pencilsurfer

Practice

2012-02-19T05:30:00.000-08:00

I took some time for practicing some anatomy drawings. I used www.posemaniacs.com for turning objects ( hands, foot, torso and ect. ) in all possible angles. Fun page, also you will find 30 sec. pose changing flash based program there. Check it out my friends.

Military air ship concepts

2012-02-13T14:11:00.000-08:00

It was long time ago i posted something designed by me. So this time I'm here with Military air force ships. It was pretty interesting to do some hard surface designs. I took some inspiration from old car designs and old airplanes. Soon i will come back with more designs. Take care.

"Dvaro" milk product package illustrations

2012-02-11T05:03:00.000-08:00

I was browsing through my old file folders and found some interesting pictures i want to share with you my friends. Yes, sometimes i am asked to draw some vegetables and other weird stuff. Here you see few examples with milk cream and lithuania pink soup. These packages are out in a shops, so sometimes its pretty cool to see your own pictures hanging in a shelfs.

PencilSurfer ( Vaidas Bagonas ) is giving a talk

2012-02-07T11:30:00.000-08:00

Hy everybody,

im giving a talk in Vilnius Art Academy. It's gonna be about my work experience in scandinavia, about big projects, interesting people and unique practice. I will talk a bit about working in on of the biggest toy companies LEGO. China Mobile project and ect.
Everybody are welcome.

Place: "Titanic" Vilnius Art Academy
Time: 10.02.2012

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After event:

Thanks to everybody who came to listen. It was pleasure to discus with you and talk about art. Nice time, good vibes, smiles and curious people.
Also was really nice to meet people that i haven't seen for a while.

Take care everybody,

Vaidas

We are in Motiongrapher !

2012-02-01T02:34:00.000-08:00

I just got some pretty exiting news from my friend in Sweden. We are in Motiongrapher this time with our big China Mobile project.

Take a look my friends:
http://motionographer.com/2012/01/31/happycamper-for-china-mobile-wireless-city/

PressPausePlay

2012-01-26T05:03:00.000-08:00

Hy everybody. I want to share with you this brilliant movie about our time, how everything moves and changes in art industry and how new ways of creating art are appearing. It's inspiring, it's sad and it's true speaking at the same time. I consider this video as a great statement about this moment. Every artist has to see this.

Thanks to my friend Timūras Augucevičius for sharing a link.

PressPausePlay from House of Radon on Vimeo.

Inside The Actors Studio - Dustin Hoffman

2012-01-23T14:14:00.000-08:00

This is the most inspiring video i saw in while. Dustin Hoffman appeared on "Inside Actors Studio" TV program. All i can say is this: brilliant, inspiring, deep touching interview everybody has to see ones in they're lifetime. Doesn't matter what field you are in. Arts, business and ect. Everybody will find what to take from that. Just sit down and watch, listen. This man has a lot to say about him, life and creativity. Thank you Dustin.

China Mobile.

2011-12-07T07:29:00.001-08:00

PencilSurfer ( Vaidas Bagonas ) spent some time during fall in HAPPYCAMPER.TV studio. I was part of the project to do 3 spots for China Mobile. It was one of the biggest projects i ever was part of. Overall style was old school miniatures and brilliant 3D animation composed together. The result is stunning!

HAPPYCAMPER developed the concept and directed.
STINK produced.
PencilSurfer ( Vaidas Bagonas ) was a character designer.

Here is the case study from HAPPYCAMPER.TV:

http://happycamper.tv/china-mobile-case-study

More case study from PencilSurfer is coming soon.

Painting "A Boy fell in love with a Woman".

2011-12-07T07:15:00.001-08:00

Hy my friends, it was long time ago i posted something. So here we have my newest painting. This time PencilSurfer goes non-digital. Real smell, real color, real stuff hanging on the wall in my personal gallery. This painting is named "A Boy fell in love with Woman". Here are some shots i did to show process.

This is an etude i did before starting to paint on canvas.

Its always nice feeling to stand in front of great pure Mr.BigWhite.

Few pencil strokes and we are set off.

I love to see wet paint going down.

Closeup.

Some macro shmacro.

Final image.

