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A left-over from a recent project. Would feel bad to leave her on my hard drive all alone, so I decided to share her with you here.

Painted using Photoshop CS4 and a Wacom Intuos 3 tablet.]]> Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:01:16 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/821237

Another pin-up girl. This time done for German company; Pocket Pilot. I was asked to make a girl with a similar pose that would go with their already existing logo.

Done using Photoshop CS4, and a Wacom Intuos 3 tablet. ]]> Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:55:42 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/769179

Painting made for Call of Cthulhu, Innsmouth Horror, Arkham Horror board game expansion.

I'm very rarely happy with my work, and I have to admit that this piece is one of the most successful ones I have ever done, at least in my opinion.
The girl in the painting in my girlfriend Tascha, and she is a playable character in the board game as well, which I think is pretty cool.

More info about the board game here:http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite.asp?eidm=6]]> Sat, 30 May 2009 07:47:51 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/762527

Painting made for the upcoming Call of Cthulhu Innsmouth Horror board game expansion.

I made this painting almost one year ago (July 2008), but it was finally announced on the FFG website today in one of their articles, so I can finally post it here. Wheee!

This is a painting of the art coordinator over at FFG, and I had a great time painting her.

As usual: Photoshop CS2, Wacom Intuos 2 tablet. Spent quite a bit of time on this one. ]]> Mon, 11 May 2009 18:51:20 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/681126

Something I've been working on in-between projects lately. I'm totally overworked nowadays, but it feels good making something of my own to prevent me from going nuts.

Painted using Photoshop CS2 and a Wacom Intuos 2 tablet. ]]> Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:20:19 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/634550

Another painting made for an article on colour theory I wrote for the current issue (issue 31) of Imagine FX.

Yes, more tentacles :-P

Painted during a couple of evenings using Photoshop CS2 and Wacom Intuos 2 tablet.]]> Thu, 22 May 2008 23:15:34 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/678017

This was made for the current issue of ImagineFX (issue 35), for a workshop I made on materials. I decided to create a painting including most of the things that I wanted to cover; from skin, glass, denim, soft cloth, to metal.

Painted using Photoshop CS2 with a Wacom Intuos 2 tablet during 2-3 evenings. I was looking at reference photos of a Greek friend and colleague of mine; thanks Vagelis ;-)]]> Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:49:10 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/678016

Even though I've done a lot of work lately, my muse has been gone for the past 6 months, and it finally felt nice doing some personal painting again.

This is basically just something I've been playing around with for the past 2 evenings, with no plans what so ever. I also decided to leave it as grey-scale as I kind of like it this way. It was great fun trying to make it appear as if she had wet skin and hair; it doesn't require as much details as you might think.

Painted from scratch using Photoshop CS2 and a Wacom Intuos 2 tablet.]]> Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:47:10 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/678014

I made this for our event over at Pixelbrush (Myths). I made this more as a drawing, rather than painting, and it was fun not messing around with colours, or tiny details for once.

This is Cthulhu himself. As I'm a big Call of Cthulhu buff, and never got the chance to paint the dude yet, I gave this a go, just for fun.

Made using Photoshop CS2, and a Wacom Intuos tablet. ]]> Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:45:21 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/614105

I've been to busy lately to work on personal pieces. I actually started this one in the beginning of December 2007, so it took me over 2 months to finish because of that. I hate that as I kinda loose my connection to the piece. Still, I've still spent a lot more time on this one as usual.

I got this idea a while ago, and I wanted to paint another Norwegian friend of mine, just for fun, basically :-)

Photoshop with a Wacom Intuos 2. I made a rough, low-poly 3D scene base to get the tiles right (3DS Max). Damn, I hate tiles now :-P

I'll post close-ups and progress steps on my site at a later stage.]]> Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:07:33 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/618522

This is an illustration for Fantasy Flight Games collectible card game named A Game of Thrones, which is based on the world of best-selling author George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice & Fire. This belongs to the Clash of Arms Edition.

