How to draw an owl

For a change something educational that I found on the net :)

 

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Kugelhund

If you are already searching for the perfect christmas present for your 5+ years old kids, I warmly recommend the skill-game Kugelhund (Roly-Poly Dog or Chiens en folie pour nos amis francaise:) that has just been released at Schmidt Spiele (and I do not only recommend it, cos I did the illustration...!)

It's a real fun digging game and it even has it's own gameplay-trailer (OMG!)



From the game instruction: 
Bella and Bello are completely over the moon! Their friend Isabella has come to visit unexpectedly. And of course they want to give her their best bones. But where on earth have they buried them? Oh yes, under the garden gnome and there, beside the watering can.
Bella and Bello run about tirelessly, burrowing here and digging there...
The one who guides them over the lawn skilfully and is first to dig up the bone for Isabella together with them wins the game.

My roly-poly dog on this year's games fair in Essen.

So write it on your wish list for santa or directly order it via Amazon! Dog'n'roll, baby!

Seafood dinner

I haven't drawn rats for ages! So here it comes: This little rat keeps struggeling with it's seafood dinner... ain't it cute?

A new Fred

This time in the health food store...

Twisted neighbourhood

I passed this creatively arranged shopwindow of a nearby bakery store in my new neighbourhood in Bochum the other day. And I was so impressed, so deeply moved by the aesthetic coupled with a subliminal eroticism the decoration radiated, that I had to take this picture.
It's a chocolate Fiege beer bottle next to a potato with boobies!! 
This is madness! Madness? THIS! IS! BOCHUM!

TÖRÖÖÖÖööö

Before ALF and The Hoffmeister (as Michael Knight) became my childhood heroes, there was this big, friendly and talking elephant Benjamin Blümchen and his smart friend Otto, whose cassette adventures made me fall asleep every single evening. All the happier I was to draw a Benjamin Blümchen puzzle (I had already drawn him when I was four, so I was practiced ;)

But believe me, it was harder than it looks to hit the pretty strictly defined style.

So get Benjamin Blümchen out with the refuse collection (...bei der Müllabfuhr)

Was nich passt, wird passend gemacht*

Samma, watt machen Bauarbeita, wennse Pause vonne Maloche habn? Schön Bütterken beißen und dabei passeln!

Fittingly my new puzzle for Schmidt Spiele deals with working on a building site again! So get the puzzle and enoy it as much as my little cousin did the last days... (the picture doesn't really convey the intense joy she actually had while piecing it together ;)

 *what doesn't fit is made to fit!

Mind vs. Instinct

Fred made his decision...

I'm really looking forward to...

A Bäckereifachverkäuferin

A bakery shop assistant for a new Backjournal column