photoshop

First poster I made using Photoshop... I'm really happy learning something about those programs in school at the moment, because I know NOTHING about it and I'm like an old woman, refusing to acknowledge progress or something. I try to suck every information in like a sponge, but it's hard and that bothers me, and I really like to draw on paper - not on a screen. But I guess *hands up - give in to modernism* is the motto.
The photo in the background is from a trip to New York last year. GAAAAH I miss that city.

teeth

4 ink drawings I made recently.

Måne

A little comic I made on the topic "Moon" (in Danish: "måne", that also has a second meaning, namely English: "bald head", German: "Glatze" :-)
Click to view larger... (Since it's too large for my scanner I had to photograph it)
I hope you get it?! The reading direction is maybe not really clear.

landscape

  

würstchen

 

The Drawing Academy - Summer Course in Classical Drawing Pt. 1

In the beginning of July I went on a trip to the North of Jutland and took a week-long course in classical drawing, hosted by The Animation Workshop/The Drawing Academy, which is a school/university for mainly animators. It was a great decision to do that, I learned a TON, met a lot of inspiring and ambitious people and just had an awesome time in general... Every day there were 6 hours teaching/drawing (mostly life drawing/"Croquis" as the Danes say, with poses between 10 seconds to around 2 1/2 hours). When I first got there I was pretty bummed out about my own abilities, seeing how damn awesome everyone around me was at drawing :-), but I chose to use that feeling to get even more encouraged/eager and it worked! Ha! I think I made a lot of progress in those 7 days, not just in drawing, but also in my general attitude and in sorting out my life goals and "stuff"...
I definitely want to keep practising (a lot more than I do - which is basically nothing - argh!) and learn to draw better... It's only the first step on a looong way I took here - but I'm very glad I took it!!
Here are some of the long-time studies, I'll post some sketches and many photos I took another time.
The drawings are in chronological order. We did almost every day one, but the very first ones are just too shitty to share, hehe (anyway I'll keep them for myself to remind me where I started and how fast it can go if I just keep practising enough).
I THINK I can see a little progress along the way, thanks to the many helpful comments and people around.

Our models were called Asger and Emilie and were really sweet people and rad artists themselves...

P.s.: The paper's way too big for my scanner :-(

mir sin mit'm draggdor do.

sketchbook

'sup?
I scanned some pages from my sketchbook(s) and I'm putting this now on the interweb.
I also started a 14-day-challenge - do one drawing OR take a photo a day (I wanted to start "small" - so, only 14 days and only one tiny sketch/snapshot would be enough, may not sound like much, but I've even had my troubles with that already - damn work/winter/classes/lazyness). So far I've been keeping up, wehuw! The results I'm going to post as soon as I'm done with the whole thing and the pictures are developed.

Some doodles (love that word) coming UP, mostly from our summer vacation - Berlin, Baltic Sea, Crete:

IB, the marsvin - Meerschweinstudie :D

During a Berlin-trip.

Pretty shitty, but I tried spying on people and drawing them without being caught - and that's one of my first attempts - has to be documented! That was during eating brunch at Viasko - a vegan restaurant in Berlin. Hands down the best brunch I've ever had.

Wanted to try my pens, hehe. The person is looking out of the windows, but you can't tell, because it's not finished. (but i doubt it ever will be finished...) On the right side there was supposed to be a bed/room interior.

Otis an der Ostsee.

My mum fell asleep while I was drawing her - best model, hehe.

3-minute sketch of my dad, he had to laugh so hard when I showed it to him. I think he was shocked. He wanted me to call the drawing: "Aufgebracht nach Telefonat mit Rentenversicherung".

I had to cut the other half of the drawing off, out of privacy reasons, haha! If you cn read German+my handwriting, you will know, why. To get the vibe, watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ASY6WhI2dc

The beautiful cliff at the Red Beach in Matala/Crete...

Reference picture! :)

Well, it was a nudist beach! That's why there is an outline of my boob. And a self-portrait I drew from my reflection in Jeppe's sunglasses.

Those rocks were sick!!

 

A little goodbye-card I made a while ago for one of my colleagues that left the compnay to go and study medicine. "Held og lykke" means something like "good luck" :)

By the way, isn't that skull-eraser the coolest? You can attach it to the end of a pencil.

saturday sketching

chilling on the couch until my hintern hurts!

Danskuddannelse

Since I'm spending some time in a classroom again and listening to a person teaching me things, I also experience that this forces a very strong urge within me that I remember from being in school - I start to doodle the most random things without thinking the tiniest bit about what I'm actually doing there. It's an almost completely subconscious mechanism that apparently helps me to focus on the material I'm listening to. I think a lot of people know that phenomenon.

I photographed absolutely all of the scribbles I made so far, no matter how small, and wanted to assemble them in some kind of digital collage because I like the trashy randomness my brain produces without forcing it in some kind of direction and without judging the outcome at all. I haven't gotten far with that, maybe I'll figure something out at some point. But I still want to collect them here.
Oh, and there are also some pretty damn awesome pictures from the small freaked-out, danish stories in the book 'Skolegade'.