It's a bit of a faff

My last post did contain some old relics I had deep down in my cold, wet and moldy digital basement and I thought it would be a good time to give them some fresh air. However, I thought it might be best to show some of the latest and gratest within Kirkeberg-art.

I'll let you in on a secret.... artists don't come up with stuff from thin air. BUSTED! It's true, we're all a bunch of con men, and women.....con people. What we do is to make a bunch of cryptic 20-sek thumbnails that only we and some archeologists and linguistics, specializing in old pictorial writing systems will understand. Then, when we have settled on an idea out of those thumbnails, we go to a layout sketch, where we figure out what on earth we are doing. After that, we gather reference as well as shoot our own (with a camera, all other forms of shooting would be awful). After that you roll up your sleeves and get started on what will surely be the master piece of the century. Oh! And remember to do a color/value study as well.

So here follow some shitty examples of my process (the layout is very sketchy and none of my reference is uploaded, since the models may not take that too kindly.)

Anyways, here follows my process for the piece "Humanzees Fight for Union!" The final piece will be at the bottom. Nevermind the Giant Tortoise.