Karrey's Blog

Finally moved some more stuff from Skövde to Hjärup (close to Malmö where I work). My computer is finally here! *_* I have missed having it around.

I still have a cold. It all started with one day at the office more than two weeks ago now. We thought it was way too hot inside and opened the windows. But it was so windy outside, and I got all of the wind blown at me in my corner. Next day I woke up with a cold... mostly felt it in the throat. Got really sick the next thursday, but then I felt better on friday. BUT on friday I went to see bruce springsteen and it was freezing cold outside. Ended up with a horrible cough... went back to work next monday and had that cough for the week, but it started to go away until this friday, when we packed most of the stuff in the apartment (tons of dust everywhere). And yesterday I woke up with the cold being worse again (cough AND runny nose, and throat feeling crappy). T__T; So this is my third week feeling a bit crappy. Hope it goes away soon~  Since I have had this cold for so long now, I expect to be healthy a LOONG time as soon as I get well.

It feels so nice being almost settled at our new place now. Now that my comp is here I can start drawing more frequently - catch up on stuff. (*crosses fingers*)

First, I will get better! And unpack all the stuff and hope I won't get worse again... XD

Hope everyone is doing well!

I signed contract yesterday! Now I am officially an animator and technical artist.

It's hard to say professional animator without saying or thinking professional amateur. The words are so much alike, esp. in swedish. I'd say I am a mix of both since I yet have so much to learn. But you do count as a professional as soon as you make money, right? It's a tough definition...

I'd say I am a professional amateur animator.

:D

Omg, I got my first Daily Deviation! XD


100 characters on one jolly by *karrey on deviantART

Took me so many years, but I know that out of all of my pieces, that one probably deserved it the most! Because it took so long. :) And it was so much fun to draw too.

Wow! I hope I'll be able to read everyone's comments... XD The DD has been up for only 2 hours and this far I have received 1000 views out of the total of 4000 since I uploaded it in August. 

"100 characters on one jolly by *karrey. From the suggester: "I was completely blown away when I saw this. So many characters from totally different stories intertwined together on this one horse is so clever. From elephants to the beatles, space pirates to wild west heroes, ninjas to cyborgs and lawyers any genre is there. Cleverly placed next to other to make anyone looking at it laugh." This is clearly epic, be patient for fullview! (Suggested by ~SunDancer01 and Featured by ^ArtisticAunJuli)"

 Totally made my day! <3
*thankful*

Nu är vi äntligen klara!
Till Small Press Expo 2009 presenterar vi för er: Det GLADA fanzinet! Del 1.


Framsida


Previews

Ett fanzine med texter, bilder och serier. Huvudtemat är GLÄDJE!

Av: karrey , kichi_su , petter_t , jennula , kuriichan , Johannes och Jens den mongoliske krigaren!

This is an announcement that a project that me and my friends have done together is finished. It's a fanzine with texts, illustrations and comics and the theme is HAPPINESS! :) It's for the yearly Small Press Expo in Stockholm!

So scribbly, but I was already behind on this assignment, so it had to be quick...

( Click for scribble! )

... and it's not because I am taking a sketch-class or anything... *cough*

Last minute environment sketch for an assignment + an other version of that character I posted a few days ago.



( Click for ze art )

Yay, now I am only one assignment behind. The only reason why I let myself be behind on assignments is because this class is not obligatory, I am taking it for fun and learning. :) But I am trying really hard to pass. So that I have an excuse to draw.

My eyes look evil. Because they are bloodshot. Argh... it's been months since last time. Now... I must go to bed!

What are the odds?
Here's some doodles to show I am still around. Busy, but alive! I will give you a better proper update on life someday, but for now - here are some simple doodles and WIPs.

( Click for doodles! )


Oh, and now I have got a chance to show you my icon that I got from Brianne! :D And while I am at it, look at this: Edmund and Edmund. *joy*

My first official week in Malmö was really hectic but also very exciting. I am lucky I have such great and supportive friends in Malmö to be there for me (quasilie , fluffpudel , Kay and Wendy! <3 ). I wouldn't have anywhere to live if it weren't for them. Yeah, my safe plans for a place to live was ruined. Bad timing! Now I am looking for somewhere to live in a more permanent perspective (scary). It's hard to find aparments in Malmö.

I still feel like I have no place to sit down and relax, though. No where to feel 100% comfortable and do my things  - but I know that is typical when getting used to a new city (and esp. when you have no official home to live at, your own personal space! XD). It feels like you are in the way, in someone else's territory, all the time. I know it will get better! But my stomach doesn't like it this far... xD My stomach always gets weird if I am away from home more than two days.

