Erik Petri Illustration

Antboy - the theater play

2012-01-31T14:31:00.002+01:00

The Antboy books, written by Kenneth Bøgh Andersen and illustrated by me, have been transformed into a theater play for kids. I haven't seen the play yet, but I have bought my tickets for february the 12th.
I look foreward to see how the Louise Schouw Theater have turned a 12 year old wall crawling, ultra fast, super strong, acid peeing superhero into a characther in a theater play. The main part as Antboy is being played by wellknown actor Robert Hansen, and his rival in real life as well as in superhero life, Mark: one of the terror twins + supervillian Eghjorten(The Stag Beetle). Mark is played by wellknown actor Jens Andersen (Polle fra Snave).
The Antboy theater play will be traveling around the country, so everyone who has read the books throughout the country, will have a chance to see Antboy come alive on stage.

I can't wait to see how the characters I designed will look like in real life. Here are some shots from the play when they rehearsed: Pelle/Antboy and the Terror Twins Allan and Mark/Eghjorten

Højteknologifonden - En verden af muligheder.mov

2012-01-08T20:57:00.000+01:00

The Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation - A world of opportun...

2012-01-08T20:56:00.000+01:00

making a "hand drawn" film for The Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation

2012-01-08T20:52:00.002+01:00

After a lot of meetings with the client, where we talked while I sketched, we finally agreed upon the visual script for a 6 min. "hand drawn" film that explains what the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation is, and what they can do for/ how they can help with, making partnerships between the industry and the world of science a success.

KAB-bolig - bedre boliger for alle

2012-01-07T19:56:00.000+01:00

KABbolig film - english version

2012-01-07T19:55:00.000+01:00

making a "hand drawn" film

2012-01-07T19:26:00.004+01:00

I have done several of these RSA inspired films in 2011. It takes a lot of work to end up with a 5 min. film.

1. Before the first meeting I have recieved the storyline and have started to doodle symbols that can help telling the story. Then I have my first meeting with the client where I sketch and come up with visual ideas, while we talk and go over the story line.

2. End up with a sketch of the whole thing at the end of a meeting (normally takes a couple of meeting!) - a sketch that I can refine at home a send the client for aproval. Besides figuring out how to visualise the story line, I also have to figure out how I would like the camera to move.

3. Then I spend a long day in front of a white board with red and black markers. Me, the photographer, the producer and the client have to agree upon step 1, step 2 etc....and corrections and changes can be made before shooting with the camera.

4. Finally a lot of work is put into the postproduction ... it's not only adding sound and timing!!

.... and finally after hours and hours of work, it ends up with a little film, that can explain complicated stuff in a simple and exiting way.

Antboy 6 teaser

2011-12-30T16:48:00.003+01:00

In spring of 2012 Antboy book 6 will be in stores.
Im in the process of finishing all the BW illustrations that goes inside the book (40+) + still need to do some work on the cover.
Antboy 6 is the most action packed of the six books. This time Antboy will face the mysterious Villian Heros .... will he be able to defeat him on his own? - wait and see, when the book comes out!

I wish all my blog readers a happy new year

next in line

2011-12-18T21:55:00.002+01:00

By cutting down the rain forest, that has the best capacity for storing CO2, we slowly move closer to our own extinction

Some students feel tempted to use 'Brain-Doping'

2011-12-13T17:35:00.003+01:00

You can look at it in many ways:
1. why not use doping an reach your true potential 2. Doping is cheating 3. Why should you give medicine to healthy student 4. If it's not (that) bad for your health, why not give it a go 5. You are setting a bad example ....etc. etc...

Akihabara Electric Town in Tokyo

2011-12-11T16:58:00.002+01:00

In Electric city (Akihabara) Tokyo I saw a bunch of these role-play girls, dressed up as maids, standing all over the place handing out flyers. They were kinda shy and didn't like to be taken pictures of .... but sketching them didn't seem to bother them as much.

Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo

2011-12-11T16:46:00.004+01:00

I have sketched different people at the Tokyo Fish Market early in the morning.... some are checking out the quality of the Blue Marlins others are safety guards, visitors (like me). The Tokyo Fish Market is the biggest in the world.

Sanjūsangen-dō temple in Kyoto

2011-12-11T16:38:00.003+01:00

I couldn't take pictures inside Sanjūsangen-dō temple, but sketchbook drawing was allowed .... so I tried to sketch as many different sculptures as possible within the 25 minuttes we had inside the temple. There were almost 900 scultures inside, many were identical thoughh ... so I picked the ones that fascinated med the most.

Shimogamo Shrine Kyoto

2011-12-11T16:33:00.003+01:00

The third place I visited: Shimogamo Shrine .... huge and vermillion colored! I loved the fox sculptures and the gates.

Kinkaku-ji Temple/ The Golden Temple - Kyoto

2011-12-11T16:28:00.002+01:00

This is the second temple I visited: The Golden Temple: Kinkaku-Ji in Kyoto. Me and my group of danish cartoonists were not the only danes visiting the temple that day, - the danish prince Joachim was there with his wife, princess marie, and a delegation.

Royanji Temple Kyoto

2011-12-11T16:23:00.003+01:00

When I visited Kyoto late October I saw two Budhist temples and two Shinto Shrines. This is the first one I saw: Royanji Temple that has both a rockgarden and the Kyoyochi Pond.

round and juicy......served the wrong way it has side effects!

2011-11-26T19:50:00.002+01:00

When Robbie williams played with Take That in Copenhagen not to long ago, they had to canselled their concert due to food poisoning .... apperantly Robbie had eaten some bad lobster that make him sick....So instead of him "taken down" the lobster, it was the other way around

Almost like making a deal with Don Corleone

2011-11-25T16:32:00.002+01:00

understandig extremism

2011-11-22T18:47:00.000+01:00

sketches from Alte Pinakothek, Munich

2011-11-20T14:08:00.003+01:00

Last Thursday I attended as a graphic recorder, a workshop for Siemens, which took place in the Freising near Munich. The day after I had time to take the train to Munich, so I could manage to see the world's largest collection of Peter Paul Rubens at the Alte Pinakothek before I had to go home by plane.
Besides an impressive collection of his works, there are also some pictures of Frans Hals, Hieronimus Bosch, Fredrich Dürer and many other great paintings in the old assembly.
To me Rubens is the origin of Superhero comics. When I look at his paintings it's like looking at an epic battle from a page in a Marvel Comic Book.

Sushi that glows in the dark .... for Blæksprutten 2011

2011-11-19T13:02:00.002+01:00

Sushi that glows in the dark

2011-11-19T13:00:00.001+01:00

Young prince Christian

2011-11-19T09:35:00.002+01:00

And then he became silent

2011-11-13T19:09:00.002+01:00

the Euro is going down ... down ... down

2011-11-11T16:37:00.000+01:00

Robots for the elderly

2011-11-10T07:01:00.002+01:00

Raising the debt ceiling (part2)

2011-11-07T15:00:00.002+01:00

Raising the debt ceiling (part1)

2011-11-07T14:57:00.001+01:00

how to build a space rocket 3

2011-10-26T12:52:00.002+02:00

how to build a space rocket 2

2011-10-25T11:40:00.000+02:00

how to build a space rocket 1

2011-10-25T11:37:00.003+02:00

portrait of Caroline Wozniacki's dad Piotr

2011-10-23T12:23:00.001+02:00

Beware of the digital footprints you leave behind

2011-10-19T10:16:00.002+02:00

A limited color palette

2011-10-14T09:15:00.001+02:00

When the forests are cut down - the world's species richness of flora and fauna are cut down too.

From Antboy 5

2011-10-11T09:34:00.002+02:00

From Antboy 5

2011-10-10T11:29:00.002+02:00

From Antboy 5

2011-10-09T17:32:00.002+02:00

When art inspires - or life copies art...

