Early art of Martin Fredskov (2000-2006)
This is first part of a series of blog posts, showing my art development through out the years. This post specifically covers the earliest artwork in my archives, dating back from the year 2000 to 2006. This series of blog posts has been made to show off my art archive for those interested, and for me to have a place to show that skills develop over time. The presentations of the artwork has been changed a bit, adding background elements to make them pop a little more or photoshopping multiple drawings together as younger me would have wanted. Enjoy!
– Martin Fredskov
Putting a time and date on early art
Dating art from the archives without a specific date or year, can sometimes require a bit of digging and research. The dragon in the intro is confirmably from 1999 or 2000 based on the signature, referring to specific school grade year from the early years of school. As for the rest of the drawings it can be a little difficult. Some of the drawings comes with a year attached, but that is not always the case.
The dinosaurs did not come with a date, but i have a vivid memoery of drawing them while watching the DVD release of Walking with Dinosaurs, which released in 1999, realistically putting them to very early 2000s. The still growing understanding of form in the drawings, suggests as much as well.
Animal drawings
For as long as I can remember I have always been facinated with animals, and to this day it is probably the subject I have illustrated the most. As a kid I would collect animal books and study them and their art. I would gobble up any TV-show that I could find about animals – Animal planet was a favourite!
To this day I am still facinated with animals and have illustrated more than 800 animals. Some of which have been heavily inspired by the natural science illustrators from the late 1800s and early 1900s like John Gould and Henrik Grønvold.
Archiving old sketches and drawings
I have not always been good at archiving my old art, or had the appreciation for doing so. In fact for the longest time, i would throw out old art without archiving it. It is thanks to my parents and grand parents that some of these have been saved for the future.
I am very appreciative for them to have kept it around, as this enables me to create an online art gallery stretching more than 20 years worth of art. It enables me to show whoever needs it, that skills develop over time and practice eventually pays off.
I owe my parents and grandparents a huge thanks, for encouraging me to draw through out my life.
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