PencilSurfer goes wall painting again

2011-09-19T07:30:00.000-07:00

This wall was painted with acrylic colors. No sketch was done before, pure improvisation. Just was having fun with strokes and composition. Yellow color was chosen as a main accent because of the yellow walls which are all over the room except this white wall. It took about few weeks to paint, coming back time to time to continue painting. Hope you will like it ;)

Soon ill start new wall project. Updates are coming soon.

Full view of wall painting

Cropped view

Some elements

Crazy living house structures

People

Some macro shots

Textures of the wall

Minimal macro

Thats how it looks like in the room

Character design for HAPPYCAMPER

2010-07-12T05:01:00.001-07:00

HAPPYCAMPER is a multi-functional, design driven Motion Design Studio based in Stockholm, Sweden. I did some character designs for them. The main task was to create workers as a superheroes. So the clothes and all gadgets were created to make even stronger impact for the viewer.

You can see what is HAPPYCAMPER here: happycamper.tv

Various characters in one page layout.

Final design.

Closeups of clothes, shoes and latex.

Draft sketch and bone structure made of simple forms to get some right perceptive and proportions.

Sketching

2010-04-30T15:17:00.000-07:00

Sketch session in the WOODS

2010-04-25T09:07:00.001-07:00

Today in the morning was really springy weather, so I decided to jump on my bike and ride in to the woods to have some fun with my sketching tools and papers.

Finally got some place to sit down near small runnel.

Found some interesting stuff, seems like a small floating houses for ducks :)

Also found some horse farm on the way, so stopped and done few fast drawings.

This part is from sketching the future transport for Accelerate challenge. Tried to catch some interesting wiggly shapes.

Playing with atmosphere

2010-03-30T17:08:00.000-07:00

NO MORE BEARDS

2010-03-28T08:08:00.000-07:00

Two bears and one...

2010-03-26T03:31:00.000-07:00

Clothing concepts

2010-03-26T03:30:00.000-07:00

Test

2010-03-25T15:53:00.000-07:00

This painting was done while i was explaining some brush technics and depth of field. This picture is the end of talk :)

Character design comic style :)

2010-03-23T16:14:00.000-07:00

Character design video!

2010-03-23T14:58:00.001-07:00

making of:

Character design from Vaidas Bagonas on Vimeo.

artist: vaidas bagonas ( bagonasart )
musig: telepopmusic

SPACE shit

2010-03-22T18:32:00.001-07:00

Its really funny thing, cause i wrote the name of this like "Space shit" just affected by my subconsciousness :))) But i decided to leave it :))

Anyway, im trying my new techniques and it seems like its working and i can say pretty well :)

Hope you like it.

New way of speed sketching

2010-03-22T17:24:00.000-07:00

I was playing with brushes and i found a very interesting way to sketch. It seems like i was always searching for that :) I came back to my past, pure graphic, black and white... Ink rocks!!!

Found

2010-03-20T05:28:00.000-07:00

They found what they were searching for...
I got some impulse to paint this by looking at one picture where the people were crossing the water. Thats why I came up with the concept like this. Hope you like it.

Memories from Sri Lanka

2010-03-18T13:27:00.000-07:00

bringing memories to canvas... : )

Character

2010-03-18T11:03:00.000-07:00

It took me about 2 hours to complete this one. There was no idea about this one, i just came by playing around with brushes and ect. Hope you like it ;)

Program: Photoshop CS4
Time: 2h
Artist: Vaidas Bagonas

Music from a tree

2010-03-16T12:08:00.000-07:00

Diego Stocco - Music From A Tree from Diego Stocco on Vimeo.

is amazing...

Greenpeace

2010-03-13T05:57:00.000-08:00

Great idea, great graphics... very strong.

Click!

2010-03-07T09:54:00.000-08:00

via: legoclick

Nokta .

2010-03-07T06:18:00.000-08:00

Nokta . from Onur Senturk on Vimeo.

via: motiongrapher

madness

2010-03-03T17:37:00.000-08:00

I really dont know why, but this one seem so strong stuff for me:

madness

via: motiongrapher

Found some interesting motion graphics

2010-03-03T04:48:00.000-08:00

GREYCON4 from brandon blommaert on Vimeo.

corneas diadem from brandon blommaert on Vimeo.

