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Darth Saber from The replica prop forum made this awesome replica of Nathan Drake's Journal in Uncharted 2. If you didn't know... the guy given credit in the article, for some the pages, is me aka 'Kredepops'. :)

I no longer recide at Area9

Although they've been very pleased with my work, they no long have any work for me, at least not for another 6 months. So that kinda of sucks BUT I've resusitated my dream of earning a living by doing solely freelance work.

This February I will join the very talented gang of artists at their office 'Pinligt selskab'. The best talent in Denmark share an office there, among others, Jesper Ejsing, Paul Bonner and Emil Landgreen.  I'm most grateful to be able to sit among such a talented bunch of people and I'm sooo looking forward to it. I hope to learn a lot.

I do however need more work! More customers! Please don't hesitate to contact me if you like my paintings. I don't work for free, but I'm certainly not the most expensive dude to work with in the business.

International selfportrait day

The 1'st of November was International Selfportrait day. Fortunately I had time to paint myself this year. So here it is:

WW2 Robot

If giant war robots had been available during WW2 those documentaries on Discovery would be even more interesting!

ImagineFX #62 Development sheet by yours truly. Buy the mag!

Abe Sapien

I love the Hellboy comics and movies. Abe Sapien as portrayed by the talentful Doug Jones is one of my favorite characters. Half fish half man, he's a mystery, he's tough but also very vunerable and loveable.

Daily sketch...

I may or may not have the constitution to do this all year, but as often as I feel like it I'll do a daily sketch, keeps the skillz toned :P

Assassins creed: Victorian London

I love the Assassins creed series by Ubisoft. I think it would be really cool if AC 3 was set in Victorian London. Mist filled streets, lots of possibilities for climbing, try scaling Big Ben!

It's a really cool Sherlock Holmes setting. Of course one mission would see you chasing Jack The Ripper, killing that guy would be sooo sweet!

So here's my take on an english victorian era assassin: Lord Eagleroy.

CHOW #212

Wish I would've left out the helmet, but alas it's too late now.

Colour :)

A little excersize

Just some excersize in drawing females... turned out okay... hair is crap.

Mola Ram Premium Format review

Fedex came by today with my latest piece of Indiana Jones mechandice.

I love Sideshow products, they're just soooo beautifully crafted but alas also sooo expensive. This one is definitely worth the $289 smack-a-roos I think.

First of all, an introduction: Mola Ram, if you don't know by now, is the main villain from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. 'Temple' is one of my all time favorites, in fact only surpassed by Raiders of the lost Ark. It's just such a fun and scary action movie.
The indian actor Amrish Puri portrayed the insane villain perfectly, and delivered a performance that everybody who has seen the movie will remember forever. Now who can't remember the Sacrifice scene where he tears a still beating heart from the chest of a hapless victim, while chanting loudly 'KALI MAAAA - KALI MAAAA SHUK TI DAEE'. When I was a kid, my father fastforwarded through that scene because he thought it was too graphic for me and my younger brother. But the image stuck with me for many years. 


That guy Mola Ram is one twisted puppy! Not only can he rip peoples hearts from their chests he can also make them bust into fire! He also thinks that it's alright to abduct children to work in mines and make people drink some sort of halluciogenic so he can control them (as Doctor Jones experinced first hand). 


He's the coolest and most scary villain Indiana Jones ever had to face. So when Sideshow released this cool figure I just had to have it!


First impression is that Sideshow has surpassed themselves, it looks exactely like Mola Ram in the movie, all the small details, like his gap between the front teeth is there, it's just perfect!

The standard figure comes with two interchangeable heads and two hands holding a human heart.

The exclusive comes with the skull chalice, but since he can't actually hold it I just went for the standart version.

The heads and the hands are easily switched as they are magnetic and sit perfectly on the body.

Mola Ram also has two necklaces, one with boar teeth and one with some bones, looks like something from a spine... I don't know what it is but it looks creepy!


It's a bit tricky to put them on since the small one won't fit over his head and neither will the big one when using the head with the skull helmet. So just drape them over the neck of the head before putting it on the body, be careful not to get the string below his neck.




I prefer the skull helmet head. It recreates the look from Drew Struzans poster perfectly. He has that same happy crazy look in his eyes! With the flaming heart in his hand he looks fantastic!

The other head is actually scarier, that one looks like it's from the scene where he makes Jones drink from the blood chalice.


Here are a few close ups:

 

The paintjob is spot on. I'm usually very critical on this point as I'm pretty good at painting myself, but this one looks very good! They took a cue from the Indiana Jones PF and glazed his eyes and mouth so they look wet, instead of just painting in highlights.

The clothes are topnotch, it's amazing how it looks exactly like the material in the movie, only scaled down. Awesome!!

The base is also great! It features some skulls and mumified heads - all of which are different sculpts! Very creepy

indeed! Perfectly in tune with the character.

All in all a great looking PF figure, they couldn't have done a better job. 5/5 stars

Forrestal

He was good, very very good. So Indiana Jones tells us about Forrestal at the beginning of Raiders of the lost ark. Forrestal was impaled at the entrace to the chachapoyan temple before Indy ever got there.
I've always wondered how this Forrestal would look, so here's my concept of how this adventurer looked before he met his end at the tip of a spike booby trap.

I'm a dad!

My son Xander was born on the 8 of June 2010. So updates will be a bit sparse, although I can assure you that I also very busy with other stuff than changing diapers. I'm finally taking up my old personal book project again and I'm painting new concepts for it.

My paintings in ImagineFX #56

Check out the dvd that comes with ImagineFx #56. I'm in the readers gallery with a link to my website.
Must be why I've had a 300% increase in Youtube subscribers lately.

A cover I did for the danish translation of 'Wonderous Strange' is also coming out soon. Check out the cover below:

I like the digital painting magazine 'ImagineFx', and apparently they like me too. So for the third time, I'm going to have some paintings published in the mag in the 'FXposé' section.

Over on http://www.imaginefx.com/ I've got a small gallery of my work, and they picked out two of my paintings for 'Image of the Day' recently one was the 28 of January the other the 10'th of February - that resulted in an invitation to send those two plus one extra for future inclusion in the mag. Below is shown the one that won 'Image of the day' on February the 10'th.

Cemetary of the brainless

Danish horror novel for children. I made the cover and the 20+ interior illustrations. Can be purchased from 1 of March.

A small sketch in my quest to become better at female portraiture. No reference.

Sketched in markers and worked over in Photoshop and Painter

Finally, I can show my entry for the ImagineFX cover comp.

There's alot of high-end stuff being submitted for that comp, so I don't think I'll win - but hey- it was a fun project and I rarely use this much time on one image anymore so it's nice with a new hi-res pic for the portfolio.

Imagine FX cover comp.

I finished my entry for the ImagineFX cover comp last night. It came out rather nice :) I'm gonna show it all once deadline is over. Here's a small taste of what's to come.