Showing posts with label off-topic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label off-topic. Show all posts

Sunday, August 20, 2023

Kopenhagen

 Made a small weekend trip to Copenhagen to attend a friends wedding and thought i could combine it with some sightseeing. So i went to some Museums and visited former work colleagues. And after a few months i finally started to sort out all the pictures i made.Yay!

Of note for me were the Danish SMK and the Glyptoteket close to the train station. Both had a big collection of danish realist painters, though the GT was more focused on sculptures.

There wasn´t nearly enough time to check out all the art on display, unfortunately.

using the picture of a boring sculpture to introduce  a bunch of paintings 

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Monday, October 03, 2022

240




 

This should have probably went with some of the previous posts but i already redesigned most of the project + its on hold for now in favor of other comics i´m working on rn so whatever. 


+(just rambling, no additional pictures, CW for depression talk)

Friday, December 31, 2021

226 : Influence Meme revisited

 i recently stumbled upon my old influence meme and thought it would be interesting to do another one and reflect a bit over current and past influences!

Like with the previous ones, i kept out more general things like "nature", "friends" etc and tried to stay specific.

Back then i still defined influence as something that does visibly show up in my work, recently its more for me about things that ignite this motivation and joy about drawing/creating for me, even if the art differs from my own.

While i was less active online in recent years, I went through this common circle of reuniting with my old influences again and this helped me to bring back that spark I thought was lost over the years.


what was interesting is that i found another updated meme in the file that i did in 2015 but never uploaded it before

Tuesday, January 03, 2012

157: retrospective

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 on you can see most of my drawings here in the archives  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



2000-2003





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  for the Escaflowne Movie)











2004-2006

Got my own mac for my 19th birthday 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 promising though, I had a hard time getting used to do everything digital.






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...









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


Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Influence Map

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 :)

Monday, August 03, 2009

1987

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

Tuesday, July 07, 2009

The Secret of Kells

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*

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

We can still be friends



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...

Sunday, February 08, 2009

Rescuers down under

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.

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Nice Manga

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 :>

Saturday, December 29, 2007

bye bye 2007, hello 2008 !

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.

Saturday, November 10, 2007

*_* + EDIT

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 :/







Saturday, September 15, 2007

question...

EDIT: Big thanks for Kajiba for the hint, i found what i was looking for :D
It seems that Ben Hibon is the creative mind behind the movies, i have found a lot of concept work on the webpage, very cool stuff :) And i was also right, he was the (art)director for the small "Heavenly Sword" movies.
Others than that , the Studio he worked with for Killer7 is also worth to check it out :)))
Unit9
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I wonder who did these animation clips, they are cutscenes from a certain Level from "Killer7" (Gamecube and PS2).... ._. I have the suspicion that the guy who did these is also involved in this animu-clips for "heavenly sword"....let me know if you have infos :/ I would love to know if there is more... (btw. suda51 rules, can´t wait for "no more heroes" )

Of course the vids contain spoilers =D



More shorter clips
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Saturday, May 12, 2007

lol

Ok, this will be an exception , i normally don´t want to post something non-art related, but this commercial is too sweet ;_; The Idea is so great XD I guess with different actors this ad would even work in other countrys .....XD

Thursday, March 01, 2007

Off Topic: Byousoko 5

Thanks to judith i could see this :) Its absolutly stunning how the makers worked with shadow light and colour and contrast. Seem to be 3 short movies, i watched at least a bit of part one and it is mostly talking. Animation ist walking between "limited" and some "really good" (imo).
But truly, its really nice to watch, i love these backgrounds.
I just wished they would have chosen a more unique Characterdesign than this. I don´t´even think that it is fitting for it :/ But that is just my personal point of view.
Enjoy the visuals



btw. Directing is Makoto shinkai ("voices of a distant star" ,that was this amazing short animation he did all by himself) and the full title is "Byousoko 5- a chain of short storys about their distance"

http://5cm.yahoo.co.jp/

Saturday, February 03, 2007

Off topic: Alfred J. Kwak

Good old times :) I even found my first Alfred comic again between my Magazines lol

I´m somehow surprised that even Hans Bacher worked on the series....no wonder that it is so good :)

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

lol

Owned by the monkey




btw. I´m not dead ;) Just have so much work to do that i don´t find the time to scan and show some stuff....but i will soon post more stuff :)

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

off topic: Tatsuyuki Tanaka

Great short animations from my animation hero XDD His style easy to recognize. Get his Artbook "Cannabis Works" if you can, its great **



btw. dont forget to search for the other small flux animations that were made to promote Hikaru Utadas Album Exodus. There are also ones from Koji Morimoto **


Thursday, November 16, 2006

Off Topic: Pocahontas

lol an deleted Scene o_o And fully animated. I had no idea that this song was also in the movie ( theres even an reprise at the end ), but I understand why they cut it out. :/ Anyway, it is Interesting to see it XD



And something for fun, multi-language vids XD



I just love the colours from this movie *_*