Lettering with Kriti Monga

We had two weeks of lettering taught by Kriti Monga coming all the way from India. She gave classes in lettering, typography, and calligraphy. We got to try a lot of different tools. Among them was the ice-cream stick dipped in ink. The letters below are written with one of those. 

One of the assignments was to design a book cover from a comic book we chose ourselves. We could not illustrate the cover but had to base the whole design on the style of the title. I chose Art Spiegelman's Maus. 

Color with Lawrence Marvit

We had a week's workshop learning color theory, light/shadow, local colors etc. 
My picture is really not done though... The theme was fight in a flowershop or marketplace 

Clarity: Final assignment

The final assignment with Ed Piskor was to make a 4 page comic + a front page/poster about the story we have been working with. I did a scene from a story that would be bigger if it was in full version. The outline is drawn with a normal pencil and it is all colored in Photoshop.

check out Ed Piskor's stuff here: http://www.edpiskor.com/ 

Clarity with Ed piskor

 So, for two weeks we had the American cartonnist, Ed Piskor giving us an awesome comic workshop. We did a lot of exercises and the final, bigger project was a really nice experience for me.
 

The first thing we did, related to the final project was to fill out all the circles on this sheet with characters.

 

The next thing was to choose four of the characters and make character designs, which we could see ourselves use in a story. I did five characters.

Next thing: Make an illustration showing some situations that could take place in the story...

Then: Make a comic strip showing a sequence from the story...

Style with Rune Ryberg

This week we have had another class of style exercise. We have been studying The American comic book artists, Mike Mignola and Jack Kirby, and had to make one page per style. The page should include two characters and a given dialogue. The class was taught by the Danish comic book artist, Rune Ryberg 

http://www.runeryberg.com/

Illustration with Simon Væth

For two weeks we have been taught illustration. We had to do three small assignments and one big.

     The first one was for a newspaper article about biomedical registration

 

The second was for a magazine article about stress in working environments  

The third was to make a poster for the Danish band,

Moth 

http://mothband.bandcamp.com/album/singles-demos 

The big assignment was to illustrate and make a frontpage for a book about Danish history. 

Admiral Pros Mund

King Erik Klipping

Color with Cedric Babouche

We just finished our first color class, which was taught by the French artist and director, Cedric Babouche. We had to do one page with four panels and a page with one big illustration. In each frame we had to create a new kind of mood/environment, using colors.

I had a lot of fun, and got to use techniques I have never used before. I have two versions, and the whole thing is done in Photoshop. 

  

World Building w. Martin Rauff-Nielsen

We have had a two-week World building workshop mentored by the Danish writer and roleplayer, Martin Rauff. We had to create a world, a story taking place in it, and choose a media platform. My group did a concept for a feature animated movie called "Remembering Nivaska". 

The story is about our main character, the old lady Giana, who by an accident gets dragged into the mysterious world of Nivaska. A fantasy world with giants and unknown creatures, ruled by the Fish King Nepol.

Some of my drawings for the film: 

CHARACTERS:

Creatures

 SETTINGS:

The harbor

Giana and mud monster

Giana and Nepol

It was a group project, so we all had different tasks, but you can check out what my classmates did for this project here:
Mathilde - http://mathildesportfolio.blogspot.dk/
Julie - http://juliehaugeandersen.tumblr.com/
Clara - http://clarajetsmark.tumblr.com/

Pantomime with Mårdøn Smet

This week Mårdøn Smet who taught us in Fraquin style last year, was back. This time he has been teaching us in pantomime, which shortly told are stories without words. This is hard because you have to find other ways to make your story points clear, so you have to focus more on face expressions and body language. 

Each of us had to create a 2-page comic about the Greek philosopher, Diogenes. He was one of the founders of cynic philosophy and lived a very simple lifestyle - it is said, that he lived in a jar. 

As a guideline for out comic, each of us got one of Diogene's anecdotes.

(I will put in my anecdote later) 

Not finished watercolor