Portfolio Children´s books Derek Roczen 2014
This was something just for the portfolio.
More Pirates
comic, fun, illustrationAuthor: derekroczen
Pinguins…..
Animation, comic, film, fun, illustrationTheses are some old drawings from a failed project for a feature film friends of mine tried to make. This was just brainstorming. It was a film about Noah´s Arch, and some conflicts between the animals…. By the way I added a new life drawing category for my blog….
New Life Drawing Category
UncategorizedI have put together all my life drawings I have posted recently plus some new ones. Most of these drawings are pretty new. The one on the right is an exception. It has the same olive oil stain like the unknown woman I posted two weeks ago, and is from a sketchbook arround 1999.
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photography
This is a première, because I have never posted photography had to do movie camera at the Filmakademie Baden- Württemberg and I was very fascinated. I have a deep respect for all camera men and women.Looking at these photographs I feel a little sorry for professional photographers, because, digital photography has made it so easy to come up with really good results. Having an interesting model of cause helps, too. But it is great fun. By the way if you´re living in Cologne and need portraits please contact me.
New Book. Tierisch Verliebt
comic, fun, illustration, UncategorizedMy new book which will be published in january 2015 but Amazon already shows it. It is full of stupid German puns, which can´t be translated properly I am afraid. It is about cute animals in love (moles, lions, goats, sheep, wolves, everything!)
Old sketchbook drawing/ Unknown Woman
illustration, portrait, sketch, Uncategorized
Derek Roczen Sketchbook ca. 1999
This is an old sketch from my time at art school which now seems ages ago. There were no mobile phones, it would still take four or five years before I bought my first computer. People were clad in fur and wild animals roamed freely through the streets of Stuttgart where I lived at the time.In a weird way this drawing is rough although there are lots of details. I don´t remember who this is supposed to be. The big stain in the middle came from a bottle of olive oil that leaked in my rucksack. This means that this particular sketchbook had been to Italy with me and the olive oil was a souvenir from Lucca.
During that time I never left home without a sketchbook. Sketchbooks are just great….
Frederick the Pug
illustration, Uncategorized
Frederick the Pug (aka Vicco)
This is something slightly stupid. A good friend of mine asked me to do a drawing of her pug dog as Frederick the Great as a birthday present (this is something about her originating from Potsdam where Sanssoucie, the castle where he is buried, is located). I hope she likes it.
Otherwise there is lots of commissioned work I am doing at the moment. I am seriously looking forward to do something more personal soon, but i t might take some time….
Pirates Comic
comic, fun, illustration, Uncategorized“Pirat voraus, Käptn Klaus” has finally appeared:
I take this as an opportunity to show one more page and the sketches I did beforehand. Those are an exception because I did the initial sketch digitally, which is because the layout was rather complicated. Normally I prefer ordinary pencil sketches.
cello
comic, film, illustration, sketch
This is although I don´t play cello a pretty familiar feeling. My electric guitar does the same to me very often. By the way, god bless Leo Fender and whoever invented the ES 335.
Lifedrawings
illustration, nude drawing, portrait, sketch
A_1 (c)derekroczen
At the moment I try to do a little more life drawings. I am working on the storyboard for the sequel of the Pettersson and Findus movie and on a collection of cartoons, which will be published next year. But it is always good to practice.
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