I’m really proud to present my contribution to the exhibit “str. 42″ (or “Size 42″), held by the nice people at Knot. I was one of the 30 illustrators, designers and artists showing off our awesome skills. Taking the name of the exhibition literally, I made 42 small illustrations, each depicting an epic battle between two pop-cultural characters. The full illustration can be read as a 7 by 6 diagram, where each of the 7 different characters on the y-axis battles each of the 6 different characters on the x-axis. Nerdy much? Thanks to my friend Stig for taking these neat pictures!

This little guy is a mascot for a brand of Omega 3 capsules marketed towards children. It was a commission for a design company in Bergen called Knudsen who asked me to redraw a sketch they had done to make it more animated. It was also my first try working with Inkscape, an Illustrator clone, which was sort of frustrating. Still I am kinda happy with this guy, he looks like he could star in a Dreamworks movie. Not a Pixar movie though, but I’m getting there.

It’s no secret that I am a big fan of Star Wars, and if you were to browse my sketchbooks it would become even more apparent. Seeing as my favorite movie in the series, The Empire Strikes Back, has a 30th anniversary this year, I figured it would be fitting to put sketches of my 30 favorite Original Trilogy and Extended Universe characters up fer yer viewing pleasure.

These collectable stickers featuring characters from my comic book fanzine are what I currently give people as my personal business cards. I grew up collecting stuff like this, so of course I couldn’t just make any old regular Batemanesque card. I make sure to print them in uneven numbers, so that some of them are common and some of them rare. There’s even a super rare secret card I’m not showing you, featuring a character from my comic books that has yet to make an appearance. Nerdy! :P Notice the cards read “Series 1″, foreshadowing even more unnecessary work in my future. Sweet.

Holy crap! I made another comicbook! It is so rewarding to finally see Fnugg go from a one shot to a series. Or at least get a sequel. The next 5-6 issues are already churning inside my head, so lets hope the next one doesn’t take as long to get done. In this issue, the adventures of Nightshadow continue, and things start to get a little more complicated for him. Bully McDrunk returns, along with a couple of new additions, like the Pirate Detective Wayne Moon. The second issue of Fnugg is only in norwegian for now, so this is a good time to learn a new language.

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This illustration was sold for use on a banner, celebrating my favorite of festivities, Halloween. A holiday that has become strangely overrepresented on this blog. It was a perfect assignment for me, I love drawing kids in spooky costumes. The illustration was first drawn by hand, and then reconstructed in illustrator, to make it useful at huge proportions. As a bonus, I’ll post some of the rejected sketches of costumed kids. The first one might look familiar, it is my own halloween costume from two years ago. Sneaky.

Wow, longest post evar.

This is a recent painting I made as a gift. The picture was taken in our new workshop! It’s really dirty there! The painting is supposed to be my old cat. So it’s sort of a portrait. A portrait of a cat. Yes.

I’m very proud to present something that has been long in the making. My own personal comic book fanzine, Fnugg. Some of the comics are old, some are new, because I’ve spent quite some time pondering how to release this. I’ve decided on something in between a comic book and a web comic, meaning you can download the entire comic in a handy .pdf file for free. You can even print your own physical copy if you like. Originally in norwegian, I’ve translated the first issue into english, as the internet happens to be “international”. I’m already working on the next issue, so any feedback would be nice.

FNUGG #1: NORWEGIAN

FNUGG# 1: ENGLISH

It’s almost that time of year again. That magical time of ghosts, ghouls and gremlins. Halloween. This is the sequel to last years poster and is a personal project promoting our annual Halloween party. I really hope we have as good a time as we did last year.

Speaking of last year, here’s a little bonus. My cardboard robot costume. Yes, the chest mounted dial goes all the way up to “Kill all humans!” (Also note the beer in my hand. Robots as we all know, depend on beer as fuel.) I spent quite some time and money making this, which I can’t afford this year, so topping this might be hard. We’ll see.

This is yet another logo I made strictly for fun for a band project of some friends. The band’s musical style is teenage punk-rock and they take their name from a famous skate trick, so I’ve tried to convey some of the attitude of that scene.