Pirate N°2

Just another grim pirate. Arrrr!

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.

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!

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!

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.

Pirate N°1!

A pirate to keep things going.

Froggy the Burglar!

Nothing special, just a portrait of a little criminal.

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.

Off to work!

A typical German workman on his way to work. Done completely analogue with brush pen and copic marker. Cheers!

Angler!

I've got a lot of marvelous things in the pipeline, but nothing ready to post yet. So just a little portrait of someone who likes to go fishing. Tight lines!

Señor Gomez!

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