Far Too Hot !!!

It's much too hot. Even for the prickly bear armadillo.

Kangaroo!

A boxing kangaroo ready to beat the hell out of you. Completely analogue: copic markers and colored pencil.

Crazy Bird!

A crazy bird presumably from South America.

Moongazers!

Okay, this is a follow-up to the honeymoon post. The good thing about doing an illustration in individual parts - apart from taking much more time, making everything more complicated and amazingly blowing up your Photoshop document - is that you can easily do a new arrangement. Took me about twenty minutes. And it's a completely different picture.

PS: Thanks a lot for your nice comments on the last post, folks! I really appreciate it, it was alot of hard work ...

Need For Speed!

A horse on a kickboard.

Dragon Dog & Sloth!

Two crazy animals I drew recently.

Señor Gomez!

Señor Gomez is a nutria and chief editor of a little newspaper.

Planet of the Apes!

Classic literature for the spohisticated ape.

Can you spot the mistake? ... Right. The title is on the back of the book. I didn't even notice it. Mr. Schwarz had to call my attention to this big blunder. But everything else is abolutely authentic.

Easter Parade!

"Happy Easter!"

Easter is just around the corner. So high time to post some rabbits.

PS: These cuties are from my Harvey sessions.

Harvey!

A couple of weeks ago I watched Harvey. You know, that old James Stewart movie from the 50s. I hadn't seen it in ages and could barley remember anything, but I still like it a lot. The main character's best friend is an invisible 6 foot 8 inch rabbit named Harvey. You actually never see the rabbit - but it's there! Deeply inspired I spent the rest of the evening drawing rabbits. And the evening after that too!

This is one of the efforts.

Rüsselhorn!

This is a picture of the extremely rare Rüsselhorn. It can only be seen at night after sixteen bottles of beer ...

Black & White Rhino Business!

We're quite busy at the studio right now because we have a deadline in a couple of weeks. So it was a bad time to get ill but I'm fit again and back into business. Earlier this week I finished the model sheets for a rhino and it already looks quite nice in CG. And it will absolutely not look like the one above. I'm really sorry that I can't show any of the actual designs. So here is a fun drawing instead.

As you might know there are black rhinos and white rhinos, well I would call this one a black and white rhino. Oh, and he is the editor of the "Daily Jungle News".

Crocodile Smile!

Another inked sketch. A smiling crocodile. But I wouldn't trust him an inch ...

Homie Duck!

"The early bird catches the ... fish!"

Does anyone remember the Homie Bears? It's a little personal project I started last year. I posted a series of pictures back then. (Just click on the label "Homie Bears" at the bottom of the post to see them.) Recently I took the time to work on it again.

I thought they could use some company. Here is the first of the Homie Ducks. His name is Rupert and he loves to go fishing. And it's best to get up quite early to do so.

Hippopotamus Amphibius!

In April I started working on the character design for our new movie at Ambient Entertainment. It's called Die Konferenz der Tiere (The Conference of the Animals) and is based on the famous book by Erich Kästner written in 1949. The story takes place in Africa and features - as you may have already guessed - all kinds of animals. That means of course a lot of research and so I already bought my annual ticket for the Zoo in Hannover, which is quite marvelous by the way.

But there are no hippos at all in the story. Can you believe that?

High Fidelity!

As you might know dogs have a great sense of hearing. So it's no big surprise that they like to enjoy the ultimate stereo sound experience in nothing less than high fidelity.

Slurp!

This is a collaboration between Jens (who is lead storyboarder at our studio) and me. We were just sribbling away to distract ourselves from doing some serious work when Jens drew this cute little chimp. I spontaneously had to ink it.

So through this great joint venture we're proud to present you the recently discovered and extremly rare long-necked sugar water chimpanzee. Slurp! Cheers!

Miscellaneous Stuff!

These are some pictures I recently did for the Bilderwumme.

An extremely happy walking guy. Done straight with the Art Pen.

An old man in blue.

A couple of ape scibbles I did for a project last year.

Blue Animal!

Like the post before this little fellow was also an accidental tiny scribble at the bottom of of a sheet. But he seemed to be in such a good temper that I couldn't leave him there.

But don't ask me what species he is. I don't have a clue. And the title is a mystery as well ...