Saskia Gutekunst

157: retrospective

2012-01-03T13:39:00.000-08:00

I´m super late but... HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012

I wanted to do this retrospective almost 2 years ago .... talking about procastination here, even with having pretty much all the files ready haha.

So, I´ll give a shout out to Casey and Okha , who still had a lot of my old images and saved me a lot time :)

I´m just going to cover the years 2000-2006 though. From 2006+ you can see most of my drawings here in the archives anyway haha

Oh and this was inspired by the wonderful Katie Rice , I highly recommend to visit her blog... her retrospective is unfortunatly gone :( And make sure to check the look-back from Daniel Lieske Daniel Lieske

Short Story: I´m drawing since I can hold a pencil and, inspired by cartoons( I remember that there was always a special back then in TV with the old Silly Symphonys every Saturday, loved these ) and the Disney Feature films, wanted to become a Animator at Disney . Never became one, end of the story...

(btw. dont give too much attention to the file names, at certain points I just didn´t knew the exact year anymore )

2000-2003
This has been the years I discovered Internet and quickly found the animexx community ( at the end of 2000 I think ), where you could upload fanarts and share them with other members. A lot of people I got to know there, are still present in my life to this very day and I´m looking back rather fondly to this times :) Basicly this has been my first experience in terms of getting more feedback on my works. I actually think that all this exchange with other likeminded individuals has had a high impact on my works so... I really cannot imagine where I would be today without the Interwebs ;)
And I still had the motivation to finish one Illustration per week haha

Influenced by the few Mangas and Anime that were on the market around that time I was highly influenced by Sailor Moon, Magic Knight Rayearth, Battle Angel Alita , Record of Lodoss War and Escaflowne( character designer Nobuteru Yuuki was in fact the first animator whoose name I actually remembered and the first Anime based Artbook I bought was some kind of groundwork Artbook with for the Escaflowne Movie XD

I almost exclusivly worked with traditional media, also using a mouse every now and then to test with digital media. But as the gain was so little and I couldn´t invest much time to practise, I still stayed with watercolor, ink and pencils... and screentones, cause we all know a real mangaka uses screentones so I bought a lot of these expensive foils to work with them... I actually still own a few sheets...all unused of course

Oh the embarassment ahahaha I regret nothing though XDD

Already got influenced by Internet Artists like Saka, Galou and Locke ! Did some testing with Painter and I was a lot into Resident Evil, I think the remake got out at that ... and still have soooo much fanart from that time

And I remember to really have a thing for cityscapes and all kinds of urban things, all thanks to Casey ... :)
Its kind of strange, at some point I really got out of it, despite of having so much fun drawing this kind of things. I wanted to draw comics but doubted my abilitys to go pro at some point. Dunno why..

2004-2006

Got my own mac for my 19th birthday ( a PowerMacG3... the keyboard was already broken with some keys not working which results in some funny filenames) with Ps6 on it and could finally properly practise CGing. I already owned a small wacom at that time and now spent all my free time between school and jobbing to practise :D Couldn´t wáít to do what I´ve seen from other artists online. The beginning wasn´t very fruitful though, I had a hard time getting used to do everything digital. I still sketched a lot and mostly used my pencil- or inkdrawings as linearts

Also I started to study Graphic Design in Hildesheim that year and at the end of 2004 I discovered ca.org and was blown away haha Also a few month later I bought a proper sketchbook, beeing inspired by wesburt to actually render with pencil... well I tried XD

From then I basicly spent every free minute to practise drawing and anatomy.
Filled a few sketchbooks until I got tired of it.
As far as CG were concerned I still made a lot of testing and tried to find a good way of rendering form.

Also started with a few comics during that time but never finished them...

Whats left is a big bunch of stiff drawings and frustration over non existent ability to create interesting images. And I wrongly thought that this was cause I was simply not skilled enough with the basic principles haha So it´s just sketches sketches sketches.

Trying to change that though... slowly and gradually ;)

Still I wonder at times what made me stop doing cityscapes or doing animations, its like back then I was just drawing and now I´m even afraid to start something like that at all..

Don´t know what else to say, I feel like this is pretty boring somehow... If you have questions feel free to ask.

