I was going to reblog a story today, but the reblog button doesn’t seem to work anywhere, so instead I’ll publish some of this week’s sketches in case someone would be interested in seeing them.
I usually start out with some fast sketches once the idea is written down.
Then I make a pencil version which I later trace over to the watercolour paper.
This is a couple of try outs for the ink…
…before the final ink illustration is made. This is what it looks like before i retouch it with Gimp. Please excuse the photo quality.
The finished illustrations can be seen on this weeks posts. Just press the previous button.
Thank you.
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Great work. They are all very interesting,
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Thanks.
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Amazing!
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Beautiful! Wow!
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Thanks a lot! I’ve been thinking of publishing some of them, and since a I couldn’t reblog I thought I’d give it a shot. Very happy you liked them 🙂
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Welcome!
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Besides the stories themselves , the art is another thing that I always like on your blog. These are awesome 😊😊😊
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Thank you very much 🙂
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Very cool! It’s an entire process then the writing comes. Must take hours!
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Thanks! The writing usually comes simultaneously, each step has a part of the process on both sides, altough it’s a bit different each story. I might make a post on that some day 😉
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That would be good!
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Very cool! I like seeing how you guys (i.e. people who can draw) build up your pictures 🙂
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Thank you Draliman! Cool that you found it interesting.
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I am always impressed to watch creativity develop, nice stuff. It reminds me of the piece I did on a Wishing Well. It is on my page under other writings – Pantoum. ‘The Wishing Well’ (a Pantoum is structured piece of poetry).
Perhaps you could illustrate the story – just an idea.
Fun post.
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Thanks! I could illustrate your story, but I would have to charge you… 😉 On the other hand, if any of the illustrations already made fit your story, you can use the ones with fictionspawn.com written on them ( my featured images), but send me an e-mail (you find my direction on my Gallery-page). Other arrangements can be done, too 🙂
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Thanks, I was not asking for illustrations, but just pointing out how your recent work fitted my poetry.
However I will look at you gallery page – I find it all interesting.
Regards, James.
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Thanks! Hope you’ll like them 🙂 I checked out your story, it’s a good one. I’ve been quite hooked on wells myself lately. I find them intriguing 😉
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Cool. If only it was that easy for all of us!
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Thanks!
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Fascinating! Thanks for sharing this process with us.
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Thanks! And you’re welcome 😉
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OH WOW!!!! It’s really cool to see Your process. Loved this. Cheers!!! 🙂
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Thanks, forresting 🙂 Thought it could be of interest. Do you do yours in a similar way, or do you have a very different process?
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You know, my process is just to start painting or drawing. I don’t prepare or sketch. Well, when I paint on reclaimed wood I clean and gesso…but otherwise I just dive off the cliff. I enjoy it that way because I can’t tell You how many times I think I am going to paint a particular thing and then no, no NO! It wants to be something else. And it’s always something I like better than my original plan!!! My sister is a wonderful artist, and she has a system similar to Yours. It’s very fun seeing the way people work/play. Cheers!!! 🙂
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I’ve done that sometimes, making ink paintings, and it is a lot of fun. It dosen’t work too well when I want to illustrate something already written, though…
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An artist at work, magnificant!
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Thank you very much!
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I’m really glad you posted this, it’s great to see your illustrations in their raw form. You’re very talented 🙂
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Thanks a lot, C.R. 🙂 The photos are rather poor, though. Things went a bit fast…
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Nice drawings, well described. Thanks for sharing
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Thank you 🙂
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Pretty cool! Thanks for sharing the process. I’ve always wondered how you make your cool illustrations.
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Wonderful sketches.
Makes me glad your re-blog button wasn’t working today.
Otherwise I’d never be able to have seen them. 😀
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Thanks Dracul! I have been thinking of a post like this for a while, so I guess it was just a little push 🙂
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Nice! Sort of a “behind the scenes” look.
Oh, btw. The guy standing at the well is unnerving to me. I don’t know what it is, but he’s a little frightening.
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Wow, thanks! I tried to give him a look of ignorance and fanatism, mixed with a good lack of empathy. Just the kind of person that scares me the most, especially when they’re in control. Maybe it’s my fear shining through 😀 The character in the story turned out a bit more empathic, really, but in the final touch. The illustration was already done. He’s just as fanatic, though….
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Very cool to see the stages of evolution in your craft. Thanks for the insight!
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I love how your imagination takes multiple forms–in words, and in imagery. Do you find one method of creation easier than the other?
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Thank you. I believe I’m born with more talent for writing than drawing, but I have more experience with visual stuff than texts, so I guess it kind of equals out. It’s a lot easier for me to write in Norwegian than English, though 🙂
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