Erik Storstein's Online Sketchbook

and back in England

2011-03-25T02:45:00.000Z

Those 3 months living in Paris was over quicker than I could make a second blogpost, and I already miss it so much. When you get used to having the access to the Louvre all the other great museums within walking distance, getting back to a small town in England is a bit of a let down. Good thing I have all my friends here to keep me inspired!

Updated the portfolio section with a ton of images, I will probably remove a lot of them though as having so many images might do more harm than good.

Since I returned on tuesday I've spent less time drawing than I'd like to, but a lot of time catching up with friends. Here's some life-drawings done at the university:

Next update I'm hoping I'll be able to share some more digital work. It has been neglected too much

Now in Paris

2011-02-14T14:13:00.000Z

In the beginning of January I moved to Paris, France to go on an Erasmus exchange to ESAG Penninghen. It's a school for graphic design and architecture, though heavily focused on drawing from observation. I'm taking drawing and life-drawing classes with every single year (5years) and some technical graphic, and it has proven to be a lot of fun. My french is still as horrible as it gets though, but I'm getting by.
Anyway here are a few quick drawings that has been done in class, I'm sorry for the poor quality, but there's no scanner available to us that I know of.

You can click here to see a few more

They're coming to get you Barbara!

2010-11-24T22:37:00.002Z

In the second year of Animation Production a large part of our time is spent working on a film production. The current 3rd year students were pitching their own ideas for everyone at the end of last semester, and a several ideas were picked out to be produced untill summer. I ended up getting recruited for a production called "They're coming to get you Barbara!", a zombie flick set in the 1950s. The film is animated on paper, and my job is mainly work on layouts and colour. With permission from my directors I'm sharing a quick painting I did of one of the characters (design is by the team, which is fantastic!)

Recent Life Drawings

2010-11-20T20:15:00.003Z

A few things have been happening lately, I was lucky to be able to do a live digital painting demo at a small venue in town. 3 djs were playing all night along with it, and a small exhibition was happening in the back. It was great fun, and even though the result wasn't all that, I learned from the experience. Hopefully I'll be able to try it again sometime, and then there will be a lot of things I will do differently. I will see if I can find some pictures of the event and post up later!

For now here's some lifedrawings I've been doing the last few weeks. Experimenting some with various medium these days, and these are all 30 minutes or less.

And I'm back

2010-09-26T14:32:00.005+01:00

It's less than a week left of our insanely long summer vacation, and I can't wait to start on my second year. Here's two sketches I did today, spent less than an hour on each so nothing fancy. I'll try get into regular updates from now on, and hopefully I'll be able to share some of the work done at the university.

2010-02-22T02:56:00.000Z

2010-02-06T04:49:00.001Z

Some new stuff

2009-12-07T00:37:00.003Z

So I failed at the regular updates once again. Even once a week seems to be asking too much of me, talk about being lazy. Any way a lot happened since last time, I moved to studying Animation Production (BA). So I've been super busy trying to catch up with my class mates, but I seem to finally have got there! Enjoying it a lot though :)

Click here to see some of my recent sketches.
and here to see the work in progress animation for the painting above.

Week in Review

2009-11-24T03:49:00.003Z

We didn't have a unit last week at the university, so the time was spent working on some personal project and catching up with some social life. I've also been in conversation with the animation course about a course transfer, which I really hope will go through. I have a proper interview on wednesday, so that'll be interesting. Hopefully I can prove that I am dedicated enough for the course.

I did update my conceptart.org sketchbook 3 times since last time, so if you want to take a closer look at my sketches just go over there.

The Week in Review.

2009-11-13T21:56:00.006Z

The last week has been a hectic one, but I think I'm finally ready to do weekly updates on this blog now! Last weekend was spent visiting London, where I had the opportunity to visit tate britains "Turner and the masters" exhibition. I also finally got ahold of a proper monitor (thanks Morten and Sølvi!), and I am therefore able to paint digitally again.

Here's one of the paintings I did for our most recent project. It's an illustration based on the greece mythology of Theseus and the Minotaur, in this image you can see Pasiphaë approaching the bull after Eros have made her fall in love with it. No one in my class expected anyone to do an illustration based on that scene, I get why.