I´m happy to have this off my chest :)

156

2011-12-16T10:45:00.001-08:00

I´ve been sorting out and throwing away a lot of things the last days ... sort of as a preparation for the new year. I think I´m going to do one more post before 2012 though ! haha Some pieces must be still from 2009-2010.. I actually remember that there are some sketches I did not really like back then and now I´m sort of ok with them. I guess there is sometimes some distance needed.

155

2011-11-21T16:39:00.000-08:00

This an that, a few oldies, wips and junk. Haha, my drawings have gotten so scruffy XD

Sorry for always beeing absent and thank you so much for over 800 followers. It doesn´t seem much by todays standards but when I started this blog I never expected it to run for so long and have so many visitors. It´s still mindblowing (for me, haha). Thank you!!And I havn´t forgotten about that retrospecive ;)

a bit T&B :3 (wait for more)

154

2011-09-24T15:13:00.000-07:00

random ballpoint sketches ( I actually want to do a more refined lineart from some figures )

and not so random gestures (around 10 to 15 seconds per figure), have been practising from a DVD

153

2011-08-31T09:19:00.000-07:00

Messy warm-ups, again with x-23 cause she is the only Marvel character that I´m more or less familiar with (which means I own 1 comic with her haha )

152

2011-08-18T14:50:00.000-07:00

Not 100% finished, but I have to go on with other things so it´s just this...

some steps

another one ... ( this one has beheading in the background, not very explicit but if you don´t want to see it please don´t click :) )

The sketch, not so different from the final :) Just decided to change the pose a bit and erase th elong hair...

Still having fun with armor and costumes. All trial and error without rush !

151

2011-08-05T10:14:00.000-07:00

I´m really bad with this blog thing am I ? The backlog of stuff is so huge now that I get a headache by just thinking about it, but you gotta start somewhere I guess ! I scanned a bit from my sketchbook ( which isn´t even half full even though I bought it at the beginning of this year, haha ! I find it hard to believe that a few years earlier I had the energy to fill such a book in a month XD )
I just wish it wouldn´t be so time intense to scan all the pages... more to follow...

I like this one, might work on it a bit longer when I find my muse again :)

What I´m usually doing when I don´t fangirl all over TIGER&BUNNY ( fanart flood incoming... when i got my stuff done :) )

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2011-08-05T10:09:00.000-07:00

Commission for Scott Forbes

pre sketches

other things

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2011-06-03T09:30:00.000-07:00

ja ja

148

2011-04-02T16:12:00.000-07:00

This Post has more of the same old :) I´ll probably scan some sketchbook pages next !

A small birthday present for Casey :)

half assed attempt to color this sketch XD i might redraw it another time.

random faces for fun

:^|

2011-03-29T13:30:00.000-07:00

I´m so sorry for letting so much time pass again :( So much happend I´m not having the time atm to scan the things I did recently.

Here is a lineart Commission I did for Ktshy last Summer ( who is super awesome please visit her BLOG )
Its her sisters Character and the image was a Christmaspresent :D

146

2010-12-11T20:29:00.000-08:00

Did some tests with Painter9 and am mildly pleased with the results.
By the way, isn´t it kind of scary how fast the time flies ? I can´t believe that the year is almost at its end already ... I still got some things to do though !

145

2010-11-15T08:43:00.001-08:00

I´m sorry for beeing so absent recently :(

This post is mostly for a topic that I get a lot of questions about.
Making studys with references is something I usually combine with my warm-ups.
I always have a big pile of photos/magazines and randomly choose some to work with ( or specificly for work related themes ). Time spent is around 20-30 min.
I admit though that I´m not doing that every day, there are sometimes weeks where I just paint some abstract nothings. I also can´t say if this is the right way to go, but it definatly works for me to understand the things I want to learn :)

So here is a small selection from the last months.

edit: sargent study, also around 15min. :|

and some classics

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2010-09-07T17:54:00.000-07:00

Just posting to ask if someone is interested in a retrospective, from 2000 to 2010 ... The wonderful Katie Rice did a nice one and I thought it was really interesting :) It would still take a while as it is a lot of work to scann everything and collect the old works...

