Bestill et veggmaleri!

Jeg pynter din vegg! Det er kjempeenkelt og lett å sette opp - jeg skaffer alt av utstyr og materiale. Nedenfor ser du hvordan du bestiller og prosessen vi må gjennom.

Kontakt meg på e-post: sonja_langskjaer@yahoo.com
Eller på facebook/messenger: Sonja Langskjær

Pris på maleriet kan regnes ut slik:

Prisen for arbeidet er 450,- per kvm.
+Innkjøpspris for maling, pensler, whitespirit, malerteip, etc.
(+pris for reise, opphold og leie av utstyr, om nødvendig)

Du kan skaffe maling, utstyr, kost og losji selv for å spare penger.

Minimumsbeløp for arbeidet er 3000,-. Om veggen er mindre enn 6 kvm blir prisen for arbeidet automatisk 3000,- (pris for maling kommer i tillegg)

Prisen for dette er for 1-5 farger. Du kan få flere farger om du vil, men da må vi revurdere pris.

Eksempel på utregning. Jeg bruker litt skjønn og tar ikke med deler av veggen med ingen eller lite maling på - tilsammen er dette bildet 19kvm. Jeg brukte to spann oljemaling (a 499,-) og kjøpte to pensler (a 100,-) - tilsammen blir prisen for dette maleriet i dag 8550+998+200=9748,-

Hva jeg trenger :

- Foto av veggen du vil ha malt, jo flere jo bedre.
- Målene på veggen
- En beskrivelse av hva du vil at jeg skal male.

Det er alt! Legg gjerne til info som du tror er bra å ha. Veggens materiale, hvor veggen er etc. Det er fint om beskrivelsen av det du skal male er konkret, men hvis du ikke er sikker så kan vi finne på noe sammen. Jeg kommer også til å unnlate å male enkelte motiv - feks privatpersoner, kontroversielle tema, etc.

Hvordan jeg går frem:

- Så snart jeg har fått det jeg trenger så kan jeg beregne pris. Jeg sender faktura på oppdraget etter at malejobben er utført.
- Jeg lager først en sketch. Jeg fortsetter å jobbe med sketchen til du er fornøyd med idéen (Bildet kommer ikke til å være ferdig og finpusset enda) Jeg lager max 3 sketcher - flere sketcher etter dette vil føre til tillegg i prisen. 
- Etterpå begynner jeg på en endelig stensil. Jeg kommer til å sende deg en mock-up, et photoshoppet bilde som viser hvordan stensilen vil se ut på veggen din. Jeg kan redigere denne en gang før jeg setter i gang med malingen. Ekstra endringer vil føre til tillegg i prisen. 
- Deretter begynner selve malejobben - jeg vil sørge for oppsett av utstyr og anskaffelse av maling. Det må være strøm tilgjengelig! Jeg setter også pris på et sted hvor jeg kan ta pause. NB: Været må være rett før jeg kan begynne å male! Det kan ikke være nedbør, ikke for mye vind og ikke for kaldt.
- Selve maleprosessen tar vanligvis 3-5 dager. Hele prosessen fra idé til slutt tar 2-3 uker (avhengig av været og størrelsen på veggen så klart).
- Når maleriet er ferdig kan vi gjerne samarbeide om en avduking. Jeg tillater meg også å legge ut bilder og videoer av maleriet og prosessen bak.

Så takker jeg for oppdraget!

Kontakt meg på e-post: sonja_langskjaer@yahoo.com
Eller på facebook/messenger: Sonja Langskjær

NB: Jeg beholder rettighetene til designet, med mindre det avbilder privatpersoner eller logoer som allerede har opphavsrett. Dette vil si at bare jeg kan bruke designet til å lage for eksempel trykk, postkort eller t-skjorter for videre salg. Det originale maleriet kan du bruke og endre slik du måtte ønske. Du kan ta så mange foto av verket som du vil og dele bildene hvor du vil.

Å male en vegg... (metode)

This entry was written in Norwegian. My apologies for this to my english-speaking visitors, I will be back with an english entry soon!