I really like how these graphics works with sound and colors. Really strong stuff. Enjoy.

via: motiongrapher

Dumpster diving 02 27

2010-02-27T18:01:00.000-08:00

Today I was first time dumpster diving. Its more for interest, but I really was surprised in a good way of doing this. The whole process and result is really an experience. Look at the results I came up with:

1 l orange juice
2 kg oranges
2 packs of tomatoes
3 apples
1 l strawberry milk shake
1 kg carrots
1 bread

3 peppers

two friends of mine have double of this, its because It was a very first time to me and I took too small bag :)

Uf, ill go next time for sure, not its ok, my frigerator is full.

Great style motion graphics

2010-02-27T05:20:00.000-08:00

via: motiongrapher

Vaidas pixelart :)

2010-02-25T17:13:00.000-08:00

Its a very first try to deal with "real" pixels. Its not so easy so to speak. But Im really happy with the result I came up.

The Ostrich

2010-02-25T07:20:00.000-08:00

The Ostrich from Lucas Zanotto on Vimeo.

A short film by Lucas Zanotto

via: motiongrapher

aesthetic and simplicity... unforgettable

back to speed painting

2010-02-24T12:44:00.001-08:00

Very first Motion Graphics

2010-02-24T09:30:00.001-08:00

Mother nature painting

2010-02-24T09:00:00.000-08:00

One Min || On the Way to Rapture from sixtwelve on Vimeo.

Very beautiful nature landscape painting made by mother nature...

Vaidas goes Copenhagen

2010-02-11T13:19:00.000-08:00

Copenhagen

2010-02-09T11:33:00.001-08:00

Tomorrow I will have one day trip to Copenhagen, ill bring some pictures, be in touch :)

Exploring Arhus, Denmark

2010-02-07T08:22:00.001-08:00

Kolding, Denmark

2010-02-04T09:17:00.000-08:00

Some more photos from daily life in Kolding, Denmark.

4Dcinema lessons

2010-02-01T10:56:00.001-08:00

Photos by: Lina Balčiūnaitė

Denmark

2010-01-27T06:55:00.001-08:00

This is some few picture of Denmark covered under the snow. I like it :) Studies have started, and new life has started also in a really different and interesting country...

There will be more pictures soon.

Peace and see you all.

Very few sketches from Hurghada, Egypt 2010

2010-01-17T22:26:00.000-08:00

I had some small holiday trip to Egypt. And I made some few sketches there, hope you like them.

Fly catcher

2010-01-14T05:22:00.001-08:00

For daily sketch forum in cgsociety. "Revolution"

2010-01-14T04:45:00.000-08:00

you can see this also in: cgsociety

The Third & The Seventh

2010-01-10T06:18:00.000-08:00

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

This is one of the most beautiful CG film that is just perfect poetry of images which soaring all together with music...

Directed by Alex Roman

via: cgsociety

Working without traveling...

2009-12-22T23:57:00.000-08:00

A very good example of how we should act, and how we don't have to act against our mother nature...

via: Meinardas animatorius

Daily sketch forum thread. Topic: "Avatar"

2009-12-21T06:22:00.001-08:00

This is my own avatar in Pandora. I cant wait to visit this planet...

:)

Daily sketch forum thread. Topic: "2012"

2009-12-21T02:24:00.000-08:00

Another sketch for daily sketch forum in cgsociety. It took me about 50 min to do.
Its a picture of 2012, my hope is not like a movies built on a destruction nad doom days comming. My point of view is a need to create, not destroy. Alternative energy and saving a nature is the task which is now most important to do.

Hope you like it.

Peace

Reason to believe

2009-12-19T11:33:00.000-08:00

Coffe Inn toilet painting :)

2009-12-19T06:17:00.000-08:00

Painted walls in toilet. It was a challenge and my sketch was picked as one of 7 or 8 place to paint toilets. Im really happy about that:) Even the place is a bit strange to do art :) Yesterday and today in early morning I went to a place to help artist to paint all thing and finish it.

You can visit this "place" in famous Coffe Inn bar in Vilnius street.

Comments and critics are welcome.

Select and move!

