Today I am working on my Christmas card. Christmas cards are always hard because contriving something new is really hard. This not my card, but something I did for Heipha (a pharmaceutical company belonging to Merck) in summer. the absurd thing about Christmas cards is that you get these jobs in august. I should have made my personal card back then, too…..
I have just been informed, that the music and sound design by Frank Schreiber for my promotional short AP Plus one price at the Jerry Goldsmith festival in Cordoba.
Perhaps I should start sending the film itself to film festivals, so the film might win something, too. There is a link to the website of the festival, which features a portrait of Frank and the clip.
http://ixjgawards.wordpress.com/2014/07/05/asseco-ap-plus-frank-schreiber/
One of the problems with keeping this blog updated is, that I can´t really show the stuff I am working on. So this is what my desk at the moment looks like. You will able to buy the book these raw material are for in spring….
And I made a new coloured version of one of the Festival dell Oriente drawings, see below:
Portfolio Children´s books Derek Roczen 2014
This was something just for the portfolio.
Theses 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….
My 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!)
“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.
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.
This is an illustration I did for Klett und Balmer, a Swiss school book publisher. Swiss school books are so much cooler than German ones. the motif is an illustration of a curse engraved in a library in a monastery in Barcelona, cursing people who steal books. The curse is quite drastic, as you can guess from the illustration. They chose it to illustrate who valuable books once used to be.
I would like to thank graphic design agency KnowIdea based in Freiburg and Sonja Schäfer for a brilliant cooperation. Unfortunately their homepage is in transition, but anyway:
These are two pages from my sketchbook for the sketchbook page here on Worldpress. I did these sketches in preparation for “Pirat voraus, Käptn´Klaus” which appear in print in autumn.
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