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...

Sunday Art-Week Review 13...

Reporting in from Glasgow on this unlucky 13th art-week.

Had a hell of a journey where everything that could go wrong did go wrong at some point, but met a lot of nice British people, even drew a portrait for the price of 1 beer, and was as if by magic able to do a sketched script for a whole 32 page childrens-book from concept to first-draft on the trip. Yay for me!(Though I won't get it up to a presentable version to shop around before the summers over).

So... first... some sketches of British charter tourists(Showing why I dislike drawing with pens):


Then the sketch where I got the concept to the childrens-book(With censored synopsis. Art not representative of anything yet):


Then the weekly autobiographical lie, called "Burdened under my own expectations"(Which I no longer am, having survived the journey):


And an updated Wesnoth piece:


So... Glasgow is quite nice, isn't it? I should really try to draw some... yup.

That's all folks!

Sunday Art-Week Review 12...

So... Been reading and writing a lot lately.

I did a drawn article about H.P. Lovecraft a few months ago. Basically the most work I´ve ever done per page. But it came out nice.

Now I´m tight for money, so I came up with a few more ideas for articles, even though the pay-per hour will end up... not too great. They did actually pay me a lot more than usual for the Lovecraft article, but that won´t happen for the new articles.

I´ve gotten one about Judas Priest and their more homo-erotic lyrics accepted, and working on suggestions for articles about Emma Goldman, the more esoteric and political sides of Alan Moore, and finally the mythmaking of Norwegian Black Metal. Pretty diverse shit to research. But I´m getting my head around it.

I really need to get the Lovecraft article translated and published somewhere else, because... multiple publishers is the only way I can make these articles profitable enough. And they´re fun to do...

Anyhow... Just uploaded the article to my comicspace-page:Click the image, silly...

So.... Art... This week... Yes....

Of course my weekly autobiographical... This ones called The Discussion.... and is as (non-)readable for silly-speaking people as for Norwegian-speaking people:


And I did another quick poster for free. I originally did it in B&W, but I got the urge to color it. Still came in slightly under the 2 hour mark, so I´m following my own guidelines for these well:


And finally, these two Wesnoth-portraits may be ready to committ. Still waiting for final word:



Oh, and I´m going to Glasgow on Tuesday. Never been in the UK before. Very much looking forward to it. Hopefully I´ll still have something to show next sunday. Have to get the weekly autobiographical lie finished before I leave, at least.

Skål!

(Edit: Updated the Ratheln portrait)

Sunday Art-Weeks Review 11

So... I slacked off for a couple of weeks with these posts...

But I´m back, hopefully more reliable than ever(HA!).

Anyhows... Even though there´s been some weeks since the last time, I haven´t got all that much new stuff to show. There are some projects that I don´t want to reveal too much on, like Pickmans Model and Bomtur, which I´ve done a lot of work on.

Pickmans Model is now readable from start to finish. While there´s still a lot that´s only sketches, and a lot of work left to be done, it´s looking good. If you want to read it just send me your e-mail, and you can have a look if you promise to tell me what you think. Yeah, YOU!

Apart from that I´ve been reading a lot, doing both research for Bomtur and for some new comic-book-articles I´m gonna do(I´ve gots some paid work! WOOH!).

And I´ve done a lot of pencil-doodles trying to come up with new short stories to sell. But no luck so far, and it´s all too doodly and fragmented to bother scanning.

So... you may wonder... What have I done that I can show?

Well, I´ve updated my weekly autobiographical lie steadily(Good boy, Kim!)...

Missing week 1:


Missing week 2:


Missing Week 3:


Missing week 4:


And I´m progressing slowly on my Wesnoth-pieces(Though no new ones are finished yet):





And lastly, I did a fundraiser piece to be auctioned away to help the guys at Big Illustration Party Time get a new microphone, so we can enjoy their voices in all their silky-smooth glory:


I´ll post the details of the auction when it´s settled.

And that´s about it.

Next week I´ll do a regular update. Hopefully I´ll have done something interesting...

Me on Art&Story Alive!

Last monday I called in on the Art&Story Alive podcast, hosted by the talented Jerzy Drozd, Marc Rudolph, and Krishna Sadasivam. Art&Story Alive is the live component of Art&Story, where I, the listener, and probably you, the listener, gets to call in and bug the hosts with our ramblings.
Anyhow... It was a nice little conversation about bad advice, doing your best as an artist, and baby Jesus crying.

Listen to it here.

Since I spent 10 euros on Skype-credit, and have little to use it on except Art&Story Alive, I will probably call in next monday also.

Whatday huh-review part X?

Ummmhh...

So I´ve been a little slow updating.

Actually I´ve been part busy, part forgetful, and... yeah... part lazy. I should have had SOMETHING up, even if I didn´t have the chance to do a art-week review. But... Oh well.. That´s just my usual ups and downs, and if I´m realistic there will come more times like these.

BUT.... Art-week review will be back, with a full review of the last three weeks also. And I´m planning on at least another weekly update sometime soon.

Anyhow... you´ve been warned. Now go be productive!

Sunday art-week review 10... on a monday???

Ops! shit. Been on holiday in Norway, and not doing much art yet. Simply forgot posting this yesterday. *blush*

This week I haven't done any art worth showing, except a few marker-sketches that I haven\t scanned. I have written a lot though.

The autobiographical lie here was conceived over a year ago, then completed a few weeks ago. The text is basically "Sometimes when the mood strikes me\ I strike at the wall\ untill my knuckles bleed\ it doesn't help with the mood/ but it does wonders for my artstyle"

Next week I have to draw a new autogbiographical lie, so I will have to attach my drawing board and get to do some work. Also I have to take a lot of photos. So... Long post next week???