This illustration was also used on the card packaging for the "Ancient enemies" chapter pack, which I think is pretty cool! :-)

The character is Areo Hota. He is a tall grizzled veteran with a mop of hair that was once dark but has now turned to a whitish grey. He is now captain of the prince's guard, and wields a tall, wicked looking axe that he has been "wedded" to, and is rumoured to sleep with.

Illustrations for card games like this always have short deadlines, and are supposed to be viewed on a smaller scale than here.]]> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:23:45 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/608678

This painting was made for an article on values for ImagineFX magazine, issue 29.

There's also a looong movie showing how I painted this piece on the dvd that comes with this issue. This is the first time I've been recording whilst working, and it was a bit wonky. Guess I need a faster computer to be able to do this without noticing any lag, heh.

Anyways, just another of my tentacle pieces. The guy in question is a colleague and friend of mine named Trond, posing with his Cthulhu spawn pet. :cowboy:

Painted using Photoshop CS2 in about 4-5 hours.]]> Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:07:09 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/543342

Future Publishing hired me to do the cover for their 22nd issue of their fantasy and sci-fi art magazine, ImagineFX. Great fun to do, and the magazine also comes with an extensive workshop on how to paint pin-ups girls. I don’t really consider myself a pin-up artist, but I learned a lot from this process.

You can get more details and order this edition of the magazine here: [link]

Painted during quite a few evenings using Photoshop with a Wacom tablet.

See close-ups, step-by-step process, and get more info here!]]> Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:36:51 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/543343

Because of too much work and other issues, I haven’t had as much time as I wanted to paint personal pieces lately, and this is the result of that. I’ve been working on this on and off for about 2 months, which is not how I usually work at all. I felt that I lost the connection with this piece so I just decided to finish it before ruining it further ;-)

Again, another Call of Cthuhlhu inspired piece, and the guy is kind of a portrait of myself. Don’t ask why :-P

Painted using Photoshop and a Wacom tablet. Reference used for the character.

See close-ups, step-by-step process, and get more info here!]]> Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:39:38 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/520622

T-shirt illustration done for Spiral Direct. Great fun to do!
The background is black because the illustration are to be used on black clothing only.
Reference used for the pose. Painted using Photoshop CS2 with a Wacom Intuos tablet, as usual.

See close-ups, step-by-step process, and get more info here!]]> Sat, 21 Jul 2007 00:21:53 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/481120

The idea for this painting has been laying inside the back of the head for quite a while, and I was basically just looking for a excuse to make it. Originally, it was ment for an art competition, but since I didn’t go there after all the painting wasn’t used for anything special.

Painted during quite a few evenings using Photoshop with a Wacom tablet. Reference used for the character.

See close-ups, step-by-step process, and get more info here!]]> Sun, 01 Apr 2007 23:28:17 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/454443

Not that this really has anything to do with Call of Cthulhu, but I guess that I have been influenced from the monsters of that setting. We are currently playing a Cthulhu roleplaying campain. There is just something with tentacle monsters that appeals to me and not in an Asian manga kind of way (please make a note of that ;-) )

I was not sure if I was to dress the girl or not, but after a few tests, it simply looks a lot cleaner and better this way. I don't think an in-between solution would have worked well.

Painted using Photoshop with a Wacom tablet over a long period of time (painted one or two hour every now and then. Reference from different places within my own collection.

See close-ups, step-by-step process, and get more info here!]]> Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:06:16 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/467247

I’d like to dedicate this piece to our recently ended Call of Cthulhu pen & paper roleplaying campaign. We kinda scewed it all up getting all tricked by Nyarlathotep! That bastard old God fooled the party through a portal and they got all thrown back to ancient Egypt, except me who barely manage to jump back out before it closed behind me. Actually the others got off better than me as the world kinda ended shortly after this and I was still stuck in 1929. Oh well, it was fun for as long as it lasted…

This scene is not really from that session at all, but It’s inspired by the setting and the monsters you can find in this setting. The dude on the picture is referenced from a photo I shot of a childhood friend of mine. I think he looks cool on the picture, giving it all even though he doesn’t really stand a chance against mr. tentacle

Painted during quite a few evenings using Photoshop with a Wacom tablet. Reference used for the character.