Old work

a fun commission :)

These were old testpages for a project that I cannot tell you about yet :) But Oh gee, I´m so glad that they are not going to be used haha

EDIT:

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2010-08-31T02:29:00.000-07:00

Influence Map

2010-08-24T08:43:00.000-07:00

It was fun !! The template can be found here

There way to many things and people that influence me ( especially with all the variety of artists on then net ) so I left out the most obvious Inspirations like Family, Friends ( feel free to check the linklist ) , certain parts of the world, Animals , Animations... The map is pretty much limited to specific Artists ( or other Things ) that inspired me constantly for more than 4 years, continiue to inspire and left an visible impact on my work...at least I think they did. Actually the majority on the map is from my pre-internet times haha...

So yeah, I think my biggest influences are Wendling and Inoue :)

!!

2010-07-03T15:27:00.000-07:00

wip, junk, unfinished, tests all mixed ! :)

This is something I could work on every once, I try to find something that could make htis picture more interesting. It not so much about originality ( if that really exists within something mundane like heroic fantasy ;) ) but visual appeal...

spam

2010-06-16T09:32:00.000-07:00

Ugh, scanning is so time intense !! But at least I finally have the drawings scanned :D Old and new drawings are mixed, materials I used were ballpointpen, fineliners, ink, acrylic/oil leftovers and sometimes pencils ...

more moleskine

2010-06-16T09:29:00.000-07:00

studies

2010-06-16T09:25:00.000-07:00

Commissions !

2010-06-07T13:06:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, I´m doing commissions right now during June ( sketches, lines, Illustrations etc. ). I did a test run a few days ago before on deviantart, but I´m already finished with most of them. Couldn´t imagine how much fun it is to draw other peoples characters but I´m also doing fanart if this is up your ally ;)
So I can take 2 or 3 more offers from here aswell.
Send your inquiry at saskia(a)saskiagutekunst.com if your are interested :)

EDIT: wip update

scribble spam

2010-05-28T07:12:00.000-07:00

Sorted out some sketches, I´m sorry about all the random things but I guess, by now you are pretty much used to that ( given that you visit this blog regularly )

Inspired by japanese fashion magazines, that stuff is just tooooo cute <3

junk spam

2010-05-28T07:06:00.000-07:00

old junks, all done in Painter

hehe, I did this when Capcom showed the first screens from the new Darkside Chronicles Scenario. I liked Umbrella Chronicles a lot and it even covers Resident Evil 2, so its needless to say that I was/am very exited about the game... but I havn´t played it yet :/

Oilbrush test

reworked that one too haha

Progress

2010-05-28T06:32:00.001-07:00

Happens rarely, but I documented pretty much everything with this Illustration

EDIT: aaw crap, blogspot resized the image. Big version HERE

woot

2010-05-12T18:25:00.000-07:00

Ok, I said Moleskine but I still did not scan anything new, shame on me :(

This was one of the 3 Illustrations I did last October for Toronns ArtBook. You can buy it at 恵文社 ( more specificly here ) if you live in Japan, there is a the moment no other way to get it in printed form :(
EDIT: Ok, she says she is working so the book gets maybe (!!) availble for buyers outside of Japan . I´ll inform you when I have more info on that !
EDIT2: >> http://shop.manga-pal.jp/goods_en_jpy_1872.html << Buy it now here :DDDD

I think I tried pretty much every Painter Brush at least once on this one XD

This was another Idea that I left half way through. I havn´t given up on it, but it was too time consuming and I wanted to spend the time that was left for this Project on the Illustration with the Tiger :) btw. heavily inspired by Disneys Alladin XDD

visit Toronns Page please, its worth it !! :)

m

2010-04-13T17:17:00.000-07:00

Step from a b-day gift for Casey. Its inked with Manga Studio Debut 4, and I can only reccommend this piece of software as it is affordable and really has great options. Though the interface is a little hard to understand, but you can get used to it quickly :)

another test , havn´t played gyakuken yet so please keep story spoilers to yourself ...

