Mein kleines Eigenheim

Linien die so bleiben wie sie sind.

2011-11-14T04:07:00.001-08:00

This week's homework is done and one thing it tought me is that I have no idea how I look…
It's not like I'm narcissistic or anything:

Painter, ink and drawing nip (saji pen), Artgrage, Copic (markers), acrylics, ink again with calligraphy pen and some screentones, back to Photoshop for the last one.

And an illustration for my screenprinting class:

This one is huge and was hella time consuming so leave me sulking in my corner since I'm still not exactly happy with it.

2011-11-07T14:20:00.000-08:00

Ok it's official: I simply love drawing and will never enjoy anything that is graphic design related as much…
(+this semester I'm doing a basic illustration class again and our teacher is amazing! I'm still all high tension 'n stuff.)

And since I don't do anything despite uni/work-stuff have homework-poop (nah just kidding, in fact I like this one quite a bit):

(Illustration for a headline: "Applejünger ohne Jobs" - "Apple disciples without Jobs")

For next week's class we're going to draw a self portrait each day, first day: painter

(I had to challange myself with this task, I'll try to do every portrait in a different medium.)

And still not ginger!

2011-11-05T02:22:00.000-07:00

Have a quick warm-up self portrait, an attempt on natural colors.
->Painter

And a Van-Gogh styled Amy 'cause deep down I'm just a fangirl (and "Vincent and the Doctor" was fantastic!):
->Photoshop

New semester

2011-10-23T15:01:00.000-07:00

And once again I'm telling myself: "This year is going to be SO different!" indeed things are going well atm - hoping for continuity.

Best so far:
1. Got into that damn screen printing class
2. Can speak English all day without getting weird looks (thank you, you lovely little exchange students!)
3. New reasons to use my sketchbook (and therefore this blog) again

Here we go:

Friend on floor and chick from mind with words that are totally not some lyrics from a Japanese boyband song…

What I do in writing classes… can't blame me, that teacher has such an interesting face! (And do I need to mention the coat?)

As you can see I'm full of energy and motivation! More to come.

One in a million

2011-08-24T08:49:00.000-07:00

Unrelated title is unrelated.

I finished the comission and since it came out likeable and has been posted everywhere have some spam for this place too:

…and progression shots cause people seem to love these:

go there since I'm too lazy to resize it for my blog right now

For the final some Emma 'cause I love this girl and she's a princess. Period.

My grey sunny day

2011-06-23T05:37:00.000-07:00

I'm staying inside today trying to get things done but I can't motivate myself the way I'd wished to… so… it's BLOGGING time. Wohoo.

A few weeks ago I made myself a schedule of what projects to be finished this semester, like this (on my door)

Somehow I don't feel like it changed much these days…

Well.

8 hour for 7 seconds - Animation. Story of my life. It looked like this (very low frame rate):

And since I used charcoal my room smelled easily inflammable ~~and I saw rainbows~~ all my cheap hairspray is gone.

1/3 of the backgrounds I did (and still need to do) for another animation.

There is one more picture I'd like to show but I'm still discussing with myself…

Walking one step at a time

2011-06-19T15:27:00.001-07:00

And I will not continue using lyrics for my titles at a frequent rate - I promise, this is the exception. (maybe)

I drew (non-fanart) wohoo!
Scetch:

Finished:

Anything but the way I wanted it to become… have Deviantart link for a change.

We're not finished yet! I'm starting to love this commission, so much fun and shiney colors.

I'm no good at big words…

Old new faces

2011-05-25T19:18:00.001-07:00

Since I'm working for the same client again (for a private commission) I noticed that this first picture never found the way into my blog and after a while of non-blogging and lazing around it might be fitting for a little comeback:

The new one will be a character (loosely visually) based on James McAvoy, it proved to be rather difficult finding the alikeness without copying a picture. But oh well one can only rise with the challenge.

The birds are singing outsite right now and I still can't sleep…

Once in a while

2011-03-11T04:26:00.000-08:00

I'm so glad I finished this already!
(on the verge of madness and with Nika as my mental support)
Still there are a few things I'd like to tweak a bit, will see if the commissioner wishes some adjustments.

