Oh no ono

Oh no ono Is the best thing at the moment to be so very very proud of, as a Dane. 

Favourite humming along tune today is “Internet warrior”, definitely helps getting work done today. 

With or without Outline?

I have been searching for books that are appropriate to read with your toddler about only having one parent around, but I haven’t been lucky enough to find any material that is actually talking about the subject and still written/illustrated for a Child/toddler.

So as a result I felt like creating my own illustrations and maybe one day actually put a book together, that will talk about the difficulties and advantages of growing up, only having one parent around.

Most of all I want to illustrate situations, questions and feelings that can help in the process when having to talk about this difficult subject, with my son.

This is my first drawing for this project and I’m sure I will change her many times but she is my first illustration of a busy super single mum. Looking at her now, I’m not so sure if she looks the way I intended her to, but I still quite like her.

I will name her Louise!

My favourite drawing paper at the moment is brown bags and the best once I have found so far is the free food bags from the canteen at Nike. 

A week and a day late. 

Last week my updated portfolio finally got printed.

At 09:00 only a few hours before my big meeting, was I able to finish the last cutting.

I tucked Jakob, who was still asleep and wrapped in his duvet, under the cutting table at Fedex, as I was cutting my 30 shiny new portfolio pages.

Flicking through the portfolio feels so amazing and I feel quite accomplished with what I was able to do in less than two weeks, even though there are several things I would like to redo.

Also, this would probable not have happened if it wasn’t for all the help donated by Mr. Kamo.

I’m now hoping that some of the dream-job-magic dust is going to sprinkle itself upon me in my sleep and Nike will realize how much they need me on their young athletes team.

Fingers crossed!!!

One of the things i can obsess over when printing, is the texture of the paper. For this portfolio I used Strathmore Charcoal paper with a Laid finish, 95g/m2.

To see all 30 pages: http://issuu.com/deepbluesack/docs/mettelarsenportfolio

The evolution of my snowsuit with built-in backpack cover. 

A new page in my portfolio.

When I was little my dad read me Watership Down and I remember being both frighten and exited during the rabbits incredible Journey.

Today I was reminded of the readings when I was photographing some pages in my sketchbook, and suddenly they completely made sense.

“Hazel, like nearly all wild animals, was unaccustomed to look up at the sky. What he thought of as the sky was the horizon, usually broken by trees and hedges.”

― Richard Adams, Watership Down

Hyzenthlay

“At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader of vision and genius which he believed himself to be, or whether he was no more than a tyrant with the courage and cunning of a pirate. For one beat of his pulse the lame rabbit’s idea shone clearly before him. He grasped it and realized what it meant. The next, he had pushed it away from him.”

― Richard Adams, Watership Down

A Mermaid with water-drop-hair.

A wooden house, from the Faroe Islands.

An Icelandic road sign.

And a frosty woman with tusks.

The original Z-Boy.