"Fesk og Potedes"

"Per Andreas og Rau"

"Theodors brev"

Veggmaleri! Jeg har laget et par nå. Denne bloggen ble laget for å vise fremgangsmetoden min - den varierer litt for hver gang og for hver klient, men i grove trekk er teknikken den samme. Jeg vil gjerne dele prosessen min, kanskje noen synes den er interessant og kanskje det vil inspirere noen av dere til å lage sine egne kunstverk! Om du ikke har den tiden/ressursene du behøver så kan jeg alltids hjelpe til ;) 

Steg 1: Å finne en klient.

Dette skjer litt av seg selv nå. Som oftest får jeg flest klienter rett etter å ha publisert et nylig verk - så derfor er det viktig å være tilstede på sosiale medier. Begynn smått, og ikke forvent store inntekter til å begynne med. Jeg begynte med å legge ut et bilde på facebook av en tom vegg med et maleri photoshoppa på - en "mock-up" av hva jeg kunne tenke meg å lage. Fikk mye positive kommentarer, og spurte til slutt ordføreren selv om jeg kunne få lov og midler. Midler fikk jeg ikke, men jeg skulle bare klæsje på. 

Det er jammen bra at vi har Photoshop og Facebook. Ellers hadde jeg aldri kommet noen vei!

Det hjelper nok om man har laget (og publisert) noen kunstverk tidligere som folk synes er fine (og sosialt akseptable). Det kan godt hende at det hadde vært større sjanse for å få ja fra en privatperson enn fra en kommune - men da hadde jeg ivertfall flaks. Jeg spurte også Trænafestivalen om de kunne støtte meg litt, og de kunne støtte for opp til 1000kr - nok til å dekke maling og en pensel. Jeg har flaks som bor på Træna, det er så smått og sultent på kultur at her får man ja på nesten et hvert initiativ! Om du ikke bor i et tett samfunn så må du bare bruke din private sirkel - venner og familie. 

Etter at jeg gjorde ett veggmaleri kom det fort to-tre personer til som ville ha vegger malt. Og etter det baller det fort på seg!

Steg 2: Bli enig om et design

Hvem som helst kan male, men ikke alle kan designe. Så første steg er å finne ut hva som skal males på det enorme blanke arket. Dette er selvfølgelig opp til klienten, men i mine tilfeller har han/hun alltid vært åpen for det meste. De har enten en person de vil hylle eller en sak de vil fremme - hvordan jeg vil gjøre det er som oftest opp til meg. 

Jeg jobber helt digitalt med designet - jeg har hele designet klinkende klart før jeg i det hele tatt åpner et malingspann. Hvorfor vil bli klart i neste steg.

Så det første jeg gjør er å drodle noen ideer. Dette kan være tekst, fasonger, skikkelser - alle idéer jeg kan skrape sammen. For eksempel; "Fesk og Potedes"-maleriet mitt i Kabelvåg i Lofoten. Min eneste innstruks var å lage et veggmaleri som hyllet nordnorge. Jeg er egentlig ikke så oppfinnsom av meg, men vi kom etter hvert frem til å lage en typografisk kollasj, med teksten til "Fesk og Potedes" sydd inn i et nordnorsk landskap. 

Drodler fra sketchboka - mønstre, figurer, tekst, alt jeg kan komme på.

Digital sketch laget i Photoshop CC - jeg fokuserer bare på komposisjon nå.

Ferdig stensil, finpusset med endelige detaljer i Illustrator CC. 

Jeg tror det er viktig med en klar og gjenkjennbar stil - min har mye flate farger, stilrent og "flytende". Samtidig synes jeg det er gøy med bilder med mange detaljer, som man kan utforske med blikket. Komposisjon - altså balanse og hvordan blikket blir ledet gjennom bildet er viktig, ellers vil man føle seg sjøsyk og forvirret når man ser på det. Jeg unngår repetitive former og rette linjer - det gir en dynamisk og organisk stil. Mye av det jeg lager er ganske tegneserie-aktig ("cartoony"), kanskje ikke rart siden jeg er utdannet animatør.

Jeg maler som oftest i bare 1-3 farger. Hvis jeg skulle male i alle regnbuens farger måtte jeg brukt mye mer tid og maling - og da er det vanskelig å holde prisen rimelig. Inntil videre gjør jeg det jeg kan med en begrenset palett - det kan uansett resultere i noen ganske kraftige utrykk. Det tredje bildet overfor er den endelige designet, som vil brukes som en stensil i neste steg. Skal bildet ha to farger så lager jeg to stensiler, en for hver farge. Nå er alt det kreative arbeidet utført, og resten er bare tid og innsats. 

