T-rex

Another drawing i did for a handbook the MIRA centre is making! This T-rex is for a page about violence in family homes!

Mira handbook comission

For the last couple of weeks i've been working on some illustrations for a client! The illustrations will feature in a handbook about child protective services and minority families.

For the project they wanted a safe, children's book feel. And they referenced to my former Noahs ark drawings. So i went for that style!

Deer of fall

Used pencils for the lines and colored/edited in photoshop! titled "You will bloom again" Maybe a promise of the return of Spring?

From sketch to color 2

I realize i haven´t updated my blog in quite a while...no excuses..anyways! Here goes!

This is something i doodled on when i went on an adventure with 2 friends to Tunisia, north Africa!
A character of mine is having a brave moment as he tries to fight of a monstrous dragon! He usually dwells in his den reading books...So this is sort of outside his comfort zone!

Here is the colored version! I actually colored this digitally in photoshop! Haven´t done that in quite a while, with any personal work! As i tend to do things traditionally and then edit only digitally! But this was very fun actually! And i think i´m discovering my own painting style in the digital world!

I will try to update more often from now on! Until next time! AVAST!!!

sketch and color

Colored a sketch from my little doodle book!

Here is the sketch! I really like to draw funny animals and wacky creatures!!

humor illustration

A humor illustration i did for Asfalt street magazine! With a caricature of comedian Dag Schreiner.
Dag Schreiner wrote the text the illustration is based on!

For this i used Ecoline liquid ink, white gouache paint and color pencils. + editing in photoshop!

Exam!

So at last i´m done at NKF (Creative college of Norway)

And i had my illustration exam done a week ago! The exam lasted for two weeks, and i was to make 4 illustrations with inspiration from the novella "A brave ant" by Tarjej Vesaas!

I chose to mix the insect world in the story with medieval times to get som exciting elements! And children´s book was the media i chose.
This is my take on the novella and the exam:

Below: Cover for the children´s book. Featuring the brave ant in knights armor befitting an ant!

Above: Castle Anthill. Home of the Brave ant! 

Above: The brave ant meets a big snail on his way! 

Above: The brave ant gets attacked by a dragon! (a common salamander really:P)