birds

this is a project for a shortfilm i would like to do. i scribbled down a little story one evening and decided to make a short animatic. I would like to animate it later on in a papercutstyle and set two simple characters up in photoshop. here is a color-test for the set. i finally went with the green tree-green background version. even though i like the blue more graphic version i found the green brings out the red stronger and has a warmer feel to it.

Ella

Here is a sketch of my daughter, Ella. I know my blog is a little all over the place, but I think that is typical me...

pin up

eight #2

Another research on the bad guy gone good.

eight

a version of the bad gambler turned good.

Red Riding Hood

I have started on my next personal project about the red riding hood and the big bad wolf.

Space Girl #2

Space Girl

Here is a colored version of a series of space-girls I have been scribbling.

i-phone addict

here is a quick sketch i just did before string my weekend. usually i would clean the sketch up in illustrator, but used photoshop instead. i like the different thickness of the lines. gives it a cool retro-feel.

Bullit

inspired by the movie "bullit" with Steve McQueen.

Spooky Rabbit

Beggin 2

Another Dance-pose, more stylized and slightly more booty...

Beggin

I love the song "Beggin" from Madcon. Here is a sketch inspired by their video.

Hop!

Just played around with photoshop again. This is a new character to one of my projects.

Comic

I have been working a lot in the last days on my comic. here some images from my latest pages.

Ella and the Frogprince

First finished painting for the series "Ella and the Frogprince".

Earthday

A little bit late, but here is a painting I did for "earthday".

Mothersday

For Camille. Here are the sketches and the final painting onto a woodpanel 4x4 inches small.

Dogtag

This might be the cover of my comic about the military service. "Dogtag" translates "Hundmarke" in german.

You're in the army now...

I am still experimenting on the perfect coloring-style for the comic. I think this one works well.

The Army

Here is a color-test for my comic. I am planning to clean a few pages as a sample before I send a first draft to the publishers.

Kindergarten

We have started to put our 2 year old daughter into kindergarten. This is the site of her when I leave her there...

Final Dragon Version

here is the final-color-version for the dragon.

Pin-Up

haven't drawn any pin-ups in a while.

More Monsters

I just finished the monster-drawing. i wasn't too happy with my first dragon. the looked too busy.

Foodle Doodle

a bunch of friends and i are planning to create a blog about good restaurants and "doodles". you go to a restaurant of your liking. you doodle a sketch on a napkin and you put your review of the restaurant, food, atmosphere and people onto the blog. the sketches will be auctioned at a charity-event. we want to check out restaurants all over the world and have friends participate on this fun project.

bra-less

a last sketch before the weekend...

A dragon for a good cause

i am working on an illustration for a children-book-project. a group of artists is being asked to sketch out a monster. everyone has a page to work with. here is my first sketch and my first stage of color...

Straight Hair

Just another sketch for the blog...

Comic

here is a clean-up test for my comic. i have roughed out the first 70 pages and have another 20 pages to go before i will start with a clean-up version. not sure if i should use little color with grey-tones.

Another version

i reworked the image in illustrator. not necessarily a better version, but i like it.

Femme Fatale

I have been working a lot on my comic. I thought it would be nice to make a different illustration for my blog again.

final touches

I removed the outline around the girl and have the background blend into her head.

maybe the final design for this one

I'm pretty happy with this one. the background on the previous images was too dominant. i toned it down and i think it works much better.

second stage of t-shirt design

Tween-shirts

another sample for a tween-t-shirts

The Comic

I am having two weeks off from my work at nickelodeon. I am taking the time to rough out a comic. It is about my mandatory military service in germany. Here are two sketches of the "rough-version".

Design for a Tween-Tshirt

I reworked an earlier sketch for a T-shirt-design. here is the first version.

Jean-Paul Belmondo

An homage to a great actor.

My dad's 70th birthday poster

I have been working on a poster for my dad. His 70th birthday is coming up. He is a big fan of french action movies. I've inserted his picture into a poster from the film "Le Magnifique". It is a movie with Jean-Paul Belmondo. It is one of my favorite movies by the way. So please check it out when you come across a copy.

pin-up 2009

2009!!!

First Pin-up girl for 2009.