See the step-by-step process here!

]]> Sat, 24 Feb 2007 21:53:23 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/678018

Another design made for Spiral Direct. This can be purchased on misc apparel, plus possibly as well as a bed sheet on their site.

This is not really my usual subject, as the world already has enough of crying dark angels, but no matter what; I'm having great fun creating it, which is the most important part. :-D

Painted using Photoshop CS2, and a Wacom Intuos tablet.]]> Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:50:43 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/493336

Lately I've started doing some speedpaintings as it's great practice and quite fun. I made this for my speedpaint thread at Pixelbrush. Painted in 1,5 hours using Photoshop and my intuos tablet. ]]> Sun, 06 May 2007 10:17:30 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/477572

Meet Stinky, the half orc!
This is my current roleplaying character, made for the very first event at our forums, Pixelbrush, where we were to paint our own all time favourite rpg character.

You can see my thread here!

And all the other great contributions here!

This is Stinky in a scene from his earlier days where he crafted his very own dragon costume for the big annual costume ball. When all the other participants of the entire arrangement paid for their expensive costumes, Stiky made his own after rolling VERY low on his crafing check. After some help from the local bartender, together they managed to get the costume somewhat patched together.]]> Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:04:33 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/454333

This is one out of three pin-up ladies I painted for Kennedy & Monk for the computer game “Battlestations Midway” from EIDOS. It was a different and very exiting experience working on these illustrations. They were heavily art directed by a very talented director, and we had a good time developing this. They are not being used in the game, but are being used for PR purposes and similar things.

The game is available on XBox-360 and PC once it releases later this month.

Painted using Photoshop CS2 with a Wacom Intuos tablet. I spent many hours on this one, I don’t know how many exactly.

See close-ups, step-by-step process, and get more info here!]]> Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:17:19 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/454334

This is one out of three pin-up ladies I painted for Kennedy & Monk for the computer game “Battlestations Midway” from EIDOS. It was a different and very exiting experience working on these illustrations. They were heavily art directed by a very talented director, and we had a good time developing this. They are not being used in the game, but are being used for PR purposes and similar things.

The game is available on XBox-360 and PC once it releases later this month.

Painted using Photoshop CS2 with a Wacom Intuos tablet. I spent many hours on this one, I don’t know how many exactly.

See close-ups, step-by-step process, and get more info here!
]]> Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:18:39 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/452718

This is one out of three pin-up ladies I painted for Kennedy & Monk for the computer game “Battlestations Midway” from EIDOS. It was a different and very exiting experience working on these illustrations. They were heavily art directed by a very talented director, and we had a good time developing this. They are not being used in the game, but are being used for PR purposes and similar things.

The game is available on XBox-360 and PC once it releases later this month.

Painted using Photoshop CS2 with a Wacom Intuos tablet. I spent many hours on this one, I don’t know how many exactly.

See close-ups, step-by-step process, and get more info here!]]> Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:22:30 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/429992

This is a portrait of my girfriend, Tascha. I haven't had time to do much personal paintings lately because of too much work, and my muse has been a bit low because of this. But our 2-year anniversary helped a lot, and I simple wanted to do a simple piece. It's quite detailed, and I spend quite a bit of time on it. Short evenings now and then in-between things. The original plan was more complex, but simplicty usually wins when I start messing about with different approaches.

Painted using Photoshop CS2 and a Wacom Intuos 2 tablet. Reference used, of course.

