GOOD TO KNOW THAT IF I EVER NEED ATTENTION ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DIE.

Different shit, same evening!

Hello again. Actually, I'm wasting my time with drinking some cold tea and stealing song-titles from BRAND NEW. Ah, and I finished a fast drawing with a goddamn slow coloring-phase but hell, I'm over it! I made the analog stuff in 30 minutes in our rehearsal-room but colored it in different mornings before I had to go to work. I was pretty slow in spite of having several cups of coffee out of my dinosaur-cup. So I kicked myself after the last post and finished the rest of the coloring 10 minutes ago.


This image is a mixture out of Taylor Hawkins and a mutated Octopus. Don't ask me why, but octohorse is missing his pants somehow... Oh, did I tell you that the "Barbie Horse Adventure" for GameBoy-Advanced is totally awsome? Try to get it, I love it!

Sweet dreams, Robert

THE DEADLY RYTHM - RELOADED.

Girls-n-Boys!

I just had some fried cyprian cheese and am totally thrilled to announce that
my DEADLY RYTHM-illustration is currently used for the release-tour-poster
for CURCH OF CYCOLOGY, CAIN AWAKES and THE.SPINES. Okay the
last named band is my own and so it should be no surprise that my image is
used but hey, I get my shit spread all over this boring area with 10,000 Flyers
and 250 posters. Some of you may have noticed, that the picture got a little bit
pimped (for swimming on a more dramatic wave than the soft-porn-coloured
original version). Bad mood overdrive! More shit soon!

If you live in this area, don't miss the shows! Come and have some beer with me!

Cheers, Robert

WE ARE THE AUDIENCE.

Hello Everyone!

I've been off for two weeks and wasted my time with drowning in my
bad mood and sipping instant-soup. Beside I spent my spare time with
making a Shirt-Design for my lousy punk-band called THE.SPINES
(guess I told you).

When we thought about the motif, Bruno (the guitar-guy) wanted to have
a space-ship, Basti & Shaff (singer and bass-man) wanted a russian atomic
submarine, Leo (the drummer) wanted the oil-platform from our record-cover
and i wanted tentacles. So it was my (totally easy) mission to weld all this
together... and voilà: here's my Roland Emmerich-like screenplay:
An extraterrestrial spaceship crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and kills the
crew of an russian submarine. The radiation causes a strange underwater-cloud
with deadly monster-tentacles, which attack an oil-platform and so on... Maybe
there's some C-Movie-Hero (Rick Moranis or Sam Neill - what are they doing?)
who can change the tack, otherwise the whole world is going to get fucked.

The print will be a two color screen-print in the shown colors and can be
bought in March. I used a chubby blue biro. Dear Mr. Emmerich:
If you want to buy the screenplay, you can purchase it for only 10,-$.


Cheers, Robert

THIS PLACE SUCKS.

Hello!

After my warmed up mermaid a few days ago, I'm comin' round with a
brand new work with an apocalyptic taste.

When I began with the drawing I had no idea what it would be in the end
but after 30 minutes of sketching the slime I had a vague vision of a tree
and a mushroom. I really love the slime in GHOSTBUSTER 2 so the movie
can be seen as an influence for this. And maybe it will be a mushroomcalypse
that's going to fuck us at the end of the year.  I don't know where mushroom-
trees live and why they should come to earth and eat us, but sometimes things
simply happen. So, enjoy your last days with eating champignons!

Cheers, Robert

I'D RATHER SWIM ALL ALONE.

Good evening!

My favorite hobby last year was drawing mermaids. I did the artwork
for the first LP "Mermaid Parasites" of my band THE.SPINES.
For that I did a couple of mermaid drawings from tiny beauties to ugly
zombie-freaks (the usual spectrum of my interests).
And here's an alternative mermaid which wasn't used in the artwork.
After half a year under my desk I added some colours to get a creamy
underwater-feeling. The picture is a definitive homage to my last
summer-hit which you can find here:
 http://robertmeusel.blogspot.com/2011/08/alone.html

Ah, the record will come out in March, so stay alert!

Cheers, Robert

THE DEADLY RYTHM.

Hey Everyone!


