This is a page from my portfolio. Maybe someone remembers the dreamy gnome with the wishlist I posted some time ago. With christmas at hand I thought it's the right time to post some more of the bunch. I suppose they are quite busy at this time of the year.
Our last Bilderwumme Drawing Night's theme was Knights & Dragons. At first I though it was a marvellous idea - far from it! I had not drawn a dragon in ages and I pretty struggled with it. So I've ben practising a little bit since. This is one of the better efforts.
Yesterday I was looking through a stack of folders with older sketches and rediscovered this scary little girl. Well, 2008 is not that long ago, but I had almost forgotten it.
Here it is: Last week's post in full epic colour. The chap's name is Polyphemus by the way.
This is the first inked Version. I wasn't quite satisfied with it and I didn't think adding all the chest and arm hair would make it easier to colourize it. So I inked it again and decided to skip the hairy stuff and add it later digitally.
This is the second clean-shaven try. For anyone who's interested, if I'm not sure about the inking, I usually scan the sketch and print it out in very light blue so I can do several versions. I like that much more than using a light table.
This is half way through the colouring process and still clean-shaven.
Is it already a month since my last post?! Oh boy, time flies. Okay, here is something more sophisticated: a cyclops. And since it's Greek mythology it's almost bound to be art.
Of course it's before that damn Ulysses thing happended. Everything was topnotch. You know, hanging around with your goats and sheep, pulling out some trees every once in a while and having a good time being grumpy and unkind. And then that bloke Ulysses comes around the corner to gouge your eye out just because you told that nasty creep to bug off! Dreadful.
I will post the coloured version very soon!
The summer has been quite nice so far but also very busy. And though I fear it's slowly coming to an end this day was another sunshiny one. I hope you had a nice day too!
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 ...
Last Saturday I was at the wedding of my good old friend Detlef, whom I know since ever. A couple of other good old friends were invited as well. But when it came to make a greeting card or some kind of gift everybody suddenly turned out to have two left hands - as always. So the task came to me - as always. But that's the burden you have to carry if you are the guy who draws the funny pictures I suppose. I'm quite busy at work at he moment, not to mention the other job I had to finish last week. But damn it was his wedding! So I spent the the nights doing this picture. Well, I could have done it earlier - as always - but sometimes I need the pressure I guess. Detlef and his wonderful wife loved it, so I think it was worth the long hours. And the wedding was great, which weddings are not necessarily are! We had loads of fun. Well, I think you have already guessed, where their honeymoon trip takes them to ...
These are some of the inked sketches I did. I decided to do them seperately to be able to move them around later on. For some unknown reason I skipped the moose.
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