These slightly older pictures have been online for about a month, but they are perhaps a little hidden. I have uploaded a lot of new pictures while updating the homepage part of this blog, but I guess only very few people have seen this already, so I thought I would like to bring this to your attention.
If you want to know more about these pictures read what I have written about my film Bärenbraut:
https://derekroczen.wordpress.com/portfolio/barenbrautbears-bride/
I was sick last week (like almost everyone else I know) and missed the biggest part of the biggest street party in the world- the Cologne Carnival. There is a lot of drinking and bad music involved. Beforehand I had spent some time inventing costumes.
I like the Youtube video joke, the Bürohengst joke unfortunately can´t really be translated. It would be probably only interesting if you´re learning German and you ´re looking for a strange word your teacher hasn´t heard of either (you could tell him if wants to know what it is that it is a strange creature living in mountainous regions of western Germany, half horse half writing desk). I like it…
Like always, I am working on something I can´t show for the next few months and on something I am afraid somebody might pilver the idea (an idea for a new book). So here is another page from my Italian sketchbook from last year and a drawing of C. with a fake Italian background which I like.
Photographs from Cologne/ Niehl. Brilliant model.
This has been a weird week. I have done an illustration test for a children´s book including horses aimed for girls. It very quickly turned out that the job was already gone, but my agent thought it might be a good idea to finish the samples for my portfolio. Lots of work, I am not yet sure if I managed the balance between a little kitsch and something nice.
Next time I will do football right away.
The Dagobert Duck among squirrels. This is something I did for my new showreel, that will hopefully be finished this week….
Here is one more drawing from my sketchbook, I did in November. The slightly chaotic version black and white version is the original one, the lighter colored was work in progress (retrospectively I could have finished at that point). I drew it while waiting for a friend outside a bar in Pisa.
Today I turned my old homepage off, so the wordpress blog is left. I am little sorry, although it was hopelessly out of date anyway. By the way the address on this Illustration is old, too
Homo Sapiens making fun of poor old Neanderthal men.
I am updating my whole blog at the moment. This something from the updated books gallery from the Mensch Mammut book (2012).
Here are some unused sketches:
This one combines the best wishes for the new year with a christmas card. If you want to know why they are riding a pig (which is very German) you will have to watch the Glückschweinfilm I did for Arte…. Unfortunatly that one exists either in German or in French.
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