The sketch blog of Mads Herman

Two updated pieces

2011-12-11T20:32:00.000+01:00

I'm going over some stuff to make it more portfolio-ish. Apparently I can only draw people being caught with their backs turned ;P

33rd Copenhagen Sketchcrawl

2011-10-19T19:08:00.001+02:00

Sad Frankenstein

2011-09-25T18:15:00.002+02:00

Did this as a half-day to a one day thing... It has multiple errors, but I also want to get stuff out the door, and move on. So there :)

Team Fortress 2 in my town!!

2011-09-12T09:16:00.002+02:00

I love Team Fortress 2. Mostly because it's the best multiplayer game, ever. But also because of it's awesome character designs, animations and set design. People who have played this game more than once will agree that the game has a very awesome signature palette and architectural style. On my way to a boardgame night in Valby, Copenhagen, I found myself in the midst of these buildings.

RED base:

And of course, not more than a 20 sec. run away BLU had decided to put their base.

Pretty neat. I could almost hear the heavy's mini gun Revving up around the corner.

Amazon Faeries

2011-07-05T20:07:00.000+02:00

Last lesson at schoolism.com

The Hulk having enough...

2011-06-28T16:39:00.001+02:00

Also done with my right/wrong hand. I guess he is angry already... But that is just waiting in line-angry.. He's about to angry it up!

Batman snacking, pondering

2011-06-28T13:18:00.001+02:00

Done with my right(wrong) hand. I set as a rule that I couldn't use undo too much, and I did one vague sketch underneath.

-My guess is, he's eating beef jerky.

I messed up my hand!

2011-06-28T09:57:00.000+02:00

Who says board gaming isn't a dangerous hobby? I was cutting a miniature free from it's base, when the hobby knife slipped and decided to bury itself in my left palm :( This really puts a dampener on my last photoshop course lesson, but I have an experiment for today: To do some drawings using my RIGHT hand. I'll post the monstrosities later.

Background thumbs for my Deep One and thumbs for the next assignment

2011-06-20T18:05:00.002+02:00

Custom brush lesson.

2011-06-08T18:14:00.000+02:00

This could have used more work before I handed it in, but I had no more time :S

Photoshop course

2011-05-30T08:09:00.001+02:00

Various lessons in colouring, cellshading and paint blending.

Next Photoshop lesson: Colouring

2011-05-11T22:33:00.000+02:00

Troll WIP. Adding some rimlight and proceeding to work on my zombiesketch.

The SCUMM Aquatic

2011-05-01T18:56:00.004+02:00

The next installment in the scummification series. I think the weird dialogue and humor in this film would suit a point and click nicely. Mark Mothersbaugh's score would also be perfect, actually, and I can see numerous puzzles in Captain Zissous journey to blow up the jaguar shark.

...Oh, and by the way, virtual high five to the first person who guesses the song Pele is singing :D

Photoshop course drawings

2011-04-18T22:41:00.002+02:00

A couple of drawings for Schoolism's Photoshop course:

Arts and Crafts

2011-04-07T19:56:00.002+02:00

I recently bought a Colt Dragoon replica and decided that I totally needed a holster for it. I wear it around the house ALL THE TIME! ...It's just awesome is what I'm saying.

Materials: Leather, holepoker, oiled bear thread and some embossing tools.

I cut out the leather, sewed it up, and doused in warm water. Then I shaped it around the gun, and did some embossing passes, re-wetting the leather as I went along.

When it had dried I gave it a rinse with rubbing alcohol and then I gave it a coat of leather dye. I also gave it a onceover with rubbing alcohol to give it some patina-effect. Anyhoo, it turned out a bit too patin..nized(?) and the colour was a bit too bordeaux, but other than that I'm pretty satisfied.

Sci Fi Scummin'

2011-03-14T21:07:00.006+01:00

If I played this game back in ´91, I think my brain would literally blow up.
It just started with me wanting to do some nice SCUMM fan-art, but the further I got with this, the more I felt that the narrative of this particular flick would fit awesomely with the whole point'n'clicky thing. Except for maybe the lack of a character gallery. It was pretty tough for me completing games like Secret of Monkey Island, because as a 12 year old danish kid, I didn't really have a clue what a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle was, for example... and the artwork was also pretty tough to decrypt at times... but now I know how hard it is to do Sam Bell, when you only have about 12x12 pixels to do it on :D Anyway, hope you like this one... I might do more, Idunno yet.

Spring cleaning

2011-02-26T14:31:00.002+01:00

When it comes to drawings I have a fairly short attention span, which in turn results in a lot of drawings not seeing the light of day. One could argue that I shouldn't post stuff that is not done, but I don't really care actually. For your viewing pleasure: all my unfinished crap! I've chosen the diving tiger for an overhaul, so that might get uploaded in a better state later on.

Oh and I also threw in a newer/vibranter version of the King in Yellow. Got some critique on conceptart.org on how to tie the colors together better.

Frankenstein's Monster bust

2011-02-06T19:22:00.002+01:00

So, a loooong time ago I started doing a mini-bust of Frankensteins Monster and the same thing happened with that as with all other projects I have: I got distracted/bored/busy with other stuff. Then all of a sudden I got a vicious stomach-flu, that required me to be in the general vicinity of a toilet bowl at all times :S... which then in turn resulted in me finishing this damned sculpt AND painting it even... There were pro's and cons to painting it: I got rid of the translucency Super Sculpey has, but it also highlighted some of my mistakes in the modeling (untidy smoothing, and or damages from the modeling tool), plus it got a bit too dark.. I could do an extra dry brush pass with a bit lighter color, but I don't want it to look like a warhammer miniature. I just don't know which one to do next: Dracula, The Mummy, Creature from the black lagoon or The Wolfman?

