"Fiiiiiiiiiish in the waaater ..."

"... a fire in the sky!!"
Frei nach Deep Purple.

State(s) of the art, where I have been to

... well, finally I found this gadget ;-) To all who know. Now you can see, what I was talking about. I you want to switch back to my global view, please click here.

create your own visited states map

Safe - Illustration Friday (Sept, 01)

.. and falling asleep right now (ten to one in the morning - local time, .. by the way: which time do none-locals have, who live around here?)

CPU - Cross Promotion United

... seems like it's working. Now, this is another gadget, I may be about to use on my flickr account.

Teachers and Pandas

There is a colleague at my school, who is supposed to be using his expander in class ... well, he is no sports teacher, isn't he? No, he is teaching computers ... well, I came up with play of words. Saying: "The former panda (ex-panda) of Mr. S. from DO" ...

Better brush your teeeeeeeth ...

.. remember the dentist-project? Well this is another one going along. I had to draw bacteriasm, too. Well, doing research on this project has been some kind of nasty ;-)

Another working-brunch

... well, another happy morning greeting me with my personnel butler, serving me the jobs for today .. in fact: he is not very 'talketive' either

Power to colour

Bring some color into your work and try to see how it differently works on the net ... said and done ... that's different indeed!

copyright by "text'r" - registered trademark (TM)

Summerstorm

Translation:
frame 1 - Tell me a story from a storm
f2 - once upon a time it's been totally windless
f3 - suddenly

... woooow, it's been hot since a while. Football WorldCup is over. Desert's temperature is gone after six weeks (!!!!) ... what a summer. So now I could turn on the computer again, without giving us another spring of heat. And look, what I found: my pre-summer summerstorm-comic. See you soon again, sun, son?

Honey, ...

... where's your moon?

Driven by ...

... taken from an interview, said by Mo Willems, who has been asked by Jared at Drawn.

Logo? Logo!

... did this first sketch for a vocational school in town.

Finally 'applied design' again.

The colours are the ones they use in their CI - the lettering isn't it yet. But close to it .. we'll see.

Animated Paperbacks

Jacamon and Matz somehow animated and added sound to one of their first comebooks frame by frame.

Wonderful idea.

Take a look and listen to the subversive sound here. To be read in an English or Dutch version.

I nearly forgot how he was spelled

copyright by wayn harris

... but Wayn Harris reminded me off the original surname's writing: Pan. That just reminds me of my frying pan called Peter. Enough joking for today.

Cherish or Perish

Enough of watching and reading? Cherish this music and listen to the lines! This isn't a suggestion - it's your duty. Don't ask what you rmusic can do for you. Ask yourself, what you can do for good music.

Urmel is back on screen

click to view trailer

Well now, there it is: The trailer of "Urmel aus dem Eis" (Urmel out of the ice ... well somewhat foolish translated) Modernized ... this one below has been the pciture I related to ever since my early years of reading ;-)


See how the illustrator was allowed to put his signature on a book's front cover - times are defintely changing .... and this one is the picture of the popular 'puppetized' TV-Show. Wonderful voices, still!

Had a second ...

... waited a second. So I tried out some new pens and pastell and scanned and posted and ... - Derwent Drawing Chocolate 6600 (outlines) - very nice and smooth; and a cheap but delightful Jaxell verde olivia chiaro 47712 the funny skin-tone he is having after his first flight to the moon - well nearly there, just wait a second and have a second ... you'll be there soon.

Dots per Inch ...

.. or per drawings. I dug out some my "lads" - lines and dots, which I put up on my screen now. If want to see some really neat po-up-lad-work, look here.

Is Beaver Behaviour Be(h)averiouristic?

click to enlarge

Well, I've been of for a while - off the blog. And, yes, I had the chance to take off to Hamburg for a couple of days, to explore my new place to stay beginning summer 2007. Exiting! Yes, and as the city lays next to some waters, building lay on roads called Holzdamm (wood dam) - so a business school I went to visit laid on such a street, inviting me to make up a thank-you-card for some nice people I talked to.

Translation for free here: "The subtitle saying: lately at the Public Beaverschool Wood Dam." The teacher beaver saying: ".. well, let's put the question in other words: What is a wood dam made of?"

