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long time no see

2008-03-21T20:55:00.002Z

Hey there,

sorry for not uploading anything in such a long time.
I am back from my Dubai stay.
Uploaded a lot of pages of my sketchbook and some newer watercolor sketches.

Enjoy!

These are two pieces of coal burning. For our Shisha we used coal from the Oman:

now sketchbook time:

watercolor:

doodle overdose

2007-10-24T19:05:00.000Z

I scanned a lot of unfinished drawings and doodles today.
Styles vary. Like to finish some of these guys...

Strange bird guy:

live sketch:

love the beige paper:

random doodles at work:

more:

demons:

super heroine:

mad max says hello:

demi-god:

creatures:

tie-boy:

random doodles sheet front:

back:

more (at) work doodles:

finally more cool beige paper:

sketches anno 1997...oh my...

2007-10-04T19:02:00.000Z

Sorry for the lack of posts lately.
Had a lot to do, because i will be in Dubai from November till February.
I wont be blogging a lot during that time - i guess.
I am cleaning out my flat and found some old Drawings.
Most of them were really really embarassingly terrible,
so i show you the more or less good ones.
Oh my...i was a real fantasy geek.

Here the fantasy stuff. Kinda impressed by my 20 year old self
(compared to the 230230230 other horrible drawings i found) doing the 2 following ones:

this one is funny:

oh no:

these two got something:

now some portraits:

this one my old friend c.o. (see older posts) did of me back then (love it!):

and here, i think my sister drew me (love the light lines):

will post new doodles soon-havent scanned them yet.
enjoy!

meet Professor Fish!

2007-08-07T17:57:00.001Z

Doodled in PS with shapes and some new brushes and this came out.
By accident i found a new way of "painting" (well-new to me) and i like the way it is right now.

Mia inked + bonus ink jen

2007-08-03T20:46:00.000Z

overdid it a little. a completely different mood now. well - that happens. ink can be cruel ;)

a fast ink drawing of jen. this outcome i like.

Mia - quick watercolor sketch

2007-08-01T16:09:00.000Z

didnt get it as i wanted to, maybe starting a another fresh one. some photoshop tweaks in the color and the contrast.

Life Drawings!

2007-08-01T15:51:00.000Z

A couple of years ago i took life-drawing classes at my university.
I tried some different techniques and most of these drawings were very quick ones (unter 3 minutes).
These are just the highlights (my drawing block was full!) and especially the first ones were rubbish, so i didnt scan them.
Sorry for the bad quality also, only got an A4 Scanner and the block is Din A3 format.

(this actually was a fellow student)

( i am not so sure if i did this one! maybe it was my professor, but usually he would use a lot of construction lines!)

Studies for a Comic Project

2007-07-25T12:43:00.000Z

An old friend of mine and i are planning on a comic book.
Here a pencil drawing of a character and a more detailed watercolor study of another character.

catwalk - a quick watercolor study

2007-07-20T15:01:00.000Z

demonhorde - working process

2007-07-18T15:03:00.000Z

another piece that happened while doodleing aimlessly.
not finished though.
pencil - indian ink (brush&feather) - watercolor

jen - another marker victim

2007-07-10T22:38:00.000Z

here is another sketchbook drawing.

first a rough pencil layout.

now the inking-last chance to get things right :O

and here the marker finish. argh-one stroke too much - i messed up again! the dark in the face is too much. of course i couldnt quit after the first 2 colors.
anyway, i can live with it.

"fatto" the octopus W.I.P.

2007-07-03T17:20:00.000Z

back with watercolor!
"fatto" is still in progress. I know-Octopi are trendy, but i love to draw the curvy tentacles.
octopi are the converse chucks of illustration: they never grow old ;)

more sketches of the last weeks

2007-06-30T22:53:00.000Z

Was cleaning out my desk today and a pile of (older) sketches stacked up lying around - scanned some of them.
Most are very loose doodles.

still cannot get it right:

like this strange fella:

same thing i drew 15 years ago :/

really bad muscle stuff (mostly the neck-shoulder-part):

a quick pencil self-portrait, haven't drawn in pencils in a long time (not so well executed though)...

sci-fi soldier thing with human-dog-buddy... or something like that

a girl reading; "life-drawing":

some little piece i found:

myself in miniature:

assassins:

2 new portraits

2007-06-27T22:22:00.000Z

a quick self-portrait into my sketchbook. kinda in a drawing spree...

quick marker sketch of a girl

Mai June ...lots of doodles!

