Projects

There are exciting things waiting to happen in the near--or not too far off, at least--future. Around March, Brookline writer Kim Girard plans to publish her children's book, and it will be full of my black and white illustrations. I can't say too much about it now, except that it is a lot of fun working on this project, and that it is an awesome story!

I have just been accepted to exhibit my drawings (mostly black & white comics and illustrations) at the Brookline Town Hall for a month in 2012 (probably May-June), so that will be fun too! I have to go through my submissions and weed out the darkest pieces, though, because since this is a public space, the images can't be too explicit or disturbing (and a lot of my stuff, I have realized,  is either dark, bloody or topless)

I still do illustrations for Spare Change, and the last one appeared in the last November edition. It was a portrait of Gary Johnston (aka John Doe), which I drew sometime in September or October. He was a very impressive and interesting person, and I enjoyed sketching him as he worked on an article in his "office" as he laughingly called it, in Central Square. Another illustration that I just finished last week is due to come out in one of the next editions, but I am not going to post it here until it has been in the paper (so buy the paper!).

I signed up for an account on the website Behance, so be sure to swing by and check out the projects I post there.

Gothista: Alternative Fashion Illustration. A project that I am not doing for a client, but just having a lot of fun with. Plus, I could use a lot more color in my portfolio!

Idea for a graphic novel set in Copenhagen.  Thanks to Copenhagen based photographer Thomas Christensen, who takes awesome photos of his city, and whose bird's view photograph I used for my top panel reference.

Spare Change illustration of Gary Johnston.

Drowning (in Boston)

This is a page from my minicomic, Dog Season, which I am posting because it just seems so appropriate with all the rain & floods we're having in Boston right now...

Valium, p.2

My scanner is not big enough to scan the whole page, so this is just a detail of a page from the story I am working on right now.

Copenhagen Street Scene

Life After Inbound 4

Now that Inbound 4 is out there, living its own life in various Boston bookstores and comic book stores, people ask me if I am working on something else...Well, I am, sort of...I'm just not sure if "work" is really what I have been up to until now. But I guess it's time to really get started on what I have defined as my new project. I have been playing around with an idea for a while, and have conducted research (I took 400+ photos of streets and buildings in Copenhagen for this purpose), and done a fair amount of sketching. Whatever it will turn out to be in the end, it's definitely girly stuff, no testosterone-fueled guys-in-underpants-saving-the world sort of thing...Not something my boys would want to read, in other words.

These pictures are scanned straight from my sketchbook in their un-photoshopped nakedness, with uncensored babble, blemishes and all.

Line's First Minicomic

So here it is, finally, my first minicomic! I spent the whole weekend in front of Photoshop and at my local Kinko's. Some lessons I learned in the process:
-Plan ahead and don't leave the paper purchasing until the last minute. In the end I had to go with cheap, plain white instead of the thick, wonderful eggshell I had envisioned. And don't count on your local paper store (in this case, Paper Source on Beacon Street in Brookline) for paper. They didn't carry any 11x17 paper (but they had plenty of ideas on how to decorate cupcakes and at least two books about poop...)
-On Sundays you can have the Kinkos store (also on Beacon Street) practically all to yourself. And it is possible to make 27 copies in the course of a weekend (assuming the art is already done), but you have to send the spouse and the kids out of town so they don't have to listen to all the cursing and swearing...

The mermaid Page

This is the first page of the mini comic that I am scrambling to assemble (in time for the Holiday fairs around the city). This page took me a lot longer than the others to draw, because of all the detail.

One More Page to Go...

Some pages I have been working on lately...I have one more page to go before assembling the minicomic. I look forward to drawing the last page, but dread the photoshopping, printing out, copying, stapling, trying & failing & trying again...

Still on First Page: Ink, Pencil & Water Color

Minicomic: A Work in Progress

The first stages of a minicomic that I am working on. It will include three stories, the first a translation of a poem I wrote in Norwegian and published in a writer's collective anthology: Fra board til Baard

I have good quality paper (Bristol board), ink and nibs (and thanks to Dave M's demonstration at last week's Boston Comics Roundtable meeting, I know how to use them :-)

All I need now is some time, a bit of energy and lots of coffee.

The Dark Side of my Sketchbook