In March 2020 the world went topsy turvy; I lost some jobs and gained new ones. The projects I’ve done with Frisk started with Livssorg, a book about life altering situations and how to adjust to a new reality. 2020 summed up right there.
Client: Frisk Forlag
Year: 2020–2024
Illustrations for four books.
Brief & Process
Puffins’ faces are not naturally the happiest, so I chose those birds to express downcast feelings.
Books with Frisk Forlag
- Livssorg
- Livssorg i familien
- SMAK!
- Vi skulle hatt mer tid
SMAK!
Book about developing good habits when food is involved, written by Frida Felicia Vennerød-Diesen.
Frida Vennerød has written about how our relation to different foods change along the way, and that how we are taught about food will affect different stages in life. She talks about parenting styles, how our taste buds actually work, and that you hate tomatoes as a child can be because you actually have a really good palate.
When doing the sketches I thought about how kids sometimes are skeptical to new things, and drew a test with a few misbehaved and sour looking veggies.
Some photos of work in progress
Little sketch for the cover.
Approved sketch ready to be drawn out.
Cover letters in pencil on watercolour paper, with masking fluid.
Discarded version, needed more candy.
Inking and painting of more candy (and a pink salmon) in progress.
Finished cover. My letters, and full book design by graphic designer Øystein Vidnes.
Activity pages.
In my sketchbook (in the top of this photo) you can see a list of veggies and other goodies, ready to be crossed out when I finished each nomnom.