Gudgurkan

Oscar Westberg. Comics and illustrations. Illustrator for Esoteric Ebb.

[gudgurkan]

Japan!

Me and my fiancée are going to Japan for 2 weeks, and I thought it would be fun to draw a diary of our trip 🇯🇵

10 days until we go!

9 days left. A friend who lives in Japan has gotten us tickets to the comics festival comitia!

8 days left. Thinking about packing.

Travel day! Haven’t drawn for a couple of days. Just trains, airports and flights today.

Day 1 in Japan! We tried to stay awake, and saw Senso-ji in Asakusa.

Day 2. Typhoon warning in Tokyo! We walked, saw boats and avoided the rain.

Day 3. The instant coffee here is high tech and great. We went to Shinjuku and saw a compact and rad truck.

I’ll update this post as our trip continues 🤝

[gudgurkan]

You’re one of my biggest art inspirations and your art has made me want to start drawing more armor. Do you have any advice?

Thank you so much anon! Glad to hear that!!

I think the biggest help when you’re starting out with armor is using reference. That’ll help you get a feel for which parts there are, and how they interact. Do a mix of studies of armor photos, and using reference to add armor to custom poses.

I held an armor design workshop last year, and I can upload my slides with some comments too! I’m away from home on vacation at the moment, but will do that when I get back.

In the meantime, I have a couple of old posts about armor:

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Here's a ⭐️ tutorial ⭐️ on my approach to drawing armor!

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Any tips for drawing chain mail? Here's a quick guide to how I do it

Hope that helps!

[gudgurkan]

Hi :-) First of all, I love your art, it's been one of my biggest inspirations lately as I practice using ink! Second, do you mind sharing what sketchbook or paper you use? I'm struggling to find one I like myself for fountain or gel pens. Thank you :D

Hello! Thank you very much, I’m honored ☺️

Of course! I’m using:

Royal Talens art creation sketchbooks (great value)

Sometimes the Midori MD notebook (great at handling ink, but thin paper)

Daler-Rowney bristol board for larger pieces (my favorite, but more expensive than the other papers)

Canson Bristol board (almost as good as DR Bristol board imo, but cheaper)

Hope that helps! Have fun inking 🔥

[boukaiisreal]

Charm Person!

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Hello! No need to answer this at all. I just want to express my gratitude and admiration :)

I am one of the fan-artist for EE that you might have seen, I just want to say it's super shocking and life changing and I really really appreciate your attention and time!! You're a huge inspiration and it warms my heart to feel seen. I hope you have a great day, and everything goes well with future projects!

Thank you so much anon!

I'm just so awed and impressed and happy to see all the fan art, it's so good!!

I've only scratched the surface of the fan art scene so far, and I look forward to explore even more from all of you 🥰

Thank you for the art!

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Dearest Ettir <3

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[gudgurkan]

So much incredible Esoteric Ebb fan art 😭😭❤️❤️

[lolthsword]

painted a jacket in honour of my favourite chime

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Visken Visken la la la la

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Get rent extension from Miska, dance dance dance

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Girrrrrrrrrls

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Sainte Esconde des Mystères, une confidence pour une prière

Sainte Esconde des Secrets, montre moi ce qui est caché

My comic La Langue des Vipères was released this week in bookstores in France, Belgium and Switzerland !

This beautiful trailer was created by my friends at Potto Collective : @lholmesharfang , Luc Armanet, @noctambuleur , @estellito , @nomnomsandwich , @shliten, Matthieu Chavane and Fanou Lefebvre

[gudgurkan]

Woah!!

[gudgurkan]

Hi! Love the work you and everyone else did for the art of Esoteric Ebb ♥️ I was wondering if you can share how the final colour palette for the game was decided upon? Did it come from how you usually render colour pieces, or was there some other exploration process done to find the look? The way that it's vibrant yet cohesive really fits the tone of the game.

(P.S. Is it possible to share the colour palette used? Also wanted to try my hand at some fan art with the game's colour palette, but no worries if you can't.)

Cheers! 🍎

Thank you so much anon! 🍎

The color palette was made by the studio Gibbet as they were working on the 3D models. Initially, Christoffer (the creator of the game) had a warm set of colors for his first prototype, then Gibbet expanded upon them when they joined the project ✨

I referred to the palette a lot when drawing the characters! Though after a while we decided to add gradients for both color and shadows to the character portraits, and I freestyled a bit more with the colors after that.

Certainly, here it is!

And I'd love to see the drawing when you're done!

[gudgurkan]

Here's the third part of Gibbet's series on the making of Esoteric Ebb. This one's about creating the characters for Esoteric Ebb, with a couple of words from yours truly!

[gudgurkan]

Loving the tutorials, mate! Not that same anon with the belt, but if you also don't mind, how do you draw a bundle or quiver of arrows? I do the whole copy paste thing at least in CSP, but they don't seem to look right, know? Best regards. Also, congrats on getting in that article about EE's art! DLC when?

Thanks for the ask anon! I made a new page to the belt tutorial to cover the basics of quivers.

Here's some helpful stuff for perspective:

Proko (video)

Perspective made easy (book)

Framed perspective (book)

Gene Bond (Youtube channel)

If anyone needs help with drawing quivers or belts, I could do a draw-over if you send me the drawing you're struggling with. As long as you're ok with me posting the drawing and my notes on it. That would help others too!

Link to previous post about belts.

[gudgurkan]

Oscar, this may be a very specific question but how does one go about drawing belts? Especially if said belt has pouches and scabbards?

Hello anon! Sorry for the slightly late reply, but I wanted to do a proper response to this.

Here are some thoughts on how I draw belts + accessories. Hope this helps!