Your art, your use of colours especially, is phe.no.me.nal. I'm obsessed with it. Signed, someone that is in love with the latest Ibwr pages
Fr I've been following you for a few years now, I've always liked your style, and it feels like you've grown a lot as an artist in the last year or so. I still appreciate a lot your old art, it's beautiful both from a technical and a purely personal taste standpoint, but the way you set the scene and use colours has changed and it feels, to me, more... sophisticated? Perhaps it's not the right word. More complex but also more streamlined. The atmosphere of a scene is conveyed very effectively with few, but striking, visual clues :D Also, Oliver's hair has gotten floofier. It suits him!
I was wondering what comics inspired you the most growing up, or if that's not something you can really pinpoint
Wow! 🥹✨️ thank you so much! 🫶💛💛🦭
I totally see what you mean. Idk when I levelled up, but somewhere I did, lol! I think the shift is most apparent on the page in chapter 4 when Oliver is at work, and he's telling his new co-worker not to touch him. Something about that page, I think, like 🤌 kicks 🫴 out.
Anyhow, thank you a bunch for noticing!
And yeah lol, Oliver's hair got floofier. I'm restraining myself from going back and editing all old panels of him. 😭✌️
As for comics (not counting cartoons) that have inspired me growing up! Hm! I'm just going to jot down everyone I can think of lol.
One piece
Don Rosa's Donald duck comics, and Donald Duck:co Pocket books.
W.I.T.C.H.
Bamse, världens starkaste björn.
Valhalla by Peter madsen.
Random X-Men comics. I never followed serially, but I enjoyed anyway even if i dropped in and out of the storyline and didn't understand anything. I loved Nightcrawler and Wolverine, so I bought it when I saw them lol.
Gas station comics of cartoons I watched like: cartoon network comics of PowerPuffGirls and daxters labratory / Tom&Jerry / Disney characters on short mini adventures / one about monsters that stopped publishing mid story.
FIRST & SECOND CLASS: Åsa-Nisse, Fantomen, Superman. Bamse and DD comics too, but I kept reading bamse and Donald D.
FRENCH COMICS: Tintin, Lucky Luke. And other random comics from the same French publisher.
MANGAS: One Piece / YOTSUBA&! / Tokyo mew mew / Shonen Jump / Detective Conan. / other ones I can't recall name of now.
SPECIAL MENTION: The illustrators Sven Nordqvist and John Bauer will always have an iron grip on me.
As for what actually inspired IBWR and stuff, though, is not really any of these things. I'm sure, style-wise, you can trace some influences, though! But I think it mostly shaped my visual comedy than anything else. :P 💛
I had a dream last night that ailens haven't invaded us because the aliens that have been here all died from illness after visiting. Our earth is poisonous to other alien species.
They're scared of us for swimming in water and us sweating. They look at us as an island in the vast pot of the universe that should be left alone to our humble and primitive ways.
They don't want to invite us to the space unity.
In fact, they all voted that we are a rare and almost extinct and invasive species that has to be kept in the dark and left alone.
There's still dumb rich aliens who show up here as a stunt and all other aliens get super mad about it. And they all almost die from "the illness" and most of them do.
There are aliens who are expert on us and know more about our sweat than we do. They think the water in our bodies are affected by the moon pulling on our tides. "They're salt. Their bodies have just enough salt. But they eat salt. Can't drink it."
We aren't a zoo. We're a protected island. The milkyway is dangerous area and forbidden to enter without a lot of permits being signed.
Anyway.
My dream was that they abducted me in a astral way (safer for them, also some advanced tech on their part)
but they didn't close the door, so I just walked right out and caused them all to panic because this dangerous alien was astrally lost on the premises, and they'd get fired if I wasn't returned.
And they tried to lure me with spaghetti. But I dont like spaghetti.
And I barely had to hide because when they saw me, they acted like I was a bear in the building.
They trapped me in a room and wanted to distract me with videos. But they only had documentaries about our planet to play, so I'd stay in one room.
I mean, it worked, and it was interesting, but I didn't understand most of it. They played it in Italian first. So I think someone's getting fired because I don't think they were meant to abduct a swede today.
They also shut off the astral projection, but I was still there, so they were. Really. Panicking about me being stuck there.
so they put that on while trying to make me go get the not-suspicious-at-all spaghetti that kept coming closer and closer.
I'm guessing they put something in the spaghetti.
I used the spaghetti to try spell out "Peace. Not mad. Happy."
But it was a dream, and you can't spell in a dream, I couldn't see what I was writing at all.
and that's how I knew it was a dream and I woke up.
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You know what an uncharted territory of children's toys there is? Music boxes.
There's no music boxes for boys. Do you guys have any idea how difficult it is to find a music box that isn't covered in pink and horses?
Boys likes music boxes too. But not all boys are into princesses. Not all girls either.
Where are the music boxes for the kids who play Super Mario? Or likes dogs? Or cowboys? Why not have a spinning dragon inside, or a dolphin? Why not make the box itself more interesting, not just pink with shitty fairy cutouts. Give me real fairy art. Commit, damnit!
The music box construction is the same as always. But give it different wallpapers. Give it different toys inside that spins. I want batman spinning. Why not santa claus??
That can't be too difficult? Just new art??? Right?
The goth kids would squeal over a black box with cool snakes on it and dracula flapping his cape instead of a ballerina lifting her leg.
Hey, no just for kids. Adlts too. Why aren't there any nice music boxes?? Why are they all so ugly with bad brushstroke drawings?? If music boxes pictures were better, people would buy them. They're so useful, too? Keep your knick knacks in them.
Imagine Nintendo making special edition music boxes with the music of the game playing. Sonic spinning in a circle as you choose which accessories to put on today.
Hiii! Do you participate in Art Fight this year or have you ever participated in the past/thought about it?
I have never participated! I have no idea how it works, and when people explain it and I still don't get it, they get annoyed! So I would rather not even attempt it. :,)
