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micke · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:27 am

Hi Gang.
Not sure if anybody remembers me, but i used to be a frequent poster a couple of years ago. I wanted to share a few handpicked illustrations for a Norwegian comic-novel i illustrated quite recently. T

All 100 fullpages were done with pencils on A4-papers in the evenings of a 3 month period. It was a pretty fun and intense experience. I probably spent more time scanning than actually drawing.

On with the pics:

There is text in the illustrations, but unfortunately i dont have the PDF-files:/

Please let me know what you think.

Mikael

Sumaleth · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:42 am

Micke! Welcome back. Smile

I would have recognized the artist behind these images even if you hadn't said. No one else draws your noses. Smile

Great drawings.
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daryl · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:49 am

yeah, welcome back!
great drawings! not much to crit except some seem less contrasty than others.
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micke · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:04 am

Thanks Suma, and Daryl:) Cool to see some familliar faces.
Yeah, some of them are less contrasy. I guess i didnt adjust the brightness contrast too good on some of them. I think the designer fixed it in the book however.

Edit: My god! I cant believe its been 8 years sine i first registered here..

Cicinimo · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:02 pm

Micke! I'm sure you dont remember me, but i'm a longtime fan. The new stuff is great. Looks like you had fun with #3.
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gLitterbug · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:30 pm

THE YEAR IS 2035A.D ...how could anyone who has been around at the time not remember you. You and Joachim still friends and working together? Nice to see the oldtimers I looked up to back the golden days popping up now and then in this place.

Nice illustrations, seems quite the intense novel there. The dogs head really got me. Very godfather.

micke · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 10:02 pm

Cicinimo: Thank you:)
Glitterbug: Yes, we are still working together, though in another company.
Number 3 was fun, but hard to do:)

Here is a few more inluding the cover:

Although you cannot see it in these exact pictures, the designer Erlend Askhov did a great job incorporating the text into the pictures.

One thing that strikes me when looking at the drawings now is that i should have drawn them in a bigger format. Some details and line-work looks clumsy to me.

Andromeda · Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 7:56 pm

looks very awesome,

whats the story roughly about ? ...
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it looks like, long haired guy likes girl ..
untill short haired blonde guy came along ..
and stole her from him ...
and somewhere in the middle of that, a dog got his head cut off .

really love the line works , and the weight in these characters ..

Ragnarok · Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:22 am

micke! it's been ages since I last saw you around.
The art is great as always, if the story is up to par I'll buy it Smile

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Kian · Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 5:25 am

Love these. Very cool Smile

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micke · Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 2:47 am

Synnical · Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 10:51 am

lovely work! I am now a fan! I could sense that each panel was carefully constructed to tell a story, plus the linework itself is really amazing! I jumped a little when I scroll down and saw the dog's head...

will some of these by coloured eventually?
thanks for the inspiration!

micke · Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 10:07 pm

Thank you. Each picture was carefully planned in a storyboard first. Heres the boards:

They will not be colored as the book is already published and it was suppose to be a black and white book.

Thanks:)

Bg · Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 5:20 am

That's some very nice work Micke!

I especially like the choices you have made regarding what should be filled with black and what stripped of details. There's also some tough poses and you still managed to make it look correct, I know I wouldn't Cool

One question, did you enjoy storyboarding more than doing the final illustrations?

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Kian · Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 5:34 am

Thanks for posting the storyboards Micke. I was wondering what happened in that transition phase from writing to drawing in a graphic novel.
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micke · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:26 am

Thank you BG. Well having friends and co-workers pose for me helped a lot:) Well i enjoyed both storyboarding and drawing the final pitures. I guess i was playing more with angles and poses in the boards which made it maybe a little more fun.

Kian: The boards saved me alot of time. As you can see most of the final pictures looks alot like the ones in the boards.