Christine Iversen

“Bean”, aka Christine Iversen lives in Los Angeles with her husband where she draws, designs, digitally paints, watches movies and dabbles in political activism from time to time. While she works in various media, it is drawing that was her first love and seems to always present her with her favorite challenge.

 

As a child she was constantly drawing on the back and sides of her classroom assignments, much to her teacher’s dismay. However, her rebellious behavior seemed to pay off when she won her first art contest in the first grade proving that indeed, crime does pay!

 

This desire to draw and to “art” lead her to the Art Institute of California-San Diego where she earned her Bachelors Degree in Multimedia and Animation. Being a 21st century kind of artist, she prefers to color and design on her Mac computer but she still draws the old-fashioned way, just like when she was a kid. Only difference now is that she no longer doodles on the backs of her assignments, apparently clients don’t pay for that!

Artist Email: CIversen@CreativeHousePress.com

To see more of her work, go to: www.beantv.net.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christine's Artwork

Coffee, Tea and Me, 8 x 6”, Digital Illustration

This was a piece done both as a test for a children’s book opportunity and as a personal challenge. The author was looking for a certain art style and sent me an image like this to recreate. I took the task and made it my own by drawing it then inking and coloring it entirely in Adobe Illustrator. While the result did not get me the job (Booo!), it did get me a nice piece I like to show off.

Meet your friendly neighborhood barber, like they had in the olden times when they used chainsaws instead of clippers. Actually, I guess that's not how they used to do it but well, this guy has his own way of doing things.

This was a character I designed for a test for the Nickelodeon animated series, "Fairly Oddparents". Don't blame me for the chainsaw, that was in their script, I'm just the artist!

Pete, 8 x 8”, Digital Illustration

Pete is a pet lover, he draws his name from the non-profit organization, PETA. I wanted to create a character who embodied humane treatment of animals and who championed their cause for the graphic novel my husband and I are working on. I’d tell you about it but it’s on the down low until  we have the story better put together, stay tuned for more penguin work to come.

Rosie, 3 x 4/5”, Digital Illustration

Rosie the Riveter has always been a personal heroine of mine. True, the actual character is not real, but many women who went to work and struggled to do so were real. I come from a long line of women who struggle to work so, I can relate quite well to her. In her honor, I created a character for the graphic novel that my husband and I are working on, which again, I can’t tell you about just now. But I am looking forward to telling you about it in the future, so hang tight.

Earmuffs for lunch, again. (Digital illustration)

This piece was created for an art contest posted for the Society of Children's book writers and illustrators. The contest was to illustrate the line, "Sometimes I wear these to lunch". I thought of all the silly things a kid could wear to lunch, scuba gear was top of the list, but then I thought that earmuffs could make a better story. So I went with that, not sure if I'll win but here's crossing my fingers, toes and eyes!

 

Artist Email: CIversen@CreativeHousePress.com