2007-06-26T20:54:00.000Z

was sketching a lot this month (and the lazy blog-month before). more or less finished drawings.

starting off with two portraits. merle and sarah, working budies, actually at work!

quick drawing, also at work:

quick drawing and marker of caro (another colleague)

party boy and his evil twin

more partyboy (this guy goes way back - trying out flash with a friend):

earth and moon (well - it looked kinda like a sick planet. moon added afterwards):

wannabe-nude:

friend and i were looking up ridiculous super long katana (no-dachi)

another (edited) doodle at work and close up:

a sketch i drew at vienna. some kind of modern "gangsta" robin hood:

drawing of a fashion photograph found on the net (liked the hoodie):

drawing of christian o.:

and here (supposed to be) me, drawn by c.o.

and finaly another caro (from photo)

the sketchbook-paper couldn't handle watercolor so well...

W.I.P.: strange tentacle-monster-demon-thing

2007-03-27T23:18:00.001Z

After weeks of staring at the unfinished canvas with these three nice guys, i couldn't take it anymore!
(here once more )

I quickly put some paint on the palette and rubbed it in with a painting knife. Didn't work so well, so i also used two brushes. A really nice new one for "special ocassions" only, but well, cannot get anything nice done being so cheap! The good (expensive) brush was a surprisingly new experience of painting.
Oops-drifting away again, back to the painting: I didn't care so much about what i was doing and i kinda like it the way it is right now. Took only one hour and 2 smoke-breaks.
Next time will be tough, getting into the pic again with this impulse and all...

after couple of minutes:

after one hour:

I think i want the background lighter again...

March Madness

2007-03-19T22:38:00.000Z

Well, well, well...
This time i try to write something below the pictures posted.
I finished quite a nice text before, but firefox decided to crash - so let's try again...

First: i found an old Acrylics (on a woodplate) painting behind my dusty shelf. Back from being a newbie at the Fh Düsseldorf. One of a 4-part-series of "dreamy-abstract-landscapes". I tried too much back then: painting each piece in a different technique (and color), otherwise it wasn' t so bad.

Next we have a snapshot of my "studio", which actually is the tiny room in front of my even smaller kitchen, but is the only room with good daylight (even that i paint mostly at night). daylight is bad actually, because my night-drawn/painted pictures look terrible with real light cause they were made in (for) the dark. I am always like:"Oh my god! no contrast at all! Dammit..."

a close-up of the strange tentacle-monster-demon-canvas:

didn't finish it yet and i still don't know what to think or make (with) of it yet. quickly put marker on it. A lot of bad lines in there. At some point i thought of it as the "psyche-trinity".
Which is which?

The small piece in the back was a quick, aggressive "letting steam off-and this empty canvas makes me sick lying there for months untouched"-experinece (after a bullshit-party). I kinda like it, because i didn't think or plan anything. Pure letting go (and it took like 2 minutes). Markers.

i found an red-chalk pencil and i had to try it out for the first time in years (with this medium):

i like the brightness of this piece.

A quick ink/marker drawing. i only like parts of it (this one got too kitchy, i guess):

Some doodles i did at work. Naked women (cyborg-something in the second case) again-yeah yeah yeah- i know what you think. It's not so much about the female body, but trying something different with light, composition, style- without thinking and no way of erasing things (ballpoint-pen and marker). Just plain doodleing (and i still don't get the anatomy right-damn it!).

(Feb. 27.: FUNNY STORY: Read that above? The "Nipples" of my shitty drawing must have offended someone...in the INTERNET! Hilarious. Do they pay people at Photobucket to "gestapo"-around? Or did someone look at my blog and decided to denunziate me at Photobucket? So - here it is again. Nipplefree... Goddamnit, it was only a harmless sketch! *shackes head in unbelieve*)

And finally my highlight of this month: finished my second true-type-font.
A present for my sister Kim. It is her handwriting.
As you can read on the example, i was so motivated ("fonting") that i had to try another font.
i wanted something "bold" and took a medium marker; quickly putting something hard on paper - scanning it - vectorising it and finally set it in the font program. Took under 3 hours, i think.
I am not really satisfied; i hoped it would look fatter and that i could use it for headlines. But i did not really stop and look at it during the process. Well-next time a fatter marker and more patience then. I actually like it used down there...

later!

february fallout

2007-02-24T01:02:00.000Z

yeah- new food for my non-existing-audience!
some more or less nice sketches - digital and analog.
come on, some comments please. let me know what you think.

i have a blogout

2007-01-03T23:26:00.000Z

puh - der erste eintrag hats geschafft.
natürlich waren alle "coolen" blogadressen schon vergeben.
da hab ich echt einen blogout bekommen...
skizzenblog war selbstverständlich auch schon weg (eh unglaublich kreativ).

irgendwie seltsam diese selbstgespräche zu führen...
und jetzt?

random old stuff

2007-01-03T09:32:00.000Z

to feed the blog with something i put in some random old pieces.

irgendwas muss ja erstmal rein, ne?