This was a school assignment which I choose to do myself. I were given about a week to create a collection of postal stamps.

I choose to honor six quite famous swedish writers and poets. The six persons also have in common that they lived quite tragic lifes. Why i did them in this style is actually quite funny. The first task we got when i started studying at SVF, was to make a so called “one line-drawing” of the person sitting opposite you. I was actually unbealivably bad at this. So of course I choose to make postal stamps using the same technique when I was to choose my first own project in year two. In the end i didn’t quite stick to the “one line-technique” but I wanted the people to be drawn quite “scribbly” so to say. I wanted the illustrations to almost have a feeling of being a self portrait, which the writers could have scribbled down on a piece of paper while talking on the phone or something like that. I wanted to contrast this with pastell colors. To try to create a unique feeling and mix between something old and something a bit more modern.