Amanda and Line

Simple portraits of two beloved classmates of mine.

On a sidenote

I actually managed to dig up this old article about me and the drawing contest which I told you about in the last post. My god, I look ridicolous!
I haven't seen this in just about ten years, either. And the title of the article is just... ugh!

10 years ago

I remember it very clearly. In 6th grade, the spring of 2001, in an age of 12, our whole class participated in a drawing contest. The only thing this contest said was that we were to draw how a school would look like in 200 years. And so I did.
Many months went past. Indeed, so many months that I had forgotten about the whole thing. I thought a winner had been picked a long time ago by then and that we were not notified about it.

But then came september 11th. Our teacher said that we would get visitors. She didn't say who. But those visitors turned out to be the people behind this drawing contest, "Ditt Distrikt" (similar to a telephone catalogue for my county), and the winner's drawing would be on the front cover for the next year's edition.

In case you haven't been suspicous all along, I was the winner - and it was one of the best days of my life, as these visitors gave chocolate milk, cookies and t-shirts to me and everyone in my class, who was seemingly as happy and excited as I was. Our class even got a money prize we could spend on a trip later, and I got a picture taken for the local newspaper and my very first photo camera.

The turning point came after the shool, of course. Me and my best friend Viggo went to his house to play and watch an after school program called "Etter skoletid ("After school") on the NRK channel. Strangely to me and Viggo, the program was cut halfway through because of an important broadcast live from New York. The rest is history.


May every victim after 9/11 rest in peace.

New class, new faces

So many new faces I just need to get down on paper! First sketches, not all of them good...

(Hvis du går i min klasse, så foreslår jeg at du prøver å gjette hvem hver av disse ansiktene er - to av dem er faddere og tre andre er medelever)

Bored at work (3)

Here we go again. Random and boring doodles.

But I'll use this post to explain something: I've now started at school again, and this time moved away from home as well. I've moved to Kristiansand, going to the University of Agder, doing a year of Litterature, film and theater (drama). I do not have much experience with neither of those things, but it's still in the creative zone and who knows? Maybe I'm better at litterature, film or drama? Maybe I have a future in any of those areas?

Future or not, I'm liking it very much and thouroughly enjoy both the subjects and the city.

Straight from the top of my head

I just cleaned out my stuff from school and found this one from an assignment - we had to fill everything on an A4 sized piece of paper with just things that came from the top of our heads, no matter how irrelevant and less logic it may seem.

With me, it all started in that bottom left corner...

Exam final result: Knut Nærum and Clint Eastwood

I'm not quite satisfied as I ended up with limited time (I'm always waiting with stuff until right before the end), and I had a lot more to do with the Eastwood one, but had to let that go.

So, after a sleepless night (literally), working on this, I'm finished with this year of school. I finally have more time to do things I want to do.

Let me know what you think about these ones, please!

Exam project: Clint Eastwood

Sorry about the very small rant about US government and conspiracies - I for one do believe in few of the conspiracies out there (the one on Kennedy, for instance) and wanted to express my skeptical thoughts on the news on bin Laden. Sorry, I didn't mean to upset anyone or start a discussion.

Anyway, as usual I have very little to report, so I'll just drop by with a small sketch of Clint Eastwood:
Have a nice weekend!

Exam project: Knut Nærum

My two best attempts to this date on drawing Norwegian cartoonist, politician, writer and funny man Knut Nærum.
More to come.

Espen does cartoon references: Crash Bandicoot

Old drawing. The man is telling me to stop it.

Sorry for the lack of posting lately. This is due to my primary computer refusing to start up again, and with my secondary computer being a retard when trying to cooperate with my scanner, scanning drawings has become a rather demotivational task because of the complications.

In other news, we have an exam at school where we, the students, create our own assignments which will last until the end of May. I've chosen to make 3 to 5 creative portraits, which I'm looking forward to do.
So expect some sketches and hopefully good looking artwork in the future.
Though this may take a while, as usual. In that case, I'll just post more old drawings.

Cheers,
Espen

I'm sick and tired of potato peelers...

For the past months or so, my class have been designing potato peelers. Can you imagine thinking about potato peelers and the design they have for over a month? Pretty exhausting, to be honest.
So, my prototype is the one in the top right corner, while all the other stuff is promotional drawings for my peeler.

Damn, I'm sick of potato peelers and I'm glad we're finished with that assignment!

Where Angels Play

A poster i made in Graphic Design class. The text is the opening lyrics of the song Where Angels Play by The Stone Roses.

Personal logo

Among the small "challenges" in the graphic design project at school is designing your own logo that describes you. And because I'm not that deep and really know myself and have the ability to put emotions and deep thoughts and whatnot on paper, I went for a more physical approach - a portrait of my cartoon self, formed my initials E and B.

Graphic Design

What has this to do with graphic design, you may ask? We need good pictures of our work to display in an Artbook we are to design. To be continued...

Graphic Design

Assignment - Make five different designs using 10 different photographs and/or textures. Here's my five designs:

Dirk Kuyt - using a photograph from the internet and a picture taken of my Liverpool jersey (which is the C and the A of 'Carlsberg' to the far right). The design really reminds me of Coca-Cola, probably because the red colour to the C and A in 'Carlsberg' is very similar to the label on the Cola bottles.


Liam Gallagher, Oasis - Using an old drawing I made of Gallagher some years ago, added some texture (a red brick wall) and the word 'Victory' split up. The combination of the word and Liam Gallagher/Oasis shouldn't add up, it was a coincidence.

Markus (MarQs) - Using a photo of Markus, adding a little filter and some letters.

Self portrait - Using a small part of my self portrait in coal with the cover of The Stone Roses' self titled debut album and a texture I had from before of.

Martin Skrtel - Using an old drawing, adding up a texture of a wheel track in the snow and mixing it up with some effects and letters.

More annoying things

Woah... There you go! When I think it's been just a few days since last update, it has actually been twelve days. Bravo, Espen!

Anyway, here's an update on the school project where I chose annoyance as a theme. The idea of a book or calendar was apparently compromised as my teacher guided me to focus on the quality of each drawing instead of the quantity.
So here you go - two of the three drawings I finished - the one at the top being the 'waiting for the bus'-scenario and the bottom one where someone blows tobacco smoke in your face.

A little peek (annoying things)

Some sketches to give you an idea of what I'm doing for a project at school nowadays - I'm going to draw 52 annoying things (one for each week of a year, to make a calendar of it), like stepping into a puddle or spilling liquid all over yourself.