Sunday/Wednesday LIES, LIES, LIES! Right hand work 2...

What? Is it Wednesday? No, it´s Sunday! Does this mean we´re back to Sunday Lies?
NO!!!
It only means that I´m a bit behind. Bad mood and inflamed shoulder.
Which is exactly what this one is about.
Drawn exclusively with my wrong hand.

Wednesday Lies: The Fog of Draw...

Due to arm injury I couldn´t translate todays lie. Which is about drawing with the wrong hand, and was drawn with my wrong hand. Check it out here.

So... Instead I took the translation of the very first Wednesday Lie I ever drew. I didn´t even know it was gonna be a regular thing then. I just had to draw something. Anyhow... Arm needs rest. Enjoy.

Wednesday Lies: Arm...

Wednesday Lies: Oslo Comics Expo part 1 of 3...

Sunday(?) Lies: Juggling part 1...

It's Sunday, right? Anyhow... Part 2 was last week. This week is part 1.

She cannae take it, cap'n...

Things are going too fast for me these days. But stuff gets done. The plan is always to blog a bit more regularly on both this and my Norwegian blog, but now that a lot of stuff worth blogging about is happening, I don't find the time and energy to blog about it. But here's some of it:

I now have a collection of 19 autobiographical lies on sale at Indyplanet. Hopefully the price trouble gets fixed. It should be $9.99. Please buy it and support me.

Wow! I'm published in English! Insanity!

Anyhow...

It's also available for free download. Please review it, or find ways to print and distribute it. Click here to download and review.

Of course all of this is released under a Creative Commons attribution license, which means that you can do whatever you want with it(as long as you attribute it to me, and tell me). So if you're interested in publishing any of it in... wherever you want... Please do it. Drop me a line to get better 600 dpi resolution.

So I'm available in English and for free? Insanity, I tell you!

More coming... sometime... including download and buy links for the sidebar.

Sunday lies: Knuckles...

Originally drawn and published 29th of April 2009.

Sunday lies: Summer's coming...

Summer is still a good while off, but it was sunny and you could pretend like it was hot today. And I did spend the day inside. So...

Originally drawn and published 15th April 2009.

Sunday lies: The mood...

Originally drawn and published 11th of march 2009 on my Norwegian blog...

Sunday lies: Great expectations...

Originally drawn and published in Norwegian the 8th of June, 2009.

Sunday lies: Cats...

Originally drawn and published 14th of October 2009.

Sunday lies: Kim time...

Drawn and published on my norwegian blog the 25th of March, 2009.

Sunday lies: It's snowing...

Sunday lies: Donations...

Starting today, and each Sunday from now on, I will present a translated autobiographical lie from my Norwegian Blog.

This one just happens to be about the donations button. And... More reasons, objective reasons actually, for donating will be updated here some time in the future. Expect fancy prices.

Anyhow... Sunday Lies is the new feature, Sunday Art-Week review is out(But may come back in some form some time some how).

Sunday Art-Week Review 23?

It´s not Sunday here anymore by... nine minutes... But still... I actually have some updates.

First up is this weeks autobiographical lie:

I did a miniconcert on Tuesday, and had not had time to... well... Really prepare... As usual. So the usual stress got to it´s usual hights, and when it was time to draw the usual lie on Wednesday I was just... Empty. Which is the title. Luckilly I got this image in my head pretty quickly, all finished and stuff. I long wanted to do something with thin light fines and light shading. But... I´m gonna have to do more with that style because I think I was a bit empty that day, and can do better another day. Still... Clever way to not have to draw to much on a hard but satisfied day.

Speaking of the concert, I´ve done a little test to see how the audio goes together with a quick video of the images from the comic-version of the songs:

Me thinks the concert went pretty damned well. I wanna do a whole video of it, with the speaking bits in between.
I really think there´s a lot of potential to do pretty awesome versions, both live and on video. I´ve been psyched about trying to fit sort of stand-up´ish stuff with comics and songs, and this was the first time to do it in a full, if three song short, concert.
Hopefully I´ll get to do this little concert more times to get the flow of the whole "story".

Oh, and I need to find a better program for this stuff that Windows Movie Maker... Suggestions? For Mac? For Free?