Dentositobot Is In Town

sent me a print of his robot-drawing #71 which I gave its name to. Thank you very much, again! It now is a color-print which will be framed.

So, folks, get on going and naming here.

Keri on your state of the art

Copyright by Keri Smith

Time to travel again ...

.. I found one of these "ever-popping-up-where-I-have-been-to-maps" and finally tried out one for myself:

create your own visited countries map

And I finally saw: yes, it's been a while since. You definetely should earn more money in less time, to have a money and time to take a round trip to some of the grey places in that map.

"I am a deeheentiist ..."

... Steve Martin and several others sang in the musical "Little Shop of Horrors". I did not, but I had some deeper insights into the dent-business, as I drew some illustrations for a prophylactic dent-learning-course. No, not for the dents - stupid - for children, who should learn about it.

This on above was a sketch not to be taken - chew gum after you eat and the dent-devils stay away. In fact they STAY away, 'cause the cannot move ...

reacting - creating

Enrico posted Walt Stanchfield's notes on taking notes. Talking about it he came up with a simile between the one who does takes notes or sketches and the one who doesn't. Saying the note taker is more active, whereas the others just react instead of acting and changing the world.

So just after having closed the blog it came to my mind, to shuffle the letters in those words,
so that passiv becomes activ,
reactors become creators,
and
reaction becomes creation.

Maybe that's why I feel better and powerful and acting when sketching - maybe in those moments I am acting instead of waiting for the things to come by - maybe I am creator (<-reactor) ...

I.O.U. - Illness Over You

Well it's been a while since, I have been here. Due to some kind of illness my plans unraveled kind of hard ...

"... I'm back iiin the saaaddle agaiiiin!" Country everywhere (Brokeback Mountain, Johnny Cash, and over here: Texas Lightning with their beautiful version of "Like a virgin" - the rest isn't that good really):

NiPriCo *)

*) Nitro-Print-Copy

Thanks to Kathrin's tipps on one of here pictures I changed her inspiration a little - by accident. I mis-remembered the process and wiped nitro on an imprint (here: a pizza-card-board) and transfered it onto paper.

This picture you see, is a second print from the swashed cardboard: I kept it dry but drenched a sheet of paper with nitro and lay it on the packaging. So this is it ... colours are not 100% the same, due to scanning ;-)

And hereby I open up a contest on what kind of pizza was in that package. Take a guess and send me or post an answer - for mail look out at the end of the blog.

Sketchcrawl - The Blog

Enrico opened up a new Sketchblog here ... read more in his copied original text here:

New Blog!

February 7, 2006 at 12:14 pm

A new idea in the making, the SketchCrawl-Blog: a communal blog with different contributors. Focused on sharing everything about drawing out there in the field. Ranging from materials discussion: a new favorite sketchbook? a new find of a pencil? A great folding stool? -to thoughts, questions and even polls about sketching and journaling. What’s your favorite place to go sketch? What invariably catches yours and your pencil attention ?

MiniSketchCrawl

Some new pictures from the Pakistani Earthquake relief SKETCHCRAWL can be found here. With some notes on the weird afternoon I had in one of the Dortmund museums.

Give us today the blog that we need, ...

... and forgive us our wrongs.


.. as a play of words I also changed the seemingly sounding German word for wrongs (Schuld) by the German word "Schund" - which means shoddy.

Why I did change the "Lord's Prayer" into a "Mainboard's Prayer"? No, not because of the uprising uproars against published and non-published Danish cartoons on Mohammed ...

... no, it's just because of an article Alex Ruehle wrote in the "Sueddeutsche Zeitung" Feb 3, 2006 on the internet's esp. blog's hype, developing to some kind of mystic salvation chitchat.

Drawing from life or a photo

Danny Gregory started a post on drawing from life or photography. This - besides my comments - is what came up in me a couple of days later and then briskly scribbled on a scrap paper: Click to enlarge and read.

EDM Challenge #51

Draw your TV and show ...


The show to be seen was the public news at eight "Tagesschau". So if you want to see the same I did crawl the "archiv" from today here. ;-)

Draw a mug ...

.. or a tea-pot. [TCL adapted ;-)]

Said and done and sent away as an illustrated letter to my family.

Christmas will be there again

Last minute postcard motive
As the last chance of sending christmas postcards in allready 11 months I just wanted to post a blueprint of an upcoming card 2006 I'd like to send out this year. It's goingto be translated as "Where did Santa hide himself again?"