See close-ups, step-by-step process, and get more info here!]]> Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:23:20 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/430018

This is the cover illustration for the book “The Last Incarnation” by fantasy author Joseph Giunta. The birdy looks a little wierd there without the title of the book, so please take that into concideration. And yep, that's one BIG dog, he is special

I made 28 black and white interior illustrations as well, so feel free to visit my site to take a look at those :-)

See close-ups, step-by-step process, and get more info here!]]> Wed, 15 Nov 2006 23:24:03 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/405157

I started this piece quite a while ago at work. It’s simply a conceptual 2D painting that was made for no other purpose to experiment and for use in misc. relation from PR to decoration etc. The picture shows 3 of the totally 6 races of Darkfall, the MMORPG-game I am working on fulltime. The girl is an elf, the guy in the middle is a human, and the vertically challenged guy to the right is obviously a dwarf. Some of the elements is based of 3D objects made by other employees of Aventurine S.A.

The picture was made in extremely high resolution, so I recommend you to click the close-up button to get a better impression. I have also added a 50% close up at the bottom of the page.

All elements are copyrighted Aventurine S.A.

Painted using Photoshop CS2 with a Wacom Intuos tablet, and some elements based on 3D renders of actual in game objects/environments.

]]> Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:16:50 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/399376

I’ve been working on this piece on and off for quite a while because of extra projects, and when I finally got a couple of days in-between things, I decided to wrap this piece up so that I can fully focus on my other projects for the upcoming weeks. I had some other plans for this piece to start off with, but it didn’t work out as I hoped as I would have to move away from the monochromatic look, which I kind of like.

Reference used for the girl.
Painted during 5-6 evenings in Photoshop CS2 with a Wacom Intuos tablet.

See close-ups, step-by-step process, and get more info here!]]> Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:38:34 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/390697

I made this piece for one of my favourite bands, Machinae Supremacy around june.

Painted using Photoshop and a Wacom tablet. I shot a few reference photos to see what skin and hands looked like when illuminated from behind. Interesting stuff to study, really :-)


See close-ups, step-by-step process, and get more info here!]]> Mon, 07 Aug 2006 20:14:16 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/505680

This is an illustration for Fantasy Flight Games collectible card game named A Game of Thrones, which is based on the world of best-selling author George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice & Fire. This belongs to the Five Kings Edition.

The character is Gendry. He is an unacknowledged bastard son of King Robert Baratheon and an armorer’s apprentice.

Illustrations for card games like this always have short deadlines, and are supposed to be viewed on a smaller scale than here.]]> Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:49:37 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/505679

This is an illustration for Fantasy Flight Games collectible card game named A Game of Thrones, which is based on the world of best-selling author George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice & Fire. This belongs to the Five Kings Edition.

The character is Quentyn Martell. He was fostered at a young age by Lord Yronwood, and served as a page, then a squire, and is now a knight.

Illustrations for card games like this always have short deadlines, and are supposed to be viewed on a smaller scale than here.]]> Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:48:22 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/505677

This is an illustration for Fantasy Flight Games collectible card game named A Game of Thrones, which is based on the world of best-selling author George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice & Fire. This belongs to the Five Kings Edition.

The character is Ser Boros Blount, a knight of the Kingsguard.

Illustrations for card games like this always have short deadlines, and are supposed to be viewed on a smaller scale than here.]]> Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:47:03 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/505676

This is an illustration for Fantasy Flight Games collectible card game named A Game of Thrones, which is based on the world of best-selling author George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice & Fire. This belongs to the Five Kings Edition.

The character is The Red Viper. Unlike his brother, Oberyn is a man not suited to sitting.

Illustrations for card games like this always have short deadlines, and are supposed to be viewed on a smaller scale than here.]]> Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:45:47 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/505675

This is an illustration for Fantasy Flight Games collectible card game named A Game of Thrones, which is based on the world of best-selling author George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice & Fire. This belongs to the Five Kings Edition.

The character is Euron Crow’s Eye.