Headshots, still not having the groove with Painter for 100% but I think I will still spend an hour or two with the first head :)

Moleskine sketches next time

hello kitty

2010-03-27T14:00:00.001-07:00

Visited my mother a bit more often during the last months, so i got to draw her cats while they do... trivial things... like sleeping... :)

Die Konferenz der Tiere

2010-02-18T14:38:00.000-08:00

´kay, Trailer got published in December and I didn´t notice ...
I did some background colorkeys for this movie while working at ambient between Aug08 - July09. I´ve read somewhere that it will be in (german) Cinemas in October or so :)

2009 goodies

2010-01-12T16:27:00.000-08:00

found them in my itunes folder lol I probably moved them there by accident.

idk

2010-01-01T20:44:00.001-08:00

will add some detail and doing corrections ( I know, the shoulders ) when i´m done with next weeks workload. Do you have any new years resolutions ? =)

1st post 2010

2009-12-31T18:34:00.000-08:00

ok, so new years eve was already 3 hours ago ( I know, I know, blogger still shows 31st december ), but nevermind: HAPPY NEW YEAR !!

I hope all of you are celebrating the new year with nice people :) I definatly did ( and still do, hehe, going back to the party any minute XD ).

2010 is going to be nice i think !! .)

btw. i updated THIS Post with some pre sketches I found yesterday...
Oh and i have a facebook account ... since a few years actually... but now i have this nice ugly badge on the right side of this blog. Isn´t that nice ?

theese sketches are kind of randomly put together. Unfortunatly i´m a bit to tipsy right to remember when I drew them XD

oh hehe, i wanted to participate the nibru meme aswell, but dropped it halway. I still would like to refine this a bit though, as it is so late now anyway i can take my time with this.

コミティア９０ and コミックマーケット７７

2009-11-14T07:52:00.000-08:00

Just a quick note cause i don´t have much time *sweat*

My friend Toronn is selling her first Artbook at Comitia90 ( which takes place tommorow !! ) and I´m a guest Illustrator with 3 Illustrations, all made just for this book. Another chance to get this, would be Comiket 77.
If you happen to be at one of theese events, why don´t you drop by and say こんにちは ;))

She has also some basic info ( in English !!! ) on her Blog.

Do yourself a favor and visit her site, she is an awesome artist !!

yo, I´m really happy for you. Imma let you finish...

2009-09-23T17:47:00.000-07:00

a small update, to much work atm. so you guys will still have to wait for my usual waves of spam :|

Here is the original. I´d like to thank everyone who stayed since then ... geez, it so strange to look at theese XD

1987

2009-08-03T14:28:00.000-07:00

I suppose it was around that time ... I found the photo some days ago and lol´d big time. No new Pictures atm.

greeen

2009-07-22T10:27:00.000-07:00

I have seen an outfit like this in an fashion magazine some time ago. I think it was the black/green contrast that stayed in my mind for so long ...

red

2009-07-09T03:14:00.000-07:00

The Secret of Kells

2009-07-07T09:10:00.000-07:00

working colleague pointed this out to me....

Seriously ! How fuckin´ stylish is that !!! Awesome...but i havn´t really heard much from this movie, i really would like to see it ...

Don´t forget to check the OFFICIAL WEBSITE

french trailer shows more scenes *v*

once again a spam post

2009-07-04T17:34:00.000-07:00

scanning was time intense and images are pretty much mixed with new and old works, no chronilogical order, i´m sorry...

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2009-07-04T17:31:00.000-07:00

darkstalker sketches were the studies for the image i posted earlier

...

2009-07-04T17:29:00.000-07:00

...

2009-07-04T17:27:00.000-07:00

just like it happens

for a personal project

2009-07-04T17:23:00.000-07:00

started some month ago with this, atm it is just to find some ideas... i always had the urge to restart the old school project, but this time i will stay within the urban area.... havnt done much on it yet, i´m wworking on this stuff for fun every once in a while when i have the time...

