IF: Multiple

click to make it REAL BIG!
(Because it looks a bit crap this small)

7427 giant work unit with multiple
heads. Those heads are a weak point,
but thankfully it can repair itself.

IF: Theory (4)

click to enlarge them all

Basic drawing 101.
If you still have any questions,
contact me via the comment section.
Please recap after use.

IF: Theory (3)

click to enlarge


...but is this all just a theory?

IF: Theory (2)

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A german proverb says
"Grau ist alle Theorie", which means
"All theory is grey", saying that only
putting things into practice creates something
worthwile. I thought that those posing dolls
always had something very theoretical
about them.

IF: Theory

click to, you know...

I have no idea what is happening here.
Nope. Not even a theory.

This is a t-shirt design I made
for my girlfriend for our anniversary,
which also happens to be Valentines
Day (aaaaw!). It´s the first time I ever
printed a shirt and I am quite happy with
the outcome.


The only problem I have with it is that the
shirt themselves are a bit transparent, and the print
film around the drawing makes these parts whiter
than the rest of the shirt. Ah, anyways.
If you read this and you happen to be living
in Hamburg, they were made by Eindruck,
a very nice little shop with friendly guys
working there.

Also, please notice that this drawing is
done in my one style, it´s called "effort".
Where most people use pencil tracings, I

just drew and cut and pasted a lot of times.
I even manipulated many thing after scanning
it, including completely drawing the tail in GIMP,
but to my surprise you can´t see all the surgery.

I really have to invest more time into
my drawings before I consider them "finished".
This also means not being as lazy as I used
to be, but on the other hand, doctoring on work
in progress is a lot easier than actually STARTING
a new drawing. Also, using glue and scissors is
a lot of fun. Digital and analogue - best of both
worlds!

IF: Choose (3)

click to enjoy

"So many heads to choose!"

This is a pretty old piece I did
originally for IF "Mask". I still love
this drawing, it´s one of the few ones
that actually feels like a solid part of me,
so I wanted to share it with you again.

Its weird how I try and try and yet
rarely do something that comes close
to this to me. Maybe I should hang it
up my wall as the only picture and
meditate over it a whole year.
I don´t know if dissecting a
picture like this will result in anything.
Maybe I should take a couple of my
all-time favourite pictures from all
artists I know and try to get behind
what makes them so great.

Because really, when do we ever
do this? We know what we like but
we can´t say why. But there HAS
to be something.

IF: Choose (2)

click!

So much music to choose from.

This is actually a t-shirt design I
made for a friend of mine. If you look
really hard you might be able to see
her name.

IF: Choose

click to enlarge

So many stars to choose from.

I actually made this drawing in my
bed this morning (noon is what I call
morning) right after waking up.
This happens maybe two times
a year. Finally I can brag about
my self-discipline ONCE! Whooo!

Ah yeah, on regular days I "check
my emails" for about two hours a time
three times a day and generally waste
my time like... erm... like someone
who is wasting his time really bad.

I am working on it, as you can see.

IF: Blanket (4)

ARGH! Last minute submission!

IF: Blanket (3)

click it for full enjoyment

An old drawing from 2006.
Usually I am against recycling old
material, but I liked it so much that I posted
it. And look, he´s wearing a blanket as
a cape! I like how quirky it is, something
that I lost in a way recently - the carefree energy.
That has to come back!

IF: Blanket (2)

clicking things will make things bigger

I wasn´t satisfied with the submission
I did yesterday at all, so here is a wildly
different approach. Hope you like it.

IF: Blanket

click it purrleaze


There seems to be quite a load
of stuff under this blanket!

_____

I recently installed a Statcounter
on this blog and it was very interesting
to see from where people are visiting my
blog, take a look at the country list
for instance:


I was pretty surprised to see
Russia and the Arab Emirates so high
on the list. But there is more, you also get
to check from what sites people come from
when they come to your site. For instance,
I found this:

The site is called kak.ru.
Can´t read Russian, but it seems to be something
similar to Drawn.ca. Sometimes the internet
just keeps giving.


And here are some watercolour paintings
I did in the only class I finished this semester
(I was jobbing way to much for my own taste).
I always thought I didn´t like painting, but
this was more "drawing with colour" instead
of proper painting, and a very nice diversion.

IF: Tales and Legends

click each one to enlarge, why dontcha

These two people are living legends.



Fellow student Laura (Visit her new blog!)
said that while she liked my little characters,
I never draw women. So here, a woman I
did recently. It was pretty easy. These
are two pieces I wanted to make a whole
book of, but after those two I lost
interest in it. And by that I mean
the following drawings sucked.
Besides, I don´t like frames to much,
I prefer my drawings flowing all
over the page. Or something.

Also on

Illustration
Friday Night.

IF: Plain

click!

"I´m on a plain
I can´t complain."

The first few times I heard this
song I though Kurt Kobain sang
"I´m on a plane, I can´t complain" and
I imagined him sitting comfortably in
a seat high above the air, being satisfied
with the nice service on board.

Now I just think of him as
standing on a field somewhere in the
nature and shrugging his shoulders like
saying "It´s alright."

IF: Stitch

Nicely stitched pants!

IF: 100% (3)

I have 100% no idea what this here is but I
drew it anyways. Also, I am 100% exploiting this
weeks IF topic (again). But still this is
100% valid.

IF:100% (2)

100% toxic fish from our polluted oceans.

IF: 100% //Rooibos

click to enlarge - 100%!!!


With a fresh jug of Rooibos, I am
read to give 100% drawing power in
your face. Yes, that´s me up there.
Well, besides the shirt and the hair and
I wear glasses and don´t use sketchbooks
like that, but otherwise...okay,
that´s not me. It´s somebody else.
I have no idea who he is.

100%! 100%! 100%! Hooray!

BIKE BOY!

OMG WTF!!! WITHOUT A HEAD
(OR ANYTHING RESEMBLING A BODY!!)

I really like the rough look of that
pentel ink pen. Why do I use it so rarely?

Also, I haven´t updated my website
and my IO portfolio in AGES. At least I linked
to this blog instead of my website from my IO
profile, but at the moment I make very little
use of it otherwise. Must be because Blogger
is really a breeze to use, unlike the clunky
IO site structure and the pure horror that
coding a HTML page is.

New Years Eve

Kind of slapping the christmas slumber out
of my face. Well, actually I´ve been working on
my day job for the last weeks, including two
days on christmas and new years eve.
Now I am scrubbing off the stink of
working for "the man" with some doodling
(well, and lots of Super Mario World).