illustration

Karneval

illustration

buerohengst

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…

Horses

comic, illustration, Uncategorized

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.

Christmas is still Coming….

comic, fun, illustration, sketch

…. yes it is, although looking outside my window (in Cologne) suggests it is already spring. Last week I finally made my own Christmas Cards. This is basically the result of taking the term Christmas Card literally. This was so much work I am saving the rest of this card for another post, but here are the sketches and the orignal drawing.

weihnachtskarte_2014_03li

…. yes it is, although looking outside my window (in Cologne) suggests it is already spring. Last week I finally made my own Christmas Cards. This is basically the result of taking the term Christmas Card literally. This was so much work I am saving the rest of this card for another post, but here are the sketches and the orignal drawing.

Christmas Card 2014 alternative thought, Pirate Santa…(c) Derek Roczen
christmas card 2014 final sketch. (C) Derek Roczen
Christmas Card 2014 Chinese Ink drawing, (c) Derek Roczen

Christmas is Coming

comic, fun, illustration

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…..