Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Fred as usual
...the new Fred Fisch-Illu deals with Florida Rolf, the well known german social welfare freeloader and his shady popularity he got by means of the BILD's articles.
Rat as usual
you may think I'm not doing anything but drawing rats. Nope, that's not the case, but I'm not allowed to show the illustrations I do for my commercial jobs in public (you know... the old problem).
So I expand my rat petting zoo by introducing:
Die Wilden (the wild ones)
and Die Waghälse (the daredevils)
the daredevil is the winner of the Kopfkino routs-competition. Gamers were challenged to make up a new and unique rout and send it to the Kopfkino Team. The daredevils by Jens Borjaryn made the race and will be published in the next rats-adventure-book (and the winning author got a print and original sketch of his rat as a price *wow* ;)
So I expand my rat petting zoo by introducing:
Die Wilden (the wild ones)
and Die Waghälse (the daredevils)
the daredevil is the winner of the Kopfkino routs-competition. Gamers were challenged to make up a new and unique rout and send it to the Kopfkino Team. The daredevils by Jens Borjaryn made the race and will be published in the next rats-adventure-book (and the winning author got a print and original sketch of his rat as a price *wow* ;)
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
The Chinese Year of The Rat
On February the 7th (so one week ago) the Chinese celebrated their New Year 2008. The Chinese calendar is based on an astronomical system and regulated by the moon phases, which causes that the New Year starts on a different day each year (so no wonder I missed the right date :)
I don't wanna talk about the calendar system (just look at wikipedia if you are interested in it), but about the fact that the New Year 2008 is the year of the rat! Yeah! So after my last year's efforts to draw mean, ugly and mutated rats I thought it was time for some serious rat sketches to please the great Chinese Rat God :P...
Happy New Year!
I don't wanna talk about the calendar system (just look at wikipedia if you are interested in it), but about the fact that the New Year 2008 is the year of the rat! Yeah! So after my last year's efforts to draw mean, ugly and mutated rats I thought it was time for some serious rat sketches to please the great Chinese Rat God :P...
Happy New Year!
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Monday, January 28, 2008
Thursday, January 24, 2008
The Return of the Fred
I have to admit, I was happy when Backmedia asked me to draw Fred Fisch again. That oafish shark was the main character of a monthly columne in the trade magazine for the backery industry called "Backjournal".
I started drawing him in 2002 and never understood why they wanted a shark to present newsworthy books. Due to internal changes in the publishing house, the last Fred Fish column was published in autumn 2006, and after this time I didn't hear anything from them until last week. So I had to reanimate the desiccated shark (that was already smelling like rotten fishbones by the way ;) and let him present the book "The penguin principal" (don't ask me what it's about... something about helping penguins, the publishing house told me...)
And actually I don't really like to colour with water colours, but this pic turned out well. A good start in a new Fred-era I think :D
I started drawing him in 2002 and never understood why they wanted a shark to present newsworthy books. Due to internal changes in the publishing house, the last Fred Fish column was published in autumn 2006, and after this time I didn't hear anything from them until last week. So I had to reanimate the desiccated shark (that was already smelling like rotten fishbones by the way ;) and let him present the book "The penguin principal" (don't ask me what it's about... something about helping penguins, the publishing house told me...)
And actually I don't really like to colour with water colours, but this pic turned out well. A good start in a new Fred-era I think :D
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Sketches
Between childish schoolbook illustration and bloody rats I tried to do some "serious" sketching stuff again. That mullah guy I drew with reference and did some photoshop-edit to make the sketches look more finished.
Monday, January 14, 2008
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Shadowtail
And another rat (I start to become a rat-pro). It's a "Schattenschweif". The "shadowtails" mask themselves as members of other routs to spy on them. In this case a shadowtail that has gnawed off it's ears and tail to disguise itself as a red-eye (look at this post to compare). Clever little bastard...
And the sketch I did before.
And the sketch I did before.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Ratten! - Fashion & more
The first RATTEN!-adventure is out now. It's called "Der Kasten des Lebens" ("The case of life") and it just waits for you RPG-nerds to download it :D
Oh and pretty cool: Projekt Kopfkino opened it's own Online-Fashion-Store and you can order different RATTEN!-Shirts on there. Personally I still most like the mutated rat, it's just cute!
Nearly as cute as this friendly naked mole rat. I didn't had to work hard to make it look ugly, the mole rat is damn ugly in real (maybe that's why it lives underground). It has four big teeth growing out above the mouth and very small, nearly blind eyes hidden under skin flaps. And it doesn't feel pain, cos it's skin lacks the so called Substance P that is responsible for sending pain signals to the central nerve system. So that little creature is the perfect monster (wonder why it never had a leading role in a horror movie).
Oh and pretty cool: Projekt Kopfkino opened it's own Online-Fashion-Store and you can order different RATTEN!-Shirts on there. Personally I still most like the mutated rat, it's just cute!
Nearly as cute as this friendly naked mole rat. I didn't had to work hard to make it look ugly, the mole rat is damn ugly in real (maybe that's why it lives underground). It has four big teeth growing out above the mouth and very small, nearly blind eyes hidden under skin flaps. And it doesn't feel pain, cos it's skin lacks the so called Substance P that is responsible for sending pain signals to the central nerve system. So that little creature is the perfect monster (wonder why it never had a leading role in a horror movie).
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