About Henning Ludvigsen
I grew up in Holmestrand, a small town in the south of Norway. In Norway art school can be joined at quite an early age, and this is where I learned the basics of traditional art. This all happened in the time before digital computer art made its way to the traditional art schools.
Because little more advanced art education was available, I began working full time after two years of basic art school. Since the ad-industry operates within a digital environment (mostly MacOS), I set about learning this on my own. The Amiga was the first computer which opened my eyes to digital art and I realized the tremendous opportunities available when working digitally.
After ten years of working my way up through the ranks of the ad agency industry, I got the opportunity to use my skills in computer game development. With this opportunity, came an invitation to move to sunny Greece, which I immediately accepted. It was here in Athens I realized that I’d been working for ten years without doing what I really wanted to do in life - paint. I live in the northern part of Athens together with my Swiss girlfriend and fellow artist/role-playing geek, Natascha Roeoesli.
Even though I've been working as a professional artist and designer since 1993, it was from of 2004 I started focusing seriously on developing my work flow skills and creating fantasy-related 2D art. I am currently (2010) working as the Art Director (and partner) of a Norwegian/Greek computer game development company in Athens, recently launched the mmorpg game Darkfall. I spend my spare time working on personal and commissioned projects like illustrating trading game cards and board games for Fantasy Flight games, and I write articles for a magazine called ImagineFX from Future Publishing, amongst other things.
Thank you for visiting my site, and for your interest in digital art.
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I do allow some of my art work to be used for sig-tag usage.
Please understand and respect my following rules:
1) No tubing (removing of backgrounds)
2) No alterations of elements in the piece (adding/removing elements).
3) You may turn the art works into grey-scale.
4) Maintain the aspect ratio when scaling my art down, don't squeeze it.
5) Only use for non profit purposes.
6) ONLY use pieces that belong to me and NOT pieces I've done for any of my clients. You will understand from reading the descriptions if a piece was done for a client or for personal reasons.
You can find approved tubes over at myPSPtubes, you can help supporting by taking advantage of this option.
Thanks a lot
Because little more advanced art education was available, I began working full time after two years of basic art school. Since the ad-industry operates within a digital environment (mostly MacOS), I set about learning this on my own. The Amiga was the first computer which opened my eyes to digital art and I realized the tremendous opportunities available when working digitally.
After ten years of working my way up through the ranks of the ad agency industry, I got the opportunity to use my skills in computer game development. With this opportunity, came an invitation to move to sunny Greece, which I immediately accepted. It was here in Athens I realized that I’d been working for ten years without doing what I really wanted to do in life - paint. I live in the northern part of Athens together with my Swiss girlfriend and fellow artist/role-playing geek, Natascha Roeoesli.
Even though I've been working as a professional artist and designer since 1993, it was from of 2004 I started focusing seriously on developing my work flow skills and creating fantasy-related 2D art. I am currently (2010) working as the Art Director (and partner) of a Norwegian/Greek computer game development company in Athens, recently launched the mmorpg game Darkfall. I spend my spare time working on personal and commissioned projects like illustrating trading game cards and board games for Fantasy Flight games, and I write articles for a magazine called ImagineFX from Future Publishing, amongst other things.
Thank you for visiting my site, and for your interest in digital art.
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Other communities where I am to be found:
CGHUB | Deviant Art | CGsociety | GFX artists | Facebook | Twitter
Concerning sig-tag users:
I do allow some of my art work to be used for sig-tag usage.
Please understand and respect my following rules:
1) No tubing (removing of backgrounds)
2) No alterations of elements in the piece (adding/removing elements).
3) You may turn the art works into grey-scale.
4) Maintain the aspect ratio when scaling my art down, don't squeeze it.
5) Only use for non profit purposes.
6) ONLY use pieces that belong to me and NOT pieces I've done for any of my clients. You will understand from reading the descriptions if a piece was done for a client or for personal reasons.
You can find approved tubes over at myPSPtubes, you can help supporting by taking advantage of this option.
Thanks a lot
Achievements
- CGHUB Master Artist award
- Multiple CGTalk Choice awards
- Multiple Daily Deviations (Deviant Art)
- The New masters of Fantasy
- ImagineFX Master of Art
- Pixeltheory Award winner
Publications
- CG Art | style Magazine (China)
- ImagineFX Magazine (Future Publishing); articles, tutorials and workshops (56 articles over 35 issues).
- The Art of Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos (Fantasy Flight Games).
- The art of A Song of Ice and Fire (Fantasy Flight Games)
- Art Scene International magazine.
- Computer Arts Projects (Future Publishing)
- Exotique 2 (Ballistic Publishing)
- Exotique 3 (Ballistic Publishing)
- Exotique 4 (Ballistic Publishing)
- Exposè 2 (Ballistic Publishing)
- Exposè 3 (Ballistic Publishing)
- Erotic Fantasy Art (Ilex Press)