Stensilen jeg brukte på "Theodors brev"-bildet jeg laget for Træna museum. 

Steg 3: Oppsett og materialer

Her kommer trikset mitt. Eller juksemetoden min, det spørs hvem du spør. Jeg bruker prosjektor!

Dette er en super fordel - men det krever også litt ekstra oppsett og ting man må være forsiktig med. For det første må man ha prosjektor. Jeg har ikke en, men har hittil alltid kjent noen som kan låne meg en. Har man en liten vegg i et helt mørkt rom går det greit med en liten prosjektor, og en stor vegg utendørs krever kraftigere prosjektor. Man må bare prøve seg frem!

Maling med prosjektor krever at man legger til rette for et par ting. Først må man sørge for at det er nok plass foran veggen til at stensilet dekker veggen. Man kan dele opp motivet og ta det i deler, men det beste er å ha hele bildet på veggen samtidig. 
Så må man sørge for å ha strøm - det er som oftest lett. Da jeg malte i lofoten så måtte jeg låne strøm fra en Kiwi på andre siden av veien. Da de stengte måtte jeg låne fra et privat hus over veien - det ordner seg som oftest, om man bare spør! 
Så må man ha et stødig bord å sette prosjektoren på. Da er det greit med en tung prosjektor, for den flytter seg ikke om det kommer en lett bris. Jeg vet ikke hvor mye tid jeg har brukt på å få prosjektoren tilbake akkurat på millimetern fordi det kom en svak bris. 
Også må været være rett. Som om det ikke var nok at det må være malevær, det må også være "ha elektroniske apparat under åpen himmel"-vær.
Åja, også kan man bare male på natta. Det er lurt å gjøre så mye som mulig tidlig på kvelden, da det ofte blir fuktig senere på natta. Dette gjør det også bare mulig å male (her i nord) på høsten og våren - ca mars-mai og august-november. På sommeren er det for lyst, og på vinteren er det for kaldt. I mellomtiden får man bare male innendørs!

Så er det maling: Alle underlag er forskjellige og å finne rett maling kan virke innviklet, men bare spør der du kjøper maling så får du nok noe bra. Jeg har aldri vært borti at maling renner vekk eller flaker av. Man trenger sjeldent mye maling - med mindre underlaget har mye tekstur og malinga er veldig tyktflytende. På "Per Andreas"-maleriet brukte jeg bare to rømmebokser med maling. Det var fordi malinga (vanlig oljemaling) var tynn men dekket bra, og underlaget var helt glatt og absorberte ikke noe av malinga. På "Fesk og Potedes"-maleriet brukte jeg nesten 6 liter maling, fordi veggen var ekstremt knudrete og malinga var tjukk som ketchup. Om jeg kan så bruker jeg akrylmaling, fordi det kan lett tynnes ut med vann. Så lenge det får tørke godt så sitter det i all slags vær. 

Når det kommer til pensler har jeg alltid bare brukt det jeg har liggende. I det siste har jeg begynt å kjøpe dyrere nylon-pensler som jeg renser godt etter bruk så de varer lenger. Rimelige pensler er helt greie å bruke, men ikke bruk de superbillige - de blir bustete og slipper hår overalt. Ikke bra!

Ellers er det bra å ha;
- Containere (rømmebokser, isbokser etc.) for å ha malinga i. Kjøp en pakke med pappskåler eller store pappkopper så kommer du langt. 
- White-Spirit, Penselrens - Ta vare på penslene!
- Lommevarmere, isolerende arbeidshansker - hold varmen, spesielt i hender og føtter! Jeg synes det er best å male i en tynn thermo-kjeldress, den holder varmen samtidig som den tillater mye bevegelighet. 
- Last ned noen podcaster, musikk etc. - du kommer til å stå her en stund!
- Stol, stige eller lift - spørs hvor høyt maleriet er. 

Steg 4: Mal!

Nå kommer selve malejobben! Det er bare å følge stensilen. Tips: Ha bakgrunnen i grått og det du skal male i hvitt. Jeg prøvde tidligere å prosjektere det som skulle være svart i svart på veggen, men surprise surprise, det er umulig å se hvor man maler med et svart bilde prosjektert i natta. Bare mal en og en farge på veggen, og prosjekter alle stensiler i hvitt.

