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THE ARTIST BEHIND AMLIN

Long, blond guy living in central Stockholm (Sweden). Born in 69. Is working with computer stuff. Likes: computer games, comics, art, GT, animation, latte, traveling, alternative rock, new metal, electronic music, movies and sushi. Dislikes: R/B, cheaters, garlic, sports and closed minded wankers that doesn't respect other peoples way of life. Discovered the furry fandom on the net some years ago. Had drawn furry pics before that (most dirty stuff ^v^). Was surprised that there is a whole furry fandom.
Some of my biggest sources of inspiration are Frank Miller, Dark One, Simon Bisley, and Philip Bond.

And, oh, here is my furry code:
FCW3adm A+ C- D- H- M P? R+ T++ W- Z Sm RLCT a+ cn++$ d++ e+ f-- h- iwf+ j p- sm+

THIS SITE

Is plain HTML written in TextPad. It is tested in IE6 and Netscape7. English is not my native language, so this site has probably some grammar and spelling errors. I would be grateful if you mail me about errors that you find on my site.

THE ART

I usually start out with one or more small rough idea sketches. I tend to get good ideas weekend mornings in half sleep. When I have drawn a small sketch that I like, I draw it in bigger scale on a thin A4 sketching paper with a mechanical pencil. Then I ink it with a fine black marker pen. I erase the led, and scan the picture with my cheap flat bed scanner (in high resolution, 300 dpi). The picture is imported into Photoshop and resized to a smaller size. In Photoshop I can modify details in the B/W image. As an example, the legs were to short on the Amlin paper sketch. That was easy to rescale in Photoshop.
When I am satisfied with the B/W picture, I start to colour it. I work with layers when colouring. I place the B/W sketch at top as a 'multiply' layer, and then I add (below) a layer for every material in the picture (Jacket, fur, pants, skirt etc in the Amlin picture). I colour these layers with the colours, patterns and textures I like, but do not concern about light and shadow. Instead I add one or more separate layers (multiply) where I draw the shadows and a layer with highlights (hard light) that I also place over the colour layers. Working this way, I can go back any time and change the patterns on the fur, or the colour of the pants without having to redo the light/shadow work. Finally I add background, signature and texts to the image.