Inktober 2018

I'm doing inktober this year too! I'll be posting them to my instagram.
This year it's going to be simple ink doodles since I'm pretty swamped at work and with life in general.

It's all good tho! No worries! See y'all on the other side!

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Here are some ipad sketches from Trondheim!

I haven't used it for sketching "real life" people until now...! It's pretty neat!

Inktobers from 2017 – Fanfriday every day!

I realized that I haven't shared my inktobers from 2017 that I finished and I am still amazed and horrified that I did without a lot of hassle. (The perks of not having a lot of social engagements!) It was pretty relaxing just thinking "One ink drawing! No matter the quality!" and enjoy trying out what looked best, what worked, what didn't.

I scanned them at work with a terrible copy machine scanner before Christmas and edited the ones that didn't turn out terrible. All of these are the later ones since the drawings in the beginning were pretty... yikes! I draw with an iron fist, so loosening up took a few tries. Here are my favorites! :^)

Thanks for looking!

xAnneM.

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I've been kinda low about my art lately and started knitting to get a break. I've nearly filled my first smaller 2018 sketchbook, but it's just doodles and croqus. Now that spring is here, I'm hoping to get back to good habits!!

Thanks for looking!

xAnneM

Happy New Year + Finished sketchbook for 2017! 🎉

Happy New Year!

This year has been pretty structured so I haven't been traveling or doing crazy new stuff. I have been pretty busy with work, learning a lot of new things and having fun in my new home office space. I fulfilled most of my 2016 new years resolutions, except for the "learn one new thing", in which I planned to learn a song on the ukulele. In the end I traded it for... JAZZBALLET *jazzhands* (I'm am still a terrible dancer.)

I had great plans about updating my blog a lot this year, but life got in the way and I haven't had much time... I hope the "new year" feeling lasts a while so I have the energy to plan some stuff ahead... stay tuned. 

What I have spent some time on this year, is my sketchbook!
Which was finished...
IN NOVEMBER.

For the past two yearly sketchbooks I've had to catch up during the Christmas holidays, but this year I finished a whole month early! I think this is mostly due to me being sick of looking at a screen and spending more time with the sketchbook... and additionally using it to sketch all my inktober sketches... which I finished this year! (I bought myself a new pencil-case as a reward!)

Anyway, behold!
Here are some sketches from the sketchbook of 2017... most were smudged from the low quality paper and pencil combo that I enjoy so much so they couldn't be saved by heavy PS, but here are some that could be saved... and isn't a bunch of nude people.

Me + plants.

A good dog + People in Henningsvær.

Various self-indulgent doodling!
(Arc from Inktober!)

People (and hand) watching.

Thanks for looking!

xAnneM

Fan Friday | Bravely Second

Long time since the last fan Friday!

I made some stickers for fun from Bravely Second (3DS) to put on my sketchbook and to give away to friends. I started them in 2016, but didn't finish them until now. I think they turned out pretty cute!

Thanks for looking!

xAnneM

Saturday studio sessions in Bodø.

For the past four Saturdays I've been doing croquis of long pose studies at an art studio! It was amazing to be back in an art interested environment and hanging out with people who was up for discussions on drawing utensils, papers, sources of inspiration and so on while eating cookies after class.

Here are some of my favorites from the last session: They are my favorite since I did them in the cheapest markers I had, and for some reason my brain and eye works 100% better when there are no do-overs. Living on the edge..!

The other sessions were done in pencil and ended up pretty messy and smudged... oh well!

There was talk of doing another round of sessions in the summer or fall, but with some quick-poses before going into the long one...! So excited! :^D

*Model ended up wearing underwear– Which was good since there was a cold front and the models felt 100% more comfortable + The models were wonderful, had very elegant poses and were super nice and chatty during the breaks! They really joined in making it a supportive and relaxed environment!

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Last sketches from the sketchbook!

Looking forward to sharing sketches and doodles from 2017! :^)

Thanks for looking!

xAnneM

2017: New Year + Finished Sketchbook!

Happy new years!

This year has gone by way too quickly and I have been much too busy to keep up with my side-projects, update my blog AND have a life, so the blog and life was nipped in the bud ;^)

I think I managed about.. half-ish of last years resolutions, which means I managed to finish the sketchbook and tried, valiantly, to get up early. The rest just fell off the wagon named "life." Oh well!

NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS:

• Run every week! Need to be in a good physical shape to be in a good mental shape! Which coincidentally lines up with my last years "Get up early", since I really enjoy running in the morning. One stone, two birds. 
• Get in bed early and read before sleeping. Since this makes me not only sleep better, but fills a "read more books" resolution.
• Fill a 2017 sketchbook.
• Finish one of the many projects I have outlined in my notebooks.
• Keep having fun Ketsjup meetings!
• Go to Oslo and hang out with Ketsjup IRL.
• Learn how to play a song on my ukulele.
  

