Niklas Jansson

Warlord - Locations

Location notes. It's easy to miss details when reading and imagine a different thing. ERBzine has some reference notes though.

Aaanthor lies on the coast of a seabed, backed by mountains, so it might work as-is on my map with the direction Carthoris approaches it from.

Omean is an underground southpolar sea accessed via an artificial volcano shaft. Excess water is pumped north across the entire planet and I guess pours back down south again via ri...

Warlord - The Properties of Mars

Now, Barsoom is a fantasy world so maybe realism is unwelcome, but even so I've been thinking about the habitability of Mars, the in-universe laws of nature and available technology, and whether I should change anything, and I think I might. Like mentioned earlier, Burroughs work is more or less in the public Domain (though this doesn't stop litigation), except for trademarks which can be renewed whilst in use. Conceivably Barsoom could be/get trademarked so I've considered changing the name ...

Warlord creature concepts

Before posting about Project #3 which still needs some cleanup to even be presentable, here's some more Warlord stuff. I wanted to redraw the Thoat from my earlier concept on the page. It should have a sort of paddle tail. It's hard to fit in 8 legs. Real horses can actually hurt themselves by clopping their front and rear feet together, which is why they sometimes wear rubber protection around their feet. Now, Thoats don't have nails/hooves, but it's still a bit of a mess with 4+4 i...

Project #2 - Warlord of Barsoom

This is an adult comic project that I worked on in 2017 after/while reading the John Carter books. I made a page for it, though never listed it on my site index.

http://androidarts.com/barsoom/Barsoom.htm 

Anyways, last year (2020) I listened to the audiobooks again because I'm running out of books. Incidentally this was 70 years after the Burroughs' death, which in the EU should have put all o...

Project #1 - Jill + Zelda II + Metroid

This is a project from 2017 when I posted about it on twitter and also made this page (and never linked it on my site index for some reason):

http://androidarts.com/Jill/Z.htm 

I don't think I ever showed the particular images seen here though. As you can see, it's some sort of 2D platforming game. My idea was to make it very compact so I could get a lot of use out of the same areas, and to make it kind...

Post #1

Greeting and salutations! In this first post I'll try to get a feel for what can be done here. Can I attach a PSD? It seems so!

"Generic Gun Girl"

This is a random piece that I made in 2020. It shows a bit how I work in Photoshop (this is all digital, but sometimes the first sketch is a pencil thumbnail). I start with a rough sketch for feel the shapes out. Next I fade the sketch a bit and refine the lines, work out details. But it's still to rough, so I repeat th...