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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mickey mouse fighting a wind dragon

20-minute illo pt 8




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i never look in the mirror anymore

20-minute sketch pt 7



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kristoffer columbo

20minute illo pt 6 gives you "columbo" from kristoffer kjølberg...



a quirky idea-maker from http://dongery.no .. kristoffer has made several short stories, one shortly to be published in the legendary "strapazin" magazine. he`s one of the most underestimated norwegian comickers... and very skinny.

his love for doing things the wrong way should be shared by many.

enjoy.

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mp3

20minute illo pt 5

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ed herrera and the smoking man

20-minute illustration pt 4.


courtesy of my good friend from indiana/ guadalajara - ed herrera. a truly great up and coming artist whom you can find here:

http://nuevoart.blogspot.com/

ed is the first contributor to this 20-minute project. hopefully more will guest this thing as we move along.

pardon the uneven lighting as this piece is not scanned, only photographed with a camera.

looks great tho! check those lines!

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the paranoid thoughts of the room at the end of the hall

20-minute illo pt 3

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the man who holds the box

20 minute illo pt 2

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the box

20-minute illustration... part of a longer running theme... maybe.. no premeditation, one tool... thats it...

cut.

things take time. been busy working on, well, a screenplay in fact. and im giving one of the ogn-stories a rewrite.. but heres a cut from one of the panels that came out quite nice.

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sketch of the day 2

El Zorro...

did this little thing yesterday.. that is; friday night/saturday morning.. fun cat, that fox...

Nice little announcement..

http://www.serienett.no/article/564/norske-titler-i-serieverket

its all in norwegian of course.. but basically its the publisher announcing their first two original language OGN´s... one of whom is mine..

now kiss my feet..




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stuff in development... very slowly..

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graphic novel/ short story collection next fall.

right. finally an update here. its been a while but it has its reasons: vacation is one of them. the other is because ive needed to get some things confirmed properly before i could announce them. and id still like to keep some things to myself. that way the blog becomes more interesting.

i can at least confirm one thing: next fall will see the release of my first Original Graphic Novel. it will come out through Egmonts Serieverket ( http://www.serieverket.no ) and editor will be Iselin Røsjø Evensen, my editor from the previous short story collections "Tusj". deadline for handing in the project is set to August 1st so its going to be a busy year for sure - but a fun one also!

the OGN is not really a novel, its a short story collection with some unifying topics that ties the book together and it looks like its due to be about 130 pages long.

there are also two other collaborators - two literary writers, in fact: Øystein Stene and Levi Henriksen have both contributed with a short story.

here´s a sneak peek of how "Geriljahjerte"(Guerillaheart) by Levi and myself will look.

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take a couple of minutes

nu pens.. test..

this is a test again.. ordered some flexible pens from japan. linework is different than what i usually work with. gentler and more controlled.

sketch of the day.

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d.e.c.o.y.

this little guy is a part of the cast of "the misadventures of captain starlin zoinks"... a story me and scott parker have been working on for a while.. i´ve been unable to do things on it for a while, but have finally picked up the pace slowly...

amongst all other things.. here´s a panel.. not cleaned up, but finished inks...

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character development..

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handsketch

i must admit i tend to like sketches a bit more than finished work. there´s something raw about it that seems to get lost when things are rendered completely. blablablahaventweallhearditbefore..

anyways, i DO enjoy nicely rendered things also, but you know... "a work of art is never finished, only abandonded"...

guess the quote?

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Older works.

Some older works for sample.

Colors on the first one by Karl Gundersen.

Colors on the third upper one by Trond Rømo.

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