Space Ship N°1

Usually I'm much more into character design but I thought some visual development wouldn't harm. Here is the first of a series of spaceships. Fresh from the drawing desk.

BTW, only five days left until my trip to California. So if you are also at the CTN animation eXpo I'll see you there!

CTN animation eXpo

I will be attending the CTN animation eXpo in Burbank this year. It's hosted by Tina Price and the Creative Talent Network. And as far as I've been told last year was pretty amazing! It's my first trip to the USA and I'm already quite excited. I will stay in California for about two and a half weeks.

So if you are also going or are in the area drop me a line. I hope to see you there!

All Creatures Great and Small

This illustration is inspired by "All Creatures Great and Small" (which is known in Germany under the title "Der Doktor und das liebe Vieh"). It tells the story of the veterinarian James Herriot.

I still like the BBC series based on the books. It may be a little bit old-fashioned but it features a great cast and a lot of interesting side characters. Does anyone remember Tricky Woo?

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.

Life Drawing!

Recently we practised life drawing at our Drawing Night. I hadn't done it in ages. And though I felt a bit rusty, it turned out to be a lot of fun! Everyone had to be the model in turn - sometimes armed with a broom or sombrero. These poses were between 3 and 5 minutes.

French Artist!

Something more cartoony.

Hair Metal!

Our last Bilderwumme Drawing Night's theme was: HEAVY METAL! So we took a trip down memory lane back to the 80s when hair was growing wild, guitar solos were hot and everybody was dreaming of becoming a rock star. Oh, and computers actually looked like breadboxes. And coincidentally t's a perfect match to my last post.

By the way, this guy looks a little bit like my first guitar teacher!

Switched on Mozart!

Happy New Year! Can i still say that? It's already February - the year is almost over. Well, I made a lot of New Year's resolutions, but somehow I must have forgotten to include "posting on my blog more often" on my list.

To celebrate that I'm posting an old hat. Or better an old wig. I made this picture some years ago when we started our group blog Die Bilderwumme. The sketch was pretty crappy. But I didn't give up and I still like what came out in the end. So put on ROCK ME AMADEUS and enjoy!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all of you!

Christmas Gnomes!

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.

Crazy Bird!

A crazy bird presumably from South America.

Dragon!

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.

Close to the Wind!

It's hard to deny, autumn is here. Or to be more precisely the windy, unpleasant and undeniably wet part of autumn. And the fact that it's already dark at tea-time doesn't make it any better. Well, at least you can't see the bad weather ...

This picture is a little bit older. (I did it in 2007 when a storm called Kyrill rolled over Germany and left quite some devastation behind!) I though it would make a good editorial illustration or maybe a book cover. So I added the nonsense typo.

By the way, the landscape looks exactly like in Ostfriesland where I come from!

Scary Girl!

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.

Back from the Dephts!

I've been scuba diving in the Mediterranean!

Cyclops Pt.2: The Epic Colour!

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.

Cyclops Pt.1: The Sketch

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 Girl in the Yellow Dress Pt.2!

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!

Pirate N°1!

A pirate to keep things going.