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Jill Johansen
Jill Johansen is a member of Fantasy and SciFi Art gallery 2 at Elfwood.


 
 

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PhotoElfwood PatronJill Johansen Is a 29 year old artist from Canada. She is currently working on an (animated!) online fantasy comic of her own creation called Kentauroi, as well as one for Heathen Sent. She is also mistress of swirlies and shinies.		  

Shortcuts: [Mermaid of the Amazon] [Heathen Sent - Anubis Character Design] [Autumn Faery] [Heathen Sent - Bast Character Design] [Bosemani Mermaid] [Captain Spur] [Centaur] [Chimera Carousel] [Heathen Sent Cover A] [Heathen Sent Cover B] [Crouching Faerie] [Demoness] [** animated ** Dragon Flight] [Dragon] [Dragon Sketch coloured] [Elf Princess] [Faery] [Faery Nude] [Faery... thing...] [Kentauroi - Galen] [Kentauroi - Galen at the Window] [Kentauroi - Galen at the window detail] [Gryphon] [Gryphon Rampant] [Heathen Sent - Hanuman Character Design] [Heathen Sent - Hanuman 'Heathen Cent'] [Heathen Sent - Hathor Character Design] [Catoli] [Heathen Sent - Hermes Character Design] [Heathen Sent - Horus Heathen Cent] [Heathen Sent - Isis Character Design] [Heathen Sent - Jesus Character Design] [Joe Cuervo] [Heathen Sent - Ki-Rin Character Design] [Celtic Knot Hair Ring] [Celtic Knot Hair - Fire] [Koi Mermaid] [Lauren's Unicorn] [Mermaid Ascending] [Mermaid] [Yes.... It's another mermaid] [Yet another mermaid] [Mermaid Nouveau Bronze] [Mermaid Nouveau Copper] [Mermaid Nouveau Gold] [Heathen Sent - Osiris Character Design] [Heathen Sent - Pages 13-14] [Heathen Sent - Page 17] [Heathen Sent - Page 23] [Heathen Sent - Page 23 Mictlantecuhtli Detail] [Perching Dragon] [Petey] [Pinto Centaur] [Heathen Sent - Poseidon Character Design] [Heathen Sent - Rándgrídr Character Design] [Raye Gunn vs. The Squid Creature] [Rusalka] [Heathen Sent - Sedna Character Design] [**Animated** Spike Sneezing] [Spike with Background] [Spike Model Sheet] [Tavern Dragon] [Unicorn] [**Animated** Unicorn Running] [Chinese Unicorn Zhi]
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2 Mar 2008:-) Karin M. Mayville
Love your art! And yay, you like Fullmetal alchemist too! Thanks so much for your inspiring work!
7 Mar 2008:-) Nathan Ford
Hey Jill thank you so much for you comments on all my art so far that I have posted, you are helping me to become a better artist along with all the others here. your tutorial on my Angelic layer fan art has helped me as well, I am currently practicing on an angled view of a female character (for some reason that is my main focus right now) and it is looking good, however it is o nlined paper again. lol anyways I appreciate all your help. Thank you.
~Ichigo out
7 Mar 2008:-) Nathan Ford
you know what I need... I need a document to help me figure out how to picture things in three dimensional because that is my biggest problem. think you could help me with the different poses?

:-) Jill Johansen replies: "did you see my latest tutorial in the forums? I put it in the review section because it wasn’t finished yet and hoping you would see it there, but they moved it to the reference section.... I started it because i was so disappointed with the tutorials i found online. I don’t actually use reference very much, so don’t have a sheet like that. but the tutorial might help you out..."
8 Mar 2008:-) Lorraine Frasquillo
You are an incredible artist! Thank you so much for all the help you are giving folks on the forum, looking at your advice is helpful for a lot of people and your tutorials are outstanding. Best of luck with your projects, your centaurs are amazing.
9 Mar 2008:-) Nathan Ford
I did see it but that was on friday? anyways it looks like they deleted the picture I had drawn. oh well I wouldnt blame them, either way I will have to look at it again tomorrow, job corps has Photobucket blocked.

:-) Jill Johansen replies: "It’s it’s own thread, I keep updating it. "
14 Mar 2008:-) Nathan Ford
Hey Jill, what would you say if I gave up on my art? I mean I have been drawing people for about a year and a half and this is the best I have done, I started in drawing anime, and now I am not improving much anymore, just curious what you would think if I actually finalized my thinking process and gave it up

:-) Jill Johansen replies: "Do you enjoy drawing? if so, don’t worry if it doesn’t look fantastic, just do it for the enjoyment. If you want to improve, you can’t force it, you’ll just depress yourself when you can’t do what you visualize. Almost every artist is very self critical, you have to use it as a tool to push yourself forward rather than let it hold you back because you’re angsting over not being as good as that next artist over there, because there will *always* be someone better than you. By all means try to improve if you wish, but it’s not something that will happen quickly, and the only way to improve is to draw. If you want a pick me up, go to any long running web comic, PvP, Penny Arcade, whatever, and view the very first strip. I guarantee you the first one will look like utter crap compared to the stuff they’re doing currently, and your art, anyones art, will do the same thing, (unless they were really talented when they started, then it will change less... but most started by having an idea but not knowing how to draw so well, and they learned as they went along) given enough time and practice. But if you look from strip to strip, the change is so gradual as to be virtually undetectable. (most people delete old pictures once the difference in quality is too great from their current stuff, which is why a web comic is good, they NEED to keep the old stuff to preserve continuity 14)

*edit - you also may want to try doing your own style, rather than copy others styles. I know you like anime and some of what you do is fan art, but I personally enjoy fan art that puts a new spin on the characters, rather than copying the style of the show (or whatever) slavishly. You’ll probably develop artistically faster and more naturally that way."
17 Mar 2008:-) Nathan Ford
Wow I didn’t excpect that lengt of a reply. lol to be honest I expected a "you better not" or something like that. thanks for the help in the situation Jill. You really are an inspiring artist. The problem with my art though, well one of them, I cant do the clothing from my memory, I normally put them in front view than I can but otherwise It sucks. and I here you on the artist being their worst critic. another thing is getting the picture from my mind to the paper.
27 May 200845 Laura Mai
love your work. so original. keep it up. i want to see more
3 Jul 200845 Mark mosley
I find your artistic styling unique and a pleasure to veiw.Your use of colours are also admirable .May God add keep blessing your gift .
19 Nov 200845 Eric
I’m getting the Horus penny tattooed on me next weekend. Love it. If you like I can send you a picture, just let me know.
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