This is another page from my sketchbook. A friend of mine asked me to do a drawing for her new fictional band. Fictional means she is the only member so far. She plays the drums, so if you ´re living somewhere near Leipzig you might want to join her.
I like stuff that makes sense in one Language and turns surreal in another. This was a quote by Jean Claude Junckers, shortly before the agreement with Greece was reached. I don´t want to comment on that, but it leaves a sour aftertaste for everyone involved and I feel sorry for the Greeks.
Die Kuh vom Eis bringen (get the cow off the ice)means to handle a delicate situation.
I finished a clip for the Affordable Art Fair in Hamburg last week. I have to refrain from showing the clip, because it is not released yet. The theme was roughly Beatles related, so I wasted some time thinking of something that would have resembled I met the Walrus (the Canadian film that won an Oscar for best animated short)and would probably have caused lots of copyright problems. The final clip doesn´t look anything like these drawings (and doesn´t infringe any copyrights), so before they disappear I thought I ´d show them on my blog….
I am a big Beatles fan, which probably caused my imagination to run a little too wild.
This looks like the sketches I do when I am on holiday. Unfortunately I am not. but the people I drew were. This was made near the Schokoladenmuseum (chocolate museum, for those who haven´t guessed) which is one of the most touristy areas of Cologne. It has big advantages for sketching, you won´t meet people you know and everyone is moving in a different space time continuum (a very slow one, which is good for watching people) . But a nightmare if you´re in a hurry trying to cross that area by bike.
The trailer I did for Schlossfestspiele Ludwigsburg is finally online. The client is a festival for mainly classical music.
If you want to see the peperatory sketches and learn more about this project….
This is a house in Köln Nippes (probably Merheimerstr). I always enjoy sketching when abroad and don´t do that very often. So I thought I´ll just choose something around the corner. One of the worst things about looking for a place to draw is the lack of something to sit on. I made a lot of comparatively boring drawings because I had to compromise. Drawing something around the corner has the big advantage that you can bring a chair with you…
I should do this more often….
Some portraits I took in Niehl/ Cologne. Brilliant model.
These are the sketches for a commercial for Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele (a festival for mostly for classical music) designed to be shown in cinemas arround Stuttgart. I have spent a little too much on these hand drawn sketches, because it was pretty obvious that the client was going to choose the photo collage style used on its website. I haven´t found it on the web yet, but I will post a link as soon as I find it. the character did exist beforehand. I did almost everything else. The last picture in the gallery is the final look.
Thanks to Studio Fitzbin and Mareike Ottrand. Sound and music by Hannah von Hübbenet.
These a preliminary sketches for a project I am right now working on. There is going to be more…
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