I started off this blog with a pirate post. But since then there have been no pirates at all. And no skulls and skeletons too. That's a shame. So here is the 2-in-1 package: A skeleton pirate! Aaarrrrrrr!
(I wasn't in the mood for soft shading so I used some colour hatching instead this time.)
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.
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?
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.
This picture is a little bit older, but I haven't posted it here.
At work I like to play a little game and ask a colleague to say something that I'll have to draw then. With this one it went like this:
"OK, say something."
"Errr ... Giraffe."
"Well ... say something else."
"Crazy Cop?"
"That's good."
Then I did a scribble which wasn't too crazy at all, but that's where the idea came from. Thanks to Michael for the inspiration.
(By the way, the sandwich is of course low-fat because he minds keeping his body in shape ... but he's a tough guy nevertheless!)
The Animation Talk was great. Mr. Silver turned out to be a very nice guy. I took a lot of photos and will post a selection soon. In the meantime a little watercolour sketch I did recently.
Today I'm going to the Animation Talk in Hamburg. Stephen Silver is giving a lecture there at the chamber of commerce. Harald Siepermann and Uli Meyer will also be there - so it's definately going to be great!
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!
To be honest this guy wasn't meant to be Bruce Willis. But after I added the undershirt things just fell into place. Some blood, dirt, a plaster and something that just exploded. Die hard with a nose. There you are!
He steals your mail at night. His oversized head is filled with mischievous thoughts. And he will put the spell of bureaucracy on you when you need it the least. Nasty litle creep.
Last week I returned from the Alps where I had a great time with Florian. Graz is a beautiful city, definately worth a visit. We visited the Schlossberg, the Landeszeughaus (very inspiring!), the Kunsthaus, the Mausoleum of Ferdinand II. and everything else. And a lot of nice people everywhere. The Royal Styrian Drawing Jam was fun and quite relaxed. Thanks a lot for having me there! Of course I took myriads of photos. Here are some impressions of the trip.
This is a piece I did not at the drawing jam. I'm working on a lot of things at the moment, but nothing I can post right now. And we just started with our next project. Hopefuly I can tell you more about that soon. So in the meantime another portrait. A guy with a moronic smile.
Thursday I will fly to Austria to visit the magnificent Florian Satzinger in the beautiful city of Graz. And on Friday I will participate in the 3rd Royal Styrian Drawing Jam at the Forum Stadtpark in Graz. I'm really looking forward to that! I think it's going o be fun. Join us there for a nice evening. See you there!
Last time I think they had the topic friendly aliens at the jam. So the picture above is somehow related. Though you might say he looks rather lunatic he's mostly harmless! Anyway this is my contribution for this week for our group blog the Bilderwumme.
A portrait of a good-humoured rockabilly guy. I'm not sure if I spelled the background text orthographically right, but who cares. I reused the "burning truck" tattoo from our first movie Back to Gaya (aka The Snurks). I think it suit him well!
This one is a little bit older, but I thought it would complement the previous post. I did it around Halloween. Well, I know there is still some time left - but who cares: "Trick or treat!". Haha, first!
A little winterly impression. Not that it's snowing here in Hannover. Two days a go there was actually a little bit of snow in the morning, but it vanished as quickly as it came. Hasn't been a great winter after all. But it was enough to inspire this little picture.
Okay, today is the first day of spring as Mr. Schwarz kindly reminded me. Do I care? No. Somewhere it's snowing right now ...
Happy Easter to all of you!
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