LONG TIME NO SEE

So, it's been more than a while since I fed this starving beast. I haven't been entirely unproductive the last year, but nothing has found it's way here though it seems. Thought I'd change that now with two things I did recently:

This one is part of a learning process where I the last couple of months have tried to carve a new niche for myself. To widen my horizons a bit and try to keep the creative juices flowing, I've started to explore the area of architectural presentations a bit. Perhaps not ideally, this one was meant to have sort of a dreamy vibe to it. I'm not sure about the short focal length of the camera though (which was added as a filter in Photoshop) since that's not used that widely in these kinds of presentations I suppose. Anywho, it was a fun project. The house is built in Google Sketchup, which I've grown to love. However: ALL plants, furniture and the character are NOT of my own creation, but downloaded from Sketchups online catalog. So I don't take any credit for those! People put up som lovely useful stuff there, so credit is where credit is due.

The last one is just a quick painting i made in Photoshop about three weeks ago. Took a few hours, but done before bed. I wish I had put some more effort into the design of the architecture on the walls, since they're sort of boring. But it'll have to do I guess. I had fun and that's what counts! I name thee (drum roll): Ship and the Walls and Lightning,,, With Seagulls and,,, Shit. Yup that's your name now, so deal with it. The creativity when it comes to naming my pieces is just insanely impressive, I know...

Brother

On the tram home yesterday
in the corner of my eye
I could have sworn I saw him walking down the street

Startled, my body jolted in the seat

the way it sometimes does
when you unexpectedly see a familiar face

or while deep in thought
being startled by a passing stranger's graze

Not a second later it occured to me
 
he's not walking the streets today

Nor tomorrow or the day after that

Neither is his face somewhere unexpectedly seen

He's simply not around anymore
and by this I will always be saddened greatly

He's nowhere to be embraced or greeted

His hand will nevermore be offered
clutched or shaken
 
Today my heart broke a bit again

but tomorrow is a new day
or so the saying goes if I'm not mistaken 

Another Concept Piece

A concept I did tonight, loosely based on one of the thumbnails I did two days ago. It's sort of rough and the perspective is a bit off, but the general idea came through anyways.

Last night's Thumbs

Just a few thumbnails I did last night for an idea spawned from a discussion with a friend. Doing a concept piece from one of them. Will post it here later.

Today's portrait.