2011-10-09T08:24:00.004+02:00

When Kurt Westergaard drew his infamous cartoon of a bearded guy with a bomb in his turban in 2005 ... he didn't know, that his visual comment on "how somebody is using religion as their ammonition for the rage", would inspire the Taliban to copy his idea and use a bomb hidden in a turban to kill Professor Rabbani in Afghanistan.
Sometimes life inspires to art, and the other way around.

Lawstuff: taxation of a company with two owners

2011-10-07T15:47:00.001+02:00

nine out of ten pilots fall a sleep while flying

2011-10-06T18:57:00.003+02:00

I did this cartoon for annual Blæksprutte about this case: "Nine out of ten Danish pilots have made mistakes because of fatigue, and every other have fallen asleep in the air, shows study. Standup Commedian Thomas Wivel came up with the idea: "Become a pilot, the job is a dream"... Thomas and I met at a coffeehouse a while ago, and brainstormed together... he came up with the words and I did a couple of sketches in my sketchbook.
I turned in my 11 cartoons for this years Blæksprutte (The Squid = annual satire publication since 1881)... The book will be in stores 8th. of November.

Book illustrations for "the Demon from Notre Dame"

2011-09-29T21:14:00.002+02:00

Book illustrations for "the Demon from Notre Dame"

2011-09-29T21:11:00.003+02:00

Book illustrations for "the Demon from Notre Dame"

2011-09-29T21:03:00.004+02:00

Spitting a Gargoyle in the face, brings it to life. The Gargoyle (a demon named Azull) can take control of other peoples bodies .... a perfect camoflage when he want to get close to boy who escaped his wrath 8 years ago... now it's time for revenge and to set the scores straight ... the boy has to die!

bookcover for horror story: final version

2011-09-23T14:50:00.004+02:00

Book cover for author Morten Dürr's next horror story for kids "The Demon from Notre Dame"...... a nasty, horrifying tale about a boy who has trouble escaping his brutal destiny.
This is the fourth story from Morten Dürr's book series Sort Chok, after the stories about the "Axe Murderers Skull", "Alligator Blood" and "Stepdad from Hell".

I will post some of the illustrations I did for the inside of the book later.

The book will be out later this year.

Thanks for reading.

Ferocious creature aka. bookcover for horror story: third version

2011-09-23T14:48:00.002+02:00

bookcover for horror story: second version

2011-09-23T14:46:00.001+02:00

bookcover for horror story: first version

2011-09-23T14:45:00.002+02:00

Lawstuff: taxation of trade in investment certificates

2011-09-22T10:39:00.002+02:00

Lawstuff: taxation of expatriates

2011-09-10T09:14:00.001+02:00

Lawstuff: signing a contract for liability

2011-09-09T07:52:00.002+02:00

Bodily Distress Syndrome

2011-09-05T12:56:00.002+02:00

Bodily Distress Syndrome

2011-09-05T12:51:00.004+02:00

These are the 8 final illustrations ... the sketches from the meeting with clean lines and colors added. The colors are the CVI-colors of the hospital (Corporate Visual Identity).

I hope these image will be a good aid for the doctors when they have to explain what this is, what causes it and how it can be dealt with.

Bodily Distress Syndrome

2011-09-05T12:43:00.004+02:00

I recently completed 8 illustrations for a hospital brochure explaining about what bodily distress syndrome is, what causes it and how it can be dealt with. The subject was rather complex so I had a sketch meeting with four doctors from the hospital, in order to be able to ask them the right questions and sketch in front of them, so they could see if my visual ideas explained the subject matter the right way. By choosing this way of working = sketching in front of the client, they are able to take part in the development of the images, and I can make sure that I understood the subject the right way and the way the images are intented to be used ... in this case in a brochure and as powerpoint slides. These images top priority is not to 'sell the story', but to explain the content.
These are some of the sketches I made during the meeting.

