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 

Adaptation with David Hine

The last two weeks we were taught in adaptation (Adapting one media to another) by the English comic book writer and artist, David Hine. In this case that means that we have been adapting short stories to comics.

We have been working with short stories by the American author and poet, Edgar Allan Poe. He is best known for his gloomy and macabre stories, often about madness and alcoholism.

I have been working with the short story, "The Black Cat", which is quite a horror story. My goal was to have twelve finished rough sketches, but I am planning to finish it completely.

Some of the thumbnails with captions

 

Style exercise: John Buscema w. Lawrence Marvit

We practised the style of the American comic book artist, John Buscema. The exercise consisted of drawing after models the entire week. We had to use the models as references for building up characters, so they were all dressed up in cool costumes. Character inspiration was from the comic books "Conan the Barberian" and "Prince Valiant". Each drawing was five or six minutes.