I hope to post photos of the office soon (I must know what I am allowed to post first). It's really empty right now, one table in the middle of an empty room, with two computers on it. We are still waiting for the furniture. I got my computer on thursday. And a new shiny 22'' wide screen (just what a 3D-animator needs *nosebleeds*).

Things I need soon to feel more comfy in the work space:
- indoors shoes/slippers
- my own coffeemug
- tea
- personal stuff like... Cornelius...
- more comfy clothes...
- animator's survival kit...

I am so flattered about everyone who remembered my birthday! I can't thank you enough. I am so lucky and happy to have so many lovely friends online and irl. <3

I will reply to you all soon! :) I have a heavy assignment to hand in tonight, that I need to work on first.

Everyone: you truly made my day! <3

Happy new year everyone! I hope you all enjoyed the new years eve. I spent it with kichi_su tea_tea kuriichan Robert and Jon. It was a lot of fun. Especially the dancing, the jamming and the cup cakes. XD I will post scans and maybe photos if permission is given. This year's celebration was very successful, so I am happy. <3

On an other note. My automatic payment for Surpasshosting bounced back today so now my payment is 1 day due. I tried to pay it again, but still bouncing back. My credit card has been really weird on me like that lately... I used it only a few days ago, also on pay pal and it worked perfectly, and now it doesn't? Last time I had this problem I thought it was because I had moved and not changed the billing address, but I learnt I was wrong, because the bank does that automatically...

Anyway, hope they won't delete my webspace until I can visit my bank (I go back to skövde tomorrow really late, so... on monday?) or figure out an other way to pay this bill. I will probably just end up with an extra bill for the due time like last time (when they didn't even notice me that the so called automatic payment was due... after like... 2 months...geez... xD)

Happy holidays everyone!

I am soon going home to Ludvika on christmas. Then on the 26th, I will go to Gothenburg and celebrate new years eve!

I am sorry to say that I have been too busy this year to send out christmas cards - I still haven't bought all christmas presents yet either. Feels really bad! But I want you all to know that if I could I'd send you all tons of christmas cards and presents. :) I will try to compensate by sending something later. Some presents will be late, but I know what to get at least!

Thanks everyone who sent me cards this far! Aggi, Gaia, Keirea and Jenny: I love your cards! <3

Gotta clean up my friends list again.

I have not been very active around here for months, and it's come to a point when I don't recognize half of you... o_O Either because a lot of you changed lj-names or because my memory suck. Also, some of you don't update much any longer (just like me), or not at all.

So, I want to know, who is interested in staying on my friends list? I won't make a major cleaning of the list, so if you don't reply on this, don't be worried on disappearing if we are good friends or if I recently added you~ If you got deleted and think "hey, what the!? We are best buddies, why did she do that!?", I probably just have bad memory of LJ-names - - let me know and I will add you back. Don't mean to forget or hurt anyone here~

Tonight I will drink hot glögg/mulled wine and eat gingerbread cookies with two drawing buddies. Will be fun, and hopefully I will draw some! :D Happy first advent, everyone~

 

 

I really wish I had more time to draw! Here's a short "night doodle" update. From one/two weeks ago~

( Night Doodles part 3 )

I am so busy these days. School and work, but the future looks bright! I only wish the future brings me more time to draw and do personal stuff. ;)

The writer of Teddy and the Yeti (the comic I color) interviewed me a few days ago. :) Here's a part of it:

http://teddyandtheyeti.blogspot.com/

Recent nightdoodles. Still trying to sketch more once in a while before going to bed, to get back to drawing~

Hope for more postworthy stuff soon!

Going T.W.S.A.M.C.T.L. for a change!



( Night Doodles part 2 )

The computer works again! And guess what? I had to replace everything! *faints* Except the hard drives and the DVD/CD-player. It's not fair, but I am happy it works. Now, let's hope it will work for at least five years, because I am sick of computer problems. :U

Other news: I got the urge to try modeling a FFVI related mesh. Not sure how I will get the time for that. But it got me and Aggi into talking FFVI again, and we hope to revamp our homepage soon so that it will be easier to update. We got a lot of Dancing Mad orders lately, which encourage us. We did some FFVI fan art googling and found more fan artists to add to the links. I feel all nostalgic and happy, it's hard to describe. FFVI sure is special to us! :) 

And school? Going great - just being behind on assignments on one course (the advanced 3D one), but that's because I spend 6-8 hours a day on the game project (when the project points only cover 4 hours a day). It's pretty exciting and it's beginning to look really nice! :D We had to change rigging-systems a few days ago, but it doesn't worry me one bit since we are ahead of schedule. Will post screenshots one day. Here's an early test of a world map and character rigs from my swedish blog:  CLICK!(The guy is just a testmodel, hence the lowpoly)

Character set mistake on my current game project. The head reminds me of Golimar! Cracked me up!

