Studio Notes

Most of my illustrations begin with a pencil. Over time, I've tried many tools — different papers, pigments, and materials — but I tend to return to a small group that works reliably for the kind of vintage-inspired scenes I draw. Some of the illustration tools I return to most often — pencils, textured paper, and a few colours that work well for layered drawings. Pencil Graphite is usually where a drawing starts. Not only for the first lines, but for tone. A soft pencil mak

I never consciously developed an illustration style. It’s something that has always been there. As a teenager, I drew constantly in notebooks during school breaks — small scenes, people sitting by windows, trees after rain, the corner of a room. At the time I didn’t think of it as vintage or nostalgic. I was simply drawing what felt familiar. Looking back, I can see how much of that instinct came from the things around me. Old Danish books on our shelves. The restrained line

Many vintage-inspired illustrations today imitate the visual style of earlier decades — muted colours, simplified forms, nostalgic motifs. What interests me more is the atmosphere that older illustrations carried almost without trying. Vintage-inspired illustration of a quiet countryside scene. In Scandinavian book illustration and magazine drawings from the mid-20th century , everyday scenes were often drawn with quiet precision: a woman standing by a garden fence, a path th