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Hi, guys! Had a little breather while waiting for a new contract, so I did these sword concepts. I needed a little more weapon concept art for the ol’ portfolio, and I haven’t done much of swords before. My girlfriend bought this awesome book for me with weapons, both blades and guns and everything in between, so I got super inspired, and this is what came out of it :)

I have time for some quick work right now, if anyone needs anything done! Drop me a mail

Thanks for dropping by!

Just wanted to drop in.. I’m aware that I’m not updating a whole lot since January, and I just wanted you all to know that I’m still here :D I’m done with a couple of contracts in a few days, and when I have a breather, I’m gonna work on a personal project.. well.. that is, I’ve picked up a personal project I was into a while ago; the steampunk western world.. The plan is some more character concepts and some environment concept art for that world when I get the time. Also I have to do something about the site.. it’s a little too…white at the moment.. I switched from the black one, hoping this would be easier on the eye, and I think it is, but I want a little sumtin’ sumtin’ to break up the big areas of white on the main page.. Fredrik at Overvåkningsbutikken helped me out with a new theme for wordpress, so I’ll probably go to him when I get that far.

I’m doing my daily studies of course, and I’ve started a new master study after the Rockwell I finished up a couple of posts back.. this time, in a moment of insanity, I started doing a master study of Jean-Leon Gérôme’s “Police Verso”.. it’s kicking my ass! But I’ll keep fighting until I kick ITS ass!

- Fredrik

Hey people! Just wanted to paint something quick before bed..
Been working a couple of really long days now, so I needed to just have some fun slopping paint around :D Guess listening to Immortal Technique and Delinquent Habits while painting returns results like this :P

“In the hood, no one can hear you scream”

I’m working on a bunch of illustrations for a tabletop rpg and some creature designs for a feature length film these days! As soon as NDA’s lift, I’ll bring some stuff to show and tell! Not sure when that will be though, but I’ll be doing some personal fun stuff in between work as well and update on here!

Thanks for looking!

Did this one for the conceptart.org newborn competition a while back. Had a look at it now, and I still kinda like the idea, but I believe I’ll work over this one again to bring it up to par.. I’ll be sure to let you know when I get that far.

And some Crimson Dagger studies:

The Rockwell study is, as it states, a work in progress! Learning heaps by studying the golden age cats!

I’ve updated the concept art gallery with a few pieces I did for Catalyst Game Labs for their pen ‘n paper RPG “Shadowrun”, the images are for the 20th Anniversary Edition of the book. They were used to illustrate various sections of the book, like character creation and such. Had a lot of fun doing these!

Here a taste, go to the gallery to see the rest:

I haven’t been freelance many days, but it seems things are cookin’! I’m doing some concept art for a point ‘n click adventure these days. Can’t show any of it yet, but I’ll share when I can! Got some other very interesting things in the works as well. We’ll see how they pan out!

Workin’ hard, studying hard and generally enjoying life a lot more than a little while ago!

I have capacity for more work though, so if you guys come across anything interesting, or wanna hire me, give me a holler!

Fredrik/dCepT

Hey guys! Spare time fun these days; the Newborn contest over at conceptart.org!I figured I could put the sketches and concept art and such up here as well so you can follow the progress. I’m looking at doing something with machines and whatnot… Had an idea of a mechanical womb and midwife. The character iws a fully grown guy being “born” from the machine. I was thinking we make machines to make our life easier, and then reversed the roles.. machines that make people to handle tasks for them.

Anywhoo… here are the first sketches.. let me know what ya’ll think! Click for larger versions, as usual :)

dCept/Fredrik

My job bought me the full version of ArtRage a few days back, so now I get layers, blending modes and everything nice! I’m totally geeking out over ArtRage! Wonderful piece of software!

I think there aren’t a lot of animals/creatures in my portfolio, so I’m lookin’ to remedy that.. hence the elephant, crab and all that.. And now a turtle. I do these animal (and reptile) studies to expand my visual vocabulary when it comes to the animal kingdom. We’ll see how this develops and what kind of original creatures come out of it.. hehe..Click for larger version, which I think is nice, ‘cuz you get to see the brushstrokes alot better :)

Was listening toAesop Rock’s Daylight EP while looking through my pictures, and found this chimp.. I think I never posted or showed this.. The Nightlight track off of Daylight seemed appropriate.. hehe… Aesop; if you see this and feel I should take it down, let me know! Click the image for larger version (and to make the text readable.. heh)

Hey ya’ll, playin’ around with ArtRage still.. hehe.. here’s another one… 20-30 minutes or thereabouts for the first sketch, and then some time spent in photoshop cleaning up a bit and adjusting colors :) I’m experimenting with finding a good balance between the looseness I get outta ArtRage and the tighter stuff I tend to do in photoshop.. hope something cool will come of this when I find a good workflow.. hehe.. Ya’ll can probably tell I freakin’ love ArtRage already :P

I saw Babylon A.D. a little while ago (I can almost hear the “WTF, a Vin Diesel testosterone driven bullshit orgy??” choire… hahaha)… It so happens I think Vin Diesel in Dangerous Fuckin’ Mercenary roles (like Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick as well) really works.. like Ahhnold Schwarzenegger (it’s a wonder I get that sh** right.. haha) as Conan :P
That aside, it had a really cool vision of our world in the near future! Everything from the rich cities lookin’ like Tokyo on ‘roids to the run don backwater russian places in social upheaval… lotsa very nicely executed enviroments and whatnot :) So.. go see it, if you like that kinda thing! I sure do! Hehe

Yeah, so I’ve been playing around with ArtRage, like I said in the last post, and now I’ve tried out a screenrecording software… here’s a 20 minute speedpaint compressed to 5 minutes or something… And the final image :)

No movie recommendations seeing as how I haven’t seen a film since blogging last.. hah…

Next time ya’ll!

peace