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.

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 ...

Canadian Honeymoon

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.

After I had the idea I did this colour key.

A close up.

Need For Speed!

A horse on a kickboard.

Matthias!

A quick portrait of my pal and fellow blogger Matthias. He likes big sketchbooks, Greek mythology, great amounts of black ink and white wine a lot. Cheers!

Animation Talk!

Last Friday I went to Hamburg and attended the Animtion Talk. This year's guest was Michael Thurmeier from Blue Sky Studios, co-directer of ICE AGE 3 - Dawn of the Dinosaurs. It was sort of a live making-of. He showed a lot sequences in various stages of production from storyboard to finished film and explained and commented everything. He also showed a lot of beautiful color keys and some of the marvelous character designs of Peter de Seve. Beside that he talked about the challenges of doing the whole thing in 3D. Very interesting stuff indeed. (I wonder if they are doing an "Art Of" book?!) Following the presentation was a Q&A. After the show was over I had the opportunity to have chat with him and he turned out to be quite a nice guy!

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!

Cannonball Curly!

Every two weeks we are celebrating the Official Bilderwumme Drawing Night, a nice evening with colleagues and friends dedicated to art of drawing funny pictures. Most of the contestants are posting on our group blog The Bilderwumme, by the way. Usually we pick a theme that sometimes dramatically changes into something completely different. A couple of weeks ago the theme was seafaring. That was much fun! This is one of the sketches I did.

At first I used a brush pen for inking but I wasn't satisfied with the result. It didn't feel appropriate for the style. So I drew another version and used a felt pen instead. (Is felt pen the right word? Or is fineliner better?) I added some shading for now, but I will defiantely colorize it when I find the time.

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!

Space Age Pop Cartoon Guy!

"And now for something completely different."

I've been trying out a lot of things recently. This is one of the efforts. Sophisticated 60s space age pop cartoon style in stereovision. Cheers!

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.

Guy with Strange Head!

You gotta have brains!

"Igor! Hurry up!"

This is a leftover sketch from last year's Halloween. You know what's missing? Right, a banana peel ...

The Wishlist!

"You can never start early enough with your wishlist!"

Sailor!

A sailor - with almost no outlines and some tattoos.