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Samtidsdiagnoser for sosiologen.no

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Illustrations I made for a series of articles on sosiologen.no during 2015, concerning theory on contemporary society.

«Uvitenhet». Illustrasjon for sosiologen.no. 2015
«I målmaniens tid». Illustrasjon for sosiologen.no. 2015
«Ekspertene kommer». Illustrasjon for sosiologen.no. 2015
«Å sette pris på kunnskap». Illustrasjon for sosiologen.no.
«Et nygammelt klassesamfunn». Illustrasjon for sosiologen.no. 2015
«Naturen er ikke hva den engang var». Illustrasjon for sosiologen.no. 2015
«Gode diagnoser er basert på skitten empiri». Illustrasjon for sosiologen.no. 2015

Here’s a link for those interested:

http://sosiologen.no/2015/12/gode-diagnoser-er-basert-pa-skitten-empiri/

Graphic short story – take 1

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Course: “Visual storytelling”

Task: To make a graphic short story of  Raymond Carvers short story Whoever was using this bed.

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Theres a coulpe of things that needs to be fixed and tried out before I’m satisfied, but it felt good to be (almost) finished with something during a course.

Do-it-yourself

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 I had two weeks at school where I could define a project I wanted to work on. I decided to continue on a comic-concept (Musmo) I’ve started earlier. What I wanted to do, was rethink how to solve the storytelling and the visual style.

I did a lot of research and writing. Some character and environment sketches. I also made a hypothetical panel from the introduction story where I tested digital colouring versus watercolour. The digital is not finished, but still I feel the watercolour is the one I want to go for. There still are a couple of things I want to test further, like linework, but at least I’m a step further.

This rethinking also means that the first drawn pages I’ve made earlier, will not be used. I won’t start drawing before I feel the essential ground work is finished. Also the project has become more manageable, because I decided to split the story up into smaller parts.

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Character design

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2 Two weeks character design course.

 

 

 

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1. Analyzing a chosen animation/comic/game etc with character design in mind, and making a character that fits into that world/concept. I used Krtek (Mole) by Zdenek Miler, which I loved watching when I was little, and made a Cricket. The task was more difficult than I would have thought, and it could have turned out better, but it was a good way to get into thinking character design.

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2. Exercise – emotional expressions: Normal, happy, sad, surprised, shocked, sceptical, ironic, scared.

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3. I found a fantasy-story generator on net to have starting point for designing two characters. The text went like this: The story is about an arrogant wizard who must find a magic mirror, break a curse, and slay a monster to attend a dance.  Complications arise when it’s discovered that the hero and villain are related.

I decided to put the story into a victorian/steampunk setting. Aaaand….I’m not going to say much more about that. I thinked I’ve learned something from the feedback.

Vårt Land – illustration

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IMG_8966_1forslag2_5liten The result of my first real (paid) illustration job, made for the Norwegian newspaper Vårt Land. It was published on August 23rd in the papers supplement about meaningful jobs. And no doubt, it was a meaningful job for me, so maybe I should have put myself in among the crowd….why didn’t I think of that before…damn 

Anyways, the most meaningful part of the job for me was getting the experience. The employers had a lot of ideas about what they wanted, so I couldn’t do whatever I felt like.  Since it was a job I got paid to do, and the illustration was going to be printed in quite a big paper,  it was important to me that they were happy with the result (and of course that I felt ok about it going out there too). There was a lot of communication back and forth, fixing a little bit of this and a little bit of that. And no one got angry or insulted…fantastic!

Still, it’s a pretty straight forward illustration, and I don’t feel it’s my greatest accomplishment, but I do feel lucky for the opportunity. Hopefully it will open some new doors in the future

New beginnings

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Old and New

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I’m in the middle of my second week at Bergen Acadamy of Art and Design. I always enjoy starting on a new sketchbook. There lies so much potential and anticipation in the blank pages – just like starting a new education.  So I bought myself a book I really liked (mainly because of the binding). And because it looks nice, I have decided that I want to be more critical of the content that goes in. Not VERY critical though, cause that’s no fun.

Here’s a double page for drawing whimsical characters. Just for fun!

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The Forest Mouse

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And now my watch is ended…

…at Einar Granum School of Art. Thanks to all the wonderful students and teachers for two great years! When autumn comes I’ll take my stuff and move to Bergen. It’s time for a new chapter  of my life: Bergen Academy of Art and Design.

Semester assignment 2014

Installation consisting of books, cut book pages and drawings (pen and watercolour)