Parting, process#4

Updated/Redesigned website

I updated the look of my website. Take a look and let me know if u think it's better or worse than before. The only new content is some speedpaintingvideos found in works category.
www.danielkarlsson.org


And here is stupid random video...

Parting, process#3

Eat your young

Acrylic on canvas, 50x50cm.

Parting, process#2

Did some more acrylic work today before switching to oils. This one has potential, and i hope i dont screw it up

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Parting, process#1

Eat your young, process#2

Eat your young, revised, process#1

Eat your young, process#3

Untitled childportrait, finished

I was commissioned to do this one by a friend. It's hardly exciting stuff, but there's always a big payoff from parents reaction.

Untitled, process#2

Cheaters

So I lost the t-shirt of the week competition. All week I was begging friends to help me, and they did. I am so thankful. But in the end it wasn't enough and I lost. Which was fine, because I was still happy knowing that I had so much support.
However...

This morning I got an e-mail from www.tshirtoftheweek.com explaining to me that cheating had occured in the contest. Appearently someone figured out how to vote multiple times in one day from the same computer.
This annoys me becuase now I don't know wether I should have won or suffered a bigger loss without the cheater(s). I am exhausted from the stress of gathering votes and racing like a rat begging for crumbs. They say that we will have another chance, which to me is... well, not too attractive(at least not with the same print).

Untitled, process#1

Natalie

Love Yourself

Corel Painter, Speedpainting

And again...

... This damn face dissolves when i put varnish on it. And so starts another monthlong process of fixing it. Oils are amazing, but they are highly unpredictable at times.

Natalie, process#3

Natalie, process#2

Natalie, process#1

Sisters

Acrylic on Canvas, 130x90cm

Your'e such a robot

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Pencil sketch 1

Charcoal sketch 3

Charcoal sketch 2

Charcoal sketch 1

Eat your young, process#2

Eat your young, process#1

Antlers and raygun

Digital, Corel Painter

Burt Reynolds

Who needs women anyway, when men can be like this?

Mondays

Woke up with some kind of disorder today.

Thirst

Oil on canvas, 100x80cm

Sisters, process#5

Sisters, process#4

Alpine times

Digital, Corel Painter

I made an effort to make this a "full" painting, with proper depth and background as well as a forground. Whenever I actually manage to get started on a painting like this, it's all kinda comes together by itself. Lots of happy accidents, I guess.

Sisters, process#4

Sisters, process#3

Nymph

Corel Painter

This all came from a tiny sketch of a character that I made about 1,5 years ago. Not too long ago I kinda rediscovered the sketch and thought I could use it somehow. This is the result, though very different from the original sketch. Hope you like it.

The Stand Off(formerly known as masturbation)

Acrylics on canvas, 100x80cm.

I had a very different vision for what this painting was going to be like, but sometimes it´s better not to struggle too much to keep your original idea intact and just move forward instead. It's a dramatic motif, but displayed in a undramatic way with the body posing in a simple profile. I put more emphasis on shading and shapes intstead. I like it, but I´m afraid that it might be a bit too revolting to some people. Do you like it?

P.S. I used my iphone to take this photo, so expect me to post a better one on my webpage soon enough.

Sisters, process#2

Not really sure where i am going with this, but that is how i work most of the time.

Sisters, process#1

Damn oils!

This face is giving me a hard time. It was all done and dry when i decided to put some varnish on it before adding some finishing touches on it. Should not have done that at the time because it disolved half the face, and now i am trying to redo it. What you see now is the result of the first round of redoing, hopefully it will come out ok.

Masturbation, process#3

What's happening with the exhibition?

Well, let me tell u. The gallery i had in mind is closing down. Contacted a few others that seems to favour other kinds of art, different from mine that is. Waiting for one gallery to reply. We'll see what happens.

Emptying thrashbins onto canvases might get me an exhibition.

Inspirations: John Romita Jr.

John Romita Jr is famous for his work on comic-books such as Spiderman, Daredevil and Kick-ass and other MARVEL comic-books. I don't read comics these days, but back when I did John Romita Jr was one of my favorite artists. He had this rythm and continuity in his lines and characters. It always had this kinda blocky and square feel to it, simplistic and minimalistic in one way but still very much alive. For a while I was trying to copy the way he drew characters, and I benefitted from it a great deal. Comicbooks are built on stories, but a great illustration and style makes it all the more pleasurable.

Leech

This one was inspired by the music of a friend.

Sketch

Nothing special about this one, but i seldom post any sketches... So there u go.