Papernoise Sketchbook

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After this long break, here they come again, the lazy saturday skeches! Lately I started to split my production in two, I’ve noticed that I like to work on two different styles. One is more oriented towards realistic representation of the human figure, relies heavily on stylized but dynamic brushstrokes, photocollages and anime-like atmospheres, with topics ranging from horror to surreal science fiction. The other is more on the cute whimsical side (but not too cute), with linework leaning towards ligne-claire, higly stylized and deformed characters. While I’m keeping the first under my very own name, for the second I decided to use the moniker Poka Bjorn, which is a mysterious word coming from Icelandic.

This style was born during my crisis period, after I had finished Giétz! and was completely fed up with comics and drawing. It was born in sketches I was doing at work while waiting for After Effects to render somethinge, or for the Terrible Marble of Doom to stop spinning.

I’ll be posting some of these in the next weeks.

Since I see myself primarily as an illustrator, I decided to create some illustrations for my recently released EP It’s the End. I did one drawing for each track, trying to expand the idea of the music into the visual dimension.

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This is the first album by Rumpelfiler.
It is also his last one.
It’s the end of something.
But the end of one thing always means the beggining of another.
And now let’s get drunk.!

preview the tracks here:

Rumpelfilter – It’s the End EP (free download, see info) by papernoise

… or download them for free on archive.org (vbr mp3)

Speical thnx to Armin, Matteo, Schaffen and Elisabeth!