Det eneste som er malt på veggen her er Theodors ansikt. Her har jeg ikke fulgt mitt eget råd og prosjekterer bildet på veggen i svart... Det gjorde jobben mye vanskeligere.

Dette tar litt tid, men er helt enkelt arbeid. Man kan sikkert få en venn til å hjelpe seg, om man vil. Om man har en podcast eller musikk så er dette veldig terapautisk og koselig arbeid! Også ser man fort fremgang, folk kommer forbi og kommenterer verket - det er veldig belønnende arbeid.

Jeg jobber som oftest fra 21-03 i begynnelsen. Her har jeg malt alt det hvite først, og risset ut den svarte teksten. I dette tilfellet var underlaget slik at jeg kunne bruke sprittusj, etter dette trengte jeg ikke prosjektor lengre. Nå kan jeg bare komme tilbake på dagen og "fargelegge" resten. 

"Fesk og Potedes"-maleriet var utfordrende. Det var mars, snøstorm og jeg måtte bruke lift for å male - jeg måtte lage et varmebad til malinga slik at den ikke skulle fryse til. Men selv om det var snøstorm og malinga frøs til på veggen, så satt malinga godt til slutt!

Etter kanskje 2-3 dager med å male med prosjektor på natta og fargelegging dagen så er som oftest maleriet ferdig. Jeg avslutter med å finpusse litt og gi noen ekstra strøk der det ser ut som det trengs, og selvsagt signatur og årstall. 

Så er jobben ferdig!

 

 

Steg 5: Avduking og sosiale media

Dette er valgfritt, men veldig viktig om du vil at folk skal se arbeidet ditt. Man når flest folk på sosiale medier, så det burde være førsteprioritet. Jeg laget en liten video som viste hvordan jeg malte "Per Andreas og Rau"-maleriet og la ut på facebook. Bilder er bra, men folk elsker videoer. 

Du kan se videoen på facebook her!

Etterpå er det bare å høste anerkjennelse og fremtidige oppdrag ;)

Takk for at du leste!

 

Art summary AUGUST 2016

Just a quick update for august! This was the last month of the tourist season. So I had some time to catch up on "Panimated" work and start on new projects. After the 15th I went to visit my sister and later a friend, and I got to draw some doodles while away. 
 

SOCIAL MEDIA + COMMISSIONS

The two animations of the cat were the final part of the animation commission from xAssassinex on deviantArt. So good to finally get it done! The rest are doodles I made while travelling. I've been playing so much pokemon go, I had to draw Pan as a pokemon. I want to do more! I've also been trying to do some life drawing once per week, and above you can see a handful I did this month. It's weird how mentally straining it is to draw quickly! 
The wooly rhino and the leopard were doodles I did for fun, and coloured on my iPad. 

I didn't do any creative work at the tourism office this month. I started a report, but not much to show off here. But it feels good to be done!

Art summary JULY 2016

Tourist season continues, and the big festival demanded most of my attention in the beginning of the month. Most of my art after the first few weeks were just sketches, so I've only uploaded a handful of drawing and an animation. 
 

SOCIAL MEDIA

I made these two designs as a style concept for a hand-drawn animation I have been planning to make. It will be 50 frames long, but it should have quite complex movement. I hope to finish this animation in august!

COMMISSIONS

I worked on one commission this month, and it was an animation. The part 2 of the commission I made in may. This time of the cat pouncing on a coin - this is to be used on a livestreaming channel, and it will pop up everytime someone makes a donation. Pretty cool! Makes me want to look into livestreaming myself.

 

I'm not including a Project assistant work-paragraph this month, as I haven't done much art-work this month. I have only been guiding tourists around, updated some poster information and updated some pages on our website. You can see an example of a page I've made here.

Art summary JUNE 2016

This month is the start of the tourist season, which means there has been a lot to do at work. I've gone from working a 40% part time job to a 70% part time job. So this should keep me busy until mid-august. I did manage to get some art done on the side, however!

SOCIAL MEDIA (Instagram and deviantArt)

All of the submissions to my online galleries were made with promarkers - and I made two more as commissions (below). The ones above I made for fun or practice: #1 I wanted to try drawing stylized otter teeth, #2 was to demonstrate how I could make pet portraits (this is my CKC spaniel) and #3 was to try to draw a very muscly lioness and shade with several layers in marker.