2009-12-18T05:42:00.001-08:00

for those who knows :)

Sketch of the week. "Downtown"

2009-12-18T02:06:00.000-08:00

Another sketch/speedpainting for daily sketch forum. Its all painted by topic "downtown". People in the desert...

cgsociety sketch forum

"After storm" before/after

2009-12-17T06:34:00.000-08:00

After storm

2009-12-17T06:32:00.000-08:00

"Circle" before/after view

2009-12-17T04:44:00.000-08:00

Circle

2009-12-17T04:23:00.000-08:00

I put some more details and colors on my sketch and I think It become really good painting.

Here it is in my cgsociety gallery:
circle

Christmas greeting!

2009-12-17T00:23:00.000-08:00

see the greeting!

This is animated greeting for Christmas.

Team:

Vaidas Bagonas - illustration
Meinardas Valkevičius - animation
Tadas Grybauskas - first sketches
Andrius Alčiauskas - animation prepeare

Have a great winter!

Sketch of the week. First place again :)

2009-12-17T00:07:00.000-08:00

It was really surprising, cause ive done this about three weeks ago and almost forgot. But today, when I loaded the page...

Daily sketch forum thread. Topic: "Sheep"

2009-12-16T05:44:00.001-08:00

About 30 minutes speedpaintig.

Daily sketch forum thread. Topic: "Circle"

2009-12-16T04:23:00.000-08:00

Ive done this one in about 50 minutes, maybe a bit more.

Old friends meeting place...

2009-12-15T07:12:00.000-08:00

Today painting....

Icons for Printle

2009-12-09T23:58:00.001-08:00

These were done also about a year ago. I hope you like it and some comments are welcome as well.

Painting on laptops

2009-12-09T23:50:00.000-08:00

This project was done about tree or four years ago, but I think its still good looking.
So I decided to share this with you...

Only GOOD News

2009-12-02T06:01:00.000-08:00

I really would like to read this one every day. Would you?

CHAllenge "The Day We Left Earth"

2009-11-27T20:40:00.001-08:00

Work In Progress - color tones and line art.

bagonasart

Swine swine...

2009-11-27T00:19:00.000-08:00

Old grandmas are attacking hospitals! This is exactly what I saw yesterday in hot spot.

CGtalk Daily sketch forum

2009-11-17T05:14:00.000-08:00

This is a fast sketch upon a theme called "Sanctuary". It took me about 40 min to do.

Here is thread you can see in cgsociety:
bagonasart
(the last one in the bottom)

Im in cgsociety fist page!

2009-11-12T00:02:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone, I know this is not very important for others, for me it is! I'm first time on the first page of the biggest cg ( computer graphics ) society on earth. Uff... it feels good.

Here it is:
cgsociety

wednesday experiment 01

2009-11-11T07:08:00.000-08:00

Just playing with forms and colors, nothing more...

Mr. Letter Aborogin

2009-11-03T01:04:00.000-08:00

This morning I was sitting and thinking, what if I will make custom brushes from letters. You see the result. I`m happy with that, but not totally, this technique needs to be improved.

Monday view

2009-11-02T04:09:00.000-08:00

Monday sun. 14:10. Sky is very clear..

Man as Industrial Palace

2009-11-02T03:10:00.000-08:00

Very creative explanation about how human body works. Perfect view!

2009-11-01T07:14:00.000-08:00

Copenhagen Kids - as featured on The Age of Stupid DVD from Age of Stupid on Vimeo.

Not much time has left, I believe in better world too...
Six kids telling it like it is in the very room where the Copenhagen Climate talks will take place. I hope they will not make the biggest mistake ever as one kid said.

Challenge "The Day We Left Earth"

2009-10-29T14:38:00.000-07:00

Now Im going on with some overall scene concepts and Im quite happy about the beginning. So here is my WIP:

bagonasart thread

Cleaning the windows...

2009-10-29T11:46:00.001-07:00

I was sitting at job and watching through the window. Two guys were cleaning the windows of high building. At that moment I thought, what a good picture it can become. And became... Not a painting, but a sketch or etude.

Slaves - animation documentary

2009-10-29T00:06:00.000-07:00

Trailer

Director: Hanna Heilborn, David Aronowitsch
Producer: Hanna Heilborn, Anders Nystrom
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway
Year: 2008
Time: 15 minutes

Yesterday I saw this great animation documentary. Its about horror and slavery in Africa. Kids are telling stories how they were kidnapped and pushed to do hard work without having any drop of water. I was really taken by whole story and the view I saw on the screen.
Great movie. I really recommend you to see it.

