not much

sketch of coming logo for the series

Not much..
But still a few things to report none the less. The english translations are slowly moving forward. As of this moment i'm still working on the 2nd draft of the first chapter in The story of Dagmar.

Meanwhile, as my art is begining to improve, i thought it was time to refresh the "image" of my series. This being done by first, renewing the logo.

As F 477 was one of the first engines to be introduced to the danish railway series, its still gonna be in the new logo. However this time it'll be joined by "Odin" (denmarks first steam engine) and the red highspeed train from 1935. Both to illustrate some important moments in danish railway history!


So thats all for this time chaps, i'm gonna keep you all up-to-date on whats happening :) cause i'll do my best  to have some books out next year, and if i have to say so myself: My recent improvement on the art makes the books something to look forward to, EVEN FOR ME!

Anyway, stay safe out there and enjoy the weekend.
author
Sebastian 

my tablet is working again! (also "the story of Dagmar updates)

A test illustration for the book "The Story Of Dagmar"

Though there's not much to say about the books at the moment, alot is actually going on. For example ive got my tablet to work again resulting in a test in a diffrent art software that i had lying around on my macbook. The end result was very surprising and a promising factor to the times ahead.

The illustration is a test, for a final illustrations that i will make later on when the final draft of the mentioned book is being worked on.

Speaking of draft, the first draft of the translated first chapter of the book has been returned to the author from the TDRS editor and is now being read through as new changes will be made, before sending the text back to the editor again. It is my sole wish that i can push as much history into the book as possible but still keeping it a fun and educating book.

There's alot of danish railway history to be put into this one and what i can reveal is that Dagmar will tell a little resumé of the beginning of railways and how they came to Denmark and the impact they made on the population.


I'm trying the best i can to keep the to versions of the TDRS, the danish and english leveled, but working on two languages at the same time is somewhat difficult. Very difficult actually.

I know that both versions will have the same story, just told in a way that fit the certain language used in each version, though danish words will be added to the english version in order to teach children about the original danish term for diffrent things.

Updates on the second book in project 2016, Elias & the highspeed train, is still in the works and undergoing some much needed writing. But so far no illustrationtest are being carried out, but are to be carried out later this year and before the planned start of the "official" final illustrations, that are to appear in the The Danish Railway Series books.

Anyway this is all i had for now, more news later!
sincerely
Author
Sebastian Berthelsen

Things are moving!

A sketch for an illustration for the book "the story of Dagmar"

Things are moving, as the first chapter of one of the books for project 2016 has now been translated into english and sent to the editor for the final editing. That means that the first work for the english part of the danish railway series is now on!

I cant yet asure you that project 2016 will be a succes and you'll get the two books, but I can asure you that i WILL work hard to the last hour in order to complete the task!

a new year and new plans!

Project 2016 is GO!

Now for the careful reader, some might say: "dont you mean 2015?" and the answer to that will be no. The reason why i call this post "Project 2016" is because i've hit a point in my work where i like what and i draw and what i write. On top of that i've collected some excellent friends to help correcting my english in the books.

When talking about the artwork i have two examples to show you, the one is a frontcover illustration the other is a back cover:

Front cover test, for "Elias & The highspeed train"
Here shown with the title in Danish.

A sketch for the backcover of "The story of Dagmar"

Now as you can see, the artwork is starting to look better than it has ever done before. This is the result of hard work which started back in 2012. 

What is the plan for 2016?

The plan for 2016 is having one or two books out in December on the 22nd. However priority is with the danish edition but i'll try the best i can to have the english translation run parallel to the other. Should i manage doing that it'll be a double language publish that year. 

Until i have more news, this is what i can tell you so far. The books have never been this close!

Until then, take care!

TDRS releases a snippet!

Read the snippet from the upcoming book Elias & the stories of the accidents part 1 here:

Snippet

get you 2015 calendar now!

screenshot of the new calendar

The danish railway series is proud to pronounce that a new 2015 calendar is available at Lulu.com. Each month will feature a different type of rolling stock and its history.

new artwork, new titles

Hey all
first off i'd like to say sorry for not keeping this website updated all the time. I'm doing my best but as it is there is much going on around education and such. However i'm progressing in terms of the artwork on the books, so far book 2's front cover illustation is progressing smoothly and so is the one for the book about the D-class dagmar. Examples of both can be seen below. I hope to have more news soon.
sincerely
Sebastian

The illustration for the book "the story of Dagmar"

The front cover illustration for Book 2 "Elias and the stories of the accident"

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