Made a neat 20 page catalogue printed on heavy A3 carton. Actually, I made two!

So far this year I’ve worked on some conceptual characters depicting monks in different situations which sort of reflects my philosophy around Beliefs.

View them in my gallery here:

• Optych
• Void()
• Cryptominati
• Matryoshka
• Puppeteer
• Meta Monkey

The monks are illustrating meta-beliefs, and thereby the name Meta Monks. I borrow different ideas and thoughts various religions and put them in a setting based on how I understand they have meaning to the people of these beliefs. You got to see the irony there

The Meta Monk series consists of six ink paintings painted on A3 watercolor paper, later scanned in and processed in Photoshop. This gives the paintings a unique and timeless look which cannot really be defined as traditional nor digital art. The motivation behind this is that the concepts behind these paintings are to be understood as timeless. Even though some of the ideas can be recognized as old religious or spiritual themes they are often interpreted trough the algorithms and science of modern information technology. There is no point of hiding that, as a computer science student myself, I try to find meaning in my own situation..

To me it has been an interesting point of view to create these images. And even more interesting to discover them during the process. It is indeed cryptic and esoteric, but I tried to make it as accessible as possible - that without being too banal. It is the hardest challenge to use mental models that works for many people. I believe most people can relate to at least one of these monks though.

Recognize what state you in, step back from it and stop acting like a monkey. That was my intention with the series.

After a discussion with a friend, I tried to illustrate what certain Freudish characters would look like.. ouhh how smartsy

- Black ink markers on a tiny piece of paper.

As I was walking around in Gothenburg in Sweden to meet a friend, I sat down and waited at a cafe. During the previous weeks I had been working a lot with a short movie project called Black Milk. I found it pretty ironic that I had bought a caffe latte since I usually prefer my coffee black..

So I pulled up my dear moleskine and started inking out this moment in my life

That is what I do this summer holiday. I work, paint and spend a tremendous amount time talking to people at cafes.

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Felt like updating my little collection of characters. I’ve always had a thing for my weird character with a vet collar and a unicycle. So I added in Elizabethan to the sack boy-like crew! Speaking of unicycling. If you by chance live near Oslo and can operate a unicycle, please contact me. I might have a job for you

I bet you think I am going to get the anticipated game “Little Big Planet”? Well I don’t know anymore when I have too much fun on my own..

Characters are based on my previous work. Referrals (from left): 

•  Mannequin
• Black Milk (work in progress)
• Hungrig
• Elizabethan
• Kamicarus
• Swamp sniper

I guess there will be more..

As programmers tend to talk about beauty in the code, it may sound a bit pretentious from outsiders. I just found a pretty decent HTML DOM visualizer. Basically it identifies the tag elements in a html source code of a website and visualize it as a colourful hierarchic tree. Beautiful! A true ode to code Above is my website index page. As you can see, I rely heavily on DIV (green) and LIST (most of the grays) tags .

Try it  (java required)

What do the colors mean?

blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags

Another site: VG.no

A huge website; the first page of vg.no - a Norwegian  news site. I believe I can say that this site has an ugly structure for organizing information, but the menu section looks pretty nice

View more site graphs:

conceptart.org - nice purple gallery flower!

deviantart.com - big tree!

google.com - cute and simple

tv2.no - the norwegian shrubbery

egilpaulsen.com/gallery.php

I’ve wanted to do a more dynamic solution for my portfolio gallery for some time now. Currently I am writing a gallery page which in an elegant AJAX manner displays images and information from an xml file. It still has some glitches, because I want a bookmark/url-friendly gallery so that other blogs and features can link directly to a piece. This is partly solved if the visitor clicks at the chosen image on the bread crumb navigation bar. I will figure out a more nifty solution here soon..

So I made the gallery both responsive to $_GET requests like ?piece=Matryoshka and by clickable thumbnails for XMLHttpRequest

ToDO list:

• Create a more accessible fall back for non-javascript users. Even though 95% of web browsers have javascript enabled, I must as a member of GAWDS stay true to accessible web design
• A cool user friendly submit page
• Ofcourse there is also search engine optimization!

The goal is to create a very simple-to-use and yet dynamic gallery solution that I and perhaps other artists will love to use

Bought a new drawing paper. The Artistico watercolour paper. It is 100% cotton, 300gr/m^2, archival, cold pressed and 30,5×45,5 cm big. It’s a bit more expensive comparing to others, but what aren’t we willing to pay these days to get the full HD experience..

I like the grainy texture, similar to what you can get for my prints. It has such a heavy feel that it stands up against the wall by itself. The paper works very well with inks, and the paper never warps even with a lot of wetness.

The heavy grain texture makes it harder to fill gradients and color blocks, but it sure can be used to create textures. I took some time to get familiar with the surface. Here with a study of my little Moleskine:

Black and sepia ink with tiny little brushes.

Oh well. Quick ink work. No reference in particular - except that it is based on myself

I do these weird facial expressions on purpose.. just letting go and see what happens. This is a sort of opposite to the skinny one.

I am currently working on a short film called Black Milk based on a script I wrote. In addition to this I am doing production design and concept art. I will soon be working on storyboards as well. It is very exciting, as I am working with professional and interesting people

There will be a more complete update soon.