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/
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.
This is my all-time favorite in terms of christmas cards (from 2011), probably beside my Marxist christmas card, which was a little controversial. I was working on a book about dinosaurs at the time……
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/
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.
Part II of drawings from my yearlong stay in Dublin in 2007 for a gallery in my sketchbook section. The dark drawing is from Wellington Quay in Dublin. I took some liberties with the houses surrounding the hotel, which indicates that I have finished the drawing at home.
The next drawing is from Glengariff. Many people in Ireland thought I was Scottish (which means my German accent went through some weird metamorphosis), in this case I chatted with a charming old lady from Edinburgh while I made this drawing, who was surprised I was German (“… I .thought you were from Scotland, too”).
The third one is from round the corner where I used to live in Rathmines.
I am working on a gallery of drawings from my time in Ireland 2007. This one is from Dalkey, the round structure in the middle is a martello – tower. I would love to travel to Ireland….
I asked an acquaintance to pose for portraits. I am a bit rusty, but it was big fun. We met in the Café of Museum Ludwig in Cologne, she read a book and I drew. Brilliant Sunday afternoon. If there is anybody out there who wants to be drawn please contact me. And I need a little more practice and I am working on it….
These are preliminary sketches for my short film Captain Bligh from 2003. There a lots of small ideas that had to be left out of the film (…what a pity). The drawings were exhibited at the Filmakademie for quite some time.
A new book I have illustrated about pirates will be available in august. I have just found the announcement on the Arena homepage. Work on this project proved to be more difficult than I thought, because the more I read about pirates the less I liked them. The thing is that you start realizing that our image of pirates is 3oies Hollywood Kitsch.
http://www.arena-verlag.de/artikel/pirat-voraus-kaepten-klaus-978-3-401-60016-1
But on the other hand I had fun. I love drawing ships and reading Patrick O´Brian novels is one of my great guilty pleasures ever since I have finished my animated short Captain Bligh in 2003. (For those who haven´t seen that:
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