Anyways, hope you like it. Click'em for the big'em..

Uuuhh... Dramatic Photoshopped pic.

Before baking. Sticky looking.

Sharp lightsource

Profile detail shots

softer light source

Hastur - The King in Yellow

2011-01-07T21:33:00.002+01:00

This was done as a benchmark illustration for a friends' book. It was a hoot and a holler to do, and although I want to keep honing it, I better put it up as I haven't updated this blog for ages.

Arne-Gorm Dynedegn

2010-10-20T19:39:00.002+02:00

Linedrawn in photoshop and coloured in artrage. Arne-Gorm Dynedegn, the not-so-experienced ranger, roams the hills of Mildew-earth in his seemingly seamless leatherpants. I did this while listening to an RPG podcast and had tons of fun painting this both visually and audibly.

2010-10-10T16:31:00.003+02:00

doodle from work, coloured in photoshop...

The blog is still under reconstruction. The old green wallpaper was simpley TOO busy for text, so I,m looking for other solutions atm.

2010-10-01T11:26:00.001+02:00

Sorry for the horrible look atm. It IS going to end up a bit like this, but I need to turn some knobs and finish my embroidered hunting scenery. Give me a holler if you have good ideas regarding page design, because I may not know what I'm doing here.

Bizarro Me

2010-09-21T22:14:00.002+02:00

Saw this guy the other day... Bizarro Me. Either that or Undead dead Morrissey. Also in my case he'd probably have the intellect of a 60-year old global corp. magnate.

about two hours in Photoshop.. gotta speed up!

Soldier Quickie Updated

2010-09-07T08:14:00.002+02:00

So Yuri, the freezing mercenary is back by popular demand (Rune) in a bit more rendered version... Still needs a lot of work on the back and sides of the head (would like to do some stubble) and the coat is only blocked in there.

Viking Rage!

2010-08-18T22:18:00.003+02:00

-thanks to Jan Ditlev for awesome PS brushes

Down in Mexico...

2010-08-05T13:37:00.001+02:00

Down in Mexico

listened to The Coasters while drawing/painting

Two more..

2010-08-03T20:40:00.001+02:00

Watercolour playness...

Random sketchbookness

2010-08-03T16:29:00.001+02:00

So, I got around to scanning another batch of sketchbook pages... not much I know, but I got myself some watercolours, and now I'm gonna try that on for size :D

LEYAK!

2010-06-28T22:35:00.004+02:00

Balinese Demon for my school forum... eats babies or drink fetus-blood.

Bust update.

2010-05-17T19:20:00.002+02:00

-Adding a little bit of detail.

Bust!

2010-05-08T17:38:00.001+02:00

Heres a bust I'm doing ATM of Frankensteins Monster

The River Man

2009-10-25T16:24:00.006+01:00

So, this is my second addition to my school-forum's Folklore thread. Unfortunately the forum is down for the moment, so you're in luck people as you'll see it before everybody else!! (I know there's no one actually checking this blog, but now you are, and you'll see this picture before the others... unless the school forum is back up again soon, in which case others will definitely have seen it before you , thus rendering the last 58 words completely rendundant).

This is Åmanden.. (Danish for the River Man). He is actually not described as a tangible visible being, but more an entity. Every time someone drowns in the river or any body of water it is said that he or she was taken by the River Man. If nobody has drowned for the last year or so, it is said that the River Man says "The time has come, but I still do not have my man.." and suddenly one of the people who hears this runs to the river and drowns him or herself and no one is able to stop them..

Photoshop quickie

2009-09-23T22:27:00.007+02:00

This Viking-Metal-God emerged from playing around with the brushes in photoshop.

Quick silhouettes

2009-09-14T20:24:00.003+02:00

The Abaia

2009-06-10T14:57:00.005+02:00

This was a sketch for my school-forum. we decided to find folklore and depict it.
This polynesian Abaia, dweller of deep lakes, considers all animals in it as its children. Anybody doing any harm to the animals in the lake will be flooded by a tidalwave created by the Abaias massive tail.

2008-11-05T13:22:00.001+01:00

My showreel

2008-01-28T12:51:00.001+01:00

2008-01-23T16:50:00.001+01:00

SO, I'm back at my school updating my portfolio.. here's the few drawings I've been doing recently.

My first post is.. erm.. old.

2007-10-29T18:48:00.004+01:00

Ok.. so I'm interning here in Copenhagen right now, which means I don't have my wacom pad or scanner acces or anything, so I'll have to post my older stuff.. Feel free to drop a comment if you see stuff you like.. or don't I guess :D It's pretty much backward chronological.. newest stuff first.
Depsea drawings: Pencil, colourpencils and photoshop. Part of a themed drawing jam.

I just love this game too much to not draw my favorite character.. Axel Steel
This is the Ozmonkey.. I'm currently modelling it in supersculpey, but again I'm in Copenhagen, so that project is on standby right now. Plus it turned out a helluvalot different than I first imagined.
Classical drawing from the Drawing Academy in Viborg, Denmark. Very old..

Sketches from Viborg:
Shrieking dingbat of doom
Invasion of the alien bugs:
Croquis: