Yes, it's been a awefully long time ... again, but sometimes work is killing me and I almost have no time finishing the things I want to finish. Right now, however, I've got enough of work. I want to do soemthing else than just work. Do you understand what I mean? You work and work and work and what do you get? Nothing. So now, it's enough. I want my f***ing life back and a big part of that is drawing and being creative, so that's what I'll do in my freetime which I claim again.
To really get that going I've got a new sketchbook and I'll let you see some of the stuff I've been doing lately. To the left you can see a drawing I did for my dear friend Kai who is a big Fujimoto fan and also has a great costume which he's sometimes wearing to conventions (I love that pink wig!).
Besides, for the German people here: Ich
versteigere in meinem
Weblog auf mexx gerade das Original, dass ich für die LBM gezeichnet hatte (siehe unten). Vielleicht möchte ja jemand mitbieten! Es würde mich sehr freuen, wenn es einen neuen Besitzer findet, denn ich hatte mich vor der LBM innerlich schon so davon verabschiedet.
In other respects, enjoy this International Day of the Book. I've just finished the second part of the Hunger Games-trilogy and I really liked it. I've also seen the movie. I didn't expect too much, but the very good cast, especially Jennifer Laurence, really made it an awesome movie!
See you soon!
This is the winner picture for our lottery at the LBM this year. It's again my own character Minu. I hope you like it and I also hope that it will find a loving new owner because it took me almost forever and I always like pictures of my own charas very muchbecause I put a lot of heart into them.
After I finished my Kakao Card set (see below) I can also upload some more stuff I've been doing lately. (I'm still working on my tutorial and you'll soon get to see some more, so don't worry). Here's a Legolas sketch I did for a very good friend of mine who took care of me while I was sick. She's a great Legolas fan and was really happy I did this for her. That's the best about drawing: If people you care about like what you're doing.
After the light blue sketch I do the real sketch with an ordinary pencil. But this size is still A4 and, as I already told you, I want the final original to be in A3. So now I enlarge the sketch to A3 and transfer it from an ordinary sheet of paper to water colour paper. Et voilá, the second step is done. Although it sounds that easy it's quite unnerving becuase by now I've made the sketch at least four times.
Before I finally start with the colouring I prepare my work place. I use no special water colours but basically everything I have.
Tataa!! *__________* Yeah, I know, you can't see anything, but that's because I usually use a light blue, erasable pencil for the first sketch and my sketches are really light. Sometimes I have problems recognizing anything myself. So here is a processed version which allows you to see the sketch:
I want to finish it for my father's birthday (which is around the middle/end of February). He loves nature, so I added a lot of flowers and I hope it will be really colourful. In my imagination it already looks magnificent- but, well, that's my imagination and a lot of things are happening there that never come true in real life. The next step will be to transfer the outlines from this size,which is A4, to a bigger size because I want the original to be in A3. How that works I'll show you in the next step.
A happy new year to all of you!!! I hope you had some great holidays and are now back at work with a lot of energy. I'm currently renovating my flat so there's a lot of work to do. Tomorrow it's back to university for me. I still need to prepare my seminars. Hopefully, I'll be able to answer all my students' questions oO There are some more new drawings I did and I hope you'll like them. Some are commissions for various people. I hope you will keep watching my blog this year. A lot of things will happen. The first convention will be the Leipzig Book Fair in March.
