Three year anniversary!!!

Yesterday I realized that today is this blogs three year anniversary! Before I have been keeping an eye on the calendar so I will not miss it. This year it just snuck on me!

So lets take a moment and think about this past year...

Well the biggest change is that I've been working on my biggest project since animation school! My comics project Pilgrim! With that project I turned this blog into a behind the scenes window, so the reader, who so wanted, could have a look on the progress of the comic.

As I've written earlier, I thought that I would have finished the comic by now, but I have not. The new "deadline" will be autumn - early winter 2013, sort of...

So what has the future in store for me and this blog?
First off I'm going to finish Pilgrim, then we will see what's going to happen. But you don't need to worry, I've got a pipeline full of neat stuff that I want to do!

Having this blog as a behind the scenes window, has been working quite nicely, I think. And as my projects get bigger and bigger, chances are that it will continue in that direction.

Take care!

Sketching in red done!

Yesterday I finished sketching in red. Feels great. As you can see my pencil almost ran out... Some years ago I read about pencil extensioners, and how important they are, so I bought a pair. Since I'm a mechanical pencil guy, I haven't really used them, until last week when I needed it. Since I've got a small part of scrooge in me I will probably use the pencil some more...just for the fun of it!

Today I will continue with the clean up, this time around I will use my most beloved mechanical pencil!

Yesterday I thought about how important it is to recognize when I have finished a certain part of a project. To kind of treat myself with some fun and relaxation. That's important because when I will return to the project, it's most likely that I can look at it with fresh eyes and notice things that are in need of noticing.

Take care!

Sketches in red continues

The sketching in red continues as you can see on the drawings below. As I've written before I find it kind of weird that the panels that I'm worried or anxious about drawing, comes out alright, or even good. Or maybe I'm a better draughtsman than I'm giving myself credit to...

In the beginning of the summer I saw before me a way to spend more time on Pilgrim, which I enjoyed thinking. Unfortunately or luckily(!), things have popped up that needed my attention. These things have been fun things and good things so I'm happy for the opportunities they have given me. But on the flip side of it, my time on Pilgrim has been less than I originally thought, which is kind of sad. But if these things that have popped up will get further, they will kick some serious derrières! Trust me on that one! And they would mean the world to me!

In the beginning of a project, you (or I) plan a deadline. The deadline for Pilgrim to be finished, was within a year from the start of the project. I started drawing it in july last year, even though I wrote in the blog post that I didn't know when it was going to get finished, I always thought that it would be within a year. So will it be? Well, since we're in august 2013 I guess it will, kind of, as of yet, not be finished within a year... so, uh... oh, darn!

So when will it be finished then? It's kind of hard to say, the chapter I'm working on at the moment is the longest yet. But the rest of the chapters will not be that long (at least I don't think so). So my naive new deadline will be autumn 2013... You know it's great with broad deadlines, because you will almost always meet them! Only time will tell if I will meet this one... But at the same time, what's most important is that the project will get finished and that I will do it as good as I can, to the best of my abilities.

Take care!

Old drawings

This week I made an excavation among my old drawings to see of there were any that I could save or re-use, in this economy you know...

I stumbled upon these three drawings that I made maybe two years ago. We were at the museum of natural history in Gothenburg, and did some drawing.

I've been focusing on drawing the form of the animal and not the outer line, which is something I really need to work at, still!

Take care!

Things keep popping up!

I don't know how that is, but things keep popping up. This time around it's been projects that might turn into big stuff, that has monopolized my time. So Pilgrim has been forced aside a bit.

Don't get me wrong, if these projects fall in the right hands and lands in my lap, they will seriously kick some behinds! And I would seriously enjoy working on them. I might tell you more about them later on. The reason behind my secrecy is because they are in this fragile state of development where things get made or not made, so keep your fingers crossed...

Today though I'm going to devote myself totally to Pilgrim, which feels great and I'm going to continue with my sketches in red.

Take care!