My work in Creepy #1

2009-06-26T14:06:00.000-07:00

Did a short comic ( together with writer Michael Woods ) for Dark Horse "new" Creepy Comics. I think it will be published around San Diego Comic Con so you might want to check it out, as it has kickass artists like Jason Shawn Alexander *_* lol, i´m too exited.

drawing is not related

this and that

2009-06-23T08:17:00.000-07:00

It´s developing ....

don´t worry, there will be less bling in the final image ;)

ld

2009-06-23T08:14:00.000-07:00

Had the luck to attend 2 life drawing sessions in february, much fun. All done with ink and a g-pen

some work in progress

2009-06-18T14:14:00.000-07:00

I suppose its better to show at least something before i stop posting completly.
Comments on the other posts are shut off since i have posted them all today ( sorry for that, this is easier when someone is searching through this blog with tags )
Stay tuned for more imagespam in a few days maybe ...
( no chronological order btw. )
Resident Evil 5 is much fun btw. (°_°) / Better than i expected ...

havn´t stopped with monochrome paints

2009-06-18T14:13:00.000-07:00

still fun

darkstalkers

2009-06-18T14:09:00.000-07:00

yes... I wanted to enter the contest. Decided against it cause i do not wanted to rush. Looking at this image now ( finished around feb/march) i´m glad i did not. Still like it though, had much fun, want to draw my other ideas aswell ... someday :D

lineart fest

2009-06-18T14:00:00.000-07:00

misc. linearts and sketches... maybe you will recognise the yoko lines, they are actually pimped sketches :DDD

xianghua... Soul Calibur 4 was surprisingly dissapointing when i compare it to the priour parts :(

lol k, this is pretty old XDD better prepare for more of such sketch kombos ...

mono

2009-04-02T15:13:00.000-07:00

hey

2009-03-26T21:46:00.000-07:00

Didn´t knew that the calligraphy brushes in Painter were so awsome for sketches...

it doesn´t stop...

2009-03-12T21:22:00.000-07:00

Need to work, so nothing really new, but I finally scanned the rest from my sketchbook... I havn´t really drawn something into it since last year in August before i moved. Heck there even still studies from my diploma project ( why havn´t i posted them ?? )...
I dunno, I used to be so keen on finishing the sketchbooks as fast as possible, but now it just doesn´t matter at all. Since i started it early 2007 i really had to force myself to draw something into the book ( loose paper sheets and note pads are too inviting ;) ), despite the great paper and interesting format. Haha, maybe it was the pressure to draw something nice in it ( cause you know, it´s the good paper and stuff ;) ), or it was too uncomfortable to handle ( bulky, and scanning some pages in 2 pieces cause it wouldn´t fit completly under the scanner isn´t that sexy either ).

Anyways, posting all these drawings make feel like finally closing some boring chapter in my drawing history. I will buy a new sketchbook tommorow, better suited for my needs and ugly ( all on purpose of course ) drawings ...

Well wasn´t this an intersting read? XDDDD Here we go.

P.S. All badly edited and thrown together. Thank you for your time !

busybody

2009-03-02T17:56:00.000-08:00

this and that

2009-02-26T09:48:00.000-08:00

Sketches and Warmups from the last days.. going back to work kthanxbaibai
And thank you for your recent support btw. ;_;
@iru: Kann leider nicht bei dir kommentieren, bei mir wird der Anti-spam code nie angezeigt :/ ( hatte bei Cas´ Blog mal ein ähnliches Problem)

Catwoman and so on...

2009-02-21T17:47:00.000-08:00

Found some earlier started pictures and worked on them again, will maybe continue, when i´m done with my work pensum...
It´s nothing special, but i had my fair amount of much need fun here :) blabla others are junk ;) Would like to make some catwoman Illustration in a more cartoony style....

more Tales of Symphonia *v*

lol definatly not done yet ._.

I so hope to finsh this, i always wanted to do a proper No More Heroes fanart =DDDD Though, of course, it needs more work and elements that would make it exiting. I´m thinking about some nice poster style Illo with the beach in the BG...lol all future music XDD

stuff...piling up...need...to sort out

2009-02-19T17:30:00.000-08:00

I´m finally at a point where lines feeling more natural... its so much fun now. I can´t believe how much struggled with them just some month ago :(
Then once again i have to thank you all for your support !!! The pageviews kind of doubled during the last weeks and still going up ( i have no explaination for that, there was no link increasing or changes... )

So here is random stuff

beware, deformed human !

We can still be friends

2009-02-16T15:46:00.000-08:00

One of my fav. Comics has been translated into english... i´m so surprised, that i make an extra posting about it. Idk, i don´t have much to say.. its drawn by Berlin based Artist Mawil and a story about his youth. Very sweet and amusing story, and an cute style ( if you like this kind of drawings... )
Click -here- for some pages.
The publisher, and don´t forget to visit the -website- for some stylish arts and Comics :D Many treasures there...

Rescuers down under

2009-02-08T14:36:00.001-08:00

This scene stayed in my head even during the years when i couldn´t even remember what Movie it was XD Mind blowing when i was 6/7 and even now... I just love how landscape looks so wide, big and impressive !

I am not really fond of movies with the "little innocent child must be saved" story , but I´ll make an exception with Rescuers down under. The Color choices are so fucking beautiful (!) and i love how the animals are drawn T_T So its still apleasure to watch this little gem.... yo.

Presea

2009-02-03T18:04:00.001-08:00

So i actually wanted to do more character designs, but now i´m a bit sick and got out of the groove :/ So here is an oldie. Haha, it so absolutly not true to the character, but who cares :D I still love Tales of Symphonia

fashion victim

2009-01-31T17:10:00.001-08:00

I´m so not ashamed ...

dogs

2009-01-26T13:24:00.000-08:00

Edit: So this has nothing to do with the rest of this Post, but nevermind...

Blackcat

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Visited my Mother some days ago and had the chance to draw the cuties again .
The Photo´s were from my time in College ( between Semester 3 and 6 ), I was kind of lucky to catch the cuties playing in the Garden XD. I don´t think that i was very good but it was fun doing something analog and do everything from hand (but damn, the Photopaper is expensive x_x). I think i will search for the other Photos aswell, maybe i find some more nice stuff...

2009 oh my god

2009-01-15T06:44:00.000-08:00

Time for some real (late) NewYear greetings. XD I cannot believe 2008 passed to fast...it was quite cool, well not everything, but all in all it seems like it is all good. I will not post my New Year resolutions here but i want to work much much much harder and finally build some more courage for risky decisions.....2009 YAAAAY *_*

2008-12-30T15:16:00.000-08:00

Happy new year everyone o_o

2008-12-18T11:20:00.000-08:00

kittys

2008-12-17T16:24:00.000-08:00

dont ask ...

2008-12-16T08:40:00.000-08:00

2008-12-14T15:30:00.000-08:00

known stuff

2008-10-26T16:18:00.000-07:00

you know some of these, i just put them together in a bigger size :D

franny

2008-10-22T14:53:00.000-07:00

i´m back

2008-10-18T12:21:00.001-07:00

aaah well, long time no see :D
Havn´tr drawn in a long time, but i finally moved from Hildesheim to Bremen... its time to get back in the groove i guess :D
Still need to prepare some stuff but in the meanwhile i can finally post doodles again :)

Fusion Junction- Queen of Arts

2008-08-02T04:49:00.000-07:00

hi :> I want to say that you can now preorder Fusion junction- Queen of Arts Artbook that features some of my art

HERE

EDIT: Hm, why do the colors look so funny XD

2008-07-08T08:30:00.000-07:00

Testing with new PS brushes. Special thanks to joshua (*_*)/
Did most of the polishing in Painter though ( this chalk brush for the BG, ink brush for clothes)

Original Size

EDIT: No i won´t post the brushes, so please stop asking XD

sketchbombs ( edit +3 )

2008-07-06T17:12:00.000-07:00

k, just spend almost 2 hours with scanning all the single papers and little bits of drawings XD
Sorry for the quality, i just put them together the way i scanned them :>

Will update this post later with the next parts.

EDIT: Here are the others. Watch out, big images are BIG !

EDIT2: And more Tegakistuff

EDIT3: Last time, promised...i have forgotten this one...

G-R-A-D-U-A-T-E-D-!!!!

2008-07-04T13:47:00.000-07:00

I´m free /(*v*)/

Will now scan my procastination sketches, catching up with e-mails, giftarts and clean everything up... I´m freeeeee T_T
omg, i want to draw all day....

These were parts of the posters i did for the grad exibhit. meh <_< I´m glad that I´m done....

gestures, much fun !

Oh, and "No more Heroes" is an awsome game (i love Holly *_*)... i just wanted to say that... Okami is awsome too!

