Christoffer's Graphic Storytelling Blog 101

 This assignment was about showcasing stories without dialogue; the first one here is with a man who just finished murdering someone but has a very laid back and relaxed personality outside of that. This comic's about an elder lady awaiting the mail man to arrive with a book she purchased. When she finally gets it and reads through the book during the next, she sleeps in next morning. (yes, dead.)

This is one of my longest has-to-be-done assignments, if not THE longest. I had a lot of trouble with motivation and getting the idea down properly. Though incredibly rushed after what was roughly a year ago, I've finished it more or less, definitely enough to be read-able. ( I had some anxiety issues upon finishing this )

Matt Bors exercise; the assignment was to make a journalistic comic page based on an interview we'd do with our fellow classmates. Her experiences takes place at a farm where she almost got crushed by a calf.

The last week of Ed Piskor’s class we were asked to make a three-four page adaptation of our favourite story. I decided to make something based of the famous video game franchise, Super Mario. A tiny few tweaks in design was fun to do, not to mention figuring out how to make it work as a comic book story format while adding some extra humor to it. I'm planning to color this later on when I finally decide to get off my lazy ass and get it done.  

During our week with Ed Piskor as our teacher we had to a wordless, two page adaptation of an old fairytale.  I got Sleeping Beauty

Silhuette Scissor-cut drawings from Gesture Drawing Week.

Lotsa drawings from Gesture Drawing Week

This exercise is about taking a recent event and fit the story into 9 panels. My daily life is pretty uneventful, but visiting a good friend is always something, so that's what's depicted here; a casual visit. :) (There's supposed to be two more versions of the same story but shortened down to 6 and 3 panels, but I couldn't find them...)

Style exercise with Mårdøn Smet! The exercise was to try our best to imitate the art style of Hergé and Tezuka. I was teamed up (once again!) with Simao :) this was a very interesting excercise; First I would draw the first two pages in the Tezuka style and then Simao would ink them, and then I would be inking his 2 sketch pages. I'm fairly satisfied with this one :)

Our teacher this week, Teddy Kristensen, asked us to make a short, sketchy comic wherein a man and a woman pass the same building. The man just lost his son in a war and the woman is in love. Without using words, we were supposed to let the environment communicate the facts about these two people. I sadly didn't finish the one with the woman, but alas, I still feel satisfied with what I got done in time.

So, as a follow-up to the last assignment, we were to take one of our classmate's stories and REWRITE it so it would be a completely other story. I had the honor of rewriting Nelly's kickass sketchy styles :)

This week’s teacher, Steven Seagle, is super awesome. We were supposed to make a short comic in roughly 24 hours. Our stories were based on eachother’s experiences. I had a lot of fun with this one. Simao told me 'bout how he got inspired to draw from watching animated movies on TV, so here's my interpretation of that with a big extreme sports enthusiast that finds piece in books. :)

From December 11, 2015 :)