Party people!
The internet in my home fucked up for several days. Now, I'm on the line again and celebrate it with a beautiful image for my 2013 X-Mas-Card. I simply took a motive close to my recent project (right, the children's book) to practice a little with light, color and characters and set the mood for the upcoming illustrations. I did the whole thing within a half night - please don't ask me how I felt the day after. Tomorrow the cards will be printed for my family and friends.
Cheers, Robert
YO!
After my extensive post last week, I can "just" give you these few images tonight. Last week I did a first rough storyboard where I made fast little sketches of the story. After I splitted the story in 18 pieces, I simply distilled the key elements of these text parts and tried to capture them in that rough concept.
Today I began with the real storyboard where I will define these ideas more and more over the next weeks. The image size is much taller than before but still ca. a quarter or an eighth of the final drafts (depends on how ambitious I am ;) ). Every picture needs a clear and (oh I hate this word) "interesting" layout which means, the visual dramaturgy is very important to me. I hate these shitty and boring books with these ultra primitive pictures from undertallented illustrators. For me, this is the main part of the whole project, cuz this is where everything is going to be designed. When I start with the final elaborations and the digital coloration the real work has been already done. I just draw and paint there. But here I have to make out which persons (or monsters) have which position on the paper, how will the creatures look like, what's the perspective, where will the text be placed, etc. There's a boxful of challenges but I guess, you already know...
So, I hope I can show you more graphit storyboard-o-rama-things next week. So long!
Cheers, Robert
P.S.: If I find some very (very, very) negative examples for children's book I'll post them here.
Hey folks,
here's another concept drawing from the thing I hope it will become a children's book. The main focus was the composition and color of the landscape. I'm not very good at this so I have to learn it. It took me some evenings until I had a valuable result. I guess the next will happen within two hours and three beer ;) Enjoy.
Cheers, Robert
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
