It's been awesome!

 Wolf faces. Photoshop CS5 & Cintiq 12WX

Got back from LA two days ago. 

The short version.....:




IT WAS AWESOME!!
Wow.


I'll have to get back and post photos and stories later on, describing everything in one evening is almost impossible. The trip could pretty much be divided into 5 chapters, hehe.

1. San Franisco & visited Pixar (No, I'm not joking)
2. Road trip from SF to LA
3. CTNx 2013, baby!
4. We rented a house at Silverlake, visited Dreamworks & Disney (Still not joking)
5. Got stuck for another night in London


So yeah, stay tuned for some more later on!
I got another deadline again.. So I'm done with my holiday, time to get back to business :)


- Andrea

Wolf sketches

Hey amigos!


Do you remember this one?

"Did he just watch me poop?" Photoshop CS5 & Cintiq 12WX

I decided to develop some sort of story for it. So far it's about some butterfly stalker(hehe). I think he and his friend's got a little bit of a dirty mind, they like spying on wolves pooping... Haha.

Wolf poses, Photoshop CS5 & Cintiq 12WX

Not everyone appreciates being watched. We'll see how this will end...


From pooping wolves to something else!

I'm leaving Sweden tomorrow. I'm leaving my laptop tomorrow.
We're heading towards the States and I'll be gone for 2 weeks. Partly for CTNx next friday, and lots of other adventures as well. Never been there for so long(it's my third trip in a row now).

I feel so incredibly excited! Last year felt terrible compared to now. But that's a different story :)

So.. Yeah. I'll be instagramming and facebooking, so if you wanna stay in touch/follow my adventures, then that's where things will happen for the coming two weeks.


- Andrea

My new tutorial in Advanced Photoshop, issue 115

 Advanced Photoshop Magazine, issue 115

Yaaaaay!

The latest issue(115) of Advanced Photoshop Magazine is finally out in the stores here in Sweden(you can find it at Pressbyrån).

This time I had the honor to write a full tutorial of my wolf illustration, from scratch. I even got a spot in the "Pro Panel" of the magazine, where I share some tips and tricks for digital painting.
Me? A pro? Haha wow, feels weird.

I'm very happy with how it all turned out, and I hope that you'll like it too! :)


This is definitely something to cross off my professional bucketlist, writing tutorials for magazines has been a dream of mine for several years now.

2013 has truly been an awesome year so far. 
Sooooo busy but yet so much fun.

What's on your bucketlist? I'd love to hear your goals!

- Andrea

Tigers and balloons

Photoshop CS5 & Cintiq 12WX

Good morning!

I'm off to a meeting in like ten minutes, but though I'd throw these in real quickly just to show you guys what else I've been working on.

More tigers, more balloons! These are really fun and hard to come up with, so it's really good practice for yours truly. And as you can see, my evil sense of humor comes through a bit as well.... Hehehehe.

Hope you still like me D:

- Andrea

More sketchin'

They're playing the "Friday Song" here at the office, so I'd take some micro time off and make a little post here. (Friday song = every friday, at 3 pm, they play a random feelgood song here at the office, just to get that coziness goingggggg yeeeeaaah)

Anyway, here are some more random sketches from the past days.

Laters dudes and dudettes!
Thanks for reading, commenting and following despite the abcense. It means a lot :)



Hope you all had a great Halloween too! 


- Andrea

CTNx 2013, sketches and excitement

TADAAA!

Andrea is finally back!
Ghah, no idea what happened there, i think that  managed to hit a minor wall or something, hence the absence. Don't get me wrong though, I've had so much fun. I just need to hibernate a little, from time to time ;)

After delivering the last bits and pieces for those superfun projects that kept me occupied for like.. FOREVER, I decided to take some time off just for myself.

I've been...

- Working out! (YAY!)

- Tried to regain a somewhat normal social life

- Drawing things for myself.. Like horses hehe.

- zZzleeping...


Ah yeah and then I also revised this:

The other pose felt too static, knew I could pull off a better one.

Oh, and CTNx 2013 is just around the corner.

I'M EXCITED! :D

WHO ELSE IS GOING?

There will be a lot more Swedes attending this year. Please say hi if you happen to see me :)


I'll be back later. Ciao!

- Andrea

The sweet sound of crickets

Random insta from 2012

Been a bit quiet around here.
Well hm.. I'm still flooded by feelance work. Typical, eh?
One more week of crunch time, then we'll see what happens.

Don't worry though, you have no idea how much fun I've had so far! Got the opportunity to work on some really fun and exciting stuff, and I really look forward to share it with you once I'm allowed to. 

I haven't even had time to work out, and I'm really starting to miss it...
Well, I obviously need it. Energetic much?

 I really deserve some physical exhaustment.

Anyways, smell you later! I'll be back soon.
Got some even more exciting stuff to share later on, so stay tuuuuned. 



Hey btw. Don't forget to feed Peleng. Hes still hungry.



- Andrea

How to paint a fox in 6 steps

I'm still flooded by freelance work for some time, but I still managed to put together this little tutorial on my sparetime. Painted this foxy a few months ago, and luckily I saved the steps for this one too!

I made this image at Net Entertainment(my awesome day job), so this image belongs to them.

Hope you find it useful :)

- Andrea

Thank you for looking! :)

Sunday // Workday

Today I've spent working on some freelance gigs. 

I'll probably do that for a few more hours, just to get as much ahead as possible.
Got a few deadlines to catch and one of them is in less than a week.

Can't wait til I can show you what I'm currently working on.
It's a very fun project and something I haven't done before, so I'm very excited about this :)


Hope you all are enjoying your weekend!
Doing anything special, or are you just relaxing? 


- Andrea

Otters for a game

Otters. Character exploration. Photoshop CS5 + Cintiq 12WX

 Here's the otter that I mentioned in my previous post.
He's not final, I'll probably start all over with the design, but it's nice to document the progress anyway.

Some of my awesome friends started this pet project a while back. Pearl Boy.
I got the privilege to contribute with sketches, concepts and character development, so this will keep me occupied whenever I got some time to spare. And you'll be able to follow along!
No NDA's this time what so ever :) Cool, eh?

It's a game idea, and this greedy, fatty otter is one of the characters in it.


The sketches took me about 1-2 days. I made lots of thumbnails before I managed to nail a few that felt stronger than the rest that I managed to crank out. Practice makes better I guess :)

Other than that.... Had a great day. Been really productive, managed to deliver new updates for clients and things has just been flowing along nicely.
Let's hope I didn't jinx anything by mentioning this, haha.
Hope this glowing piece of luck will save moi.

Nah, time to get back to laziness. Ben Netflixing my brains out the whole evening and I'm planning to do that until I pass out.
I Love Summer.


- Andrea