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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welcome.

this is the blog of myself: håvard s. johansen. i´m a writer and illustrator working in oslo, norway.

the blog´ll be used for artistic and workrelated purposes: posting imagery, work-in-progress information and general philosophying about such.

the above imagery is from a short story published in the anthology "Nemi". the colors on the page is done by karl gundersen.

hope you get something out of it. please leave comments.

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