How to negotiate your first salary

2011-08-31T16:05:00.001+02:00

Lawstuff: taxrates and cars

2011-08-26T09:45:00.001+02:00

Lawstuff: being fired in a polite way

2011-08-21T12:52:00.001+02:00

The process of drawing the Antboy 6 bookcover

2011-08-15T20:11:00.001+02:00

how to fix an imperfect salary negotiation

2011-08-11T13:53:00.004+02:00

After graduation and at your first job interview...you need to be loaded with the right arguments at the salary negotion. Otherwise you will get paid less than you are probably worth.

Antboy 5 cover - Final version

2011-08-03T21:09:00.001+02:00

From Antboy 5

2011-07-19T08:31:00.002+02:00

From Antboy 5

2011-07-14T09:26:00.002+02:00

From Antboy 5

2011-07-12T10:27:00.002+02:00

From Antboy 4

2011-07-10T12:59:00.002+02:00

From Antboy 4

2011-07-08T09:13:00.002+02:00

Antboy 5 cover

2011-06-28T08:49:00.002+02:00

The cover design is made by Leo Scherfig ... great design as usual... thanks Leo

Antboy 5 cover illustrations + interior illustration.

2011-06-28T08:30:00.004+02:00

Antboy 5 will be out in the fall. Antboy 4, that came out a few weeks ago, has recieved great reviews. So I expect people to stand in line in front of their bookstores around October, waiting to get their hands on book 5 of this thrilling and fun adventure...book 6 will be out in the spring 2012.
In book 5 Antboy is faced with new dangers, mysteries and adventures: at least one new villian (a villain who can throw a money transport car through the air and rip the door of!!)... the town now has at least two persons with super human strength..

Lawstuff: inheritance and taxes by moving abroad

2011-06-17T11:48:00.002+02:00

Sketching the speakers at a meeting

2011-06-11T12:32:00.001+02:00

Lawstuff: Personal data security and outsourced IT jobs

2011-06-07T23:05:00.001+02:00

Lawstuff: rules about partial bids and a complete offer

2011-06-04T14:42:00.002+02:00

Lawstuff: import-export rules for the EU

2011-06-03T15:39:00.002+02:00

Lawstuff: rules for web cookies

2011-05-21T18:34:00.001+02:00

Lawstuff: tax on artworks

2011-05-10T15:33:00.001+02:00

Lawstuff: Slow processing

2011-05-08T21:17:00.001+02:00

Antboy 4 -does Pelle still have his powers?

2011-04-30T11:20:00.002+02:00

read about it in Antboy 4, the first book in a new Antboy trilogy by Kenneth Bøgh Andersen

Antboy 4 - will be in stores end of May

2011-04-28T13:20:00.002+02:00

Here is another illustration for upcomming book Antboy 4. Right now I'm working on the illustrations for Antboy 5, that will be out in the fall.

Antboy 4 - my dog is in the book

2011-04-22T11:26:00.002+02:00

My dog is being saved by Antboy in the new book.

Antboy 4 - one of the illustrations

2011-04-20T10:13:00.001+02:00

Antboy 4 will be in the book stores in the end of May

Antboy - the theater play

2011-04-20T10:08:00.002+02:00

Louise Schouw has turned Antboy, the first danish superhero, into a theater play. It will open in january. You can read about the details here

Lawstuff: Journeys paid for by your employer

2011-04-19T14:56:00.001+02:00

"A Stepdad from Hell" -book illustrations

2011-04-14T21:15:00.003+02:00

"A Stepdad from Hell" -book cover

2011-04-07T13:14:00.004+02:00

Later this year a new horror story book for kids, by author Morten Dürr, will be out. The main character Noah (who is albino) experiences how his classmates vanish one after another...all while his moms new boyfriend fires up the grill for some barbeque.

a dog and a tree

2011-04-03T19:26:00.002+02:00

Thursday opens an artshow at butik CMYK. The gallery and shop turns five years.....congratulation. All the invited artist where told to submit an original piece of art 30 cm by 30 cm and work within the theme: Tree (when you celebrate 5 year anniversary / wedding, it's called tree wedding).