Queen of Arts

2008-06-30T00:55:00.000-07:00

LeSean was so nice to make this scan from previews Magazine <3

So yeah, my art will appear in this book among with other totally amazing artists Maggie, Loish and Nox.

for the sake of uploading something

2008-06-14T12:32:00.000-07:00

Old stuff is old (still from that comic i did 2 semester ago) XDD Sorry again for just close-ups. I´m free from school very soon (yay) *_*

hehe, that was the Cover for that thing ( a wrap-around cover). The final version was an edit with some type in it, but i like it more this way :>

oh... and i´m 23 now (*_*)/ It feels good to get older :)

tegaki krimskrams

2008-05-23T17:40:00.000-07:00

Tegakistuff from, well maybe some month ago

Tegaki-E

Its a small online drawing tool based on flash. Quite limited with its features and there is no transparency...but damn it is SO addicting *_* I have used it lately to do some sketches with it, so i can overwork them later in Painter....
You guys should give it a try :D

btw. thank you for all the comments, and sorry that i never answer ._.

oh look, its crap (o_o)/

2008-04-30T16:49:00.000-07:00

Internet is back with full power so i will take the chance to update a little bit with crap.
Misc scribbles tests, pimped tegaki(will explain that later) and well, the usual old shit that you are already used to see from me >:) . Final Exam is stressy (its about breakdance. in case you are interested in the reason i´ve been drawing dancing people lately ,) ), nothing is going on, and i really dunno what to do. Terrible situation atm. and not much time :(

found something...

2008-04-12T10:06:00.000-07:00

...sorry so old, i actually wanted to work the sketches a little bit more out. XD

EDIT: Oh and something else. The Lady Oscar sketch is not for sale (cause some people asked)

You May Lose All the Rights to Every Piece of Art You Have Ever Created!

2008-04-12T04:16:00.000-07:00

kay, since surfing around now a little it really seems to be an old thing, so sorry for riding on old issues. I still think that this is an interesting Thing so i let this post the way it is :>

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I don´t know what effect this will have outside of the US...confusing confusing

EDIT: Someone knows more about this? or is just some rant going around? Now some say its fake, others say its true XDD

EDIT2: ah, this seems to sums it up better.

asmp.org

No new arts btw. :(

junk junk junk + EDIT

2008-03-02T09:51:00.000-08:00

junk, and some studies for the pepper project...i was invited, but totally forgot the deadline ^^;

EDIT:

random sketches

2008-02-28T15:44:00.000-08:00

unfinished cg...

2008-02-25T14:20:00.000-08:00

...and some lines and a sketch XD(from october/november or so)

Nice Manga

2008-02-23T05:32:00.000-08:00

Got plenty of stuff to post, but i don´t with what i could start. Its so boring anyway atm.
And cause i don´t want to make this post completly pointless i will show you some nice mangas i´ve read lately and that are quite nice imo.
All of these are at least (as far as i know) availble in Germany, France and Italy.

1. Shamo by Akio Tanaka (drawings) and Izou Hashimoto (story)

Well, i´ve been following this series for quite a qhile now, but was always afraid to buy book 19... due some licence Problems it won´t be published here any longer, what makes me pissed a little bit (guess i will have to import the books from now on). This Series is awsome.

What i personally like are (of course) the drawings (they are strong and dynamic) and mainly the character developement. Ryo isn´t really likeble at all, i totally disagree with his behaviour and the things he is doing most of the time, yet i want to know how the story goes on.

2. Vertraute Fremde (Harukana machi-e) by Jiro Taniguchi

This should be widely known, Taniguchi gots a lot of praise for his work for a while now. I recently saw it in a bookstore and thought i could give it a try.

I like the slow storytelling , there is no haste and you have a lot of insight to the characters personalitys. Drawings are brilliant aswell...

3.Subaru by Masahito Soda

A young girl and her talent for Ballett, i have just the first book, but i really like it so far. The drawings may look a bit rough, but i´ve rarely found an comic that carrys so much emotion like this one (i mean, it wa soverwhelming sometimes unfortunatly i havn´t found a good example on the net, and i don´t want to rip my book apart while scanning ;). The Story is for mature readers even though the main Character is a young girl. I´m curious how the series will develope :>

more nostalgia

2008-02-15T14:19:00.000-08:00

Lady Oscar (Rose of Versailles) was really a nice show (though i´ve never seen more than a few episodes XD)

dance

2008-02-07T10:55:00.001-08:00

Also serveral month old, i planned to make some lines from it. But even after such a long time i still think i should better let it in this sketchy form ( though i could have fixed her feet, but well...). Don´t want to ruin the dynamics.
Flat colours rule btw.

