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Here you’ll most likely find sketches and ramblings.
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The Helen M. Salzberg 2023 residency
2023 news – I’m very happy (and very grateful) that the project Timemongers project has been selected for the Helen M. Salzberg residency at the Jaffe Center for Book Arts in Florida. For the last two years, I’ve been trying to understand and illustrate the way fairy tales work, how they build a fantasy world…
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Testing-testing
The search for the perfect page. Or maybe, not perfect, let’s call it… sustainable. Can I do it fast (…hahaha, there is no fast with comics, I’ll settle for ”not very slow”), will the results be good, will I still have energy and enthusiasm 30 pages in, will I like drawing in this style, and…
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Comics
So, I blinked and it was February. So much to do, so little time – which is not… entirely true. More accurate, so much to do, so little time, and such a desire to do something completely different (which is comics. it’s always comics). So here’s some character research, and one day the time will…
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2022 A Year In Pictures
It’s been a long year and it went by in a heartbeat. A big thank you to everyone who was part of it and onward to new adventures!
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SOI 65
The Timemongers Card Deck has been selected for the 65th annual Society Of Illustrators exhibition. It’s some of the best news I’ve ever received, and I have a lot of people to thank, starting with Comic Art Europe and the Lyon BD Festival (who created the right context and gave me the best excuse to…
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Throwback Thursday
Conceived as an ancient scroll, this ”book” uses an old belt, inks and acrylic paints (no memory of how I made the cardboard roll). Most of the illustrations from this time use The Old Testament as a source of inspiration – possibly because those were the stories my grandmother used to tell me when I…
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Throwback Thursday
Back in… oh God… 2008… I had a blogspot. And on there I used to post stuff I was doing at uni, and personal projects, and occasionally rant about books and movies. I recently discovered some of the boxes with art projects, so here we go. I’m posting them mostly for fun and nostalgia sake,…
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The Timemongers Concert
I spent the best part of 2022 working on this, so I figured it deserved its own post :). I ”blame” Comic Art Europe for enabling my obsession with folktales, and I must admit that when I made my grant application I didn’t really have a clear idea of what it was going to grow…
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Saturday Sketches
I do try to draw them weekly, but hey… More quick drawings, references from bodiesinmotion.photo
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Saturday Sketches
More quick drawings, references from bodiesinmotion.photo
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Saturday Sketches
Reference from bodiesinmotion.photo, I do love their 3D scans.
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Saturday Sketches
A post from may that somehow hid in drafts…
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Saturday Sketches
More gesture drawings – I love the quickdraw option on bodiesinmotion.photo, becasue iit makes my life sooo much easier. 4 minutes sketches, as far as I remember.
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Saturday Sketches
References from bodiesinmotion.photo, digital brushes from kylebrushes.
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Saturday Sketches
Digital ink, references from bodiesinmotion.photo
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Saturday Sketches
Digital ink, references from all over the web, but mostly from Shorpy.com
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2020 – Counting blessings
: to make a special effort to appreciate the good things in one’s life So, it’s now the first of January 2021. And as we look back, it’s time to say… well WASN’T THAT STRANGE? I spent the first half of 2020 working on the second chapter of Fisksoppa and ignoring the apocalypse. I am…
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The Merchant of Venice
It all started with the digital sketches… And then there were the oil pastel trials… Same for the boat scene… And it’s both annoying and gratifying to see that each new image looses something the sketch had and gains something new. Still, it was a great experience, and I look forward to revisiting the Shakespeare…
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Saturday Sketches
More drawings, pencil on paper with digital ink on top. References from all over the web, but mostly form shorpy.com
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Making of – Portia
…from the Merchant of Venice. The initial sketch was done in the summer of 2019, and I found the time to finally finish it one year later. I took the print-it-out-and-transfer-it-to-paper approach. I have talked about this before – I don’t think this method works for me, perhaps because I don’t have the patience to…
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Twelfth night
(or the melodrama if the artist who forgot how traditional art works). So, after working digitally for a very long time, and longing to get back to oil pastels, I finally got the chance. And everything exploded in my face. Metaphorically. I started with the digital sketches – my idea was to create symmetrical composition,…
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Saturday Sketches
In about two months time, I’ll be starting my rounds on Fisksoppa – the brilliant webcomic I’m working on with my sister. We draw one chapter each, which ensures that neither of us gets sick of drawing pirates for five months straight – but which also pretty much guarantees I forget how to draw between…
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Saturday Sketches
Here we go, bodiesinmotion.photo has some new scans and you can change the lighting and I love it. So behold, quick light studies.
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Saturday Sketches 2020
So… the story goes like this: my 2020 goal was making a series of traditional works. And it tuned out to be more difficult than I initially thought. Sure, I could blame it on my lack of patience ( …I do the sketch in pencil. I scan the sketch. I finish it in Photoshop. I…
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Fisksoppa Portraits
Cartographer - Fisksoppa, year of the Wandering CroissantAll these portraits are character studies for the webcomic I am working on with @ileana_surducan . Some of them will show up in the future, some of them will never make it in the spotlight... but I am having a lot of fun! Cartographer - Fisksoppa, year of… -
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Fisksoppa
Long story short, I’m making a webcomic with my sister Ileana – and here is why. The wall tiles were white, the floor tiles were mustard-green and we were making toothpaste-soup for Captain Blade. The cartoons started at seven thirty, dinner was at eight, teeth-brushing was at half past and it ended with me and…
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2019 A Year in Colour
Another year gone, a new year up on the horizon. I’ll never get used to the idea that it’s 2020. Mind you, I never got used to the new century, so there’s that, I am doomed to live outside time. So… what happened last year? The first thing that happened was Visual Playground 2019. For…
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Zestrea
Did I mention I’m designing a boardgame? Loosely based on the life in the traditional Romanian village (but really, it will look familiar to all eastern-europeans), Zestrea is mostly about arranging marriages, accumulating fortunes and surviving hard times (like, floods, fires, communism and building motorways). The game was created by Horațiu Roman and Alex Pațiu…
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Le Bal des Douze Princesses
The book is at the printers, it should be done by the beginning of August :). So I thought this might be a good time to do a short recap of how it came to be. Legend has it, every book starts with a story, every comic-book starts with a script. There are even older…
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Saturday Sketches
There is something magic in dance, or I might just like the swirly dress, who knows… Studies done in Photoshop with KyleBrushes, references from bodiesinmotion.photo.
