A DECLARATION OF SORTS.

Hello, depressed party-people!

Life's running in circles and so my new creature does. And even it's spring,
there's no reason for me to draw happy pictures (maybe they come when
the leaves are falling). Oh, I'm actually working on a new look for my website.
It's nearly a longtime-project, cuz there's so much other stuff to do...
However, today I finished the bio for the website and I can tell you that it's
NO FUN to write your own memoirs! But I think it would be much less fun
if somebody else would write it. Life is not all guns and roses et cetera.

But hey, here's my newest shit! It's a dirty biro drawing which took 30 minutes
in our rehearsal-room and 90 minutes whilst a phone-call to complete the
analog phase - the digital coloring didn't take that long. Please don't ask me
how the creature wants to eat pizza...

The post-title is a song from SMALL BROWN BIKE's fantastic
"The River Bed"-Album from 2003. Hope to see you next week!

Cheers, Robert

TIME JESUM TRANSUENTUM ET...

Good Evening!

It's time to land a new one in this place here. Inspired by the song from
Nick Cave & DIRTY THREE I drew a small graphite-piece that's going
to be used as ticket-design for a friendly guy named Ben. He's running
a small independent mailorder called www.100kiloherz.de which is
going to celebrate it's second birthday with a small festival in July.
A poster-design will follow soon; I'm sure we'll meet this little ugly
creature again. Maybe he's doing a party with some friends... So, have
a good nightmare!

Cheers, Robert

PRAYING FOR KISSES FROM POISONED LIPS.

Hey!

I'm sorry; I'm actually listening to OCEANSIZE's "The Frame" so
please don't blame me if I write some obscure stuff...

The new picture is a light-horror image with a religious mood, while
the title from (non-christian) BETWEEN EARTH & SKY fits perfect
on it's intention. This time, I fought a little with the colors. Before I
decided to choose these washed out ash-tones I tried some zombie-
green for her skin and some violet for the background (and some pink
for the eyes but maybe you can imagine how this looked like).
The drawing itself went very fast. While I started with thoughts of a
girl with the name Franca Stein I shaped out a skinny, light deformed
silhouette and ended up with this subtle 19th-century-flavored religious
content. I'm very happy about the result!

If you have the chance, listen to the band!

Cheers, Robert

BLACK ART NUMBER ONE.

Ladies-n-Gents!

Here's a new one inspired by GHOST OF A THOUSAND's "Black art number one" and MILLENCOLIN's "Home From Home"-Album. This time, it's a small image with a well thougt composing and reduction to the essential. See my last posts and you'll know what I mean!

So, enjoy the new week!

Cheers, Robert

WE ALL FALL DOWN.

Hey dudes!

I'm sure, you don't want to know that I'm trying to use every empty minute
in my life to keep drawing. It's a pretty simple rule but sometimes I have
to push myself through the comfort of the after hours. How do I kick myself?
The unfinished pictures lie all around my flat and (!) on the front passenger
seat of my car, when I drive to work. They're always on my mind and they're
begging to get finished! So, I have no other chance than finding myself at
the kitchen table or the desk wasting the evenings with drawing ugly
creatures. By the way, this circumstance is the perfect condition for my
eye circles.

For my recent picture I kicked many of my daily lunch breaks at work.
I usually have a 30-minutes walk, but the last days I used to drive with
my car to a quiet place and rocked the paper.

The title is lent from I LIKE TRAINS which come around with a new
album these days.

Cheers, Robert

WE'RE THE CAUSE OF ALL YOUR CORNFLAKES.

People!

Another week's passed by and today I give you real eye-candy!
When I started with "...CORNFLAKES", I wanted to illustrate the
schizophrenia everyone's dealing with. The idea came up when I
saw the video to SHORTY's "Coopie N' Me" where singer Al Johnson
works as clown on children's birthday parties and as stripper. The
story is perfectly underlined with Johnson's fantastic face that looks
like a mixture of Bell's palsy and insanity. Got the metaphor?
Everyone plays different roles in different situations and that's what's
glowing on your screen right now.
As you can see I was very stuck with details again but it was worth
the fun! They took me several hours on several places with my recent
(and favorite) biro while the coloring took just four or five hours.

Leave a comment and get me some pizza!
Cheers, robert

SETTLE FOR SATIN.

Freaks!

Hope, you had a good weekend! Unless you live under a rock you may
have noticed that the days are getting longer and the sun is shining
sometimes (don't worry, deep in my heart there's an endless darkness
that could swallow whole planets). For these reasons I'm gonna throw
out a tiny spring-picture realized with my recent black pizza-biro. This
time I decided for an obsolete analog coloring with fucked up and powerful
water-colors to draw the spring onto your screen! don't get eye-cancer...

Slayer would kill me, if the knew that I want them to have pink T-Shirts
so, please please please don't tell'em!

Cheers, Robert

LIFE LESS FRIGHTENING.

Hey there!

Details, details, details! It's the end of the week and I'm coming out with
a new drawing (finally!). This time, it' s a very scruffy image with a "classic"
color-scheme. It took me five light-years in a parallel universe to pull this
one up which included a very long conception-phase and an even longer
coloring-phase. Too bad, no one will (and wants to) see the tons of alternate
color-versions I made cuz they're all total trash and would cause serious
injuries. So, feel save with this feel-good-picture of the month!

The image is named after a RISE AGAINST song and I don't know why...
but the hairline of that creature reminds me of Captain Janeway somehow.

Cheers, Robert

DISCO SUCKS FUCK EVERYTHING.

Good Morning Ladies & Gentlemen!

If somebody wants to know if I have bad dreams sometimes: yes, I have.
I usually dream about tiny yellow creatures with chunky teeth that
definitely drink too much of a shiny pink mixture so that they get a
massive paranoia. And they start believing they get hunted by tree-like
monsters from the earth's core. The whole thing's done in 30 minutes in
our reheasal-room with ca. -20 degrees while the coloring was done in
my headquarter this week's mornings from 07:15 to 08:00. And, trust me:
If you ever dreams like this, you'll get up that early and draw, otherwise
you're a worker with no chance to sleep 'til afternoon, start the day with
champagne and throw out five pictures per week.

Yellow, Robert

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