Montag, 1. November 2010
Donnerstag, 28. Oktober 2010
Incorruptible covers
My final two covers for Boom Studio's/Mark Waid's series "Incorruptible"! (#13,#14)
Samstag, 23. Oktober 2010
Marvel ESPN
A fake-cover I did for the ESPN NBA Issue, that ESPN did in collab with Marvel.
Don't ask me, I just drew it.
Don't ask me, I just drew it.
Mittwoch, 20. Oktober 2010
Samstag, 16. Oktober 2010
Donnerstag, 30. September 2010
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
"Steffi Says" Nr. 2: Butch and Sundance standing on a cliff, looking back: "Who are those guys?"
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is one my favourite movies. The camera work is just gorgeous and Newman and Redford together are so much fun to watch! This movie holds up amazingly - doesn't feel old in any minute.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is one my favourite movies. The camera work is just gorgeous and Newman and Redford together are so much fun to watch! This movie holds up amazingly - doesn't feel old in any minute.
Dienstag, 28. September 2010
Sokka vs. the Swordmaster
"Steffi Says" Nr. 1: Sokka fighting the Swordmaster
To help me through (one of) my art-crisis' my lovely and resourceful girlfriend Steffi aka MissMatzenbatzen filled my hat with a bunch of folded post-it's. On every post-it she wrote a topic. Stuff I like, she likes, or we both. So I randomly pick one of the post-it's without knowing what it's gonna be. So I don't have to think what I'm gonna draw or think about how much "worth" it will be in the end - I "just" have to draw it.
This is the first one.
Don't know if it'll be the last one, too. ;) Depends on free time and my moods. ;)
And yeah, I love Avatar(not the one with the blue furries) to pieces!
To help me through (one of) my art-crisis' my lovely and resourceful girlfriend Steffi aka MissMatzenbatzen filled my hat with a bunch of folded post-it's. On every post-it she wrote a topic. Stuff I like, she likes, or we both. So I randomly pick one of the post-it's without knowing what it's gonna be. So I don't have to think what I'm gonna draw or think about how much "worth" it will be in the end - I "just" have to draw it.
This is the first one.
Don't know if it'll be the last one, too. ;) Depends on free time and my moods. ;)
And yeah, I love Avatar(not the one with the blue furries) to pieces!
Montag, 6. September 2010
Bird merchant
Just some random character.
Something's still bugging me, but I've spent too much time on it already and I'm sick of it. So here he is. ;)
Samstag, 28. August 2010
costume studies
These are some ink-studies I did from paintings.
Originally I just was researching clothing from the 17.-18. century and started doing some sketches from these paintings, hoping it would help me to remember it, to get a feel for it.
In the end it was mostly about trying out/practicing inking-styles. ;)
Originally I just was researching clothing from the 17.-18. century and started doing some sketches from these paintings, hoping it would help me to remember it, to get a feel for it.
In the end it was mostly about trying out/practicing inking-styles. ;)
Freitag, 27. August 2010
Mittwoch, 11. August 2010
Gear Up
Wohoo, personal work, who saw that coming!
One of the few times I had an lineart to work with, cause originally I didn't planned on coloring it. ;)
One of the few times I had an lineart to work with, cause originally I didn't planned on coloring it. ;)
Dienstag, 3. August 2010
Sonntag, 25. Juli 2010
Dr. Sketchy
Donnerstag, 24. Juni 2010
Incorruptible #10 cover
Another Incorruptible cover. :)
I was lucky to have the help of the lovely MissMatzenbatzen aka Steffi who made the clockwork parts in Illustrator. Painting 'em would've been a pain in the ass and wouldn't have looked half as good.
I realized too late that I used a very similar composition on my Jazam cover a few month ago. Anway, idea and end-result looks different. ;)
Mittwoch, 9. Juni 2010
Comicsalon Erlangen
Two days ago I came back from the Comicsalon Erlangen, the biggest comic-con in germany. Compared to cons in the US it's really small I guess, but it was so much fun again!
It's every two years and I was there for the fifth time and this time was one of the best. I had a blast!!
The weather was amazing and everyone seemed really relaxed.
