Thursday, April 24, 2008

Fred as usual (and some snot)

Don't we all have a good and a bad shark sitting on our shoulders...? I like that evil Fred's goatbeard!



And I didn't forget this mate yet. I miss that little gnawer. This time he went out pretty serious and mature... or not (har har)

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Making Ofs

I really hate clowns (who doesn't?) and needed around 2 hours for this "speed"painting.





And a making of... that's the way, aha, aha




And watch this speedpainting clip I made! It was the first time I drew something in front of my camera and that's what it looks like...



Nice ending, eh? Was a bit dissatisfied with the pic (and drawing pipes and glases in the heat of the moment is a prob of mine;) I will record more and better stuff in the next weeks I hope!

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

The nightmare of an arachnophobic rat...

After all that beautiful pictures here comes something gross for RATTEN! again. Just imagine you find that in the dark corner of your wardrobe... muhahaha...

Sunday, April 6, 2008

Pin Ups

And two more pin-ups (I should open an own category for them :)
I have drawn the first one for a friend's bday and it's made with eddings and copics. When you click on the pic you'll see the pimped photoshop version (better contrast and colours.. and without the pen :P)



The second one with the poetical name "herbst" (autumn) was made in 2007 and another friend asked me for a print. I had to rework it to get a printable version, cos I saved the original picture with a resoluion of 72 dpi (and thats definitely too crappy for a good 50 x 20 cm print).

Fred as usual

The new Fred Fish-Illu for the next month (poor Fred... his gf walks of with another shark...)

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Speedpainting

Just for fun speedpainting (45 mins), made just in Photoshop without pre-sketch.





and a monkey (ugh aghh! sörti tu minz)

 

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

More digital stuff

Hmm, think a tanker ship lost some acid in the sea... and a digital sketch of a future-style-girl (there are no trousers in the future ;)

      

and the first version of an illustration I did for the role-play-game. In their eyes, it still looks too colorfull and friendly tho (I'll see what I can change).

Thursday, March 27, 2008

New Technique

Me again :) Yes, I'm back in Münster, yes, here I am hard-working again.
I used the whole day to excercise myself in more realistic photoshop coloration, cos that role play publisher asked me, if I were able to do some colored illustrations for the RPC (Role Play Convention) in april. I have never tried realistic coloration - just my well-known comic styles. But, hey, that first two attemps aren't that bad :)

The colored Mermaid-sketch (look at last post)



A close-up of the face (could be more detailed, but I like that pictorial appearance)



And the face of a Zzing-warrior I did for the role play game.



...based on this sketch.



There will be more tomorrow I hope!

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

New Sketchbook

Uh, long time no post! Well, I had been pretty busy with the schoolbook illustrations for Cornelsen the last weeks, but I have finished it lately :))
Over the Easter holidays I went home to Bochum ("happy belated easter" by the way) and cos I do not have many possibilities and not the motivation to work there, I started a new sketchbook. The scribbles went out more or less dark and unpaschal due to the fact that I got a new job for another roleplay games publisher and they need the darker side of illustration - a nice change to the "happy happy joy joy"-schoolbook illustrations of the past months.





I like this next two nerdy sketches: The left one was inspired by the visit of the Leipzig bookfair on the last weekend. Some mates and me actually went there cos of the comic-hall that in the end turned out to be a "Just Manga and nothing else"-hall full of cosplay-freaks. "Cosplay" is short for "costume-play" and it means that basically fat and ugly young people disguise themselfe as their favourite Manga character and go to manga-fairs to see and to be seen. I just can say that it was pretty strange, but a valuable experience...
The right one is my modern version of Arielle (without shell-cups :)



So hope I will stay on the ball with sketching (hmm... "am Ball bleiben" - do you have that saying in english, too?) and post more sketches in the next days and weeks! C u !

Saturday, March 1, 2008

iik iik

And with this shot I know my illu is in good hands :)