the White buses: documentation

Finally, some published drawings!

A week ago, I got the documentation that has been produced about the event with the White buses. You can see an earlier post about it further down, or just click on the link: http://pglidstrom.blogspot.se/2015/06/the-white-buses.html

Well, just to be honest with you, I must write that I use the term published in the very broadest of means! As I see it, if I submit drawings and they get chosen, and they get printed or a pdf is made, it's a publication!!

So without further ado, here are some screen dumps (is that the correct term?) from the pdf that is the publication.

Take care!

This is the cover of the documentation, just to prove that I'm telling the truth and not pulling a fast one...! ;-)

The event started already on Friday with a trip to the new Jewish cemetery. My task was to document the event. From quite many photos taken, this is the one they chose for the documentation.

 My comics page...

...and the illustration. The documentation that I received was a low res one so that is why the resolution looks like it does...

the White buses

Finally some pictures!

For the documentation of the day we had with the White buses (see the post below) I did an illustration and a comics page. At first I didn’t think that I would do something for the event. Because we had already gotten a great illustrator. But then I gave it some more thought, and I got two ideas, that were good enough to work with.

Here they are:

This is a sketch of the illustration. The photo here is not that great, but I think you will get the picture...

At first I thought that I would ink the illustration with a steel nib. But that kind of went side ways...and then I tried some different inking nibs and pens and finally a brush! Which to my amazement was the best! So inking with brush is my way of inking...kind of...!

Here is a clean-up drawing of the comics page. When I thought about this page I wanted something simple and easy, and I also wanted to tell a story. But how can you tell a story that has been told in so many ways before, without repeating and get lost in the horror of it. Plus I also wanted it to translate to the here and the now, because people that are considered different are still to this day being hunted or being moved about. I know, it is a tall order but that was what I was thinking about.

The inked version of the same page. As you notice, the final panel is different on the inked version. After I inked it I kind of didn’t like the final panel (the one on the pencilled page). So I gave it some more thought and redrew it and inked it and put it there and scanned it! It works better now I think.

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The White buses

The 9th of May, there will be a great day at the cathedral here in Gothenburg. Where we will focus on, and talk and show the white buses. A rescue operation to free inmates from German concentration camps at the end of WWII, led by Folke Bernadotte. Actually the event will begin already tomorrow on Friday! Outside the church there is a bus in 1:1 scale whiteout it actually being there! It's really cool! Inside there is an exhibition that I've been involved in producing. So if you are in the neighborhood, check it out!

Take care!