much in the future.. we'll see. The theme was a book illustration, both cover and interior. I chose a novel by Jim Butcher called Turn Coat in the Dresden Files series. It's a Mystery-Detective-Urban-Fantasy book, I love it.

This first one is actually our final, but we were running out of time in class so we had to finish this one and the other one at the same time, so I went for a very simple design that I could paint fairly fast :P Here's my process:

Super messy and fast sketches, playing with ideas and composition.

We painted our color rough in class, trying to figure out how my final's gonna look like... I actually like the colors here way better than in my final, I messed up the purple..

And then the final!

This is the interior illustration, a two-page spread, with space for text.

Messy sketches. I picked a passage from the book which reads:

"It screamed again, the sound deeper-chested than before, more resonant. I raised my staff, anger and terror and determination surging down into the wooden tool, and shouted, "Forzare!"

My color rough

And final!

Extra bonus: This is how my final for Adv. Perspective looks like, all the drawings mounted on two big boards for presentation.

CF3 Portfolio

2009-05-06T22:10:00.000-07:00

Some favorites from my final portfolio for Clothed Figure 3, life drawing class. All these are from the second-half of the semester. For those interested pose duration is marked in the corners.

Igster & Peebs

2009-04-30T16:58:00.001-07:00

Another Illustration 2 project, render an animal, realistically, in watercolor. Then create a character from that animal.

Keppnin Mikla!

2009-04-27T19:20:00.000-07:00

Here is the last part of my adv. perspective final, 5 illustrations. The concept is our Boardgame world (along with the characters posted earlier). I wanted each picture to show a part of the boardgame you go through at some point. First all the players arrive at the city harbor on the first island. Then they must race to the top, through each island filled with battles and treasures and exciting places, and who reaches the top first, and slays the Dragon wins! :D

First I chose 5 compositional thumbs and did a preliminary color rough.

Then I painted them (using photoshop):

Some Illustration 2 work coming soon..

Composition Composition Composition

2009-04-11T02:03:00.000-07:00

Yo, some more homework from advanced perspective class

Greek Mythology theme

Our next (and FINAL!) project is five complete illustrations with our own theme. I chose the world from our Boardgame that my friends and I are making. It's a roleplaying-card-Boardgame with lots of action and fun! You can chose from 6 characters, each with specialities. The first part of the assignment was to draw your characters and other concepts around the world, then draw 90 thumbnails(!) from which we will chose 5 to illustrate. Good times.

Aiiiight