It's a small town in Bavaria, so wherever you go you'll meet someone you know. So finding the right party in the evening is easy, you never have to walk more than ten minutes.
...ah...so great...I miss it!
Thats one of the last photos we took, right before we left. We tried to make a little band-like shot and surprisingly it kinda worked. ...? The evening sun made this look kind of retro, so I had to make this little fake "cd-cover". ;) Just beeing already a bit Erlangen nostalgic I guess.
Didn't changed the colors, just slapped half assy some fonts on it.
On the photo are from left to right Simon, Regina, myself and Yann. Steffi was there as well, but she took the photo. :)
It's every two years and I was there for the fifth time and this time was one of the best. I had a blast!!
The weather was amazing and everyone seemed really relaxed.
It's a small town in Bavaria, so wherever you go you'll meet someone you know. So finding the right party in the evening is easy, you never have to walk more than ten minutes.
...ah...so great...I miss it!
Thats one of the last photos we took, right before we left. We tried to make a little band-like shot and surprisingly it kinda worked. ...? The evening sun made this look kind of retro, so I had to make this little fake "cd-cover". ;) Just beeing already a bit Erlangen nostalgic I guess.
Didn't changed the colors, just slapped half assy some fonts on it.
On the photo are from left to right Simon, Regina, myself and Yann. Steffi was there as well, but she took the photo. :)
Donnerstag, 27. Mai 2010
Incorruptible 9 and Jazam
Another cover I did for Boom Studios' series Incorruptible.
I really enjoy doing these! :) Working on them gives me the opportunity to try out some stuff.
Inking a bit messy like this is still new to me but really fun - I thought it would be a nice way to show the impact. I like how it turned out and works with the painted part of the image. :)
And here a cover I did some months ago for JAZAM!'s jamcomic "Nightshift".
The print size of the jamcomic is reeally small, so I tried to make it simple.
JAZAM! is a german comic anthology and Issue 5 is coming out soon: http://www.jazam.de/ :) Go check/buy it - I'm sure it will be great again!
I really enjoy doing these! :) Working on them gives me the opportunity to try out some stuff.
Inking a bit messy like this is still new to me but really fun - I thought it would be a nice way to show the impact. I like how it turned out and works with the painted part of the image. :)
And here a cover I did some months ago for JAZAM!'s jamcomic "Nightshift".
The print size of the jamcomic is reeally small, so I tried to make it simple.
JAZAM! is a german comic anthology and Issue 5 is coming out soon: http://www.jazam.de/ :) Go check/buy it - I'm sure it will be great again!
Montag, 17. Mai 2010
Moviestills
For practice I'm doing some moviestills-ref paintings lately. Here are some of them.
Maybe I'll learn something from it. fingers crossed
Were supposed to be quick one hour paintings...but I guess some of them took more around 1-2 hours. I look at you Indy!
No overpaints, 3% colorpicking for reassessing! ;)
Maybe I'll learn something from it. fingers crossed
Were supposed to be quick one hour paintings...but I guess some of them took more around 1-2 hours. I look at you Indy!
No overpaints, 3% colorpicking for reassessing! ;)
Samstag, 1. Mai 2010
Incorruptible covers
First 2 of 3 covers I did for Boom Studios' series Incorruptible. (#7 and #8)
Had fun with these - tried to loosen up a bit compared to my Marvel work. Still looking for my own voice.
Did also a third one(my favourite so far), I can't show yet.
Had fun with these - tried to loosen up a bit compared to my Marvel work. Still looking for my own voice.
Did also a third one(my favourite so far), I can't show yet.
Sonntag, 28. März 2010
Die Siedler 7 / The Settler 7 Campaign characters
"Die Siedler 7" / "The Settlers 7" by Bluebyte/Ubisoft finally hit the stands some days ago.
The portraits below are actually the last characters I did for "The Settlers 7". Did them in October 2009 - I think I already started doing some work for Marvel then.
They are portrait-only characters. Some of these were used in 2D like you can see them here and some (the bit more rough looking ones) were used as concepts for 3D models.
I had a lot of fun with these - less restrictions and more time for rendering.
