Introducing: UNG-sidene

I've probably never told you about one of my jobs, which is to draw a weekly cartoon for my local newspaper. I didn't bother because I write in English in this blog and all the cartoons drawn for that newspaper is in Norwegian. Just a quick walkthrough here about my workplace:

UNG-sidene, or "Young pages", is a small part of the newspaper Laagendalsposten which is written by the younger generation for the younger generation and comes out each friday.
This year we're 12 people between 15-18 years old (except me as I'm definitely the oldest - 21), which means that the two bosses in this group are both three years younger than me. Funny!

Here's the fresh class of 2010/2011, the two bosses in the front with me in the top left corner.

Meeting these people once a week for brainstorming and coming up with ideas what to write about is a true pleasure. I have yet to participate in a meeting this year as football practice happens at the same time, though... but believe me, I miss being there with them.

Anyway, before this post gets rather sentimental, I'm trying to say that I will try to post my cartoons frequently to show you what I'm doing besides school and working at the post office. Cheerio!

Warm holiday

I joked with my mates about this, but fact is that I've never experienced temperature under 25 celcius and I don't think I therefore can call myself a true Viking, let alone a true Norwegian. But I think I handle the cold better than the warmth. Puh...

(Oh, and I found the expression "a dog's bollocks" to be ridicolously funny when translated to Norwegian. It just doesn't make sense in other languages than English, I guess.)

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...

Dean Whitehead

Footballer, playing for Stoke City. Celebrates his birthday today (21st January)
Just an experimental sketch, I might want to try colouring it in photoshop later... if I'm not too lazy.

Thomas Alsgaard

Cross country skier from Norway. Has his birthday today (January 10).