I twittered that some weeks ago when I had a last seminar on a sunday and wasn't dressed appropriate but felt fabulous anyways, the only thing I should've considered that day was the simple fact that high heels don't go well with really heavy luggage, oh the pain.

Back to uni work~

The kind of day that makes you feel invincible

2011-01-31T04:31:00.000-08:00

And I'm totally aware of cheesy blog-titles.

Today I feel GREAT just the right time to blog without the whiney undertone my entries tend to have.
Well time goes by, what happend the last weeks?
(most of this isn't even recent…)

Fanart:

Animation(backgrounds) for university:

Comissions:

Doujinshi(?) attempt:

And more (old) fanart for a dear friend (will I ever finish that?)

The rest is sparkles and rainbows, no drawing at all since I can't bring myself to do anything involving pens of any kind.
They don't like me… I'm certain.

I missed this…

2010-12-13T05:29:00.001-08:00

Ok still somewhat on a drawing hiatus (well not for comissions) but after a quite decent brainstorming session with Maria I found time to scribble something for myself.

A friends and my "プ−ペ" (just_don't_ask) because I can. Brushpen and PS:

You are now leaving the magic circle

2010-07-27T09:44:00.000-07:00

Game Lab 2.0 is over! I had so much fun - even though it is exhausting like hell - going to college never felt that nerdy BD!
Again I worked together with Maria for good reasons, I have no idea how I could survive without her ever. The last time we did a board game (you can still find the link in my blog) so we tried something different this time. First she hit on the idea to do a card game - what a glorious impulse for our creativity! We discussed the topic of self fulling prophecys and how beeing paranoid will always lead to defeat in the end - thinking never felt that good, in fact these subjects are quite personal for me after all (as much as I try to avoid personal things in my college-work).

In the end we produced "N°9" a game of strategy :D
Have some pictures from our dummy (by Maria, I had bo time to take photos :C) now:

I'd love to enhence it some more or to find a publisher maybe.

Danger - handle with care

2010-07-08T04:00:00.000-07:00

I´m slightly depressed atm it appears to be a good chance that I can´t go to a proper nude drawing class next semester, artsyness is occupying my university. I wouldn´t mind but it turned out that art doesn´t equal skill anymore.

To change the subject, I started some colored storyboard tests and after talking to Maria for a while I´m considering to animate my movie in a equal style. No neat lines anymore but blocky colors... still thinking.

Any suggestions?

Superkitsch

2010-06-30T14:14:00.000-07:00

Stuff for school and a little something I enjoyed.

I pretty badly screwed my monitor settings up a few days ago so I have NO idea how the colors will look like, I really need to get this thing calibrated soon.

Semester is ending soon so I´m all busy with finishing my assignments - three done, five to go, but I´m quite positive it will turn out allright. The only class that worries me is Animation atm since I´m far behind the others. Vacations will be exhausting, six (?) weeks to finish my very first shortmovie/storyboard/some other less interesting stuff that has to be done nevertheless.
And suddenly a bunch of very distracting things appear around me... straaange.

Tomorrow I´ll attend my last lifedrawing class, our current teacher has to quit so this will be the last time he will guide us - frustration is crawling up within me. It´s a fucking pity I really grew to like him and his methods and I´m worried about who will do this class next semester or rather will there be a next time?
Anyway I felt like showing you the insides of my portfolio:

my favorite piece:

Last monday we (what equals Maria and me) had one of these artsy class presantations. I have to admit: these courses are ridiculous pointless but awfully funny. We (Maria, me and her sister Maya for emotionally support) wasted hours watching random/bad/funny/sometimes even good movies in between work and talking nonesense.
Have some pictures from the crime scene:

The victims are Maya - "Death Becomes her" and our project "Edward" (woah guess the reference) in a early stage while getting paunched BD.

Sadly I don´t have ANY pictures of the finished thing but the last time my camera saw him he looked quite healthy

Later we (what equals Maria since I was busy watching football) equipped him with some legs.
I miss you little guy D:

I already told you about my animation project, still the assignment is "Pinocchio" and I finally finished his character design. Nothing to exciting about it but I´m really happy there isn´t much anime relief showing through plus: it is simple enough to get animated.
My little rascal <3

Ok enough serious business for now!
At the close of this entry have random face I´m currently working on (playing with colors):

AND most important the little something I really enjoyed. Got my hands on my old brushpen again, I´d love to do a comic ar at least some real illustration this way.

