Scanner compensates for distance from surface, by a weird morph effect, that's why I've had problems matching some drawings to previous scans, hard to "fix" even in Photoshop, depending on microscopic distance of parts of a sheet if not 100% flat, which often it isn't once it is touched and drawn on, even though not visible to the naked eye, how the scanner sees.

If you look at it from a distance, it looks almost holographic to me, do you see it? weird.

This one, well I feel I overdid the shading and contrast, but not too unhappy with the result anyways!

Started off with 2B, 2H 4H (some fave starters), and went around with the range, should probably use more of the higher H ones, but used from 6B to 5-7H a lot of mid range and Bs. On Strathmoore Bristol 500 Slate paper, size of drawing? hmm 23.3cm x 19.3cm boundingbox (9.17 x 7.59 inches).

Another "work a bit on when feeling like it" project "completed". I spent a bit excessive time on shading and detailing on this one.. It turned out slightly dark but hey =) It is quite small on paper, about 19 cm (7.6") tall. I like drawing small, still would be interesting to draw bigger too at some point, just fear that I would end up spending "infinity" on OCD shading, maybe I should try to break out of that craving, sometimes!

Assorted pencils 9H to 9B by "oh now I'll use this" ordering, on "Strathmoore Bristol plate surface 500 Premium 100% cotton ultrasmooth" paper. Background cleaned and some contrast heightened in Photoshop.

I worked on this one for a long time, it's been just kept as a "work a bit on when feeling like it" project. I got a few of these.. well it is now "finished" as far as I can accept to put it online.. It is based on some affliction I've had towards making mask-like objects in the past, well, you could argue my "masks" look like they might fit Goofy o.O. The original spans about 50% of an A4 about the size of a CD cover, assorted Derwent Graphic pencils on Bristol smooth paper.

Finally, the sequel for the "Subconscious Perceptions", my main, or side project for over a year now, it took a while (!) Alternate title "Peekaboo", if you can find my eyes and head, its there, hidden in the details. Some of you mightve seen earlier versions and can tell from that, or the progress which is included in the full article as a 6-step scanned image sequence.

Pencil on A3 Bristol Slate paper, fixated a bit too many times, but turned out ok after some Photoshop retouch. I got the original prepared at 19k x 13k pixels for print, I think it does well as an A2 or even A1, some closeups are included too in the full article.

Another "Piece with poem" I wrote in 2010. To me it is about changes in reality perception, evolving while alive (!) ..finding one's space. It is a bit "dark" perhaps, but hints of good intentions..

Nocturnal project from just finished pencil drawing called "SUBME" ..subconscious me, submerged me, or something like that. Scanned and combined with an old pen drawing, and a couple WIP drawings, just had some fun at night making this.

It is drawn mainly with pencils on Strathmore Bristol Slate paper, just scanned/Photoshopped into this collage, the three other drawings used for texture/background are one drawn with pen, and a new coming (sometime) A4 pencil drawing, and the most detailed one is the yet to be released sequel for the "Subconscious Perceptions" in my gallery. I hope to complete it soon, been working on that off and on for well over a year now, covering every inch, most of it is hidden in this collage, just some hinted in the top/bottom, like a "teaser/trailer" o.O before the new A3 is finished, nearing..

I called this one "Ghoulmare", a combination of a Ghoul (ghūl - Arabic: literally demon) and a (Night)mare, in an attempt to connect eastern & western culture a bit on the idea of this creature:

If you have nightmares asleep, awake or inbetween wondering what will prove fake, or bring real a dream a lot being at stake it seems beware of the tentacles of creepy crawling mindfiends

Drawn on Strathmore Bristol Plate Surface paper with assorted Pencils B8-B6-B4-B3-H-H2-H3-H4-H8 I think, scanned before fixation for heightened level of detail.

