Hey!
It's been some time since my last post (unfortunately again). But as you can imagine I didn't just sit on my sofa and counted my hair. For many years I carried around some story ideas. And I always wanted to illustrate a book or do a comic but I didn't even start because of a massive lack of time. But now I have some space for my drawing shit, so I started something.
And yes: It's going to be a children's book. I see it as kind of an experiment where I'm not sure if I will succeed. I simply try to write a story and make some pictures. Over the last two weeks I wrote down a rough story-line, made some sketches and two concepts of how the main character could look like. As you can see it will be a very friendly (and very shy) creature. Drawing monsters is the biggest fun for me and now I try to leave out my morbid darkness and replace it with some light.
For now I used graphite and powerfull digital colors and I think I will keep them for material.
See you guys later!
Cheers, Robert
Hey there,
I'm a little late this week. This piece is ready for some days now, but the internet fucked up so I have to post it now... However, after two hours of disappointing charcoal sketching I reached for my biro and made this picture. I guess, I like it!
The song's by the awesome TENHI.
Cheers, Robert
Hey dudes & dudettes!
Now, I am alone. I quit my band THE.SPINES (they're doing the stuff as quartet now) and decided to do more drawing stuff. It's been a real hard decision cuz I made music with these guys for over 10 years. So, for me quitting that band means, breaking up with four friends at once. But my urge to spend more time with drawing took me over and let me go this step. I look back at 10 cool years with fantastic shows, tons of killed beer, creepy stories, good records and finally nice people!
From now on, I'm gonna try to focus more on my visual output, which means I'm trying to work on some bigger projects, doing more constantly strange and unknown stuff and celebrating each line I draw. The sky is the limit!
Here's my last rehearsal room picture done in 30 minutes. And this is it's soundtrack!
Cheers, Robert
Hey folks.
Today I present you a new picture which can be seen with reference to the recent NSA-affair. Mostly done with a biro on my way to Frankfurt where I visited this year's book fair. For the title I've chosen another great song by MOGWAI (I've not seen the video).
Cheers, Robert
Hey folks!
Today, I give you a small prehistoric landscape, which was created on my last month. I started very fast with the dinosaur, but the surrounding took its time cuz of not enough time. I just managed some lines and then there was some other important shit to do... c'est la vie! Yesterday I could add some calm color scheme and decided to leave the dinosaur white. I'm not sure about the latest state of the art, but I guess the paleontologists assume that dinsoaurs had feathers. So, please don't see this picture as an absolut overcorrect prehistoric study.
Listen to this!
Cheers, Robert
Good evening!
Here's another accidental drawing out of a bored mood. I had the idea of that very big mouth, so I made it with relative loose lines and just added some "rest" around. Now the result's a scary meat lump that's shaped like a horror rattle. Have fun with it!
Cheers, Robert
All systems go!
Here's a picture I made on my trip to Mallorca in September, created on the wonderfully crowded beach of Can Picafort. If you find some sand grains under the digital light, write me an e-mail. I'll give you the money back... However, enjoy this last gasp of this year's summer.
The title's by the nice and friendly AQUABATS (alternatively listen to this).
Cheers, Robert
Yeehaw!
I defenitely had too much pizza this evening but life ain't easy...
Here you get a picture i drew in my holidays. I simply tried to rougher shape of my shading technique.
Ah, the title's another fantastic song by the great MÚM.
Cheers, Robert
Yo buddies!
This time I give you a more elaborate one. I started this picture some weeks ago and did some lines whenever I could (lunch break, rehearsal, couch, bed, car). Two weeks ago I finished it but a holiday trip hindered an earlier release...
However, first there was the creature with a focus on a highly detailed body and after I managed it I thought "Hm, would be nice if there was a city skyline in the back" and so i made a quick sketch of how the city could look like and started with these fine detailed sci-fi-megapolis-mayhem. That was totally fun! Everything's done with two black biros. The picture is digital colored but uncorrected for the rest.
The title's by the great MOGWAI.
Brothers and Sisters!
It's been a while since my last post but sometimes there is some other stuff to do. For example: driving with my band mates to a show. And which things would be a better for wasting the time than beer, pen and paper? Somewhere on the autobahn I did a fast drawing with the things I love about people. Tired, pupilless eyes, cigarettes, missing limbs and Tim Burton hair. If I could I would draw pictures like this a thousand times!
Cheers, Robert