Illustrations for card games like this always have short deadlines, and are supposed to be viewed on a smaller scale than here.]]> Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:43:55 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/479365

This is an illustration for Fantasy Flight Games collectible card game named A Game of Thrones, which is based on the world of best-selling author George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice & Fire. This belongs to the Iron Throne collection.

The character is Renly Baratheon, one of the Baratheon brothers. He is a tall, dark haired, handsome and well-built young lord. A veritable clone of his brother Robert, before he went to seed.

Illustrations for card games like this always have short deadlines, and are supposed to be viewed on a smaller scale than here.]]> Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:01:53 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/479362

This is an illustration for Fantasy Flight Games collectible card game named A Game of Thrones, which is based on the world of best-selling author George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice & Fire. This belongs to the Iron Throne collection.

The character is Stannis Baratheon, one of the Baratheon brothers.

Illustrations for card games like this always have short deadlines, and are supposed to be viewed on a smaller scale than here.]]> Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:58:52 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/479363

This is an illustration for Fantasy Flight Games collectible card game named A Game of Thrones, which is based on the world of best-selling author George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice & Fire. This belongs to the Iron Throne collection.

The character is Robert Baratheon, one of the Baratheon brothers. This is from when he was a boisterous, jovial, and drunken king. He is not above shouting out threats while drunk and stuffing his face.

Illustrations for card games like this always have short deadlines, and are supposed to be viewed on a smaller scale than here.]]> Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:00:26 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/364630

This is an illustration for the cover of a book by author Joe Lawson. I created the caracters from descriptions given to me from the client, which was fun to do. More information and to purcase the book, please go here: Link!

Painted from scratch in 4-6 evenings using Photoshop with a Wacom tablet.

See close-ups, step-by-step process, and get more info here!
]]> Wed, 31 May 2006 19:13:03 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/362587

This is a book cover I did for sci-fi author Stuart Clark. I had fun making this painting, as the monster design I got from the client was really interesting. More info on the publishers site: www.silverleafbooks.com

Reference used for the guy.
Painted during about 5 evenings in Photoshop CS2 with a Wacom Intuos tablet.

See step-by-step process here!]]> Fri, 26 May 2006 19:29:20 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/346912

I like dragons, so sometimes the urge to draw one comes uppon me. At first, I wanted the girl and the dragon to do a graceful dance of some kind, but since thats quite tricky to nail I went for a simplified approach, yeah, lazy ;-).

I guess he is a some kind of silver dragon? :-)

Own reference for the girl.
Painted during 3-4 evenings in Photoshop CS2 with a Wacom Intuos tablet.


See close-ups, and step-by-step process here!]]> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:13:38 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/340244

The idea for this one started out more comic than it turned out to be. I actually wanted to have a little kitten sitting at the bottom front of the screen looking at the viewer knowing only peace and no danger. I soon figured out that I had to let the chick and the cat interact to make this piece work out. I guess there are not other back story to this than I simply enjoy making pieces like this. I also wanted to experiment a little with a light sources directed straight down from the top og the screen, lighting up dust particles in the air.

Own model used as reference for the girl.

Painted during 3 evenings in Photoshop CS2 with a Wacom Intuos tablet.


See close-ups, and step-by-step process here!]]> Sun, 02 Apr 2006 00:10:25 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/337935

In addition to a big interview for the Future Publishing magazine, Imagine FX, I made this painting for a workshop for the same issue. While writing this I haven't read this issue of the magazine yet, so I'm just crossing my fingers and hoping it's looking ok.

The reference model is Kjetil, a colleague and friend of mine. The workshop is explaining down to detail on how to make digital fantasy-themed portrait, and the theme and the name for this piece is kinda internal, hehe...

Painted during a few evenings in Photoshop 7 with a Wacom tablet.

