B-SIDES.

Hey folks!
Here's a tiny collection of sketches and side-stuff from 2012. Hope you enjoy the shit.

Cheers, Robert

HAPPY HOLIDAYS.

Good Morning!

The world's not blown away, so here's my holiday card.
Compared with most of my stuff, this image's not been created in the dystopic surrounding of our rehearsal-room but in my comfortable home studio. I tried a well thought composition, bold lines and some carefully chosen colors, this time. Additionally I wanted to avoid the use of the Coca Cola-Man and any religious symbols cuz winter holidays are for everyone. I printed about 40 cards on heavy coated paper for family and friends.

Peace, Robert

IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD.

Okay,
tomorrow we're going to die, maybe. So, here's my new picture
(maybe my last one...). Drawn in the darkness of our rehearsal-
room and colored at home. Enjoy! Ah, and you can listen to
this song by R.E.M. (ignore that shitty video)!

Well, actually I don't see any zombies or asteroid or killer virus
but I think, we should wait some more minutes...

Goodnight (and maybe farewell, haha) Robert

BIRDIE.

Hey Folks!

I don't like golf but the same named song by MILLENCOLIN. Hope you enjoy the bright and intensive colors I've chosen this time. But, don't worry about me. Darkness will prevail again. Goodnight!

Cheers, Robert

UNTITLED.

Hey there!
Christmas and the end of the world are coming up to us and so,
here's another small thing. Reminds me of David Bowie somehow...
Sweet dreams!

Cheers, Robert

DOWN IN THE PARK plus 3D!

Hey there!
Here comes a piece which took a very (very, very, very) long time until it's finishing. I wanted to experiment a little with drawn layers and this is what came out. Since my beginning in spring I drew the different layers of the background, made horrible cutting paths in photoshop and composed the whole shit over the last days. Oh, and the 3D-version took some more days of my life. Although I've done some 3D-photos I've never done a 3 dimensional drawing. The main problem were graphic errors when combining the layers to the single stereographic positions but after thinking of the problem in my sleep last night I solved it today. Enjoy! If you wanna see a pretty good example for another 3D-illustration check out the artwork for LOS STRAITJACKETS' "Supersonic Guitars In 3-D".

The title's from Gary Numan and there's a fantastic cover from the FOO FIGHTERS (block your proxy), too. Check'em out!

Cheers, Robert

BROKEN FACE.

Hi!
Here's another one where I play with digital light (yes, I'm totally
addicted to it at the moment). There's not that much time for drawing,
this month, so this is kind of a speed-painting, haha! The drawing's
created in our rehearsal room while we listened to Jamiroquai's
"Deeper Underground", we actually have to cover (we made a little
cover contest on our band website and Jamiroquai won the race
against QUEEN's "Under Pressure"). Whilst the listening our main
light bulb fucked up so we only had two low lights with which I had
to draw... The coloring took one hour between work and gym.

The title's from the PIXIES. Pretty cool song! Enjoy!

Cheers, Robert

PENSÉE DES MORTS.

Happy Halloween!
This one goes out to all the those who have the worst nightmares all night.
Dreaming of the zombiecalypse, crashing airplanes, getting mauled by some
undefinable animals, exploding in a microwave and so on. This one's for you!
And here's the soundtrack!

Ah, the picture's made with biro and digital colours.

Cheers, Robert

POWERLOAD.

Another one!

Fuck everything that causes war. Better have one or two beer! By the way,
listen to DISFEAR.

Peace, Robert

SMILE.

Hey,

here's a picture that reminds me of my youth, when I was kind of a social autist
(like the most of us, I guess). The title's stolen from LAGWAGON, try searching,
I just found shitty live-versions...

Cheers!

SILVERFUCK.

Voilà!
I give you a new piece which is named after that fantastic song by
SMASHING PUMPKINS. Simply drawn with my biro from work
whilst our rehearsal on friday and fast colored on sunday you find
here vivid lights on a pale body.
Oh, and there's a fucking great song called "21st Century, Where
Can I Get A Fuckable Little Grungette?" by the Norwegian Stoner
Band THULSA DOOM. Check it out!

Cheers, Robert

BURN BABY BURN.

Waaaaah!
Is anyone knowing Irish Rock Band ASH? Their great "1977" record
from 1996 includes some of my favorite all time classics like "Lose control",
"Darkside/Lightside", their huge Hit "Girl from Mars" and even the funny
hidden track "Sick Party". If you ever wanted to listen to a Teenager puking
competition, you'll find it on that record. My picture illustrates the song
"Burn Baby Burn" from ASH's 2000 record "Free All Angels". The song
was a single, I don't really like the title and the shitty video - it's lamer than
lame! But I'm totally in love with these emo-lyrics like:

Look into my tired eyes
See someone you don't recognize
Binds that can't be untied
Oh yeah, this is slow suicide

I always have these words on my lips when I'm on my knees (especially
on hard mornings at work). And so I decided to pay tribute to this pretty
depressed song. It's done with graphite and a conceptual color scheme
(check out the determination below). I hope, this picture will burn
your eyes out!

Cheers, Robert