Lauschangriff!

Well, even goblins sometimes need a hearing aid. I did this sketch at our 5th Bilderwumme Drawing Night. (Lauschangriff means wiretap operation by the way ...)

Rüsselhorn!

This is a picture of the extremely rare Rüsselhorn. It can only be seen at night after sixteen bottles of beer ...

Coffe Break!

Happy New Year! Is it already two weeks ago?! Oh boy, time flies. Here is a litlle post to kick off things again. I recently tried to do some pictures without outlines. This is one of the efforts, that actually looks nice on the kitchen wall ...

Merry Christmas!

I would like to wish you and your loved ones a merry Christmas with a quote from the one and only Christmas Song.

And so I'm offering this simple phrase,
To kids from one to ninety-two,
Although its been said many times, many ways,
"Merry Christmas to you"

Below you can hear the unforgettable Nat King Cole singing the Christmas Song. (The definitive recording can be found here.) Have yourself a merry little Christmas!

All the best,

Oliver

Guess who's coming for Christmas ...

It's not Santa Claus. That's sure ...

The weeks before Christmas are always quite busy. Every year it's the same. So sorry for not posting too much and for being bad in answering and writing e-mails ...

Russian Radiator!

It's bloody cold outside. Always good to have enough antifreezer in the system ... Nastrovje!

3rd Official Bilderwumme Drawing Night!

Last Wednesday we successfully celebrated the 3rd Official Bilderwumme Drawing Night. Unfortunally three of our past contestants were unable to attend. But so far we managed to do it fortnightly. The theme of the evening was clowns. Above are a few impressions of the event.

Apart from that I'm quite busy at the moment.

Brit Pop Zombie!

This is another sketch I did at our first Bilderwumme Drawing Night. He's even later for Helloween than last weeks jolly hunchback, but he's still having a hell of a party anyway. I hope he's not going to have a terrible headache when it's all over ...

A close up of the head where you can see the coloured outlines.

This is the colour palette I worked with ... okay, I confess, it's a fake! I don't do colour palettes, but I start with a colour layout as you can see in the first flat coloured version below. Florian used that kind of colour palettes in his latest posts. And they look so neat! So I though I do one myself ...

Hunchback Party!

Today I finally finished this jolly hunchback. He's a little bit late for Helloween, but I think he went straight to some electon party. Yes he can! The week has been quite stressful and I'm off for the weekend. Cheers!

Frank and the Hunchback!

Last week we had our first official Bilderwumme Drawing Night (okay, we still need an approprate and catchy name for the event!). We wanted to do that for quite some time and thanks to our guest Matthias Vogel we finally managed to make it happen. And it was fun! The theme was of course - as you may have already guessed - Halloween.

These two sketches were done on that particular night. I almost finished the coloured version of the jolly hunchback yesterday. Well, almost. I will post it as soon as I find the time to add the finishing touches.

Swashbuckling Birthday Present!

This is a birthday present I did recently. I usually don't like to do that, but when I was ill I didn't have the time to buy a proper one. And she wished for it ... last year. She explicitly asked for a pirate. What could I do? I made an exception to the rule. Then I quickly bought a cheap plastic baroque picture frame to add that special extra something. When I gave it to her she yelled and immediately hung it to the wall. Well, I guess she liked it ...

Black & White Rhino Business!

We're quite busy at the studio right now because we have a deadline in a couple of weeks. So it was a bad time to get ill but I'm fit again and back into business. Earlier this week I finished the model sheets for a rhino and it already looks quite nice in CG. And it will absolutely not look like the one above. I'm really sorry that I can't show any of the actual designs. So here is a fun drawing instead.

As you might know there are black rhinos and white rhinos, well I would call this one a black and white rhino. Oh, and he is the editor of the "Daily Jungle News".

I've got the Flu!

I've got the flu. That's boring. But the fates have been at least partially merciful with me. Yesterday I borrowed Shogun on DVD from the city libraray. You know, the mini-series from the 80s starring Richard Chamberlain and Toshiro Mifune. Television at its finest. Haven't seen it in ages. Makes being ill much less boring. Domo arigato gozaimasu!

Oh, I almost forgot. I did this picture for a pitch. Quite different in style. Guess what the theme was!

Crocodile Smile!

Another inked sketch. A smiling crocodile. But I wouldn't trust him an inch ...

Longhorn Monster in Technicolor!

Last week I didn't have the time to colourize the scribble of this triple-horned little fellow - so I did it at the weekend. As always I tried out a lot of different things. This it the final version in glorious Technicolor.

This is the first colour version I did. It's okay but somehow I wasn't satisfied with it. So I tried out a lot of different versions until I came up with the red and blue one. I really like to fool around with the colours. That's a big advantage when working digital.

When I start to add the colours I always like to see what the silhouette looks like. In this case I think it's rather nice. So I added the eyes and the teeth again.

And finally the raw sketch.

Longhorn Monster with Broadsword!

The scribble for this one was lying around on my desk for ages. Now I finally did the inking. And I will definately colourize it. But not today!

Ronald Eargan!

Sometimes people say, "Oh, you like to draw big noses!". Yes, that's true. I can't deny it. I love big noses. It's a recurring theme. But it's not fair to be reduced to just one oversized part of the body. I can do much more than that. I can do big ears too! Haha!

You wouldn't believe how long it took me to finish this one. Of course I don't mean the sketch. That came out of the blue. Ten minutes or so. But the colouring took ages. I tried a lot of different things, especially with the lines. And I totally blew up the thing in photoshop. In the end I had about a zillion layers I guess. I hope you appreciate that ...

Below are the sketch and a first colour version.

Geezer!

This is Geezer. He is a big fan of Deep Purple - since 1969.

Sometimes at the canteen where we like to go for lunch there is this guy. You look at him and you just know he loves classic rock and presumably plays bass guitar - maybe in some Deep Purple cover band. He definately has been collecting records for a long time. Needless to say that he prefers vinyl. He works at an government agency. And though his colleagues think he's got a spleen he is a really nice guy. At least that's the story we came up with ...

Moustache & Trenchcoat!

Recently I bought a black Copic marker. I never owned a black one before. They are really nice for quick sketches. Though I have to admit that those sketches tend to be rather big.

Skeleton Pirate - Aaarrrrrrrr!

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.)