Sorry for not replying comments lately, i´m braindead from watching to much キーボードクラッシャー videos on nicovideo XDDD

2008-02-02T11:57:00.000-08:00

T_T

2008-02-01T03:41:00.000-08:00

Internship is over ( T_T it was sooo nice ), Homework is done (Yesss)...I´m officially free now...well at least for a month, next semester is my last. And i still have to prepare my diploma porject :(

But well, i try to get back to the groove, me needs to do more sketches...

Unfinished Nana fanart (wonderful manga *_*)....

EDIT: Honey, second try....and failed XDD But the lines were fun :>

comic stuff

2008-01-15T15:28:00.000-08:00

Posting the comic stuff (or better said: Parts of it i´ve done for school almost an half year ago...i actually don´t want to show the whole thing cause its just messy, rushed and so much trash XDDD I think i will post some more concepts when i´ve cleaned my harddrive a bit.
Basicly i can say that this whole comic was some kind of test for me, and it was a lot of fun. Though, next time , i think, i will do the characters in cell shading and just the background painted :/

Some of these characters are not in the final result...

ヽ(`A´)ﾉ

2008-01-08T16:42:00.000-08:00

This should belong to my fansite, but cause i don´t want this blog to die i post it here aswell...lol, i broke the promise to post a background... -- .
Happy new year btw. i hope you all had a nice time? Christmas Holidays are over since two days and i started working again. The Semester is almost over, i am exited. In Summer i will be done...no more school then :> It feels strange to think about that XDDD

reworking trainscribbles is surprisingly much fun.... and a good training for inking

(small warning for big file) far away from beeing done....

bye bye 2007, hello 2008 !

2007-12-29T13:53:00.000-08:00

Slowly this year comes to an end so i´d like to wish you all a happy new year ;) 2008 will be a good year for everyone (hopefully). I wish you all the best :)
Well, i will drive home for a few days...i think this is the first since about 4 years that i celebrate new years eve with family XDD

And here is a nice demo from one of my faviorite animators, Tatsuyuki Tanaka.

>:)

2007-11-16T15:58:00.000-08:00

Started this yesterday at work (of course during the breaks ;)).
I was trying some things with textures, the motive itself is of course pretty random and characters doesn´t belong together ( to explain the size difference).
And I am sorry for showing again a knight ... i just love shining armor *_* Dunno, if i want to go on with the painting :)

EDIT: Forgot this one...

D:

2007-11-14T16:27:00.000-08:00

boring fanart w.i.p. , again i am uninspired XDD But Painting is fun :)

_ + EDIT

2007-11-10T13:37:00.000-08:00

Links are now in alphabetic order....phew. XD

And i am on the hype train now...just a few more days *_*

This will be so awsome !!!

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EDIT:
Was cleaning my work folder and found some junks, that i have done to Test brushes in Painter. Some are quite old, some are more or less new :/

train sketches 3

2007-11-06T12:00:00.000-08:00

That guy was great, he didn´t move a bit for almost 20 Minutes XDDD

train sketches 2

2007-11-04T11:25:00.000-08:00

yikes, again so much time passed oô
More random sketches i´ve done in the train (ballpointpen btw.). And sorry that i did not answer to the last post and all of your new blogentry´s....

@steffi: Ich mache mein Praktikum grad hier : www.soulpix.de
=)

2007-10-12T16:55:00.000-07:00

Yay, update. internship is fun so far, but i´m away the whole day and pretty tired at the evening.
Here are some old sketches and gestures. Since I´m drivin with the Train every day i use the time to draw the people around me (hopefully they don´t recognize it XDD)

the small ones

2007-10-03T06:57:00.000-07:00

Various kids i wanted to use for an illustration.

Random Samus Aran

2007-09-30T09:26:00.000-07:00

Cause the Metroid Series is still cool :>

lol saya

2007-09-27T07:06:00.000-07:00

I have been playing around with flat colors latly and find it very funny to work with.
BLOOD fanart btw.