If you want to see some of the sketches done over the last week, they can be found here:
http://conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2513734&postcount=96

Update

2009-08-30T23:34:00.007+01:00

I regret not having updated this page at all, it kind of fell off my priority list. I want to make my blog incorporated into a more portfolio style website soon, I just have to make some time to set it all up.
In the meanwhile here's some recent digital paintings with the most recent at the bottom:

29.5.09 School project: Poster

2009-05-29T08:38:00.003+01:00

First sketches:

Composition rough:

final:

Sketchdump 23.05.09

2009-05-23T22:58:00.003+01:00

- Drawing for a friend

- Pelvis studies

- Bridgman heads

- Bridgman heads and from imagination.

Sketchdump 22.04.09 (Bridgman edition)

2009-05-22T07:55:00.004+01:00

Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing from Life arrived in the mail, here's a small update with studies from it.

- gestures

- More gestures:

- and some more:

- Head studies #1

- Head Studies #2

Sketchdump 20.04.09

2009-05-20T14:43:00.004+01:00

It has been so busy lately, a lot going on leaving little time for drawing. I seem to have secured a spot at Bournemouth next year though, which is great news. I just hope I make it into the second year now! Here's a few of the digital sketches I've done over the last few days I thought I'd show. I'll try find time to scan some stuff tomorrow:

- Work in progress poster for a dance show:

- Quick self portrait:

- Craig Mullins value study

- Still life

- Character concepts

- Work in progress: Cityscape environment

Sketchdump 07.05.09-08.05.09

2009-05-08T23:20:00.005+01:00

- Photo referenced character.

- Loomis studies

- Stuff from imagination

- poses from imagination, trying to get proportions right.

- Hand studies

- Torso from life

- Arms from life

- More characters from imagination

- Studies from the Bridgman book I just got :)

Sketchdump 06.05.09

2009-05-07T00:09:00.003+01:00

-Bammes studies

-Daily Selfportrait

-Random doodles

-More Loomis gestures

-Classmates

-Girl from imagination.

Sketchdump 05.05.09

2009-05-05T23:42:00.004+01:00

A lot of mindless doodling today :) but that's nice from time to time as well.

- These are mainly referenced from Andrew Loomis book.

- Most of these are from imagination

- Ron Lemen, Upper arm.

- Still life, perfume bottle

- these self portraits are getting funnier and funnier :D

Sketchdump 02.05.09-04.05.09

2009-05-05T16:45:00.007+01:00

Small update this time, can't be super productive every weekend I guess. Doing another update later today with todays stuff. I'll try get back to daily updates.

- 30 second gesture drawings.

- Photo referenced poses

- A character from imagination, I'm such a Star Wars geek.

- My work so far on the cd-cover school project.

Sketchdump 29.04-01.05.09

2009-05-01T17:14:00.011+01:00

Unfortunately all of yesterday went away without sketching because I removed my wisdom tooth. Because of that I'm drugged down today so I'm just trying to relax, but I've got a little done. Anyway here's most of what I've done the last few days.

- Colour study:

- Hands

- Random doodles

- Female gestures

- Classmates.

- warmup sketch

- Random doodles #2

- More female gestures

- A self portrait, tooth pain makes Erik a scary artist

Character concept: Joan of Arc

2009-04-29T16:01:00.000+01:00

Sketchdump 26-27.04.09

2009-04-28T05:18:00.007+01:00

Some random sketches from imagination:

Copying from Bammes anatomy book

Photo referenced male Torsos
Hands, mostly from life
Lightbulb still life that Is a bit off, I'll have to try again.
Candy still life :D

Sketchdump 24-25.04.09

2009-04-26T05:04:00.010+01:00

A few lazy days for me, here's what I've done since last update.

Some quick sketches from the classroom

Some forearm studies

Self portrait

Work in progress: Joan of Arc fantasy character concept:

Sketchdump 23.04.09

2009-04-23T22:16:00.008+01:00

- Hand studies (from Hogarth and Life)- Still Life (Rather quick, I was hungry)
- Started on some environmental painting for the "Environment of the week" over at conceptart.org. Title is "The night of the celebration of the cherry blossom moon", far from done though.

Sketchdump 22.04.09

2009-04-22T21:06:00.002+01:00