I have finally got everything together and published “Annabel Lee & Eldorado”!
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Doodle Books 1 (Seals, Farms and Hedgehogs)
I have been filling these doodle books with marker doodles for a couple years. They are pretty fun and I thought I would share.
I am working backwards on one I finished. Here are the first five pictures.
Hezekiah asked me to draw a seal… This is what happens.
Hez’s Seal – Apr 2015
I am pretty sure Abram asked for Pig!
Pig Farm – 2014
Having fun at swimming lessons…
Swim Lessons – Mar 2015
Riding in the car on the way home from Iowa.
Barn – Mar 2015
The boys asked for a giant hedgehog attacking a castle. What more could you ask for.
Giant Hedgehog on the Attack – Mar 2015
– jesse norman bergstrom
The Bread Box Logo Design
So some friends of ours, the Gerjets, have been working on opening a new bakery called ‘The Bread Box‘ in Minot, ND. They were kind enough to ask me if I would do their logo design! Below is the final product… and a little bit of the journey to reach it.
The Bread Box – Final Logo
We started with some inked sketch ideas to see where Brandy and Travis wanted to go.
Art Nouveau
Block
Open Box
Abram even sent them one of his own design!
Abram’s
They decided they wanted to work on the block design as it matched the type of bread better and they really wanted a logo they could use as a stamp. So, we did a couple variations around the block design to narrow it down.
3D Box with Wheat
Box with Wheat and Star
Box with Steam and Type
After that we did some minor tweaks with font, added color and voila!
The Bread Box – Final Logo
Hope you liked seeing the process.
I had a lot of fun working with Brandy and Travis on this logo. Hope they like it as much as I do.
Visit them on Facebook at “The Bread Box Minot” and like them too!
– jesse norman bergstrom
A Snail’s Slow Dance
Just got Jamie’s B-Day/Valentine’s Day desktop done for 2014!
For Christmas she got me a 365 art-a-day book. It has a page for each day describing something ‘Art-y’. Some pages are about specific paintings, some about artists and some are exercises. This is one of the exercises. I actually did it on my iPad instead of paper. It didn’t come out too bad…
Hope you all enjoy it.
Snail – Slow Dance – Feb 2014
Oh, and I did write the poem as well… not great but I got a chuckle from Jamie (as intended.)
Here are the previous desktops…
- A Burning Thing (2013)
- Roses (2012)
- Sunflowers (2011)
- Lady Bug (2010)
– jesse norman bergstrom
Coloring book page
Doodler’s Anonymous is doing another coloring book!
So, as my wife, my 3 boys and my brother-in-law all went to visit my brother’s (who is deployed to Afghanistan) wife and their 2 kids.
I asked each of them what they would most like to color and here is what I got…
Hezekiah (3yrs) – A baby (carriage)
Matthias (7yrs) – A tank
Jason (32yrs) – A giraffe
Abram (5yrs) – Fighter jets
Jamie (32yrs) – Rainbow
Jody (37yrs) – Fairies
Samantha (8yrs) – Monkey
Morgan (10yrs)- Cobra
I added for my own pleasure : A castle, Mount Fuji, the Sun, a bird with nest and a picnic on a hill.
Color Me Please! – Oct 2013 (Click for BIG version)
Enjoy…
– jesse norman bergstrom
Jamie’s 2013 B-Day & V-Day Burning Bush Desktop
Some of you may have seen a couple of the desktops I have made for Jamie over the years.
Got to say I have not quoted Johnny Cash before. So, this year is special! Hope you like it I enjoyed making it.
Love is a burning thing… (Feb 2013)
– jesse norman bergstrom
Gimli, Leglolas and Eowyn
I have been sketching a few LOTR characters in a cartoony look. I started with Gimli and Leglolas and Jamie requested I do Eowyn. It took me as long to do her as both the other two. I have determined drawing women is harder than men…
This is what I get for breaking out the Lord of the Rings DVDs (Extended Edition). 9-12 hours (over 4 weeks) of watching plus a few hours of drawing sucked up…
I left some of my construction lines on Gimli (thought some of you might like to see more of a work in progress). The other two are really just sketches (not finished yet).
Hope you enjoy.
Gimli – Just standing proud.
Gimli Sketch (Jan 2013)
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Legolas – Shooting down an orc?
Legolas Sketch (Jan 2013)
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Eowyn – Getting ready to be smashed by the Witch King!
Eowyn Sketch (Jan 2013)
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Jamie was thinking I should have gone ‘princess’ instead of ‘warrior’ on Eowyn. But she approved anyway.
– jesse norman bergstrom
Eldorado – Verse 4 (Page 7 & 8)
Well here is the last Verse and final illustration for Eldorado by Edgar Allen Poe.
I know it has been a little while since the last post… I was not 100% happy with the final page. But I did some final color tweaks and am now satisfied.
“Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,”
The shade replied-
“If you seek for Eldorado!”
Eldorado – Verse Four (Jan 2013)
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Here is some detail on the boy…
Eldorado – Page 8 – Detail (Jan 2013)
This page may change slightly in the finished product. I am planning on doing this together with Annabel Lee also by Poe. This illustration will tie the two poems together. We will see as I work on Annabel Lee.
Check out the whole poem:
-jesse norman bergstrom
Eldorado – Verse 3 (Page 5 & 6)
This is one of the two verses I always remembered Mississippi quoting from Poe’s poem in John Wayne movie Eldorado (or on IMDb).
And, as his strength
Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow-
“Shadow,” said he
“Where can it be-
This land of Eldorado?”
Eldorado – Verse Three (Dec 2012)
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Some detail on the Hezekiah’s kitty…
Eldorado – Page 5 – Detail (Dec 2012)
Hope you liked…
Check out the whole poem:
-jesse norman bergstrom
Eldorado – Verse 2 (Page 3 & 4)
On we continue with Edgar Allen Poe’s Eldorado…
But he grew old-
This knight so bold-
And o’er his heart a shadow
Fell as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like Eldorado
I love how this illustration came out. I had doodled a valley and tree like this before and always wanted to use it for something more.
Eldorado – Verse Two (Dec 2012)
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Here is some detail on the knight and the flower…
Eldorado – Page 3 – Detail (Dec 2012)
Check out the whole poem:
-jesse norman bergstrom