SKETCHBOOK 2016

I finished my 2016 sketchbook after hiking up my doodlin' pants and filling the last pages during the Christmas holidays. I switched out the heavy paper sketchbook after realizing, I'm just not that kinda girl... thin, low-quality paper is where my heart lies. There are some 2015 illustrations in it from the Brussels trip, but whatever: Look at the flapping pages! Next year, I hope to finish well before the Christmas holidays and do even more digital illustrations since there were few this year...! Wish me good luck.

Some stuff from the sketchbook: Mostly pens, since pencils are hard to edit and the paper is super smudge-y. Hurray for my love of low-quality, cheap sketchbooks!

My dad napping! (Sorry dad.)

I had about... 5-6 pen doodles of my friend Hanne, who was kind enough to sit still while I eyeballed her. Thank you!

Unfortunately, I realized that almost all the people I sketch are nude, and I try to keep my blog PG-13 ;^) + I started doing small "thumbnail" sceneries from windows. It was pretty refreshing! 

Here's to 2017! 

Thanks for looking!

xAnneM

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Some old-ish doodles and gesture drawings. My main go-to drawing utensils have been the mech pencil and my sketchbook lately...!

Thanks for looking!

xAnneM

Fugløyafestivalen 2016

The climbing club in Bodø has, for the past years, arranged a climbing festival on Fugløya, outside of Bodø. This year my bf was part of the committee planning the festival so I ended up getting roped into helping out.
Such hardships I endure!! ;^)

Their request was a Lundefugl (or Puffin), native to the island, wearing some climbing gear. I first did some quick sketches on a sketchpad to get the ideas down and, when satisfied with the idea, did a simple and "clean" sketch in photoshop.

The "glorious" PS sketch and finished illustration.

The festival doesn't have a logo and let whoever is designing the t-shirt and poster to do what they want, so the whole affair is pretty relaxed. I had to improvise and do a quick logo that was a little cleaner than the illustration (for readability), but still matched it.

Here's the finished t-shirt with the illustration! :^)
The sketch was vectorized in AI for a clean print!

I also did a poster for them in A3 so they could print it themselves- It has a white border so that they didn't have to do any cutting work for easy printing. The background color was matched to this years T-shirt (100% Cyan!) and I incorporated a photo of Fugløya they wanted to include.

I heard the festival was a success and from the stories, I think they had a pretty good time. My bf said he got compliments on the T-shirt, so seems like a job well done! It was a fun project to do outside of work and I enjoyed working on the illustration while getting tips and good conversations from the Ketsjup crew! Thanks for the motivation guys!

Thanks for looking!

xAnneM

Illustrated wallpaper!

Late last year I got an amazing assignment from bossman: I was to create a sketch for an illustrated wallpaper for a health clinic for pregnant women and young people in the center of the city. They wanted something pattern-y and colorful with a turquoise background to match the walls, so I sketched some simple and different people and nature to make the whole pattern into a park... just like the one we have available here in our city! The job was on hold through Christmas, but now it's finished...!

I wanted all the people and animals to have friendly, wavy forms and odd, but cute looking anatomy- which I think I managed pretty well! The illustration elements are separate and pretty large so they can be used for promotional things for the clinic! I love when stuff can be "re-used" for different marketing products.

I had a lot of fun with this job and I think the results show this! Here is an image (sorry for the low quality) from the finished wallpaper... I can't get over how cool it is to have my illustrations on a wall for people too see! :^)

Thanks for looking!

xAnneM

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Recent sketches! For some reason this past month has been really busy..! I want to make more time to do draw!

FINISHED SKETCHBOOK PARTY AT MY HOUSE!!

I started my ASDA sketchbook when I was in Manchester in 2014 during the summer and have been drawing in it on-and-off. It's a little bit smaller than A4 and the paper is not too thick, so it feels really nice to draw in with pencil and micropens (prismas bleed through tho!). I really wanted to keep it a 2014/2015 sketchbook, so I hiked up my drawing-pants this past month to finish it and now... it's finished! :^D

I don't think I've finished a sketchbook completely (I do have some which are close to finished) until now, tho not for the lack of trying. I keep buying new ones because new sketchbooks are seriously the best and if I find a nice sketchbook I gotta have it... but since my sketches are divided on digital and by hand, they just don't get filled in that fast.

Here are some sketches from it!
Taken by phone and edited in PS, so the ones that came out looking OK were the ink sketches and some of the stand-alone doodles...no bakgrounds! I guess they will remain a mystery in my sketchbook until I buy a scanner.

Super excited to start my 2016 sketchbook! It has slightly thicker and texturized paper... saving my last ASDA sketchbook for 2017! I will try my best to finish it too! (I will need more stickers for the outside...)

Thanks for looking!

xAnneM