I find it rather difficult to come up with an image, when I'm just being given a theme and creative freedom....I feel a lot more confident, when I have to read a text and have to solve the 'problem' within certain boundries....so I just did a drawing of my dog

Bookcover for a Knight tale...with type

2011-03-22T08:20:00.002+01:00

Here is the final cover with type. I think graphic designer Marianne Bisballe did a wonderful job with the design of the book.

Bookcover for a Knight tale

2011-03-17T12:20:00.003+01:00

I did the cover illustration for author Kristoffer Andersen's debut novel "Erik Jernhånd" (Erik Ironhand) . It's a fun satirical Knight tale, where the reader will be met by wellknown fairytale characthers, that act a little bit different, than one would expect...kinda like in Shrek...but this book is a lot more political than Shrek...a deals with bureaucracy and democracy.... The book will be out later in the spring.

Antboy 4 cover: final version

2011-03-07T16:55:00.003+01:00

New cover for Antboy 3

2011-03-03T13:13:00.002+01:00

Antboy 2 cover: final version

2011-03-02T11:20:00.001+01:00

New cover for Antboy 2

2011-03-02T08:57:00.001+01:00

New cover for Antboy 1

2011-03-01T12:34:00.002+01:00

When the new Antboy book (number 4) is released in the spring, the first three Antboy books from 2007 will be reprinted with new covers. Here is the new cover for Antboy 1.

Warning: meat eaters

2011-02-26T22:49:00.004+01:00

I did these caged dragon babies for a for a picture book with children book illustrator from the danish writers association.
I was given a pretty abstract text about two in an egg, that are looking out at the world for the first time trying to figure out what they are and what the wanna be. They can see some green and yellow stuff laying on the ground and some long dark lines that goes all the way up and all the way down...hmm..well I had free hands to interpret the text in my illustrations...so I decided for dragons instead birds.
As far as I have been told, we were three illustrators who have been interpreting this text...Im curious to see what the other two have come up with.
Anyway I had a lot of fun drawing this.
The book will be out in the fall.

I won the Willumsen Graphic Novel competition

2011-02-26T12:34:00.003+01:00

Yeaterday I won first prize in the J. F. Willumsen Graphic Novel competition. Besides the prize I won the right to develop my project with Rosinante Publishing house. There is a lot of work ahead before the book is done, but I look forward to the process of turning this artsit life and work into an interesting story, that will not only appeal to comicbook fans and fans of J. F. Willumsen art.
Click here to watch a short film about the artist J. F. Willumsen and his artwork...it subtitled in enhlish.
Thanks for reading.

Lawstuff: Severance pay

2011-02-11T00:43:00.001+01:00

Lawstuff: Wills and bequests

2011-02-10T18:23:00.001+01:00

Lawstuff: Framework Agreement

2011-01-31T09:49:00.001+01:00

Lawstuff: An employer who is confused about rules and regulations

2011-01-27T20:17:00.002+01:00

Cartoons about the European Convention on Human Rights

2011-01-21T14:30:00.003+01:00

Yesterday a show with 52 cartoons celebrates the European Convention on Human Rights is turning 60 years. The opening speeches were held by my chairman of the danish cartoonist Claus Seidel and the Minister for Development in the third world Søren Pind. The show will be up at the Royal Library (den Sorte Diamant) until mid april. I have four cartoons in the show and the specific articles in the convention I made my cartoons about were:

Article 3 prohibits torture, and "inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment"

Article 4 prohibits slavery, servitude and forced labour

Article 6 provides a detailed right to a fair trial

Article 8 provides a right to respect for one's "private and family life, his home and his correspondence"

Thanks for reading and please go see the show if you are in Copenhagen or/and visit the danish cartoonist website: http://caricature.dk/human_rights

Lawstuff: tax rules for company sports and tax deduction

2011-01-21T09:54:00.002+01:00

Lawstuff: getting some of your tax-money back

2011-01-18T14:07:00.000+01:00

advice on how to get a job after graduation

2011-01-14T15:49:00.001+01:00