Just drawing.

It's been a while since I did some drawing so this is practice. Scene from dogs with some additions. By the way, the guy standing in the doorway is Jörgen P Platzer, who's painting and Trojan Horse sculptures I posted a few weeks ago.

Hardware update.

Spending my days in the studio working on the new layout and practicing inking. Realized i needed a drawing board so I fabricated one using my Wacom Cintiq 24HD and a scrap piece of cardboard. Works very well. Nice to put the Wacom to good use.

Found.

I've been trying to find a good enough paper to ink on. So far i tried Marker paper from Canson, Bristol Board from Daler Rowney and W&N. Daler Rowney worked best but the ink bleeds a bit so my lines aren't sharp enough. Suddenly I remembered my stash of about 100 sheets of 250g Schollenhammer drawing paper. Sheets are 45X62,5 cm so i get two A3 out of every one. Gives a really crisp line. They have a yellow tone but works OK when scanned.

Drawing on paper.

Trying out my new Saji-Pen and ink from Kuretake. Seems to work OK. Inking backgrounds with pigma markers. Also used School pen from Kuretake for backgrounds. It gives a really crisp line and is easy to work with. Started to print out blue lines with balloons and lettered with Dave Gibbons lower font. Then lettering by hand with the printout as a guide.
Ordered some W&N A3 Bristol Board so I can ink whole pages. Right now I could only find A4 in the local art supplies store.
As you can notice I pride myself on keeping a neat workspace. Seriously I have to get a proper drawing board.

Micron

More inking with Micron markers. Trying to find the right line wheight.

Micron

I had problems inking in Photoshop so now I try a new approach. I'm converting my pencils to non photo blue and printing them out. This segment is inked with micron markers. Paper is standard copying paper so it bleeds a bit. Lives up the lines I think. Compare with the same frame two posts down.

I found an excellent tutorial on how to convert pencils to blue here.

New/old frame.

Trying some new stuff.

Layout

The plan was to start with the first 12 pages but I got carried away and made a new layout for pages 1-17. I hope this will add clarity to the story. Meanwhile Stefan is rewriting some of the text.

Back in the studio.

Taking up the work with Dogs after a long brake. Feels good to be back. I'm trying a new approach to layout starting with the first 12 pages. The plan is to find a little ruffer line and drawing style. The the reasons for this is among others to be able to create a page easy to read and of course efficiency. Tried to use Manga Studio for layouts but for now the learning curve for a new app is too steep. Photoshop works fine.

People's Choice

I won the People's Choice Awards for my participation in Här II, the exhibiton currently showing at Kalmar Konstmuseum.

I would like to thank all of you who voted for me. It feels really great to have your support!

The frame above is of course from Dogs and part of the show. And yes, it's Robert Crumb in the foreground. A small tribute to a great artist.

Congrats to Conny Karlsson who won the Critics Choice Award.

Installation pics

The installation at Kalmar Konstmuseum was finished just hours before opening. Both Malin and I are very pleased with the result.

I'll post som pictures from the opening soon.

Luckies

A couple of drawings done. This one is featuring the all new look for the Werewolf.

Milk

Edits

It's an endless process of editing. Hope to print out monday. I've had some problems finding a suitable paper. Found some Schollenhammer in my drawing cabinet so I will try those.

Upcomimg Exhibition

I'm back in the studio working on drawings for an exhibition. The show is "(H)är II" at Kalmar Konstmuseum. Nov 27 2010 - Feb 27 2011.

It's curated by Malin Nilsson, Kim Einarsson och Anna Norberg.

Malin and I have chosen ten frames from Dogs. These are pretty loose pencils so I'm trying to tighten up.

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Other participating artists are Ingela Johansson, Nina Svensson and Conny Karlsson.

Frazetta tribute and others

A frame from Dogs. One of the first pages penciled some years ago. Mårten is copying from Bridgemas Life Drawing (haven't we all?). He has a book with Frazettas Death Dealer, the painting from the previous post, just to his left on the table. It's not easy to see but there is a copy of Herge's Tintin in Tibet leaning in the bookshelf. Of course the Robert Crumb reference is more obvious.

Rocks

Jackrabbit

Ink

practise

Desert