COMMISSIONS

I've been working on three commissions this month, but only two were finished, which were two marker pet portraits. One of a chihuahua and one of a couple of seagulls (yes, seagull pets). The Chihuahua actually sadly passed away a few days after I drew this portrait :(

Project assistant work

This entire month has been dedicated to finishing a "Træna-Hawaii" exhibition, which is now ready and set up in Træna Museum. The big festival is coming up in the first week of july, so we needed to get the tourist office up and running, decorate it and put up lots of information posters etc. Below are some photos of the finished exhibition and tourist office, taken at the beginning of july.

ART SUMMARY may 2016

Time for another summary!

May started by finishing the wall-art on the island Sandøya which I had started on in june, it was done about 4th of may. A week later we had a really very nice unveiling of the 5x5 meter painting, which was just great. The Aloha Café opened shortly after. The museum picked up on this wall-art-thing and we are discussing making a third piece for them sometime before july. Very exciting! I feel like I'm contributing to society! At work we were simultaneously super busy, as the tourist season is closing in fast, as it ALWAYS does in may and june. So we're trying to get all material ready to be sent off and printed as soon as humanly possible. Yikes.
 

Instagram and DeviantArt: A handful of animations

I finished the jumping cat-animation that was commissioned ages ago. I'm making a part2 sometime soon featuring the same cat, hopefully that won't take another couple of months hahah.. ha.. Then I made another Tokota run cycle - only five more to go! I use the same run cycle, but I change the "mane type" - Tokotas are quite popular, so these templates have been met with a lot of positivity :) They're fun making, just a little frustrating at times (as with all animations.) I also uploaded a picture of the Sandøya wall-painting, but I'm saving that for next paragraph!
 

Panimated (Commissions)
 

The big one here was obviously the Wall painting. It's 5x5 meters in size, and took about 30 hours to paint (which really isn't too bad, for such a piece). I did all the painting at night (need I remind you, I live at the polar circle and spring has hardly just arrived. I've been planning on doing this piece for about two years, so it feels good to finally have it done! 

On the 14th of May we had a grand unveiling, and we counted 40 people who came to see. Which is a lot, considering the quite isolated location and the fact that people have to catch a boat to get here. It was just a fantastic day, a very fun experience! The next week I put together a video showing the entire process, and the unveiling at the end. (it's in Norwegian, but you english speakers might understand more or less I hope)

Here's another inside scoop, so this is the (to the right) mock up of the painting, made in photoshop (Notice how I had to photoshop out the scaffolding):

And then below is a little slideshow of the painting the way it ended up looking!

I'm very happy with the turnout!
Other than the wall-painting there's also the cat animation jumping, that I mentioned in the instagram-paragraph. 

Project assistant work

A busy busy month, with some new design stuff but mostly just a whole lot of taking the material from last year and updating it for 2016. I worked a lot on the exhibition to get the most important bits ready to print (pretty much all text) and then we started thinking about some merch we could sell at tourist info booth, as a gift shop, more or less. (These are not all of them, in total I've made 17 tekstboxes, 9 maps, 6 postcards and two tour-brochures, edited about 20 photographs, plus a bunch of written stuff. But they all look very similar or aren't really design or drawings, so I won't bother to upload them all here)

ART SUMMARY April 2016

EDIT: Only today, 2nd of june did I realise that I never published my april summary. Sorry for the delay! May summary is coming right up :)

April was a quite excting month where I started two wall-paintings - the largest one I only just finished, and since it's may, I'll save that for next months summary. The artworks have been far between but larger (and better!) so Instagram and deviantArt haven't seen too much activity this month. We are starting to make print material at work, all kinds: Posters, business cards, post cards, plaques, brochures, etc. 


Instagram: Easter laziness

I just didn't do a lot of sketching or traditional work this month, which is what I usually upload on instagram. Just some teeth-doodles and a drawing of me and Pan in Rick and Morty-style. I drew that one after findind the show on netflix, so I rewatched both seasons. This month I also applied to a 2D-key animator for Rick and Morty, in Canada! How awesome would it be if they decided to import some Norwegian animation-noob to work on that show. In Canada. *sighs dreamily* Worth a try!
Also made a new avatar featuring dramatic Pan. This one was a fun excersise in timing and After Effects. I learned how to make motion blur and shaky-cam!
There was also a super rough skippy cat doodle-animation, but I lost the original file and I can't figure out how to download .mov-files from instagram. But you can see it here. It's a quick study in cats skipping, for a commission I should have done ages ago. 
 