It's friday, I'm tired. Don't blame me for finding this funny!

Rigging is going amazingly well, otherwise. Getting a bit proud of myself that I am actually learning! :D

Other news: still got problems with my new computer. I will reinstall windows yet again this weekend. If that doesn't work, I will get new hardware for certain stuff. If that won't help: new motherboard... By then, I pretty much replaced everything in the computer. XD Argh! We really should crave money back... ?

Here's some doodles, as promised. Most of them were drawn during nighttime, which is why they are wobbly, and I will call them: "night doodles". Enjoy! (These are from end of July until now - drawn when time was given on evening/night-time)

( Night Doodles part 1 )

(Click for bigger sized versions!)

Good news: I am making progress on the commissions. Commissioners will hear from me shortly if I keep up this pace.

All Swedes: I always wondered. How do I make it to SerieWikin? Almost all of my comic/illustrator/animator friends are listed there. Do I need to do something extraoridinary, or just ask someone to put me up there? Just curious. Since, well, I have been doing comics "officially" since 2005 now, and I am curious if that is enough to be listed on the site. :D

I don't want to sound like these typical "omg, I can't draw anymore! GIVE ME ATTENTION!  *emo*"-whiners (not directing these to anyone I know, mind you XD). But I haven't actually drawn in soo long - that everytime I sketch lately, I go furious about how many steps back I have gone. Or at least is feels like it. I can't finish a fullbody pose like before, or more frustrating: I can't come up with good poses anymore. I draw the same face all the time and bla bla bla.  Frustrating! I hope to get over this soon, I am sure it's just in my head and that I am stressing myself. I am just frustrated I don't have the time to doodle now and then like I did before.  Usually, I finish a lot of sketch books a year. But right now, I am still only halfthrough a sketch-pad I started back in December. I haven't finished a piece since... wow, I don't even know! The only thing I actually "finished" was Försupen vol 2, but it's not even completely screentoned yet.

The last weeks at work I promised myself I would, as soon as school started, sketch/doodle more for practise in the future. Even try to post more art here for feedback. Hopefully I will be more creative again, and my progress in art will be more full of quality and effectiveness. Which is important for me when I work on projects and commissions. I don't want to give away half assed stuff, even if I am delayed. I am happy to say that I progressed some on Brianne's and Tam's commissions a week ago. Hope to send some result soon! (Sorry for keeping you waiting, darlings~ I owe you big time.).

Happy random news: I won 2 kg of Marabou chocolate at an amusement park a while ago! xD

The company I bought my new computer from, the computer I sent back since it didn't work as promised, has finally contacted us and said that there are no problems with the hardware. Which means that there shouldn't be any problem with it - they didn't fix anything. Which is really frustrating. This is not the only issue, but: the new computer is so much slower in photoshop than on my old computer... 512 RAM on my old comp and 2 gig on the new one. I know it isn't all about the RAM, but according to the company, the new computer has a set of components that should work great together. Yet, my computer from 2003 is a whole lot better. We will see if it still lags when I get it back. If it does, we will have to complain some more to the company. This is not acceptable.

Hope to post some art soon! (I have no idea how many times I hace said that in the latest posts...)

Finally posted this on Deviantart:


100 characters on one jolly by *karrey on deviantART

Might be hard to see what it is. But it's a gift for kichi_su, a year ago. xD 100 characters on Jolly Jumper.

4 days left at work. It's going to be such a relief to finally be able to rest some before school starts. I have had some great experience with this job, but also some horrible ones. Right now I can't stand some of my fellow-workers.

I want to rest from thinking about work, and also organize the apartment. I also noticed recently when attempting to work on commissions that I have really gotten behind with drawing, which is so unfair to those who commission me.  Esp. to those who have been waiting a year or more. I am super slow and nothing turns out the way I want. So, to get back my "quality" as soon as work is over I will try to get back to drawing again by randomly doodle once in a while, and hopefully post some here.