When I draw pictures, I mostly don't know what's comming out at the tail
of the dinosaur. It's a pretty exiting on-the-fly process. After a short time I
have a rough silhouette of what it's going to be and after that I start with
the details. Often, they grow more and more and sometimes I'm on the edge
of losing myself in minutiae-mayhem. But when the analog drawing is
finished (and after a night allowing me to sort my tangled mind) I'm
beginning with the digital colour-concept. I try to focus on a few image-
supportive colours to bring my creatures to a sweet and virulent life and
sometimes, I put a selfmade paper-texture over them. And voilà, it's finished.


This picture is the perfect example for my personal, just descibed process
of creation. I've been in our rehearsal-room and got bored, so I picked up
my biro and started to boogie the paper. First, it seemed to become a hippo
but hippos ain't punkrock so I adjusted the paper's fate which turned into a
rabbit when I added the ear(s). Then I thougt about the white rabbit, the black
rabbit, the killer rabbit... and suddenly, when I started with the colours, ice cream,
BLINK 182 and Californian emo-kids whirred around in my head. And finally
there's a result that's telling you:

Don't eat meat! There are too much eyes in it, which may cause awful
explosions of your body! Just as with that foolish emo-rabbit.

The title is taken from the same-named und fucking furious song from
REFUSED, which are going to play some shows in 2012 (yeah!).
Hope you have nightmares!

Cheers! Robert

IT'S MY PARTY AND I'LL CRY IF I WANT TO.

Good Evening!

The new year's going on and I'm actually giving you a new piece of my
Zombiecalypse-Prevention-Program. This one's made in the last weeks of 2011
in and in front of the rehearsal-room of my band while I used to wait for my
band-mates. I hate waiting and so I did something "useful", otherwise I would've
had to drink beer.
The process of production is classic - biro-drawing and digital colours but I
left out a paper-texture this time for better focus on the character. And if you
ever have to face an unleashed army of zombies, print this image (if you have
electricity) and simply show it to them and see what's going to happen.

By the way, I'm not sorry for the title of the post. Just had this song in my head
when I had to save & name this picture. Don't ask me why.

Cheers, Robert

FLYING CHEESE.

Folks!

Welcome in 2012, the year we all will die. Hope you've had peaceful Holidays
and got fat by guzzling too much of everything on your traditional Cristmas-
Family-Terror.
But until we die, i want to bring you some visual stuff, that will prepare you
for the Apocalypse. This one's called FLYING CHEESE. It's a biro-drawing
with Photoshop-Colours and a biblical Texture found in my board. It's been
created on Sunday evening and the last two mornings. Totally cheesy.

Cheers (and an apocalyptic 2012), Robert

FAKE PLASTIC TREES.

So Jungs und Mädels!

Pünktlich zum Jahresende beschere ich mir einen Banner, der von nun an
meinen Blog zieren wird. Ursprünglich wollte ich es gar nicht so aufwendig
haben, aber ich war dann so in Fahrt geraten mit dem ganzen Wasser und
dem Vulkan, dem kleinen Segelschiffchen und der fleischfressenden Muschel,
dass ich mich da kaum zu wehren wagte.
Gezeichnet wurde mit einem Kuli, der für einen Pizzabringservice im Internet
wirbt und koloriert wurde digital. Ich glaube, das Freistellen hat mit einem
guten Tag an Zeit bei einem schlechten Tag meiner Motivation am längsten
gedauert. Fertig ist fertig und ich bedanke mich bei euch für das Interesse
an meinem Kram. Freut euch auf 2012, da steht einiges an, was ich noch nicht
verraten werde!

Also, guten Rutsch und Cheers!

Robert

PS: Der Posttitel ist ein Song von RADIOHEAD, der bei der Titelvergabe gerade lief...

MY FRIENDS ARE TROPHIES.

Mahlzeit.

Hier mal was, das unter der Kategorie "Dinge, die ich tue, wenn Leute
aus der Band ihr Schlagzeug aufbauen, nachdem sie später gekommen
sind" rangiert. Dummerweise hatte ich mein Papier vergessen, sodass
ich bei einem Telekom-Shop einen Prospekt mitnehmen musste. Aber
nun hat Nokia eine vernünftige Kampagne und wird 100000000091
Telefone verkaufen. Wer also immer noch nix zu Weihnachten hat,
schickt mir eine Postkarte mit dem Betreff "dwicscddewd" und ihr
bekommt diese Prospektseite zugefaxt (Faxnummer nicht vergessen!)

Schöne Feiertage und Prost! Robert