Panimated (Commissions)
 

Here we have the two big wall-artworks, one of them which I only just finished (in May). So I'm saving that! The other one which I did finish was for a new local café called Aloha, who are aiming for an international Hawaii/beach-bar theme. The piece is a central piece covering the whole wall behind the counter. I quite like how it turned out, very nice and clean! It took four days to finish (ca. 5 hours per day).

 

Project Assistant work

We started planning for an exhibition at the museum here, this one is also Hawaii-themed, as it happens! The work is not much to look at now as it's still very much in the layout/design phase. We are just trying to figure what it will contain, colour themes and the information it should include. Below you can see the layout of the room with rough placement of all the elements, etc, colour theme and such. Then on of the 17 texts we'll be putting up (pretty much final design) and twi pictures where I've just put a bunch of stuff up on the wal to get a sense of the size and layout (it won't look like that in the end, just brainstorming at this point).

Art Summary MARCH 2015

WHEW a little late on, but here is a summary of my art in march! What I most remember from this month would be; My birthday, a workshop in Mo i Rana, and easter. Most of my work this month was text-based, but I did finish a big commission and made time to work in some personal work. 

Instagram: March madness
 

Not much happening on instagram, as I was working on finishing a big commission this week. We have some doodles of a lion hunting a megaloceros and a fox hunting a rabbit. And a rare photograph that I had to upload because it's the first time I've ever caught an otter on camera! Lastly is a little image of Pan having a birthday party, made for my birthday, of course. I also uploaded a movie file of the animation commission, but I'll add that below!

Panimated (commissions)


I finally finished the werewolf-transformation animation! It took a very long time, but I believe it was worth the time, and I learned a lot about Toon Boom in the process. I'm happy to move on to the next project!

 

 

Project assistant work

I mostly wrote stuff this month, so I've only got one piece of art to show off. It's a early concept of a board game, based on the old game "The Lost Diamond" or "Afrikan Tahti". The design is different as the map is based on Northern Norway instead of Africa, and some of the gameplay is different, but African Tahti is where I took the inspiration from. I hope to develop this further an perhaps I'll be able to sell it in the future!

That's all for march. See you at the start of May!

Art summary of FEBRUARY 2016

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In the beginning of february I started officially working as a project assistant at development and tourism in Træna Municipality. It was a busy first couple of weeks with the Træna Winter Festival, during which I caught the flu, which kept me home for a week. The last weeks we arranged a workshop and prepared for another workshop in march. Besides my work as a project assistant I've been considering taking up new projects, and working a little on commissons. 


Instagram: Month of the thousands!

I had a pretty nice month on instagram in february with the first picture (the one of Jocundra, the sabertooth), was my very first image with over 1000 likes - a nice little benchmark. Soon after I also reached 1000 followers! Yay! Obviously instagrammers like big cats, so naturally I kept the kitties coming. They're all characters from Shadowtainted, a story I started working on years ago - I've wanted to pick up this project for ages and renew it.

At the end there you can see the beer labels I made for the Træna Winter Festival, and next is  the only picture I made during my week of having the flu.

Follow me on instagram! 
 

Panimated (commissions)

I worked on three commissions, an animation, a poster and a logo. 


#1: continuation of the werewolf-animation.

This one is chugging along nicely, although progress stopped up completely during the first two-three weeks. I've done 50 out of 80 frames, so it's really not long until this piece is finally done! I think it's starting to look really nice. Also, my Toon Boom trials ran out so I finally went ahead and subscribed. Yay!

 

#2: Træna-Hawaii-Spelet poster.

This one I did for the local school-play. Did this one fairly quickly. I was also asked to paint a backdrop for the play, but when they asked I had two days to do it, and I had the flu pretty bad at that point. But at least I was able to make this poster. 

 

 

 

 

 

#3: Logo for the Træna boating association.

This was the last thing I did this month, and one I've been thinking about doing for a while. I ended up with the sketch seen here. It's still a WIP and I'll polish it a little more before it's done.

