Kommer snart i "M"!

scifiserien min Major Thomas, som jeg har jobba med in liten stund har blitt plukka opp av "m" og kommer i et av vinternummerne. foreløpig er det snakk om en liten presentasjon av serien, men forhåpentligvis vil de ha mer etterhvert. skikkelig gira på det her - jeg liker å jobbe med karakteren og universet og har masse inspirasjon liggende!

følg med her på bloggen og i bladet. jeg skal si fra når det kommer ut..

imens sjekk ut mads´ femmenale serie her: http://www.start.no/m/

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my scifiseries Major Thomas, which i´ve worked on for a bit has been picked up by the magazine "m" to be published this winter. first we´re talking a presentation of the series and then hopefully they´ll want more. i´m very excited to see where this leads as it´s a fun character to work on and i have tons of inspiration!

keep on the lookout here on the blog and in the book itself. i´ll let you know when it´s out!

meanwhile check out mads´ eminent series here: http://www.start.no/m/

it´s all in norwegian, sorry...

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Modesty Blaise

Eternal Youth/ Blood of Virgins

Panel.

fine russian vodka

mr. jørr

dont you love him?

finished inks

modesty blaise cover..

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boiling point

the trick.

cappuccino

simon smidesang

been wanting to find a quicker, more personal and investigative way of drawing, mostly to satisfy my own needs as an illustrator. too often i get caught up in doing what is correct with disregard of what i find mostly fun: textures, manipulation of volume and bending of the shapes. im sure this is pretty light, but i think im onto something...

cesar tafoya

everyone go check mi hermano Cesars excellent blog:

old stuff

this was part of a book egmont was going to publish back in 2005.. the whole thing got canned after they bought all the stories.. this one was my contribution...

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kill bill

gotta do something while laying down..

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preview and some news.

a page from the unseen pages of "instant karma"..

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i fall asleep in the oddest spots....

someday ill do a book like this...

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sketchbook

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preview.

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ocx´08

seminar & workshop

together with Norwegian Film Institute and Grafill i helped put together these things:





you should all check it out..

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Advertisement: Illustration and Design.

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abstract

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layoutsketch inked

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if kung fu was my skill, action would be my problem.

20 minute illo part...

hmm... i lost count...

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back from work-retreat.

been away to visit my girlfriend in sweden - for a month. i was offline and loved it.. and got quite a good amount of work done on the book. its now back on track after having been writing on a screenplay together with eminent director andré øvredal - his link is to be found in the link section... under "a".. ehh..

anyways. i took the work to a certain part and then he took over, and it seems to be well on track to being made. cant say much more than that, im afraid:) so after i finished my dues on it for now, ive been diving into the book. deadline is in august/september, after all!

so here are some sneak peeks.. a couple of pencilled panels and a robot-illustration for an advertisement im designing.

also check back soon since ill be updating more regularly now.. and soon youll hear more about Oslo Comics Expo ´08 - which will be a KILLER expo this year!

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interviewed again in my hometowns local paper...

it ain´t so bad. more about the work than about me. no art, tho.. i guess they didnt like what i sent.. haha...

http://dt.no/article/20080210/UPAS/332709910

pics by my friend andreas harvik.. they screwed his colors over, of course...

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cut.

here´s a cut from the book. don´t wanna give away the story, but an occasional look in won´t hurt, i hope...

finished.

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work in progress 2

first inking step is done.. now i move to tightening up, removing stuff that dont work and adding textures and little things...

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work in progress

layout - size a4/ 8.5" x 11". this is originally done with a blue nonrepro line, and in this case is converted to grayscale. i like keeping that option in case i feel for going tighter in some areas. the blue line allows for an additional step when you add the gray pencil.



rough pencils - size a3/ 10" x 15". nonrepro marker, some yellow, some blue, then rough pencil on top.



tight pencils - same size as latter. this isnt really tight. its just as tight as i go before i start inking. when i get to areas that need to be tighter ill do those after i ink the inkable areas. this keeps the process more organic and i can allow for the stages to influence each other instead of just having the pencils be a preparatory stage for inking. and its more fun as i get quite restless now and again.

moral, however, is still, as inspector chen says; fancy rendering is no excuse for bad pencils, therefore keep the underdrawing balanced and well constructed.

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interviewed in the newspaper "dagbladet".

here´s the link if you prefer to read it like that:

http://www.dagbladet.no/tekstarkiv/artikkel.php?id=5001070099078&tag=item&words=den%3Bnye%3Bchristopher%3Bnielsen

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