One of the three Greek Graces, Euphrosyne is the goddess of mirth and good cheer. She and her two sisters attended the goddess Aphrodite.

Another God image of a destained set of three, I wanted Euphrosyne to seem cheerful, and perhaps a little bit sneaky. I imagine her as playing pranks on all the other guests and being overall cheeky. But what's a good party without a little fun? While she is pretty, she is not the goddess of beauty her sister Aglaia is. And like with Aglaia, I didn't want to draw her in the 'Greek' tradition.

Only Thalia left!

On another note, sorry for having disappeared. Some trials and tribulations include exciting/happy news, like moving, starting a new job, learning new programs, and meeting lots of new people! Hoping that everything is settling down into a new routine, and I'll be able to create more personal work. (It really is the most relaxing)

I've also been doing a LOT of research for all three of my fairytales. Hope to share more of that with you soon. Maybe some of those books will show up on my book blog

A Master Copy from memory of Eyvind Earle's Pearl

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Three Seasons

I was hired by the awesome web designers at Keyed-Up Media to provide some character illustrations for the website they were designing for the company Green World. It was a lot of fun! I made the first pass at the sketches, then took the favorite ones and colored them in. I drew these guys in various poses, and even drew aeration processes, and how to identify different types of ticks. Very cool, and these people are CRAZY good at what they do!! I was totally stoked to work with them!

I was hired in to help a company choose a style. Unfortunately it didn't work out, but I got an awesome few pages of face sketches that I get to show you!

This is one of the three Greek Graces, Aglaia (or Aglaea) was the goddess of beauty, splendor, glory, magnificence and adornment. She was wife of Hephaistos, the God of metalworking. She and her two (the number varies depending on who you ask) sisters were often seen in the company of Aphrodite, attending to the more important Goddesses.

I decided I wanted to make more 'God' images. Or at least something inhuman, yet still with a trace. I was also really interested in making a series of 3, so I looked for a set of three gods. I decided upon the three Greek Graces, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia. But creating Greek goddesses in Greek styled wardrobe is pretty standard fair, and I decided to draw what I wanted. As a Goddess of adornment, I wanted her wearing a lot of 'adornments' but not much else. I wanted the shape of her body to be beauty, but also to be so extreme as to be inhuman, and strange. She does not seek glory, but is it, and willingly offers her sword (forged by her husband) if you have the courage to take it.

I started this as a self project, but all of a sudden I have become swamped with things I have to do. I just hope I'll have time soon to finish her two sisters!

This is the main character of the story The Condor's Wife, Naiya. Here are some outfits of her in her original form before she becomes Condor's wife.

I haven't really done much with this story, but it is one of the original three that I had planned to work on. Where as The Bear King is from Norway, and The Talking Bird, The Singing Tree, and The Golden Water is from a Thousand and One Nights, The Condor's Wife is from South America. Of the three, this story is the darkest, correlating to the morbid nature of many of the stories of South America. While researching, I felt that a lot of the stories from that region involve callous and symbolic death with trickster-like characters. I plan for Naiya to be more of a conduit for the audience to witness the events that happen in the mythological/supernatural world.

I think I like the middle-bottom outfit the best.

A run cycle for Bjorn with Lene ridding on his back.

I haven't animated anything in a really long time, so this has been a lot of fun!! As you can see though, it's a bumpy ride for Lene.

You can see some of the process Gif's Here

The weird lines on the belly of the bear are from a gradient that doesn't translate well in Gif format

Another Card from my Ace Remake series. I think of the Ace Cards as the lone wolves of the deck.  Below is the original compared to the remake.

I've been threatening to do it for a while, but here is it, the remake of a piece I did 4(?) years ago. I did a series of Ace Cards. At the time, the goal was to draw a series, featuring males, with an emphasis on costuming and color. In the remake, I took these elements, but also expanded them to include environments that they live in, full body versus portrait, and a cultural reference for each card.  Just 3 more to make!

Going back to remake them, I think of the personality of an Ace card. They have allegiances, but they can be tricky, and not always to be relied upon. Sometimes they are your greatest strength! But sometimes they abandon you, and are the lowest card in the deck!

Sketches for The Bear King. Here are images of Lene in her refined and polished costume, running around. I've decided to place her and her family in Western Telemark, and so her costume is derived from that. On the right are images of the Bear King himself, who goes by the name Bjørn. The middle bottom are a few little doodles of Bjørn and Lene together, to give a nice size comparison. And in the top left is a sneak peak at Erlendr Valemon, The Bear King's original human form!