Published Illustrator and Season Greetings

This autumn I wrote about some illustrations that I did for a new magazine, Sesat; it's published now and features some articles about shamanism, religious studies and hoodoo/voodoo. If you're interested check out Religionsvetenskapliga föreningen on their facebook page and ask for it, it's also available as a pdf. It's written in the language of kings and legends, Swedish...

For their first issue they wanted something with symbols from the five big religions. After giving it some thought I came up with this symbol which includes them all.

With this illustration I wanted to show the pool of resources, that you nowadays can pretty much choose what religion you want to adhere to. For these illustrations I wanted a simplicity that I've been striving for lately, and not to overdo or overcomplicate things.

Last week I wrote about the script that I've been working on lately. Yesterday I met my friends that had read it, and they gave me their thumbs up! So what happens now is that I'm going to give their suggestions some thought and read it through a couple of times and then probably print it and put it on the bookshelf, and start with the character design...

I hope that I during the holidays can get some drawing done on Pilgrim...

For 2013 I wish you a fair wind and following seas!

And on that note I leave you, and we'll meet again on the other side of the New Year.

Writing done?

Last week I put the last touches on the script that I wrote about. This week I sent it to two pals of mine, they are going to read it and give feedback to me. That means that it might be done or that I need to fix some things that I've missed. When I'm working on something I tend to be a bit blind, that I don't always see what is clear to someone who has not been starring at the project. That is why I let my friends read or look at the stuff that I do. Without their look, the projects would not be half as good as I think they are. And not least it boosts my confidence, which sometimes fluctuates... So letting someone else read or have a look at your project is something that I truly recommend.

So what is going to happen to the script if it's done you ask?
Well, if it's done, and I mean done-done, I will print it out and put it in a folder and let it age on my book shelf! The script to Pilgrim was aged almost two years, before I began drawing it!

Today I'm going to get back to the clean-up that I'm in the middle of...

Take care!

More clean-up

The clean-up has continued and here is one of the panels:

The script that I wrote about last week, is kind of done, but it must simmer a bit before I make a decision if it's done or not. Maybe I let some friends read it (yet) again.

Last week a friend of mine asked me if I wanted silence or sound when I worked. It's interesting because for me it differs:

When reading and writing, I need absolute silence, no music, no sound at all. For example these posts are all written in silence...

When drawing/inking, music is allowed and appreciated. Listening to the radio is functional. But the best option is to listen to a whole cd, or album. As I wrote earlier when I was inking, classical music lends itself greatly for that purpose.

When doing stuff in front of a computer, with Photoshop or an animation software, silence is preferred but it's ok with both music and sound, like radio. But if I'm doing something with an animation software that takes a lot of thinking, like putting the right pose on the right frame while moving the camera in a certain direction, silence is golden!

Take care.