And these characters are different from the ones I posted in my last blog post. These are Campaign Characters - they were used in rendered cut scenes.
So these concepts had to be more detailed and rendered more carefully than the in-game characters.
The portraits below are actually the last characters I did for "The Settlers 7". Did them in October 2009 - I think I already started doing some work for Marvel then.
They are portrait-only characters. Some of these were used in 2D like you can see them here and some (the bit more rough looking ones) were used as concepts for 3D models.
I had a lot of fun with these - less restrictions and more time for rendering.
And these characters are different from the ones I posted in my last blog post. These are Campaign Characters - they were used in rendered cut scenes.
So these concepts had to be more detailed and rendered more carefully than the in-game characters.
Die Siedler 7 / The Settlers 7
"Die Siedler 7" / "The Settlers 7" by Bluebyte/Ubisoft finally hit the stands some days ago.
I did most of the character designs for the game and a big bunch of 'em you can see here.
The kind of style and the bodytypes were already defined when I came to the project, so it's all a bit of a mix of my style and a style the guys at Bluebyte had in mind.
The biggest challenge was to keep the design simple and readable. Even zoomed out the characters had to be easily recognizable. I got a lot of input from my A.D Michael Filipowski about this.
Considering stuff like this, or the limitations of the 3D-realization and animations was completely new to me. But I grew into it after while I think. :)
I started working on "The Settlers 7" in mid 2008, so some of the characters below aren't actually the freshest anymore. ;)
I did most of the character designs for the game and a big bunch of 'em you can see here.
The kind of style and the bodytypes were already defined when I came to the project, so it's all a bit of a mix of my style and a style the guys at Bluebyte had in mind.
The biggest challenge was to keep the design simple and readable. Even zoomed out the characters had to be easily recognizable. I got a lot of input from my A.D Michael Filipowski about this.
Considering stuff like this, or the limitations of the 3D-realization and animations was completely new to me. But I grew into it after while I think. :)
I started working on "The Settlers 7" in mid 2008, so some of the characters below aren't actually the freshest anymore. ;)
Freitag, 19. März 2010
MA Spider-Man #61
Since the preview for Marvel Adventure Spider-Man #61 also hit the net I'll post some more pages. Spider-Man pages without Spider-Man. Huhu!
These are page 2, 5 and 6 from #61
pencils: me
inks: Terry Pallot
These are page 2, 5 and 6 from #61
pencils: me
inks: Terry Pallot
Donnerstag, 18. März 2010
Iron Man by design
It's up on Newsarama and CBR so I can post it here as well. :)
It's part of the Iron Man by design variant cover series. I've got the caveman Iron Man! :)
Dienstag, 9. März 2010
Dr. Sketchy, lifedrawings n stuff
Some sketches for a change.
The first bunch is from the last Dr. Sketchy session. If you don't know what it is all about just check the last blog post by the wonderful Steffi Schütze
I'm still trying to get used to this kind of drawing again, searching for the right tools to be effective. But it's really fun and winning an artbook doesn't hurt either. xD
And here some lifedrawings and inksketches(from movie stills refs).
We(Steffi , Regina and me)were sitting in a coffee shop on a second floor in a mall, hence the perspective on most of 'em. ;)
The first bunch is from the last Dr. Sketchy session. If you don't know what it is all about just check the last blog post by the wonderful Steffi Schütze
I'm still trying to get used to this kind of drawing again, searching for the right tools to be effective. But it's really fun and winning an artbook doesn't hurt either. xD
And here some lifedrawings and inksketches(from movie stills refs).
We(Steffi , Regina and me)were sitting in a coffee shop on a second floor in a mall, hence the perspective on most of 'em. ;)
Freitag, 19. Februar 2010
Sonntag, 10. Januar 2010
Finally..
...a new post.
Had a day off, so I finally finished this sucka.
....means I don't wanna work on it anymore so I call it finished! ;)
No story behind it besides the one in your head. :)
Had a day off, so I finally finished this sucka.
....means I don't wanna work on it anymore so I call it finished! ;)
No story behind it besides the one in your head. :)
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