geir friestad ... artwork 
"Artwork." That sounds very fancy, although there's nothing in here that is actually aiming for such high ideals. What you will find here is merely a selection of the "not too horrible to show to others" results of boredom, pain and, yes, happy times that I've gone through; episodes that have inspired me to go all caveman on sheets of paper and create lines of fancy. Anyway, I couldn't think of a better header title, so "artwork" it is. I guess I'll have to live with it for now. Ah well...
 

LEAD PENCIL
A selection of pencil sketches. This is my favored style, simply because I feel there's less demand on the end result to look "finished." Hence it's more liberating, and consequently, expect things here to look like what they are - sketches! The pieces were done with a variety of different pencils, ranging from 2B to HB.

INK PEN
I did a great deal of ink pen drawing back in the early to mid-90s. I don't really find this style of drawing all that interesting anymore, but here's a selection anyway. For historical purposes, or something like that. Most of the stuff on display here is manga-styled.

INK, PEN AND BRUSH
A much more organic and interesting style than mere ink pen, I think. A current favorite alongside the ever-popular pencil sketching. The preferred instruments of implementation are a B pencil, Mitsubishi UB-150 Black and a no. 3 brush with whatever diluted black ink I happen to have handy (currently Parker Quink).
 

Perhaps I should also mention the subject of inspiration. There are many artists whose work I enjoy - Masamune Shirow, Bill Watterson, Stan Sakai, Edward Gorey, Jhonen Vasquez, Frank Cho and Nobuyuki Ohnishi, to mention just a few. But three artists stand out as really inspiring to me - Yoshifumi Kondo, Enrico Casarosa and Tim Burton. They're not inspiring in the sense that I feel the need to emulate their style, but in the simple joy of drawing that their art conveys (to me, at least). Kondo sadly passed away in 1997, but left behind a legacy of gorgeous artwork that can still be appreciated. (Please do yourself a favor and purchase Reminisces - a wonderful collection of his pencil illustrations.) A wonderful sampling of Casarosa's art can be found on his homepage. Burton's art can best be appreciated in the Goreyesque and wonderfully twisted The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories, but other pieces can be found scattered throughout various Burton-related books (Burton on Burton, etc).

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