 

 

 

Panimated (Personal work)

Most of the personal work I've done this month was seen on instagram. I've been writing and thinking more about renewing shadowtainted, but haven't made any art as of yet. I know I said so last month, but maybe you'll see more of this in march ;)
Perhaps worth mentioning is a snappy little video I put together and published the 3rd of february of my trip to Germany with two friends! It's just in my google drive right now, I might have to move it to somewhere permanent eventually. 


Project assistant work

We had a super busy few weeks until the 13th of february, which was the last day of the Træna Winter Festival. I was responsible for pretty much everything that had to be printed, including posters, programs, maps, diplomas, beer-labels and welcome-letters. Most of them were edited or compiled versions of things we had made previously, but I still had plenty to do. During the weekend itself I was all over the place doing whatever needed be done - including cleaning cod-liver for a dinner and being a cashier behind the bar. A very busy weekend! 

Below are some things I made, including the map and beer labels for the festival. The weekend after the festival we coordinated a workshop (that's what I made the wordcloud for) to map the strengths, weaknesses and opportunities in tourism and industry in Træna. It ended up being a fun, creative workshop, even though pretty much all of us had the flu. The beer was also a great success, and was served with the afforementioned codliver dinner.

And that's what I've busied myself with in february. See you at the end of march!

Art summary of JANUARY 2016

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To mark the beginning of this blog, I'm uncovering a new concept: Art summaries! 
The goal is to sum up any artsy stuff I've done the past month, on instagram (which should give a good overall look at what occupies me at the moment), in commissions and in my business Panimated - and in my new part-time job in the tourism department in Træna. 

JANUARY:

January began a little slow, as I spent the first couple of weeks in Berlin and Trondheim. I didn't bring my computer, but I was able to do some hand-drawing (see instagram). Three weeks in (or so) I started on my new job, but as I still didn't have a contract, I didn't have set hours yet. I've also been learning a new software; Toon boom, which have slowed down animation production a little. Even though Toon Boom is great, I've learned that I propably should raise the prices of my animation commission because they just take so much time to do... Overall it started out slow, and I'm picking up pace for february. 

Instagram in January 2016

Instagram was a little all over the place in january, and I didn't even make anything "worthy" of deviantArt this month. The first two are christmas-presents for my sister and brother from december. The sheep was to test out some new markers I got for christmas. Then I practiced drawing some chunky ladies and bears, then some bodybuilder-women for the big Lexi-commission I'm working on (more on that below).  I was also commissioned by a friend to design a tattoo of a bumblebee, and the last one is a doodle of a  character from "shadowtainted" (more on that below, too)

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Panimated (Commissions)

As seen on instagram I finished the bumblebee tattoo design for a friend. I've also been working on a big animation commission for an online client, which I call the "Lexi-commission". This piece features a girl called Lexi, who transforms into a werewolf. It's very complex and a unusual concept to me, but I'm it's certainly a learning experience. It's also my first proper animation in the software Toon Boom, which I'm just now learning. In january I worked on the keyframes and refining the movement of her different bodyparts. 

Lexi Commission in mid-january, as 14 rough keys drawn in photoshop. 

And a week later,  now with 28 frames, cleaned up and colour-coded in toon boom. 

At this point I took a break for two weeks, as the deal was that half of it would be paid up-front, and the rest after the sketch had been finished. Next I will start working on the line-art. 

Panimated (personal work)

January has been dominated by commissions and work, so I haven't been prioritizing personal work. However, I've been playing with the idea of bringing my story "The Shadowtainted" back into production. I've been doing some writing and drawing, but I'd like to save that content for later. As it is february now that I'm writing this blogpost, I know you will certainly see more about this in next months summary!
 

Work 

I just started working at my new part-time job as an assistant at Træna municipality's development/tourism department. We work with tourism and cultural development, and help start up new concepts and basically do marketing for the local community. I mostly help out doing whatever needs be done, translating texts from norwegian to english, updating the website and if there is an event, I help rigging - and sometimes I design posters, signs and brochures. There is a big winter-festival coming up in february, so that's what we've been focusing on now. Art-wise I've made two posters, number on is the announcement-poster for the winter-festival, the second is the announcement of the children's winter festival. 

That's all for january. See you at the end of february!


Sonja Langskjær November exhibit 2015

The exhibition is now over, and all but two paintings were sold. Thank you to everyone who came and saw, or showed support online! Even though it is over and I've taken away the link in the sidebar, the pages still exists, and you can look back at the pictures and final prices here:

http://www.panimated.com/exhibit2015/