Making art to sell as on-demand-prints with a visual artist, Bjork

Bjork is a gifted visual artist and concept artist based in London. Discover her unique approach to digital illustration, including focus on color, light, and textures, and get a behind-the-scenes look at the creative process.

Not only will you gain valuable insights into Bjork's art journey, but you will also have the opportunity to check out her stunning art prints.

Join us as we delve into the world of this talented artist and find inspiration for your own creative pursuits.

I take time to explore whatever I feel like doing that day.

When I have time I like to do 30 minutes- 1 hour studies or explorations where I just do whatever I feel like that day. Doing this really helped me improve but it also helped find what sort of things I liked.

These days I really like to focus on color, light, and also how to describe textures in a simple way so I don’t have to be too detailed with everything. I tend to keep my shapes pretty close to real life, but going forward I want to try to push shapes more and be more stylized with my art.

When I start a painting, generally speaking, I like laying out my main shapes first either in BW or just straight with color.  If I feel it's necessary, I start with linework first. Once I have a good base I like to map in the light shapes and shadow shapes on separate layers. Not until then do I start to paint or render it, usually going from big to small details.

For Streets of London painting I used a similar process. In order to have clean edges and keep things organized I used a lot of layers and also had the main light on a separate layer.

Using layers also makes me worry less about making mistakes, but once I feel comfortable with where I'm at with the painting I start to merge some things, only keeping what I feel is necessary.

Colours for me are very much a “feel” thing, I just go for what feels right. I also have different references that I look at to help me get the right colours, sometimes I mix references and other times I use mainly one.

It's definitely a good idea to learn about colour and light theory, so you know what you can push to make the overall colour palette and values stronger.

What is the key to making your illustrations?

I think it's difficult for me to say what the key to making my art is... I just like to explore different styles, mediums and subject matters and get inspired by other artists.

I'm still so early in my art journey and am very much still trying to figure out who I am as an artist and what my style is. The main difference these days is I don't really worry about it as much as I used to and I think that's making a lot of difference.

Visual Artist

Bjork

My name is Bjork and I'm a visual artist. I'm currently working as a Concept Artist for games.

I come from a small country called the Faroe Islands and have always been creative in some way, be it through storytelling or drawing or something else. I graduated with a BA in CG arts  from The Animation workshop in Viborg, Denmark,  in 2019 and started my first job in London later that year.

Nowadays, I’m mainly working as a concept artist for Envar Studios but also do occasional freelance gigs.

I'm usually I bit more active on Twitter than Instagram.  In case anyone wants to buy prints I sell them on Inprnt.