Bluebeard

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

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!

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

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

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

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

Metalhead

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

Sketches

Troll Bridge

Goat and trolls

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

Chromagination

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

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

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

Flakk Prototype

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

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!

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

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

Another Sneak Peak

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

Summer time is ice cream time

Wizards

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

Another doodle

another quick photoshop doodle from life

Doodle

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

Temporary Gallery

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

http://paacart.carbonmade.com/

Shows!

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: