Quick and dirty workup of an image I've had sitting around. Colors are really hard for me without a source I can steal them from.

Expressions

and by expression I mean maniacal laughing.

Dr. Insano's Blue Cousin Can't Laugh. from Katrin Haerterich on Vimeo.

So this one is (my birthday post!) my sister's profile, with an interior church wall background, all set into the dome and skylight of the Pantheon in Rome. My sister is a rockstar! :)

Look I'm being Professional!

I made a business card last night/ this morning after being bitched at the zillionth time about it in class @_@ The smoke cloud will probably have my info text in it, but atm I'm having trouble finding a font that works with lowercase letters and I don't feel like sharing my phone number with the internet. Which reminds me... does anyone think that's important? I'm leaning towards just my e-mail and website.. which I don't have yet, but I will soon. Sorry, rambling. Oh, and the back will be bright yellow :)

On a Moonless Night

This is a singularly poor use of voice, but I like the character and the premise. It's a simple story, and a nice enough one, such as it is.

Awk.

Awk. Awk. Awk.

EDIT: This is fun. Here's another one: "Drama"

My Cry For Help

Nope, not a story. I've been working on what is shaping up to be a novel or novella and so for the next month or two, maybe more, and so I probably won't be updating as much as I was.
Now the cry for help; I've never done anything like this before. This will be by far the longest and most involved story I have ever told and I'm really staggering in the dark. I have an outline and a set of rules as well as the prologue and first chapter written, I would like someone to help with reviewing and editing it but I'm reluctant to post much more of it here. If anyone is interested let me know and I'll share you the documents on gmail.

Thank you,
-Per Wiger

I've been working from photos I took of buildings in Italy...I keep discovering new things in photoshop. I took a bunch of pictures of St. Peter poking out from behind other buildings. Imagine if the architect (got to go look it up...) (Oh no, there were millions of them) Okay, but as I remember it, one of them (maybe Michelangelo himself) really designed it to be seen and admired, especially the dome part, and then everyone built buildings right next to it and a big ol' facade on the front so that a clear view is not actually possible. In any case, St Peter's dome always seemed to be creepin' in the background.

Walking Doll

I suck at stop motion, so hard. Also there was no heat and my hands kept getting numb, and the tripod was broken, and I'm not a happy camper.

Finally starting to get back into ps and some 2 d work! I did this a few weeks ago.

The Hallelujah Chorus

I've had, for some time, an idea. One of the nasty sorts of ideas that takes up residence in ones brain and surfaces, from time to time, just to make you feel bad for not acting on it. It began its germination in a form wholly different from the one that it has begun to take here and will probably evolve beyond recognition before it has exhausted either me or itself.
Suffice it to say that this is the beginning of a longer piece, possibly novel length. It will be a narrative in three parts, each part following a different character; Devin, Gideon, and the as yet unnamed woman that I am thinking of as Holly, a name that I probably can't use for copyright reasons and that wouldn't fit anyway.
The setting is the Twin Cities metro area plus a city in Colorado, probably Boulder, and there will be more overtones of magical realism. Cities and places with strong emotional resonance will have anthropomorphic identities and the death of Minneapolis is what will drive the plot, though in what direction I have not yet decided.
Please, please, please, comment. Give me encouragement or critique and I will be eternally grateful.

Dr. Insano

Did some revising to my stop motion clay guy, I decided to make him look more like Dr. Insano for funzies, or more like Dr. Insano's Jamaican cousin. idk. And of course, I have poor lighting.

My tablet is fixed!

Here's more MSPA fanart. I am now officially obsessed.

Paper doll

Paper doll backed with metal wire for stop motion animation for my final... I hate it already.

This is a large bowl I made wednesday. I'm planning to grow some flowers in it! it's also the second one I made, the first one's bottom cracked right when I was finishing it T-T

~My First Byzantine~

Or rather: Amaya tries chainmaille again for the first time in three years. My brain can't really comprehend maille very well, I usually end up over thinking it and going a little crazy. That said I tried this several years ago and just could not do it. But here we go! :D

Update: Made an anklet. :< Yus.

Mr. Raven

all up in your grill like NEVERMORE!

Concept for a character I will probably never use in an animation I'll probably never have time to make. :/ And wow, that got desaturated being posted.

Inspected by No. 26

I just finished reading a book that I got off of amazon, Beebo Brinker, in the back was a sticker that read "Inspected by No. 26" I have no idea what it was inspected for but this is what it inspired.

A Face in the Fog

Here's my semi-daily update then, I don't think it is entirely without merit. I may be wrong.

What's that? Oh cool, I added a forum to the blog! This is to hopefully foster a stronger community than just "I liek that pic" comments. Share about yourself, your artwork and get some feedback. And talk about random stuff too.

Also, feel free to join the conversation whether or not you're a regular contributor.

Why do They Bother?

This piece is dedicated to corporate America for their weird-ass job titles and was hacked together in maybe twenty minutes.

Silly Clay Guy

Purposely off looking mad scientist clay guy for some animation assignments I'll be doing in the next few weeks. I am reminded of Bill Cosby for some reason.

Tell-Tale Brass

Who has a one-track mind? I have a one track mind...