See close-ups, and step-by-step process here!]]> Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:12:42 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/328685

After playing a Dungeons & Dragons role playing campaign for quite a while now (…and it looks as if we’re upcoming dragon-riders, yay!), I got all into “dragon-mode”, and wanted to make a pretty standard high fantasy painting. Again, I show that I have a passion for the old fantasy masters, and I simply love painting things like this.

Painted during one and a half evening in Photoshop CS2 with a Wacom tablet. Own model used as reference.

See close-ups, and step-by-step process here!

EDIT: I replaced the pictures with more sharpness on the dragons head as it lost details on this low res version.
]]> Mon, 13 Mar 2006 21:08:15 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/332374

This painting was more or less a test, so I decided to keep it simple. I like simple composition anyway :-)
I don’t have a story behind this piece, other than it has got a more modern fantasy theme than normal from me. Perhaps this shows a cheerleader doing her side-job?

Painted during a couple of evenings in Photoshop CS2 with a Wacom tablet. Reference used for the pose.

See close-ups, and step-by-step process here!]]> Tue, 21 Mar 2006 21:10:16 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/317758

This is the cover box illustration for Fantasy Flight Games upoming table top / board game named Call of Cthulhu, Arkham Horror, which is based on the worlds of renowned horror master H.P. Lovecraft.
We got this request just before christmas, so I brought my laptop with me when I visited my parents back in norway so that I could work on the piece. It was quite strange sitting in my little room again and paint, hehe...
Michael Komark made the illustration for the previous Arkham Horror box, so we had some pretty damn big shoes to fill when making this one :-)
My girlfriend, Natascha (Kyena), made the conceptual sketch, so this is the first painting we’ve worked together on :-)
Painted during quite a few evenings using Photoshop with a Wacom tablet. Reference used for the characters.
Painted december 2005.

Go to my site to see close up details, and step-by-step process!
]]> Sat, 11 Feb 2006 19:44:32 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/431210

This is an illustration for Fantasy Flight Games collectible card game named Call of Cthulhu, which is based on the worlds of renowned horror master H.P. Lovecraft.
This location is from the basement at Hall school. I guess lots of secrets are hiding in the dark corners and in the aisles.

Illustrations for card games like this always have short deadlines, and are supposed to be viewed on a smaller scale than here.]]> Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:10:11 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/325741

This is the second painting in a series of hopefully 3 with the same appearance and dimensions. I want to make a series that looks nice together, perhaps hanging on a wall. The first in the series is "Equilibrium".
This painting took me more time as usual because I’ve been very busy lately working on other projects. Unfortunately this one didn’t turn as I planned, but here it is anyways :-)
Painted on and off during a peroide over 5 weeks (6 evenings all in all I guess) using Photoshop with a Wacom tablet. Reference used for the girl and the folds.
Original size is 2500 x 8448 pixels.

Go to my site to see close up details, and step-by-step process!
]]> Mon, 06 Mar 2006 18:13:25 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/297359

I’ve always been really fond of narrow standing formats, and this painting will hopefully be the first in a series of 2 or 3 with the same appearance and dimensions. I want to make a series that looks nice together, perhaps hanging on a wall.
This painting took me quite some time, and the high resolution almost made my gimpy HP lap-top melt. Please take a look at the close up details (which is also scaled down quite a bit) and the step by step process on my personal site: Link
Painted from scratch in 5-6 evenings using Photoshop with a Wacom tablet. Reference used for the girl and the folds.
Original size is 2500 x 8448 pixels.
]]> Sun, 27 Nov 2005 17:26:35 +0000 http://henningsen.cgsociety.org/gallery/340458

This is an illustration for Fantasy Flight Games collectible card game named A Game of Thrones, which is based on the world of best-selling author George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice & Fire.

The character is Wolf Stalwart, a huge noble northman.

Illustrations for card games like this always have short deadlines, and are supposed to be viewed on a smaller scale than here.]]> Sun, 02 Apr 2006 15:01:53 +0000