Peace in Africa.

Winter

2009-10-29T00:01:00.000-07:00

winter view... sometimes I really miss a good winter, with a lot snow and bright sky. Rrr... but feeels good.

2009-10-27T04:29:00.000-07:00

Brush testing and trying to make it like real media ink, just saving trees and nature, and doing it in digital.

2009-10-27T01:05:00.000-07:00

This is an etude of a autumn... right from my mind. No reference used.

GREENPEACE inspiring action

2009-10-27T00:08:00.000-07:00

Really great inspiring shortfilm about our responsibility for mother earth.

"The Day We Left Earth" challenge

2009-10-26T23:33:00.000-07:00

I have just posted few images in challenge thread. You can see them by clicking this link:
bagonasart

Ill be back soon with news in this challenge!

NOT STUPID

2009-10-26T13:36:00.000-07:00

Also what you can do is to visit NOT STUPID site and join the people, know more about what you can do to save our planet. I have joined, you have join to! And its not time to advice, its time to do.

Here is the site:

NOT STUPID

THE AGE OF STUPID

2009-10-26T13:24:00.000-07:00

Today I saw a movie. Not like any others. A movie, which made me think about everything that happening and will happen. Think very deeply, cause there is no "tomorrow". all we have is this moment to decide, will we go right way. So, from right now, Im starting to push myself for more good things I can do to our planet, to save it...

This is the trailer of this wonderful movie:

Monday mood

2009-10-26T00:21:00.001-07:00

Again I am at my job place. And here is what I see through my window... Rain and cold weather outside..

2009-10-23T06:55:00.002-07:00

Finally I have finished one of my concepts. It looks like wuite fast, but I think Its enough.

Quick one...

2009-10-23T05:55:00.000-07:00

One`s during daily non-ending job I was asked to show, how fast It is possible to do a painting, simple one, just to get impression and mood of the scene. It can be used for animation or movie, or as a single picture.
So this one is an example. It took me about 10 - 15 minutes to do. And I`m quite happy with the result.

2009-10-23T05:53:00.000-07:00

One of experimental speed paintings I`ve done to create some stage environment and overall mood. Nothing else :)

Challenge

2009-10-23T02:05:00.000-07:00

Hy everyone. I have entered 2D challenge yesterday in "It`s art" community and I hope everything will go well this time. I have enought time to do it right way, so let`s sharpen our pencils...
The challenge is made from three groups: 2D, 3D and video. Of course Im in 2D :) The theme is "The Day We Left Earth". It fits me quite good, so I hope I will have enough strong ideas.

Here you will find all info about my thread:
bagonasart
Here is info about all challenge:
"The Day We Left Earth" challenge
And here is other artists in this challenge:
others
My friend is also participating:
Gediminas Pranskevičius ( Imperioli )

Soon I will have first sketches.

Peace

Speedpaint

2009-10-20T04:08:00.001-07:00

Friday captured in my pc...

Concepts continues...

2009-10-20T03:57:00.000-07:00

some time brainstorm with Photoshop brushes ends like this... :) It took about 45 min. to do that. Ok, ill go back to "job"...

2009-10-19T07:17:00.000-07:00

Very quick sketch at the end of the working day. Ive done this in about 15 min. Not longer... :) hope you like it..

2009-10-19T06:31:00.000-07:00

Hy there, im now sketching a lot and doing some research of my own style, so here I show just few concepts. Ive done thesefor daily sketch forum in cgsociety.org

2009-09-16T12:51:00.000-07:00

And the final image. Im really happy with this, cause I have never done so much detailed picture before. It tells what it has to tell and thats good I think.

2009-09-16T12:48:00.001-07:00

Adding a lot details like small, big stones, grass on the ground. It helped a lot in this step I think.

Working more on clouds and lightning.

Adding some color tones.

2009-09-16T12:47:00.000-07:00

Finished line drawing.

2009-09-16T12:43:00.000-07:00

After a while I thought that it would be great to make something interesting of this. So I put a business man on a horse like a symbol of that madness about money. Horse symbolizes the luxury car that these people are mad about. So it became some ironic story. I was quite happy about that idea and I decided to make it real.

Starting line drawing.

2009-09-16T12:32:00.000-07:00

Visualization of sweets package