My brother got married!

My brother (younger by two years) got married a few days ago. He call's his wife a zebra, she calls him a giraffe - how can you NOT draw something based on that? Sorry for the photo, but I didn't have time to scan it.

Found the Gran Canaria pics!

Brilliant! I found the old sketches from Gran Canaria! Basicly a small pad filled with doodles from the trip... of stuff we saw, things we did, that kinda thing. Its a bit old but wth!

My husband is a "planner"

I'm not.

My mother-in-law ran through Gatwick with unbuttoned  trousers. Fun.

My brother and his Fiance in Brighton!

Means nothing to those who haven't grown up in Sweden.

... they are queeny aren't they?

Well those air plane seats where designed for midgets after all

Love them drag queens.

Those North American Indian look-alike groups playing mozart on panflutes are everywhere

He missed the bus and he didn't like having to wait five minutes for the next one.

Germans at the bar

My mother-in-law sees the world. At night.

From the silent north to the rather loud south.

My mums dog

My mums dogs fat friend

View from the bus.

View from my mums place

Another movie reference for Swedes

You can always use football talk.

Some street.

I had to do illustration work during our vacation but it was worth it.

I not only love the drag queens, but the bears have a spot in my heart too.

Oh I should fix stuff with ye olde Portfolio site

This post is probably irrelevant to everyone alive, or dead, out there. But wtf: I need to fix my portfolio site. If you know of a good host-provider who allows Chrome or Firefox in its interactions with them an easy way to migrate my homepage+adress to them or just wanna tell me off for leaving One[dot]com, please tell me.

I should also re-arrange this blog a bit. Make it easier to read through, to find the posts with images instead of posts like this, with boring queries. So expect changes!

Final editorial for Arbetaren

This head piece for the magazine Arbetaren was my last job for them in the foreseeable future. Its been a brilliant run (almost two years now) and they rock, but all good things must come to an end.

a small head piece for a section in the magazine dedicated to Workingclass
(blue collar for the americans out there) Writers.

Its sad but kinda good-sad... so for the boys and girls at Arbetaren!

Alphabooks/Alphabeasts - I wish I had time for you. I love you so.

A while back I was in a, not a competition but a challenge thing called Alphabeasts, where every monday we drew another monster from A-Z. I tried to draw mostly Swedish monsters but when I got to C I realized that since the letter hardly exists as a consonant-sound in Swedish I had to go with greek myth.

Anyway anyway. It was great BUT I had work to do and I really didn,t have time for it. I tried but I kept slipping too far behind everyone else and I though "ah there will be another time". Now there is!

Its Alphabooks, where you draw a character from a book from A-Z. "Brilliant" I thought "Now its Jensy's time to shine. I got the summer off". And then I got allot of work to do for the summer (which is great, dont get me wrong). Aaaaaand I got as far as B. 

BUT its still going! If you are better at time management than me, perhaps you should damn well join in!

Alphabooks!

(click the hyper text, click it!)

So Charybdis, the vortex monster in the Homers Odyssé and her sister Scylla (the tooth paste)

Angelmaker, a classical - not monster, but profession in Sweden about 100 years ago. They made angels for a living/took in unwanted children for a fee and if those kids didn't survive they could take in more. The "made angels". Horrible.

Bortbyting is basicly the same as a changeling. Only about 200 ago in Sweden this was a real fear. If your kid was a bit wierd or strange. You assumed it was a troll child, a monster.

Elle is my favorite. Its from this story where Tor/Thor had to compete with a giants family.  He had to wrestle with the Giants grandmother. Unknown to him shes not an old woman but "old age" incarnated. And no one can beat old age.

Ooooh Editorials!

Ok so my plan was, this summer I was going to take it easy, draw that kids book and just sit in the grass and feel good about myself. Suddenly I got allot of work, a magazine cover, several editorials and a t-shirt.

The kids litt. illustrations are lying quietly on one of my shelves and guilting me for not drawing more of them. Although in all fairness editorials, cover and t-shirt is fun too, so I'm not complaining at all.

The upper image for an illustration to some poems in the magazine Arbetaren

The lower image for those poems... >:)

The post I did a week ago kinda screwed up the image. So here it is again.

These where fun as hell to do! For the magazine Skriva! (link below)

...They where for this great text about an amataur writer trying to get a detective story together...

.... With some rather hilarious character bios.

The last ones where great fun just doing. I wanted that sort of 70's kids card game feeling about them so I sat with markers for hours trying to fuck up the colours a bit to make it look "handy-crafty". Also about the stereotypes... the text was about someone writing these absurd stereotypes so they had to be over the top and kinda ridiulous in themselves. Hope no one takes any offence.

These where the magazines btw:
The magazine Skriva!
The magazine Arbetaren 

Editorial illustrations

So this is me trying to blog from my phone.

I did some editorials yesterday so I thought I should post one of them. It's about corporate medicare companies. Hope you like it

One more Kidsbook illustration before hiatus

... ok so not so much hiatus as not-having-time-to-do-them-for-a-week. This one was probably the one that took the longest to make. All those nuances of green took allot of blending and fiddling with. But the story thus far. This would be around image 11 if its supposed to be in order - but I've done them sort of in wierd order.

The girl has been evicted from the ship, saved at the last moment by Laika the first dog of the SS Esperanto in a shuttle that crashes in the dense jungles of the moon. After some misadventures and arguments they have finally reached their destination - the City. But there are signs that all is not right in the Moon Capital and Laika is a bit nervous about it.

That statue is wierd. But the tapir doesn't seem to care.

Kids Book continues

After a wierd holiday with my mum, brother, brothers fiance and mother in law visiting for my mums 60th birthday (coinciding with Swedish Mothers Day, us winning the ESC and some religious holiday) - its now back to drawing that kids book.

This is illustration 3 done. The photo isn't good - but I wanna keep them out of the computer for as long as possible - just to see if it works ok. So far everything feels great, it takes longer to do them, but I love the results so far.

Hope you like it too

Oh no! She's caught by the vicious captain of the SS Esperanto!

Another stab at childrens book illustrations

Basicly the same story as the last one. But this is a little while earlier than the last one. Its a camera photo so the quality is kinda crap - but there it is. Also I've been thinking at changing the colour of the dog - its too strong and forced in comparison with all the other colours.

She's spying on her parents conversation.