Enploy *)

How about this ... did it this morning: Subway was kind of empty. I stood next to the sliding doors, didn't clunch to a bar; just bent my knies a little like a tai-chi-student or surfer and moved smooth and relaxed with or against the train's moves; adapted to the waggon's soft shakes, sliding my way down to work - receiving a lot of smiles by schoolkids going for a swim and successfully imitating me.

*) enploy is a new rubric made out of a play of words: play and enjoy

EDM Challenge #37

Draw some keys


Well I did so, not even sure, which challenge I was working on, I only saw the keys lying on the table after gotten home from work, opening the letters and having "nothing to draw" but an enevelope's left overs and a pilot pen. It just happened, that the middle key points out to the German words translated as "Important Answers: How Germany's .." and the rest - allready resting in the paper bin - read "... economy can be cured."

Key answers and key questions pointed out with keys - isn't that some curious way of everyday mattering signs of creativity, showing us solutions ;-)

The Big Picture in a Small Sketchbook

Enrico Casarosa just posted this wonderful sketchblog yesterday: Alessandro Carloni.
To be shared for everyone I had to spread the 'word' here, too!!

Moralphabet

The ABC of contemporary virtues and vices

(c) Cover illustration redrawn by F.W.Bernstein

We did this and made a book from all the ideas as one part of a fun course on combing writing and illustrating featured by the German Federal Academy for Cultural Education, Wolfenbuettel (Nov. 24-26, 2004).

The book happend to be copied and bound those days. Pages texted and illustrated by me are these ... find all pages here.

Translation:
The dandy pretends to be very modest,
the ladies should feast their eyes on him.
('feast' in German had the same meaning as 'pastures')

Translation:
Respect and repentance has to be demonstrated for me,
my dear raven, that's what you have to remember.

... what fun we had, just working in that combination of renown writers and illustrators.

The self given excercise was inspired by the childrens books, which bring kids near the alphabet with funny or even silly rimes. Each sentence should contain at least two words starting with the letter shown in a capital and a small form. And as we had been close to the end of the year those days, the overall subject should be "virtues and vices". So this post seemed to fit in the start of the new year 'perfectly'.

The Magic Mailbox

(c) picture taken by danny gregory

Danny did us all a favour and posted all the letters he received before and around christmas, inspired by his "Illustrated Letter Contest".

The introduction and the letters can be found here. As I turned in my letter kind of later before christmas, it is found at the rear end of the fabulous collection of illustrated written artwork of all the partcipating artists ... or just jump in right here and here.

Suddenly, christmas again ...

... and other surprises you might live up to on your own and others happiness in these days.

(c) illu by keri smith

The inspiring illustrator Keri Smith made up a list of things you might want to check out and do instead of husseling around and shop the last presents. As there are for instance:
"6. Write peaceful quotes in public places with chalk."
or

"10. Make a treasure map of the best x-mas lights in your town. Hand it out so people can do a tour."

Lots of comments written below already found there way into her blog .... click a look to the right :-)

.... and check out here marvelous portable christmas tree!!!

Sketchrawl #5

.. what a blast! Lots of fun and nearly sun ;-)

See more results at Sketchrawl.com (c) ... and still posts to come in the upcoming days!!

Sketchrawl Route

... after having taken a tour somewhere up in the sky, I got a good cloud-covered overview to mark the tour we can take: From the southern to the northern municipalities. It's about three kilometers walking distance. We'll see, where we can stop ... there are a lot of cafés ;-)

I will start at 10:00 a.m. at the underground station "Saarlandstraße" - see us there?

Sketchcrawling through Germany on November 13, 2005

... well this is the flyer for the upcoming event on sunday. Hope that there will be some more than just one, to crawl and sketch. On the other hand: it's the first time to happen at all over here ...

I'll let you know about more ... after sunday!

MMS vs. SMS

As I still do not have a hip mobile phone with MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) I came to the point to just hang on the "regular" phone, and to sketch on an envelope I received from my landlord while talking to my family .

That's how the idea of a Multi-Media-Sketch was born ... way more hip, than just being a regular multi-tasking man of the 21st-Century - also known as "Singular Tasking Sketcher".