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Here’s an image I did for Aava & Bang advertising agency’s new visual identity. I tell you folks, this thing is HUGE – roughly 217 cm wide and 42 cm high in 300dpi resolution. That’s 25638 x 4962 pixels for anyone who’s counting…

It was quite an enjoyable challenge, and even more so for my old computer which really couldn’t handle files this big. I had to do the final, full sized image in pieces (which the client put together with better hardware), and still the working file for the biggest of the pieces was 542 MB. Phew.

Check out some details too. These are 25% of the actual pixel size:

This was a fun project - very clear brief and just few minor, good changes in the sketching stage. The client seemed happy with it and I like how it turned too. There’s a slightly bigger version of the image in use on their website.

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Here’s someone I’ve been meaning to do for quite some time and who seems to fascinate me to no end: Glenn Danzig.

A bit of eerie synchronicity going on as well: Going through some biographies I just realized that I finished the image - truly unbeknownst to myself - on his damn birthday, June 23rd. So happy birthday, Glenn…

Fucking metal. Serious business.

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This is just something I’ve been doodling in Photoshop over couple of night before bed. To be frank, I got really bored with it…

Not crazy about the style and it’s sloppy too.

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Another two for the CTT at U16. First one is after Mike Monroe’s sketch of – to me – a bit insecure looking rodent. So here he is with a friend, overcompensating:

And my entry for the next in line, a gentler, more confident fella:

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I’ll huff. I’ll puff. I’ll blow

Another panel for the Stylus collaborative comic activity. My previous panels can be viewed here.

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Grace Kelly was gorgeous but unlike - for example - her contemporary Audrey Hepburn who had a very distinct face and look, Grace was more of an epitome of neutral beauty - whatever that may be. That makes her really difficult to draw. Even if you get a decent likeness, you might still end up with a drawing of beautiful but generic looking dame…

So I decided to go for mood instead. Maybe young Grace Kelly getting a brief glimpse at the crystal ball - and her eventual fate.

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Just a random tough guy to go to the CTT Turbo with the Superwoman from previous post. A screaming, severed head also featured.

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Jacob Winkler did a nice take on Superwoman at U16’s CTT Turbo, so I thought I’d do a take on his take for fun. Originally I was attracted to the nightmarish quality of Jacobs image, but in the end went for something else.

I opted to go for a more practical, “realistic” design rather than the typical top-heavy spiked heels and microskirt type of designs you often see in superhero comics.

Didn’t even realize that Hulk is a Marvel character until I’d already finished the piece. Oh well, same difference.

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Here’s another fairly quick one for another U16 activity, the Movie Tag Team. The idea of the activity is to do an image about the movie character that the person before you picks. My movie was Flight of the Navigator and this image. The kid’s the navigator…

I didn’t really like these children’s fantasy movies as a kid, and don’t like ‘em now. So this is what I came up with:

It’s a reference to one of the lines in the movie. I think I could use some educating like that myself…

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Here’s a few sketches that I drew awhile back when we were doing a bit of drinking and drawing before heading out to see some bands. Consider this a little insight into the kind of music that was played that night…

This is what we were listening to first…

… and this is what we listened after that. I was having some trouble drawing the pentagram by that time. The last sketch of the night, heh.

And finally a sketch anticipating the live stuff…

This music business is serious stuff, you know.

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Here’s a couple of quick images I did based on other people’s characters. First one is after Sticmann’s sketch of a little robot. I streamlined the design a bit and I guess it isn’t that little anymore either. It was done for the CTT activity at U16 again.

And the second one is a take on Scott Vanden Bosch’s character. I thought it (my take, that is) was a bit stupid* and unfunny*, so I haven’t posted it until now.

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“Friends or Foes” is a short comic I did last fall for a comic anthology that unfortunately hit the rocks and never got published. Too bad. Based on what I saw  there would’ve been good stuff in it. Curse you, recession!

Read it here! And enjoy…

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