And finally... The opening image for an article I´m drawing about Alan Moore:

Not much to say, except that I spent way too much time on that single image in a 4-page long article... Jeez...

All in all... Good week... But need to do more, more, more...

Almost Sunday Art-Week review 21´ish...

Yes, I´m picking up the count where it left off. So we´re at 21 weeks or so. And yes, it is monday, but... It´s gotta be Sunday somewhere on the globe, or? Who cares...

Anyhow... Pretty short art-week review this week. Have mostly been finding quotes, writing, and editing for a Alan Moore graphic-article I´m writing and drawing. Have also done som art, but nothing worth showing yet.

Then I´ve been sketching away at some new songs, since I´m gonna have a concert in a week, and I really want to finish drawing two more songs so that I can print up songbooks for the whole little concert. One of them will probably be published as my weekly autobiographical comic on my norwegian blog this Wednesday. But nothing to show yet.

What I have to show is, of course, my weekly autobiographical comic for this last week:
I suppose the title could be translated to "Nag", and the thought-balloon at the lower half says "Nag, nag, nag...". The rest of the text is just thoughts going from positivity about all the possibilities of what to do in a day, then turning into panic over having too much to do and never getting anything done. Simple stuff, but it´s the first very visual layout I´ve done in a while, and I like the colours.

Then I´ve gotten one more piece for Battle For Wesnoth committed to the game.

This one took way too long to do, with too much back and forth. In the end, there´s still several weaknesses, such as inconsistant lighting on the metal surfaces, but all in all I´m pretty satisfied. Seeing the portraits in-game in the Hammer of Thursagan campaign is awesome.

Now... That´s basically it for this week. I have to prepare some courses and finish the article now, and I seem to have the flu, so next week may also be a bit thin on updates. But I will post something. Maybe even on Sunday-proper!

Sunday Art-week review 19...

Gah... Slow yet hectic weeks... Only a sad song to show... but I'm really satisfied with the art....

Sunday Art-Week Review 17(On a monday)...

Nothing much this week. Am back in Bergen. Forgot that yesterday was sunday. Ops...

This weeks autobiographical lie:

And that's it. Between all the moving, travelling, partying, and yes, reading, I haven't actually drawn anything. Meh... Back next week with more.

Sunday Art-Week Review 16...

Ahhh... Slow week. Lot´s of reading and writing, and now packing and cleaning. I´m going home to Norway on Tuesday.

So.... This weeks autobiographical lie, with a song:






And an update on a Wesnoth piece:


And, just for fun, I did two EXTREMELY QUICK videos for great Stratosgutane songs:


Download the whole album on a CC-license through the record-labels myspace-page.

Now back to packing and cleaning.

Art Week Review 14...

Much sketching, not much drawing this week. Scotland was... insane. As reflected in this weeks autobiographical lie:
Bagpipes at the Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond.

Then some of the sketches from the few times I was sober enouigh to hold a brush(Or pencil) straight:
Gourock, waiting to take the ferry to Dunoon and on to Ardentinny to go to someones birthday with open-air concerts and lot´s of midgies and a nice waterfall to bath in and hungover canooing on Loch Eck in the morning...


NED in water at the bonnie bansk of Loch Lomond. A NED is apperantly a "None Educated Delinquent". They were throwing rocks at eachother. In the background are resident Austrians Laura and Kate swimming.

Around the campfire at Loch Lomond. In-between bagpipes and flutes and country-music, flute-player Cameron tries to translate a Scottish song to Solveig. Other people in the picture are American bicyclist Rob Roy McGregor(Yes, real name), his cousin Mike, and bagpipe-player Donald(Who never took me fishing).

Solveig playing the fiddle.

Laura dancing to the jamming bagpipes, flute, and fiddle.

A swan came to listen to the music, and that Solveig charmed with her magic powers. Later, as it was dawning, it came back, and I serenaded it with the last song of the evening. A true swansong(Townes Van Zandts "To live is To Fly" with the word "Swan" put in as often as possible).

And this was just the insanity that I was sober enough to record. Crazy gawd-damned week...

Anyhow... I like how loose the last ones turned out. Have to do more like that.

I also filled a few pages of a sketchbook on my long and arduos journey home, but I managed to forget it on the plane. Bugger.

Thanks to all the countless great people I met on the trip.

Now I really have to get to work on some serious shit again...