Jungle Explorers

Power Of Nature

7.4 cubic kilometers of ice become alive and moves. Brains hardly can find any reference to compare to.

Dark Feather Brotherhood

Close Up

Gyro Cabin designs

A while ago interesting thought came across my mind about using Gyro principle for travellers Cabin. All happens on four leg creature back. No matter what angle creature is climbing into a cliff for example, cabin stays vertical. Similar principles are used also in yachts for captain seats. 

Oriental Street Magician

Coffbot

Silhouette sketches insipred by coffe machine which we used to have in our appartment. Later on im planing to take one of these and turn into fully colored concept.

Cheetah - Super Slow Motion Video

Most amazing super slow motion video ever. Very good reference too. Thanks to James Gurney for sharing.

Mr.Scientist in color

Creature Designs

I had some time today to sketch creatures, so here is the result. I gave myself a task and combined two existing animals: moose and turtle. Some of designs can be far away from looking either of these animals or reptiles, but it was nice reference and specifications to follow.

"IKI" Christmas candy package characters

So Christmas is very close and it is time to buy some sweet candies. I had a lot of fun creating characters for candy package which was designed as a pattern for all visible surface. Lithuanian agency AllCaps was very happy to have my illustrations which helped to make candy box look fun and appealing.

Agency: AllCaps.lt

Here is couple final package design photos from different angles:

Here are all characters I drew:

Mr.Scientist

Very quick today's sketch to warm up my hand and brain.

Wanna be a Concept Artist?

I recently found a very nice and rare video about career as a concept artist. For those who have blurry picture what these guys do out there with pencils in they're hands, Ted Kim talks about all kind of different aspects and explains a lot in simple words. Really worth watching and getting to know interesting stuff.

Down bellow you will find all three parts of an interview.

Part 1:



Part 2:



Part 3:

Live WebCam painting: Hekla, Iceland. Snow!

Iceland at it's best! All covered with white powder. I once visited this incredibly beautiful country during winter season. It brings me very good memories about how beautiful our earth can be. 

Location: Hekla, Iceland.

Time: 10:00 am - 12:10 pm 21.11.2012 (Danish time)

Actual painting location: Copenhagen, Denmark

Link to webcam: http://eldgos.mila.is/hekla/

Digital painting.

WebCam printscreen.

Everything Is A Remix

My recently discovered movie consisting from 4 short movies about creativity, ideas and intelectual property. Thanks to Kirby Ferguson now we have more clear picture about what is what. At the end I can say it is very inspiring and mind changing movie.

Here are all four parts of it.


Part 1:

Everything is a Remix Part 1 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo.

Part 2:

Everything is a Remix Part 2 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo.

Part 3:

Everything is a Remix Part 3 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo.

Part 4:

Everything is a Remix Part 4 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo.

Game Companies

If you ever will need a list of game companies all over the world, here you go:
Game Companies

I found it pretty informative and useful.

Live WebCam painting: Hekla, Iceland. Morning.

Very beautiful morning in Iceland. Especially in one of the most attractive places to see volcano. More about this place you can read here.

Location: Hekla, Iceland.

Time: 10:00 am - 10:30 am 31.10.2012 (Danish time)

Actual painting location: Copenhagen, Denmark

Link to webcam: http://eldgos.mila.is/hekla/

Digital painting.

WebCam printscreen at the time I was painting.

GhostVFX: Maersk MyHR white board presentation

Mærsk MyHR from Ghost VFX on Vimeo.

This time I got the task to draw on white board with markers. It's analog and it's fun! Maersk is one of the biggest companies right now in Denmark with over 70 000 employes in 130 countries. Together with extremely talented people from GhostVFX we made it and I think it looks cool!

And yes, the hand that you see in mine :)

Hope you will like it to.

Team:

Directed: Claus Kogsbøll
Ghost VFX Supervisor: Claus Kogsbøll
Ghost Producer: Anders Jensen
Artist: Vaidas Bagonas

Sketching

Bad Practical Joke ( Halloween theme )

"Bad Practical Joke". Final image.

Making off:

Rough line sketch.

First colour blocking.

Overall detailing.

Color tweaking and detailing.

Some detail close up's:

Specs.: Full resolution 4582 x 2578 pixels, Software: Adobe Photoshop CS6.

Sketching people

View from our apartment window. This street is pretty busy in the morning so there is plenty moving objects to sketch.

Leading action body parts

Hi everyone, this time I decided to practice action lines and leading body parts in these action. As many artist say, the part of the body which leads the action will always define the very quality of the same action. So in this case i was paying more attention to understanding what figure does and which part of the body leads particular action. Some figures you see here are made up, but most of them are live action poses performed by my collegues during the day.

Page filled with poses.

Here I indicated the main curve which goes through the body of the figure.

Here I left the curve and also indicated main body part which leads the action.

It is really fun exercise. Recommend to try for everyone.

Orangutan sketching

Like a boss. Digital pencil sketch.

Monday warm up sketching

Sunday evening with pencil

Today was a nice evening watching movie and sketching on paper. Felt alive again when touched the paper with pencil. For those who work in this industry probably knows exactly what I mean.

Here are couple of pages from today:

GhostVFX: Neuro science visuals

Not so long ago I was asked to visualise some of scientific descriptions about how our brains works. It was very interesting experience. These are just few examples from what I came up with. Mostly its just color variations.

Live WebCam painting: Hekla, Iceland

One more quick painting from Iceland. This time is Hekla webcam.

Location: Hekla, Iceland.
Time: 03:30 pm - 04:01 pm 19.10.2012 ( Danish time )
Actual painting location: Copenhagen, Denrmark

Link to webcam: http://eldgos.mila.is/hekla/

My sketchy painting.

WebCam prinscreen picture.

Live WebCam painting: Iceland, Jökulsárlón

Today I have decided to try something new. Some time ago i came across an idea to try to paint live while being at the same time in the other part of the world. One of the ways is to use webcams which shows live view with all present weather conditions and movement which goes at exact time down there in the location. Sure, there can be one disappointment for painter when camera is set in the specific way, and that's already enforced cropping of landscape or so. But I suggest not to be disappointing and actually there are some pretty well set cameras like the the Jökulsárlón location, which I painted today. Unexpectedly by painting this little picture i found out that it brings this amazing thrill feelings which happens when you are in the real plain air. Clouds moves, everything moves, wiggles... that's exciting!

So here is the result.

Location: Jökulsárlón, Iceland.

Time: 2:20 pm - 2:54 ( Danish time )

Actual painting location: Office in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Link to webcam: http://live.mila.is/english/jokulsarlon/

My Painting. The view will be different when you will check it in the webcam link above, but that's the beauty of it.