OC meme (or I am really spending too much time thinking about this)

I ran into this meme. And so I did the first part and drew ten of my own characters from three different stories I've been thinking about.

It's really sketchy -- not a finished piece.

It got a little cut off, and the writing's not super legible  and all the characters are out of order, so here's the key. Green is "Fade to Color", blue is "Wish Upon the Stars" and purple has yet to be titled but is about a seer.

1. Carys
2. Jeffrys
3. Kay
4. Isau
5. Sarah
6. Darrin
7. The Magician
8. Cassie
9. The Queen Bee
10. Danny

As you can probably tell by the Queen Bee, there's a range is how surreal the stories are.

Animation Project - Old Hand Man Sketchwork

So I've actually been animating recently, here's some work building up a loop of my many-handed old sage putting away books in his shoppe of oddities. Still a lot of inbetweening to be done but I'm pretty happy with it. (Image links to animated GIF)

The Gift

Okay, so the title is like a middle school writing prompt, if you come up with a better one let me know.

Cupid's Curse

At least this one has a plot?

I think it starts strong and starts to fall apart about a third of the way through.

Whale's Tale

I just got a box of my stuff from Japan today (really exciting stuff). Anyways, inside I found one of my school notebooks (Japanese Pop Culture if you want to know the class) where i'd sketched a design. i think it turned out pretty well, just needs color now!

Ok here's something i made last weekend in a glass fusing class using a kiln.

not too bad for a first attempt though i turned out to be horrendious at cutting the glass

Printer paper and colored pencil portraits

I've decided to play around with printer paper, because it makes the pencil much smoother.
Self portrait (because I find it easiest to get myself sit still and model)

And Patrick (from a photo):

Drawing like this reminds me of high school.

One, By Spilled Blood

This sucks. It really does, it's all over the place and so, yeah.
One of these days I pray that I have the talent to do it over. Do it right.

Ravens Concept Art

Starting my stop motion final now, and I'm basing it off of The Seven Ravens fairytale with flat paper upright in 3 dimensional space. So, this is a very crude concept page representation of a scene I had to make for class.

Hey guys! sry i know it's been a while... kinda hard when your computer and camera both need therapy and i don't do computer graphics/drawing... but that's all about to change once i get my new toy up and running!

ok so i've gotten back into the glass blowing community and it feels great... if only my work would start reflecting it. So here's the first peice i've blown for a while. The shape and stuff arent' great but i wanted to test out the color (beautiful!) so now i'm either gonna keep it around as a fun candy dish, use it for design/sand blasting pratice or smash it to cut designs out of for other projects... haven't decided which yet. Dang peice jsut cut me so maybe i'm gunning for smashing it, but the drawing practice would be more beneficial. especially since i plan on learning how to acid etch pictures onto peices... anyone know how to do that btw? Jennica?

oh, yah, I've been coloring stuff too.

I just realized I don't think I've posted one single colored thing, which is funny cause I probably end up spending more time on my coloring for comic books hw than anything else.

So, here's some lineart I was assigned, and here's how I used the 'smudge' technique for rendering the girl color. First lineart I've liked too. The color pallet was assigned too. Supposedly we will get more freedom at some point :/

Feverific

So, I've been having a fun little time with a mystery disease for the last week. Missed, school behind on hw. Generally miserable. So, here's some sketches I did two days ago, while watching Bakeneko/Mononoke looking for my senior project ideas.

Windows onto Mirrors

This took me a couple of days to hash out, hence my lack of updating. I don't know why the titular phrase stuck with me, but I liked the image, so there. It's a longer piece again, actually counts as a short story.
Are you shocked? I was shocked.
Anyway...

Pencilsh

Uhhh this sort of makes sense in context. I'm lying, it really doesn't. Anyways stuff for senior project. Soooo there's people making things and there are girls poking at little crabs. Yeeep... I've just been making mock ups and stuff for Nineteen + One.

Sketch of Kay

This is Kay.

Her name comes from the "Princess Kay of the Milky Way" competition in the MN state fair, because I was super homesick at the time. Yeah...

Your Cup of Tea

I have resolved, more or less, to write something every day. Most of these somethings are coming in at a page or less and aren't particularly good, but I've been posting them anyway hoping for critiques. Anyway, this story draws token inspiration from Belle & Sebastian and Sage Francis, two artists who couldn't be more different but both have songs about tea.

Colored Paper

Experimenting with colored paper, and white colored pencil. Here's two characters from my "Angel" story:

I failed at drawing Carys (the blonde in the lower right), but I like how the others turned out.

And here's a sketch of Kay and the Magician from my comic Wish Upon the Stars:

I might continue the comic in this style instead of on a tablet. Here's the first half or so: http://www.drunkduck.com/Wish_Upon_The_Stars/

The Cat Came Back

I got the song stuck in my head earlier today, and I always found the song mildly disturbing anyway,so basically that's where the idea came from. I'm actually kind of happy with this piece, even if the voice could be stronger.
Oh, fair warning, it contains some violence and "strong language"

After the Thin Man

This is what happens when I go to Wikipedia and hit random until I get a workable prompt. A story with the title of a film from the mid 30's that closes with a quote from a Victorian poem ("Goblin Market" if you must know).