Tag Archive for 'picture'

Sketching an original for a sketchbook cover

Its a bit difficult to make an original that have to look lika a sketch. But a cover for a sketchpad should of course look like a sketch.

This one is made for a series of drawing pads for the paper manufacturer Colores.  Its simply made with graphit pencil and scanned in with 1200 dpi to catch all the details in the grain of the paper and lead pencil strokes.

Some other product I did for Colores:

(Drawn with pencil and inked with Higgins Black Magic and Windsor Newton brushes. Then scanned in 600 dpi and colorized in Photoshop. The layout was put together in InDesign)

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More fun with the lensbaby

A little cold and grey, but the plants are starting to grow and the light is good for playing with a Lensbaby

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The little heart

Have been working on half strength for a while. Got help on the hospital this week.

Dramatic for me – routine for the surgeon. Found a picture from last autumn I thought was illustrative for this.
(50mm @ 1.8, 1/200sec,  gold reflector)

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Some food portraits

Sill i glas

Not much happened in the studio this week, actually. Starting up a new isue of a comic magazine I produce twice a year. “Kalle Ankas Sommarlov” (Donald Duck´s Summer) An extra issue published all over the summer. A mix of cartoons and activity pages.

Looking for cartoons to the issue (I´m not drawing the cartoons, just choosing from Disneys bank of cartoons), planning the layout, thinking of a cover. Mostly administrative work in the startup. Nice and calm.

Going to do some food shots next week and I was browsing around my pictures to get some ideas of lighting. Maybe there will be enough available light through the windows to skip flashes?

Here are some pics I found in my archive. I really like to shoot food. Trying to make it look like available light.

food details

My brother is a talented potter. This is  part of a collection of coffee cups in his studio window.

product shot of cups

(food styling; Sanna Ohlander)

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Do we need more pictures?

dilemma

I love pictures! I believe we all do! Pictures are everywhere, all the time! Champions and masters in memorizing recommend us to visualize in pictures to be able to memorize strange combinations of numbers and such things. Then pictures simply must be good for our brains! Just think of all pictures that have been made since the beginning of picture (when was that?). Everybody is sometimes drawing and photographing something. Sometimes I think everything has been drawn or photographed already, bearing in mind how many pictures are being made each day. By amateurs and by pros. 24-7! But I may be wrong.

Often when starting a new photo or illustration project for a client I check up whats available on iStock or Shutterstock or maybe I Google it. First impression is often that everything of that topic has been covered. (When designing a brochure or similar for a cost sensitive client its often sufficient with some good stockphotos.) But taking a closer look of whats available it shows that there is always  a need for one more picture. A search on a stockphoto site for “woman, bicycle, outdoors” can give 2 000 – 4 000 hits! That´s a lot! There is a picture for most needs. But if I want a specific environment, color of the bicycle, clothing on the woman, lightning situation or anything else specific, it may have to be one more picture made! Luckily!

Do we need more pictures? Of course! Definitely! Let´s go on and make pictures until exactly everything is pictured!

Torbjorn

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A picture? What is that anyway?

Well, according to  common knowledge it may be a photo, an illustration or some kind of reproduction or this or that and so on. In communication we don´t analyze this much, do we? We see pictures and images everywhere in our everyday life. A photography can be digitally altered or not, it can be black and white, it can be lightened with virtually thousands of lighning modifiers including available light. What we see is a picture. An illustration can be made in thousands of ways on thousands of materials, and we still recognizes it as an illustration – or simply – a picture. That´s nice! (A Google search of the word “picture” gave 532,000,000 results. Thats a lot!)

In a small design studio we have to deal more with what kind of expression we want to give the product than should it be a photo or an illustration. It is often no borders between brush and ink, illustrator/photoshop or photos taken on location or in studio. Its about to choose wich manner that suits the project.

Since this is the first post on this blog, this is an explanation of the mix of photos, pictures, images, layouts, logos and designs that will show up on the theme “what is going on in the studio. I try to erase the borders between illustrator/photographer. I make pictures. Hope it will be inspiring!

Torbjorn

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