Comic

This is a short comic I did for a competition. Sadly it didn't get selected, but on the bright side that allows me to share it here with you on my blog. The name of the story is "Lubóv", which is a village in Poland. It's taken from my own person experience during a family vacation in Poland some years ago, mixed with some fiction. (The guy with the chain saw isn't the fictional part, if you were wondering.) 

It's the first time that I have really tried to make a comic like this, where I had to put down the story myself, and it proved to be both very hard to do, but also quite rewarding. I know more about my own work process now, and I know that I absolutely love the narrative form of a comic!

I'm preparing for the annual christmas marked at my school in the end of November. This is one of the prints you'll be able to by from my little shop. Also I will bring some of my collography prints and the lino cut I posted last. It's the first time that I'll try to sell some of my things, so I'm really excited to see if anyone is interested.  

Lino cut

Small Horse

I have been working with collography, which is a way of printing where you use cardboard to make texture or draw in with your etching needle, just like you would a copper plate. I love this method because it's so simple and cheap to use and still you can get some really amazing results.
These tree are images printed from the same board, which should give you an idea of just how many options there are if you fancy it. But for the two in the top I have used an additional board to add the red color.

Game design illustrations

Here are some illustrations I did for an app designed to help children with autism and ADHD communicate how they are feeling to their parents and carers. I have used a simple visual expression and some child friendly colors to create as little distraction as possible.

It was great to work with these kids and visit the child day care center "Toppen" for some user research. Also I had great fun working with illustration in a new way and even see it animated a bit (there's a drag and drop function of the faces). 

You can read more about the concept of the project here.  

sketches

A few sketches. Since my last project I have wanted to try a way to color in Photoshop, but without loosing the hand drawn look. Here I have just added a little texture and shadow with the pencil before I scanned the illustration. Well okay, this is old news for most I suppose. I'm still a happy student. And now - it's time for tea and bedtime story.