Scanned and fixed up, here is the recent "Webcamized Drawing II" as completed drawing, I called it "Wasaurus":

The original spans 9.5x13.8cm on A4 Bristol smooth paper, scanned before fixation for heightened level of detail, see this full article for embedded webcamized drawing @ Vimeo, and embedded SoundCloud track from this video.

Just finished this drawing and chose to name it "Portality", then saw there was a movie not released with an interesting description: "Portality is a meditation of a place neither inside nor outside created through passage and connection. The film utilizes the idea of mnemonic devices and the art of memory as the threshold into the imagination. It explores the deception of perspective, paranoia, and space. Through rudimentary distortion, remini­scent of childlike perception, the film ini­tiates instinctive reactions of the dis­oriented in the face of the unknown." Now I want to see that movie..

Well, here is the drawing, just completed, scanned and fixed up, and this time no covering watermark/logo, the scan is high­er res though, and some detailing gets lost, the original is 12x18cm on A4 Bristol smooth paper, with no fixation yet, which actually heightens the level of details. I need to find a better fixative spray, one that lets me draw subsequent layers without losing paper(coating) quality. I just got a new electric pencil-sharpener too, which gives even sharper pencils, very nice! ..so up next: even more micro control.

So, I've made another video of an entire drawing, it is long but hopefully fun to watch :) The music is "Trippin" a tune I made back in 2006, never really "published", I got this one and more "unknown" tunes at http://soundcloud.com/intrinsicfx, and here is the finished drawing which I chose to call "Wasaurus". The music track is also embedded from SoundCloud in this full article, enjoy! :)

I've been thinking for a while to film with web­cam while drawing, and wish I had done it sooner! One learns something about how one draws and thinks (sometimes subconsciously) while drawing, watching it after in variable speeds, easy to use f.ex. VideoLan VLC Player and turn up the playback speed, or slow down, whichever might yield interesting reflections. I will definitely upload more videos later too.

An older drawing from I think around 2005? I see I just hadn't got the same perception of details I got now, back then, because on reducing psychomeds :S but maybe I will continue it and make it into something more some day, it's got potential..? =)

Just to post another drawing, a semi-quick "sketch" done at night (Pencil B2 I think, on Bristol smooth A4 paper) in a passionate session last year, and as proclaimed I will be posting more drawings and write a few words.

So, I decided it was about time to post more @ the blog here. I've been stuck with some muscular issues from strain, still am, but why not get a few posts out in between anyhow? =)

Sometimes things can seem straining on your mind, when there is an ocean of possibilities and ways to go with almost anything, often being in the process of figuring out how to deal with "life" when all emotions are on high gear, thoughts are racing, often feeling it is hard to choose, what is right or wrong, stuck in a loop somehow, sometimes. I honestly don't know which is better, being a zombie and not seeing it all, or seeing it all overwhelmingly, maybe there's times for everything, but being in a zombie state isn't really a desire.

When things don't match it can be straining, but seeking and finding the right pace of things, is always key to enjoyment and experiencing a fulfilling situation.

It took me 2 months into this drawing project, to discover the hidden $ymbol! And then it all made sense: On one hand I was regaining my drawing skills, but on the other hand I had an obsessive relationship to money, an unhealthy one where I experienced having little, and feeling the peer pressure of everyone around me wanting me to focus more on it.

In the end of 2008 I started to feel creativity inspiring me again, and the patience coming back, enabling me to rediscover the therapeutic state of spending hours and hours drawing.

This drawing has taken a good amount of hours, sometimes drawing faster shapes, sometimes just getting into a "therapeutic" state of drawing tiny details.

This drawing was maybe the one I was the most pleased with in a long time, at the time I drew it, in 1998.

Alien Organics is to me a flow of drawing objects, scenes and details, seeing connections in shapes and patterns, that initially aren't meant to depict anything, resulting in an abstract grounds for free perception to see different things based on one's own awareness and impressions.

If you clicked the Gallery tab on top, well, it is coming when it is ready :) Just re-opening AlienOrganics.net here with a whole new design, it has taken some work :)