//back to work and wasting time.

Quick Update - again

2010-04-14T04:39:00.001-07:00

Just found out that Maria blogged some pictures of our work for the last semesters "gamelab",
it is a board game, our topic was "medicine" :D

the link to her blog - in German

Mini-Update

2010-04-13T07:54:00.000-07:00

Nothing too special (and the designs are just boring), but I said I may upload some stuff from school once in a while and since I like the drawing not as concept but rather a good-morning scribble that isn´t too "animuish" here we go:

The assignment was/still is "Pinocchio" - if you wonder about the rabbit, in one chapter the brat declines to drink his medicine so death awaits and is portrayed by... yeah BUNNYS, black bunnys who carry a little coffin.
Isn´t that adorable?

And some Thumbnails for the Blue Fairy...

: )

My new roomie is a medic!

2010-04-12T04:50:00.000-07:00

She moved in 2 hours ago - and I had NO idea. When the bells were ringing I thought: "Awesome once in a lifetime I get my mail!", you may imagine my disappointment.
I´m still stunned.

Anyway, lifedrawings again. The model was way to pretty to portray her in a proper way. After 15minutes loose sketching I had to surpress the desire to run into a wall...drwoned it in coffee.

I wonder if I´m just blogging as an excuse to torture myself with English grammar...

BIG live drawing dump

2010-03-26T15:39:00.001-07:00

Last Thursday was simply awesome! I had my very first nude drawing lesson, I went there thinking it would be just another enrollment for this semester but it turned out to be a first real lesson. Clever me brought scetchbook... otherwise I would´ve been disappointed to death.
The teacher is really nice and YOUNG at first I thought the model would be our instructor - well after his pants touched the ground I was pretty sure this guy won´t teach a thing.
Anyway, sketches - like A LOT (all under 10 minutes couldn´t focus, needed to draw as much as possible, so I used the 15minute poses for a bunch of 30 second ones) it is by far not all but the few ones I like the most:

...and I was bored once at a really pointless "fine"art-lesson

And for the brave one who stayed through the whole post:

My Granny <3 no Idea how old I was, I could write so... around 5-8? dunno
She is eaten by... a holy leech!

VACATION

2010-02-04T14:54:00.000-08:00

CAPS LOCK for the sake of it!
Just received a mail from one of my lecturer, he´s ill so from now on I can consider myself FREE.
And what is probably the best way to celebrate that? Drawing of course - damn I missed that, these last days were hell...

From fresh to Mesozoic :O

Drew this just now - idk around 20 minutes

Secret-santa-thingy, people told me tales about something they called "anatomy"...mysteriously! (click for fullview)

...used to be more grayish and dark, preferred that, people didn´t liked, changed it, me don´t like anymore (my english teacher died this very moment ._.).

Mr. Hitchcock, dedicated to Maria.
jeeeeez I hate him.

5-second-relaxation

All for now - I feel a little more alive than usual.

Claustrophobia

2009-11-12T11:51:00.000-08:00

I gladly introduce to you: a brandnew start!

While msn-blethering with Maren a couple of days ago I remembered my very own Blog I needed to start while registrating on Blogger back then. Since I´m sharing random-maki with my friend I never got around using it but recently I felt the need of more SPACE for my OWN, to show personal stuff, sketches, maybe some college related work and to rant about life.
Not a place I want to hide by all means...
Yeah it´s "that" time of year again.

Still the other stuff will be posted on Maki.

Well, here we go:

Today I sketched some "realistic" stuff 'cause plain MANGU started to really bore me lately. It´s just not the right way to get any better furthermore I´m always talking about "wanting to learn more... to explore new styles... to try fresh ways of drawing" but I never did and got stucked with manga over and over again.

Ohhh <3 I love people in trains!

...and a portrait (ref used - google it "face" yes, I´m really picky about my references...ffff) I know it´s boring but I just love drawing faces randomly.

Just decided I would need a new avatar for my fresh start:

...that´s it for now, more to come :)