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7 creative works found

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  The Rat Samurai
  by Per Ove Sleen

  As long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by the consept of the Samurai warrior. / Manga has also had some influence on this picture, even though I was hardly ever exposed to it through my childhood. / But the last ten years, as I have been working only with graphics, and with perfecting my drawing skills. / And it is through this work that I have been exposed to Manga a lot, and I think it has influenced me quit a bit, and it shines through especially in my character design. / If you like this picture, you might enjoy this one as well Ore maybe this one… Enjoy and have a good time :-)

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  DJ
  by Per Ove Sleen

  Lately I have been trying out another inking technique and I have tried to simplify my designs down to the absolute necessary. / This is my third attempt at this way of going about it, and I must say myself that I am a lot more satisfied with this design than earlier character designs I did before I started to simplify things. / It is obvious that the old mantra about minimizing everything down to a minimum is something to pay close attention to. / Simplicity is the word ladies and gangsters… POS

• Hooray! I got my money!!!
  by Per Ove Sleen

  OK ok sounds dramatic, but it is just that I got my first check...

  OK ok sounds dramatic, but it is just that I got my first check from the bub yesterday, and it felt SO good. / RB has been a small part in a long and hard research round I have done over the last two years. / I am planing to get on the road with my band again, and that could easy end up taking two – three years. / So I am aiming for a web setup that sort of makes my art and music sales continue selling without me tending to it more than 4 – 6 hours a week (done on the move with a laptop). / The research I have done is to find out what is the best way to go about this. / RB turned out to be somewhat of a key component for my art sales in many ways, even though the sales I have had so fare hardly makes a dent in my economy. / But that is not the point, the point here is the many potentials RB represents both in marketing and in getting to know key persons that you can team up with to make way to a mutual goal, and in the process get to know more people to work with next time around

• I made the HOME PAGE with my Code Zebra Tee
  by Per Ove Sleen

  Once again have I been granted the great honor of having one of my works chosen for exposure...

  Once again have I been granted the great honor of having one of my works chosen for exposure on the Home page of Redbubble.com…. / Thank you very much bubble movers and shakers, ladies and gangsters. POS

• Competition in my own family
  by Per Ove Sleen

  I want to show you that I am not the only creative person in my family. / You see as I am doodling away on our Napoleon project my mom has…

  I want to show you that I am not the only creative person in my family. / You see as I am doodling away on our Napoleon project my mom has been knitting this most fantastic pullover after old Norwegian tradition… She is working full time (68 years old/young), but still she managed to knit this marathon job in less than two month. / She knits as she watch TV!! / / The flipped out model is my son Ivan Sleen Andersson… / You see it has been knitted as a birthday gift to my brother Inge, but he was not available as the shot was made …and as you might have guessed Inge is about twice the size of my son :-) I’ve also published the picture here on my picture blog POS

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  Tassili 01
  by Per Ove Sleen

  This is the motive I have made for a band I am doing the CD cover and all the rest of what ever they need for marketing (blog, posters, tickets and so on) for. / The bands name is Tassili (the on who walks) and they do the most exciting music I’ve heard since I was made aware of our very own muskularteeth / The sort of music they play has been called “Sahara Blues” (cool he?) in the media the last year ore so (here in Norway anyway). For those of you having problems with such things, THEY ARE NOT MUSLIMS. but atheists (I think) from Morocco and Norway. / You see if they were in any way religious (ore as I see it not intelligent, open minded, including and learning/spiritually eveolving humans) I wouldn’t work for them….simple as that. / Christians and muslims, budists and sun worshipers is to me all the same. It has no place in a modern society built upon science, logic and reason. / I guess in that way I am a bigot. / I also never did any gigs ore briefs for ANY political unit what so ever. Never as a musician ore as a graphics artist and Illustrator. / I am also contemplating giving up contributing to the marketing efforts of various companies, cos I believe it is bad and very wrong what most of them do, and that goes for me to as long as I let them use my skills to peddle shit we didn’t know we needed til they convinced us it is so. This in turn keep us in debt and stuck in some shit job working for the man and our morgage. / Art is art, and must not prostitute itself. Neither for religion nor politics. / Cos then we are lost. Without a provoking art scene, humanity is lost….believe me if you must believe something. I believe in art, freedome and the right to provoke at any time and place….also religions witch I DON’T consider holy…(goes for all of them). POS / /

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  Approaching subway train
  by Per Ove Sleen

  This is the start picture in a graphic novel I just started drawing. The name of the baby is “The St. Pauli Blues” and the episode is called “The Accountant”. / I am planning to have this made for myself (as soon as I can afford) huge!...most likely a print from the bubble of course. I have now finally seen some of their prints in real life, and I must say I am impressed and wants a few for my studio… / The drawing was both sketched and inked directly on to the final paper used for the actual inking process. / But first I printed a very weak copy of the contours of the photo I used for reference (found on Flickr) on to the paper. I traced the contours of the photo by hand trace on my home made light table, and then scanned them. I also had a copy of the photo on screen as I was sketching and inking to look at for the details. / The paper in question is Canson XL Marker paper. / It’s a A4 70g 100 sheets of paper pad. I do warmly recommend this product for working with markers. / The pens used for this final rendering is exclusively Edding pens of various thickness and dynamics. The Edding series is another product I recommend for artists at all levels. They are refillable (not the real thin ones…but they last very long), and has an incredible dynamic range. It is no problem faking brush strokes at all if wanted. The ink is real good and pitch black.. and they are very much avilable all over. They beat Sharpies by a long stretch on all the important issues. I hope the picture is to some ones taste, to an extend where they’d like to stick it on their living room wall….or the loo :-) Thanks for checking out my art….have a nice and creative life all of you